I'll be honest here and say that I only made it through three episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. I realized that this isn't an adequate amount of episodes to fairly judge this season.
Here's the thing, though: I found myself so incredibly bored while watching those three episodes that (at least at this point) I have no desire to continue watching any further.
From what I have heard (from people who really like DS9), the attraction is that the show is much more serialized than other other Trek show. It takes a few seasons to get to that point, though, and I just don't have the patience right now to weed through multiple seasons of average material to (potentially) get to that point.
Another reason why I'm stopping my DS9 experiment before it really ever even got off the ground? Besides TOS & TNG (the series that everyone seems to enjoy), I'm a "Voyager" guy. I watched every episode of that series and very much enjoyed it. It seems like Voyager & DS9 are polar opposites in terms of type of show, so perhaps DS9 really isn't for me.
What I didn't like in the early goings was how slow everything unfolded and how much politics was involved. It was like they took all the things I didn't care for on TNG (Klingon/Cardassian politics, plotted space wars) and made a show about that.
I have no doubt that the show improves in quality as it goes along, but I just don't know if I'm ready (or ever will be) to put in the time to see it through.