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End of season 1

Top 5: (much of the season was great, so, this was surprisingly difficult and may be a slightly arbitrary selection)

Emissary (probably the best pilot this franchise has had)

Vortex (basically all of Odo's episodes are great, but this is the best of the bunch. A truly fascinating character)

If Wishes Were Horses (Still proper love a good meta plot and this one finds room for a surprising amount of novelty)

Duet (brilliant look into the aftermath of war, anchored by excellent performances)

In the Hands of the Prophets (pretty much the perfect season finale for the themes set up in the first episode)

Bottom 5 (a more expected bunch, probably, though it was difficult to find candidates)

Babel (perhaps the most average of the average bunch. Good, but almost everything else is better)

Q-Less (Q himself is always entertaining, but he's blatantly only here for advertising purposes and the episode has all the substance that implies)

The Passenger (falls a little below the "just average" crowd due to the weird dubbing)

Move Along Home (dull, brainless and seems like an exercise to torment the cast)

Progress (the production is fine, but the guest star quickly becomes unlikeable and its a bit clueless about its actual message)

Miscellaneous thoughts

Dax (could've made the top 5 if it weren't for Dax being used as a prop for far too much of it)

The Nagus (almost made the top 5 for doing to the Ferengi what TNG did for the Klingons)

Battle Lines (almost made the top 5)

The Forsaken (came very close to unseating Vortex)

Overall, a season so excellent it almost defies attempting to rank individual episodes.

Should probably continue this Descent. The end of TNG begins soon.