PATRON TIER LIST - DS9 S1E19 - Duet

I voted B as I know there are many better in later seasons. It was a great episode but I think the fact that season one is generally not good it makes that episode look great. For the record for me DS9 gets going last episode of season 2 onwards.

I know I am very much in the minority but I do not like this episode. My daughter and I discuss the episodes much like Josh and Alex do and then we decide what we're going to tier rank the episode. My vote for this one is D but my daughter said C. So our vote is C tier.

S-tier. The story and the acting was top notch and I agree.... it ended exactly where it should have. Anything further would have made that less than it was.

S tier for me. A great episode. The actor playing the cardassian was the best.

Okay, who was the one guy who rated this an E?

I think it’s an S for season 1, but because the show gets so much better I’m leaning more towards A because there are sooooo many great episodes to come… but I’ll give it the S anyway 🤷‍♂️

Easy A. I will only say that the reason Kira's performance comes off so much better here than in Battle Lines is because she is passionately explaining why this case is so important to her people. In Battle Lines she was being asked to emotionally break down for a character that we only saw in the pilot, and even then most of time we saw her as a Prophet induced vision. Might be more a case of writers not building up Opaka enough & fans not getting Kira's grief and less Visitor being a bad actor because she really knocks it out of the park here and in Progress. A great episode that is the first of many. Engage!

Solid gold S! This is the first DS9 episode where the strength of the premise really shines and the writers know what to do with it and everyone pulls it off on perfect form. In series with a lot of favorite episodes for me, this is easily in my top 5!

B. Well acted but misguided. I don't subscribe to the theory that Auschwitz employees were victims too, and the entire logic of this episode is ridiculous. All the people that died in that camp this guy moaned and cried about deserved at least a trial just so there is a record and their plight not swept under the rug, as Kira did here. This episode was looking for complexity when it's all very simple.

I think one reason this gets so highly praised isn't just because it's excellent, it is - but also because it just comes outta flippin NOWHERE. S1 has been puttering along, mostly even in quality with a few peaks, but then this back-and-forth that changes a hardline viewpoint slams down and basically blows everyone away after all the doldrums of the middle stretch.

I actually feel guilty being part of the minority only giving this A. I love this episode, and obviously agree with the majority that it is fantastic, however unlike most people i also consider Move Along Home to be A as well, but for very different reasons. They are both episodes that i dearly love, but neither are quite S for me like my 2 Season favourites: Dramatis Personae, and Babel.

This is one of those episodes that sticks with you. It shows us that the cardies aren't this monolith of evil, that there are good people in the empire, who want to see it do and be better, while also showing us in Maritza's anguish just how bad what they did to the Bajorans was. If this is how the things they did affected the filing clerk, just imagine what it did to the Bajorans.

First of the DS9 S-tiers, but far, FAR from the last!

S Tier was there ever any doubt

The scene where Maritzza breaks down and cries over the atrocities in the came absolutely rips my guts out every time I watch it. This was the moment when I realized DS9 was going to be really good.

Easy S. The stand-out of the season, really.

Proof that 2% of the TA audience never learned the english alphabet and just hits random glyphs to input their score because they want to participate. Remember, it's ok to insult them on here, because they can't read ; )

Ok, so I guess I'm one of only a couple assholes so far to give it an A. Maybe that's based on me having seen the whole series. I'm also stingy with perfect scores. I will agree it is the best we've seen thus far and I really had to consider. The last S I gave was for Lessons and emotionally this one just didn't get me the same.

S Rank for….Major Kira having better directionS

Best episode of the first 2 seasons!

I like the way Odo says Gul Darheel

F. No, just no! Bad. The guy couldn't act. I did not believe for a moment he was Gul Darheel. His over-the-top rantings were so ridiculous I had to fast forward a couple of times (Very bad for my VCR!). And that Bajoran Major girl is a bad "actress" who constantly ugly-cries because that's what she thinks makes her more believable as a war survivor. Get over it already! It's been years. Pathetic. Worst episode of the entire series. "The Storyteller" was much, much better. That episode at least had some cool special effects, and explosions! This? Just a boring play. FAIL! P.S, it's an S.

Gotta love the troll who gave this an E… why are you even here?!

Who gave this an E?! Come on, show yourself!

Wow, someone gave an E to this one?

There’s no episode that’s an easier S.

Love this episode. Very powerful. S tier for me.

S for... uhh... Something idk