10 Best Battles In Star Trek's History

Season 4, Episode 2: The Way of the Warrior (Part 2)

While the introduction of the USS Defiant marked the moment DS9 went from being a show about the spirituality and political power-struggles to, well, something good, it was The Way of the Warrior that heralded its full transition to lol torpedos go boom.

Theoretically, this should have just been a dull stand-off, as the show itself had even admitted there was no real way to mount a defence of a stationary position against a fleet of more mobile ships. This was their fear in Season 1, but by Season 4 they'd armed the station to the teeth.

So absurd was the station's new armament that both General Martok and Chancellor Gowron refused to accept their sensor readings and pressed on with the attack at the eventual cost of at least 12 ships.

By incorporating an attempt to invade the station - and the assorted firefights this led to - the battle in Way of the Warrior is one of the most well-produced set pieces in Star Trek history. It's got the stakes, the scope, the special effects, and an inordinately high density of Starfleet Double-Fist-Club-Punches per minute.