For as not great as the first season was, I'd still recommend watching from the beginning. You'll have to watch Move Along Home, but the DS9 characters are so endearing and well written that it's worth sitting through the stinkers. Skipping the first season will leave you in the dark about things that happen in later seasons. DS9 being far more serialized (at least as far as Trek was at the time) makes skipping episodes more difficult than what you could get away with watching TNG or Voyager.

If you feel you need to cut the fat and are willing to miss things, late season 2 is where it starts to hit its stride.

For as not great as the first season was, I'd still recommend watching from the beginning. You'll have to watch Move Along Home, but the DS9 characters are so endearing and well written that it's worth sitting through the stinkers.

If you feel you need to cut the fat, late season 2 is where it starts to hit its stride.