Deep Space Nine starts getting good in season 3, some DS9 season 3 episodes aren't essential viewing, so you can skip them.

Producer Rick Berman revealed that Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s insistence on avoiding conflict between the main characters in TNG was solved in Deep Space Nine. Created by Berman and Michael ...

Tahna Los, a former Bajoran terrorist during the Occupation, asks Sisko for asylum on DS9. Meanwhile, the station's last Cardassian inhabitant, Garak, possibly a former spy for the Cardassian ...