Deep Space Nine - Take me Out to the Holosuite

Plot: The DS9 crew plays a baseball game with a visitng Vulcan Crew.

I've seen dumber star trek episodes, and duller star trek episodes, but this has to be one of the dullest AND dumbest Star trek episodes ever. And I'm talking not just DS9, I'm talking TOS and TNG. What's really odd is that mine is a minority opinion. Almost every review on the internet LOVES this episode. They're all baseball fans, or they LOVE the characters or they think its so funny. Of course the same people thought "The Visitor" was the greatest drama since Citizen Kane.

Lets go over how dumb this episode is.

• First, why is everyone taking time off to play a BB game in the middle of the Dominion War? Note that everyone has all kinds of recreation available to them on DS9. There no need to use a BB game as "a break" from the war.  This isn't a bunch of Marines on Guadacanal with no other recreation available. Nor does Baseball remind them of home.
• Second, why would the Vulcan's -a logical, unsentimental, scientific people - play  "games" of any kind? And why would they play a human (read American) game?  Or care about "winning" at them? 
• Third, why does Sisko care about winning? Its supposedly to get back at the Vulcan Captain for some slight. Which is silly. Hello? He's a Starship Captain, not a HS sophmore. 

And how dull it is:

• First, you'll notice  how brief my plot summary is. Because that all there is.  Sisko and Vulcan Captain decide to play a BB.  Sisko rounds up everyone to play. They play the game. And we see them after the loss.  Much of the episode is just the actors in BB uniforms hitting baseballs and catching them.  
• Second, the comedy isn't well written and is mostly low brow. Oh, look  Kira doesn't know how to throw a ball.  haha.  Oh look at Worf, he takes the game too seriously. hoho.  Oh look, Odo is a stickler for the rules and throws out Sisko. Hee hee.
• Third, the DS9 actors simply are NOT good enough at comedy or likable enough to rescue a mediocre comedy and make it tolerable. As I've written before,  Sisko, Kira, and O'brien are basically serious characers and aren't played by actors who can be funny. Bahir can be witty at times, and Worf can be a funny character by being so straight-laced and uber-Kligon but the actor who plays him is not actually comedic. The only two DS9 characters who can consistently be humorous are Quark and Odo.    

Summary: One of the worst DS9 episodes. Unfunny and dull.  Rating Zero