10 Biggest WTF Moments From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

The crew could've never prepared for what awaited them on the other side of that wormhole.

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[Jayjay-qeum]

Honestly, I'm still laughing at Keevan's last words, "I hate Ferengi..."

[geekehUK]

The Tom reveal in Defiant, is the greatest joke in Star Trek history. When he pulls off his fake sideburns to reveal a GOATEE!!!

[brianwalker]

Dukat showing up and killing Jadsia was one of the biggest WTF for me in DS9 the character had been there since the pilot and I had no idea the actress was leaving the show so it was a major WTF!

[rntt]

I'm in my first full rewatch of DS9 since I was a kid in the 90s. I can't believe how well this show has aged!

[StarFleet_Tech]

5:39 - I loved this scene. Seeing Q knocked down and hearing Sisko say “I ‘m not Picard!”

[jintym]

I'd say the murder of Jadzia Dax, the Pah-Wraith using Jake as their host in battle, and Bashir having been replaced on tne station for months are high up on my personal list

[rmdodsonbills]

In defense of "Allamaraine, count to four, " the Wadi *did* explicitly tell Quark that only children started at the first schap, tried to talk him out of starting there, and rolled their eyes at him when Quark insisted. It's no surprise that the "challenge" was lame.

[Oonagh]

Jake staying behind made perfect sense He was 18. That age you are idealistic and feel invincible. Also he wasn’t alone. He was there with his family. He was pretty safe.
I think Q should have been an antagonist on DS9. The Prophets were omnipotent beings, the Q were omnipotent beings. How no one thought that wouldn’t be an awesome conflict is beyond me.
Move Along home would have made an awesome movie. Were it feature length it could have been scary. The threat wouldn’t have been from the games, but have someone be scared to death.

[ImNtDead]

The thought of Picard smirking to himself thinking about Commander Sisko punching out Q makes me laugh

[wingsabre]

Jake staying on the station during the dominion occupation made total sense when you realize that it gave a character that was essentially a cilvilian, something to do during the war. Otherwise, he would not have had anything to do.

[vahi]

"Little Green Men" is one of my favorite eps. So clever. DS9 is still my favorite Trek.

[mwallacejam]

Kira thought of Dukat's daughter as a member of her family. Little did either know how accurate that statement was. Ziyal and Kira were basically stepsisters.

[julianmorgan]

This is bizarrely perfect timing because I’m currently doing a rewatch of deep space nine and literally just yesterday I got to the episode Defiant. So when I saw the thumbnail I had to check my living room for any cameras in case Seán Ferrick was watching me

[ViroVV]

The way they finally played out KiraXDukat concept with Meru instead makes it a LOT more WTF cause it gives a hidden subtext of creepy. All the other interactions between Nerys and Dukat play out like handsy step dad with no boundaries vibe as it relates to Nerys. Cause he is clearly obsessed with her for some reason without any sort of justification from Nerys. Having this story with Meru makes that creepiness make a LOT more sense. He sees the part of Meru that exists in Nerys and wants the younger, prettier version of Meru. Cause thats how he sees it.

Further, it also colors Dukat's interactions with Ziyal and the way he goes from being ready to murder her to doting over her and choosing her over his existing family also equally as sinister when seen through that same lens. Which with the original Z her age would have been perfect to push that angle. Yet it seems apparent that they aged her up in order to make the much needed romance with Garak

Adding that "step dad" level of evil to him not only makes his evil all the more dark, It actually aligns pretty well with the kind of evil Dukat has always represented. Hidden, Gaslighting, transactional and retaliatory.

[craigmacdonald]

I think the original trailer for "The Defiant" spoiled the Thomas Riker twist if I remember right. The second "Will" Riker gave Miles O'Brien the cold shoulder I knew it was Tom Riker and not Will.

[Brasc]

It's possible that Bashir's friend Felix based Vic Fontaine on an actual person he knew, as Quark tried to get an image of Kira for a customer earlier in the series, and as Barclay did with the command crew of the Enterprise-D in TNG and later the crew of Voyager. It's quite possible the mirror version of the actual person Felix based Fontaine on is the one who got killed.

[Cylver]

Perhaps Vic Fontaine‘s presence in the Mirror Universe is an homage to the fact that James Darren starred in the wonderful series The Time Tunnel back in the 60s, beginning the same year as TOS! It would have been cool to see him reprise his role in Enterprise, playing alongside fellow time traveler Scott Bakula!

[williammerkel]

00:53 no, he directly stated that he shot her on purpose, which is worse.

[nonameronin]

For me, Vic being a human in the Mirror Universe makes a lot more sense when you consider TNG and VOY go out of their way to establish that Data and the Doctor are sentient beings and have personhood. While that personhood isn't spelled out for holodeck/suite characters, it's highly implied for Moriarty who's clearly akin to Vic in terms of intelligence and awareness.

Because there isn't holodeck tech in the MU, it makes sense that there would be a material version of Vic who is just as human as the holodeck version.

[ChristyTina]

#2 is my favorite. I loved the continuation of Tom's story.