PATRON TIER LIST - DS9 S2E25 - Tribunal

This episode is good enough to be A tier, but I like Chief too much to properly appreciate it, so I put B tier. So soon after Whispers it just feels mean.

I'm giving it a B because it was good for Cardassian lore, the courtroom scenes are very nice. But the whole "Sisko is able to enter Cardassian space and beam right into their courtroom" is a bit ridiculous (And no, you can't say "uhh, Boone got them in there"). As is the whole "paranoid security chief didn't set up cameras to show who enters and leaves THE PLACE WITH ALL THE WEAPONS." The place with all the records requires just a voice print match that a simple cassette tape could defeat? Puhleeease!

Slightly better than average episode. The ending is lame. No complexity and nuance in the writing. TNG courtroom episodes were far superior.

I have a feeling you guys will like this one a lot, given how much you loved previous O'Brien episodes. I give it an A because its a fascinating look into one aspect of Cardassian culture. Still, what what stops it from being an S for me is the going overboard with with the satire and the comedy.

Abducted and Arrested, Assaulted and Abused, Appointed an Apathetic and Atrocious Attorney, Absolutely Against Apealling. Almost Accidently Acquitted. Appalling Anquish. Again. --MoBMS--

A tier for giving us some more Cardassian lore and some great one off characters. And some ideas to chew on about how cardassians gather Intel.

Good dig into how Cardassian law works, and I love O'Brien's attorney.

Some neat Cardassian lore, but I find this one to be a pretty average DS9 episode.

S tier for obrian suffering