This episode is without doubt crap but its fun crap. I love the concept that anything can come through the worm hole and a group of aliens who want to play games in Quarks rather than make first contact is bags of fun. Plus its an ensemble episode where most of the cast is involved and I like these kind of episodes.
To put it politely the game element of the story to put it politely feels like it was written by Chris Bulis - if your in the mood you're in the mood if not its lame. The various characters in the maze do well, Sisko is the defiant leader, Kira is not in the mood and didn't sign up for this ****, Bashir is at his comedic best while Dax is sadly still a vacuum. Outside the game Quark and Odo are loads of fun while Jake gets some good growing pains scenes with his dad.
Its another episode that benefits from its position, DS9 would get better however this episode is early enough to be a banter. Low level its also building up the importance of the worm hole for the series, its not front and centre every week but its in a good position to cement its importance to the show 7/10.
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