PATRON TIER LIST - DS9 S1E6 - Captive Pursuit
What tier do you rate Star Trek DS9 S1E6 - Captive Pursuit
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Maybe my favorite alien design in all of Trek or certainly a top X one. As an episode, I give it a solid B.
I rated it C, because B is "Banger" and I don't think this episode quite rises to that level. I like any episode that focuses on Chief Warrant Officer Miles O'Brien, who works for a living, soldier! In all seriousness, it's a character study of the Chief, who is starting to adjust to having a name, rank, and regular appearances in the show.
Senior Chief Petty Officer Miles Edward O'Brien. Pretty sure he got promoted from Chief when he took the job on DS9. You can tell He's a petty officer because he shows up. Warrant officers tend to vanish. One minute they're there, then you look again...gone. Already at home with their feet up on the coffee table. :) But in all seriousness, I don't think warrant officers have been mentioned even once in all of Star Trek. Don't think Starfleet uses them.
A for me - i love tosk, love O'Brien being insubordinate/defiant - love the guest makeup and all the interaction - also love TA
This was a C at best. It had TNG issues for me in that nobody had any skin in the game among the cast, not much happens, and the show is content to just be drama and danger free with nothing going on. In the first ten minutes O'Brien is telling the cast "he's hiding something but I like him". 20 minutes later thanks to having no plot almost, he has the same conversation with the same exact people. 40 minutes in, the show finally decides to introduce some sort of in-story tension or stakes, but by then it is too little too late. This for me has been the most TNG episode of DS9.
This was a good episode. Story was good and the episode well paced. I had to give it a B, though. Sry. I know what is coming, so in that (thoroughly spoiled) perspective I can't justify going higher on this episode. However, in the context of this season, I give it a solid A. I love watching with you. Enjoy the ride, gentlemen. 🚀
Okay, help me out DS9 fans! :) New patreon here. So, when you vote on these (A, B, C, etc.) how are you thinking of it? Are we voting on the episode as compared to everything in S1 or DS9 in general/the entire series?
I think that's a super subjective part of the evaluation process. Yeah, do you think of it in the context of s1 DS9? Do you think of it in the context of all the Trek that's preceded it? Do you narrow it to just the scope of DS9? I think it really is up to the person and, even then, probably not a hard and fast rule.
For me it's an S... clearly the lowest S compared to other S tier DS9 episodes, but still an S.
A very average episode. Lower than A or B + higher than E or D = C. The acting is excellent, I just think the story about an alien being hunted is not very original. Not in my top five of the season.
Right? I have five on my list from S1 that had the potential to wow them and Captive Pursuit was not on my list. I'm so curious now how they will react to the five I chose. It's always fun to see how people view things differently.
'B'. It's a fun episode for season 1. It still feels like the show is a spin-off of TNG. Geordi (blasted phone auto-correct!) could easily have be-friended Tosk, with Picard only having to be re-written slightly from Sisko.
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S tier, don't want to hear it
To avoid grade inflation must give this a LOW B since later seasons are so much better we wouldn't want to be giving out S and S+ ratings later on
I made it B tier because I need to leave 2 levels for my absolute blockbuster eps, but I definitely think it is a high B almost an A.
Not an S, but definitely an A. The pace gets a little exciting when the hunters board the station, with their cool uniforms and helmets, and the firefight ensues. I always enjoy a good firefight or battle, as long as its organic to the story, and not for the sake of doing it. On a first watch, you don't know if Tosk is good or bad, especially when he asks the computer where the weapons are stored. But it all makes sense once the whole plot is revealed.
Never been a DS9 fan but this episode gave me hope for it's future. I did give up on it half way through season two, just couldn't get past the boldly going know where. But I will this time watch it all with you guys.
Honestly my friend, it's a slow burner, but it's worth it!