Been watching DS9 Season two and have been very impressed with the quality. I remembered it being “pretty good” but in my memory it was "the season with “The Circle” trilogy, “Melora”, “Rivals” and “The Maquis”, episodes and story lines that never really did it for me. I think that made me forget how many really good one-off episodes were also here, to name a few:
- “Necessary Evil”
- “Rules of Acquisition”
- “The Alternate”
- “Armageddon Game”
- “Whispers”
- “Paradise”
- “Shadowplay”
All bangers!
Also I love how this season ever so slowly drip-drops dominion references culminating with the season finale “The Jem Hadar”
I like the Circle trilogy - the Bajoran government being unstable is a fun element to those early seasons.
It’s a shame Shakaar was such a dud of a character, and the series sort of lost interest in the Bajoran civilian government as the Dominion and Kai Winn started to take up all the oxygen in the series.
Yeah it’s certainly not the worst series of episodes and as you implied it does some good world building. It just doesn’t do it for me the same way that “why is everyone treating O’Brien like he’s shady?” does.