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Originally Posted by Sr. Mints
DS9 really starts to pick up toward the end of season 2. Three very important villains--Jem'Hadar, Vorta, and Founders--were all introduced over three episodes beginning with the S2 finale and into S3. In terms of storytelling and setting up remaining seasons, establishing these antagonists rapid-fire is certainly efficient.
The episode 'The Jem'Hadar' was somewhat worse than I remember. It struck me that the team behind the scenes very quickly dropped the Vorta's telekinetic ability. I don't recall seeing anything like that again.
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You should rewatch some of the earlier episodes of season 2: they actually quite slowly, methodically introduced the Dominion. In "Rules of Acquisition", the one with 'Pel' the female Ferengi, the goofy Gamma Quadrant race (whatever they were called; red faces, one of them played by Brian Thompson) that they were trying to deal with said they couldn't deal in the volume of product that they wanted to. However, goofy-red-faced guys said "We can put you in touch with the Karemma, who are a member of the
Dominion..."
A few episodes later there's the one with the refugees from a planet in the Gamma Quadrant who flee through the wormhole and think that Bajor is a fabled safe-haven planet. ('Skkreeeans'? However the #### it's supposedly to be spelled/pronounced... Their defining physical characteristic was super-flakey skin...?)
They fled being slaves to
another species whose planet was conquered by...
the Dominion...
The writers name-dropped this unknown "big-bad" throughout the second season. It was quite well done, in retrospect; so subtle that I forgot they'd done it until a rewatch much later.