PATRON TIER LIST - DS9 S1E9 - The Passenger

i'm in the minority who love this. A

Siddig's slow-motion-while-also-on-cadence voice acting absolutely devastates this episode beyond all repair. S. Would recommend.

A for a few character scenes, but C seems justified for the story and its execution, as well as the portrayal of the villain by Bashir.

I gave it a B. It's a silly but fun little episode and the guy who plays the doctor gets to ham it up a little. I just don't understand some of the reaction to this one here from everyone. Just look at the whiteboard segment of this video: "mystery", " twist", "you got me" and somehow "no good"? Must every moment of ST be prissy, overly mannered people drinking tea while listening to classical music?

S tier for me. One of the best Dr. Bashir episodes ever.

C-Tier. It's got the makings of a good episode, but it falls flat due to just a few of those pieces not hitting. Bashir's "evil" voice being comically bad plus not having given us any time to sit with the mystery and actually have some suspects for who might have been the one that got body snatched just ruins what should have been a pretty fun "killer among us" type story.

This is the second bump in the road for Season One DS9. This one had the meat and potatoes to be a good episode, but it just fell flat in its execution.

Siddig's "evil voice" is comically bad, E-tier acting. It reminds me of Troll 2's Creedence Leonore Gielgud. And "random crew member goes rogue" (but no one knows!!!!) has been done a million times before. Still, not an unwatchable hour of Star Trek and I liked the medical mystery: C.

Funny story... the lady alien guest star was at a Cleveland Star Trek convention about 20 years ago. This was apparently a time before they charged for photos for lesser stars. My wife and I paid $50 for an autograph from Michael Dorn, but she didn't charge for a photo with my wife and I. She... ummm... told us we were a cute couple and playfully asked if she could go back to our hotel room with us. Umm. Pretty sure my wife said "Sure." But we just got a photo with her with a big smile. She was really tall.

D

C- Good idea, terrible execution. What’s so strange about siddig, is he is actually a really good actor the rest of the show but so much of his acting in this first season is terrible and cheesy, like a highschool drama kid. He can absolutely be terrifying at times, and yet he chose to do some weird hybrid imitation of shatner and Hannibal lecter, it comes off so hammy, and yet in other episodes he can be downright terrifying in a calm serial killer way. Either he was super dumb or the director was terrible and didn’t help him improve it.

Wasn't there a TOS episode with Jack the Ripper with a similar premise, but they did it better? (Yes there was.) Many of the S1 episodes fall flat because we don't know the main characters well enough yet. This is the problem on full display. I gave it a Season 1 "C" but it's an overall DS9 series "D" for me. It could have been better, but it just falls flat.

I thought Siddig's acting was terrible. No idea why they went that direction. The actor is good at the happy or serious doctor, but menacing? He wasn't even close to over the target. The concept and story I rather like.

This one gets the D from me.

A rare D grade for me.

I don't mind the hammy acting. C tier

MAB. (Mid at best)