PATRON TIER LIST - DS9 S2E1 - The Homecoming

A is right on the money, though a low one for me. It's a good start it's not a greatest episode but it's built sturdy to get you home.

I don't know how you rate these three independent of the context of one another. It's a great DS9 movie, and impossibly good considering it builds off only one season of character development.

B. Solid Season Starter, this political thriller that finally deals with the Bajoran-Cardassian situation. Better than most of the stuff we got in C-son 1, but it pales in comparison to later episodes in the season that are far more deserving of A's and S's than this episode.

I gave it C tier because similar episodes are coming that put it into a lower tier

I think this is the first time the writers prove they can do more than, what feels like, recycling episodes that belong to TNG or the OG series. DS9's first time walking so the series can run later on, IMO.

Many moving pieces, but we finally get to see our characters interacting on a more personal level.

I think I'd give each of these three episodes an A, but I'd give the trilogy as a whole an S. One of those cases where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.