And you will never see any writing of this caliber on any of the present day shows.

I saw this video before I watched DS9 myself, and in #5, I thought Major Kira was just some passing ensign or something. Makes the scene a lot funnier when you think Sisko gave that rant to the closest crew member he could find 😂😂

Computer Eraze the entire personal log 😂

This show is soooooo underrated

IMO DS9 was the gem in the era after TOS. The writers were absolutely incredible in building the characters and creating interaction between them. I've always felt that this was due to the fact that all of the characters are stuck in one spot in space on a station that doesn't go anywhere. Unlike a starship that travels around where writers can create different stories in different places every week, in DS9 they have to make it where people of all different types of races get along with each other. Sometimes they get along good and sometimes they don't.

Sisko doesn't bluff! He was exactly the type of tough commander that was needed to handle this threat. War crimes or Shortening and stopping a war? That is a fine line.... Occasionally it gets crossed. In a war, sometimes the end justifies the need.

Deep space none was the best of all the star treks in my opinion.

In the pale moonlight episode, it was one to remember for sure.

Kirk. It will always be Kirk.

Sisko is a bully. He's a bad person.

Sisko punched god in the face. That is not a man that I would gamble with.

Gul Dukat is one of my favorite villains/characters ever. He was a huge dick, yet his goals and motives made sense, and he had undeniable charisma. And his eventual descent into insanity was well-written and entertaining. He was weirdly likable to me.

kirk is better

Great list, I might make my top 5 now too. Awesome stuff!

Sisko is a shit captain and Eddington was right. What kind of moron watches a scene of a guy ordering the annihilation of a planet and thinks this is what makes a good starfleet captain. Just pathetic.

YES! He was bad..s as f..k! The rouse was perfect!

Since when is genocide and polluting entire planets badass?

In the Pale Moonlight was the apex of Star Trek, period.

People always debated whether Kirk or Picard was the best captain but for me it was always Sisko. DS9 is a timeless masterpiece.

Hamas should take note

Avery Brooks owned this scene, but Ken Marshall also did a fantastic job as Eddington.

"And needlessly bloody" said the man who bombed an entire planet uninhabitable for around 50 years to catch a single guy...

With this plot, one always has to remember that the Federations offer to resettle the colonists never expired.

Yooo. This is the current Pallys vs Isreais in space. Crazy.

You'll find a puddle under kyra's seat after that Gul Dukat countdown.

At least in the late 90s we had a realistic views of those we called hereos...but, it was fraught with all that came w/ valor or/duty. Seems even more corrupted now. As a Navy vet, don't know what to make of it...

You love his Bad Ass-ness. Are you sure that's the world you would want to live in? Other alternatives are much more difficult, but speaks well of a species that strives to be more than their animal instincts

9:05 I love Garak, but seeing him get Emissary-grade pimpslapped so hard he went airborne is just the greatest.

I've always loved Kira's expression walking into a wall of Sisko as she walks into his office.

I never get sick of this

Uh. War crime? We gonna ignore that?

Cisco is Lawrence of Arabia Paul Atreides he's the great white savior in reverse the Jordans are white but they're primitive their tribal dislike the Freeman just like the Arabs of the early 19th and 20th centuries let Lawrence of Arabia saved or become almost holy figure to budots in Reverse see he's black and The Primitives are white

Everyone notes that Worf, a Klingon, pauses. But I think its just as notable that Kira, a Bajoran resistance fighter does too. This is the kind of absolute play that a rebel understands. She even later says to Damar that you can't shy away from collateral damage because the minute you do, they start using civilians as human shields. The enlightened star fleet officer is so locked in to hunt down the traitor, that a Klingon Warrior and a Bajoran rebel think he is probably going to far. And they follow the orders anyway. The mall in space in space is a dead mall like all the rest.

its Important that weapons of mass destruction Should be punished for use in anything at all I know my grammer is strange But i know you understand enough to figure out my words

What's great is that neither of their points of view are stupid or unreasonable. There is no clear villain here, these are two decent men actually trying to do the right thing. The show doesn't try to dictate who is right or wrong, it's left to the viewer. This is real Star Trek.

He's insane, an egomaniac, reckless and willing to win at virtually any cost. You gotta respect the way Dukat took command of the situation and shutdown any nonsense. Ruthlessly efficient.

20 years later and people are still talkimh about ds9. I call that a bargain.

Sisko was so evil even the Klingons didn’t dare to face him.

For all of the great storytelling provided by the series, the creators also take from what they deliver. What do I mean by this? The underlying/unstated sentiment is "look what happens to lofty Star Trek ideals when a you-know-what is given leadership in Starfleet". I know I am going to get major grief for this observation, but so be it; that's how I honestly feel, even with Sisko being my favorite captain by far.

the hetman's reaction when a Cardassian gul pops up from behind the Federation captain

Captain Sisko wasn't bluffing at all.

Ah yeah deep sace 9, up there with the next generalization

Listen, this man’s great great great great Grandad was a man called Hawk back on earth, word is he didn’t take any shit either.

Listen, this man’s great great great great Grandad was a man called Hawk back on earth, word is he didn’t take any shit either.

The maquis is Palestine , cardacia is USA/israel and the federation is china and all around them like the BRICS who are trying to defend the weak WE ARE LEAVING IN A TIME WHERE A THIRD WORLD WAR WILL START

During Covid-19... _"You'll get what you want, a PlayStation 5. And if your conscience is bothering you, you should soothe it with the knowledge that you may have just saved your gaming room, and all it cost were the tears of one parent with a ten year old, one teenager ... and the self-respect of one GameStop employee. I don't know about you, but I'd call that a bargain."_

Did he realy fired the torpedos on that colony or was it just a trick to get Eddington?

Yeah but I can't stand his mannerisms and voice tbh.

Sisko pimp hand is strong

It should be a list of the top seven, and it's just a list of the seasons.