Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is on everyone’s mind right now and here is Star Trek’s 8 “stand out” moments for the series.
With the rumors of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine characters showing up in the world of Nu Trek, more than likely in a show like Picard or Lower Decks, Star Trek.com has apparently hopped in on that with their list of the Top 8 moments from Star Trek that stood out.
I’m not sure what the criteria really were for “stand out” moments but maybe it’s easier than saying “best” or “most impactful”.
For their eight selections, you can see them down below, but I recommend you go to Star Trek.com’s official website to read their reasons why. Though we want to be clear, these aren’t in any given order. So don’t be mad if your favorite isn’t number one.
"Quark’s Speech to NogKira is Forever ChangedOdo’s Fatherly PrideDukat Defends the OccupationWeyoun 6’s SacrificeNog Faces His PTSDSisko And Garak’s Final ConfrontationDamar’s Reckoning"
What is our most stand-out moment in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine?
So this is a list of writing and poignant moments, and they are good moments. I especially love all of the Kira Nerys and Tekeny Ghemor scenes. All of them, are beyond brilliant and show how you can find love in anger. Few Bajorans have more right to hate Cardassians than Kira, but she finds a kindred spirit in Ghemor, and they become a pseudo-family. It’s heartwarming.
Yet, and yes, it’s overplayed, but no “stand out moment” can really top Ben Sisko’s “ONE MORE FOR THE GOOD GUYS!” speech. It happens during the episode “In the Pale Moonlight”, which is also the same episode where Sisko and Garak have their above “final confrontation”.
Garak ends up committing a war crime and ropes Sisko into it, but Garak does it to bring the Romulans into the Dominion War and help the allied powers of the Klingons and the Federation fend off the surging Dominion.
It’s a great scene when Sisko finds out what Garak did.
Yet, the speech he gives to no one but his own personal log is the tentpole of the whole episode. It’s the moment that cements the actions of everyone invovled. Not just because he rationalizes the actions to himself, but because of the energy he brings while doing so.
But because when it was all said and done, knowing he’d never be seen as anything other than a hero, he deletes his personal recording, almost as if to admit to himself and the audience that he knows he can’t live with what he’s done.
It’s beautiful but in a tragic way.