How did you become a DS9 fan?

[kirkfan]

I just recently threw away several VCR tapes containing my favorite recorded DS9 episodes. Given my luck, Netflix will cancel their live streaming contract with the Trek franchise within the year.

You shouldn't do that. They may someday become collector items.

Oh, man. I wish! These were grainy, beat up old manual recordings of TV shows. The only amusing (and possibly collectible?) content were the old commercials. I didn't think about that!

It increases their values if they're still in the original packages, but I guess it's not really possible with manual recordings, is it?

 

[zzi]

Thank god for streaming.

I grew up on TNG, DS9 & Voyager, but I always loved the DS9 characters the best. However, re-watching the show as an adult I've rediscovered it as one of my very favorite TV series, one that I've already found myself watching over and over. I remember vaguely following the storyline as a child, but wasn't able to keep up with every episode, probably partly due to bed times. Netflix (along with adulthood, I suppose) has absolutely remedied that problem and I'm discovering more wonderful things about the story and characters each time I watch through it. Such a phenomenal show.

 

[martok2112]

Well, I'm not a fan of anything anymore, but, DS9 became my favorite series during the third season of its original run.....starting with "The Way of the Warrior", and it just seemed to keep rockin' afterward.

 

[kirkfan]

Well, I'm not a fan of anything anymore, but, DS9 became my favorite series during the third season of its original run.....starting with "The Way of the Warrior", and it just seemed to keep rockin' afterward.

Yes, at first I saw the DS9 episodes completely at random. The first I saw was image in the sand, which is a bit confusing when you don't know anything about the series , then later I saw Life Support and I kept asking myself, Is that really from the same series? Now I've seen them all three or four times each, so everything has fallen into place.

 

[JonVP]

It was a real struggle to keep watching the show during S1. There were a few good episodes but overall S1 had more misses than hits. It wasn’t until The Circle-trilogy that I really became a fan of the show. Now I consider it to be the best of the Star Trek-series.

 

[kirkfan]

It was a real struggle to keep watching the show during S1. There were a few good episodes but overall S1 had more misses than hits. It wasn’t until The Circle-trilogy that I really became a fan of the show. Now I consider it to be the best of the Star Trek-series.

Winn is the second best Villain of the show, after Dukat but before Weyoun.

 

[JonVP]

It was a real struggle to keep watching the show during S1. There were a few good episodes but overall S1 had more misses than hits. It wasn’t until The Circle-trilogy that I really became a fan of the show. Now I consider it to be the best of the Star Trek-series.

Winn is the second best Villain of the show, after Dukat but before Weyoun.

I never really considered Weyoun to be the villain of the show. To me he was just a Founder puppet. At their core, Dukat and Winn were very much alike. Hungry for power and worship. No wonder they ended up in the same bed.

 

[kirkfan]

It was a real struggle to keep watching the show during S1. There were a few good episodes but overall S1 had more misses than hits. It wasn’t until The Circle-trilogy that I really became a fan of the show. Now I consider it to be the best of the Star Trek-series.

Winn is the second best Villain of the show, after Dukat but before Weyoun.

I never really considered Weyoun to be the villain of the show. To me he was just a Founder puppet. At their core, Dukat and Winn were very much alike. Hungry for power and worship. No wonder they ended up in the same bed.

To be fair Winn had no idea she was sleeping with Dukat, she ended it the moment she found out.

 

[JonVP]

To be fair Winn had no idea she was sleeping with Dukat, she ended it the moment she found out.

And she should have stopped her evil scheming right there...

 

[kirkfan]

To be fair Winn had no idea she was sleeping with Dukat, she ended it the moment she found out.

And she should have stopped her evil scheming right there...

It was too late. By then she had realized that the prophets never liked her. It must be a tough realization for anyone to become aware that the people you revere the most don't love you and possibly even hate you.

 

[Roguewolf]

It was a real struggle to keep watching the show during S1. There were a few good episodes but overall S1 had more misses than hits. It wasn’t until The Circle-trilogy that I really became a fan of the show. Now I consider it to be the best of the Star Trek-series.

Winn is the second best Villain of the show, after Dukat but before Weyoun.

I never really considered Weyoun to be the villain of the show. To me he was just a Founder puppet. At their core, Dukat and Winn were very much alike. Hungry for power and worship. No wonder they ended up in the same bed.

Weyoun was indeed a Founder puppet, but he was so smug
about the Dominions power all the time. I loved it when he was in Worf's face and Worf stepped forward and snapped his neck. LOL

 

[kirkfan]

Winn is the second best Villain of the show, after Dukat but before Weyoun.

I never really considered Weyoun to be the villain of the show. To me he was just a Founder puppet. At their core, Dukat and Winn were very much alike. Hungry for power and worship. No wonder they ended up in the same bed.

Weyoun was indeed a Founder puppet, but he was so smug
about the Dominions power all the time. I loved it when he was in Worf's face and Worf stepped forward and snapped his neck. LOL

I still say that Weyoun was a great villain.

 

[Roguewolf]

I'll agree that he was good, but he was no Dukat. I really liked Garek, he was very well writen IMHO, make no mistake, he was a villain too.

 

[kirkfan]

I'll agree that he was good, but he was no Dukat. I really liked Garek, he was very well writen IMHO, make no mistake, he was a villain too.

I disagree, Garak was much more often and by that I mean almost always on the side of the good guys, even his bad actions (which are rare) have more often than not good intentions behind them. So I definitely wouldn't call him a villain.

 

[kkt]

Garak was always self-interested. He was also interested in what was good for Cardassia as he saw it, but only as far as it helped his self-interest. I think it was a source of concern to him that the way to help himself and Cardassia coincided with helping the Federation powers-that-be as often as they did.

When Tain invited him to come back, he didn't even blink before saying yes and returning to the good old days of torture and disappearing people he didn't like. This isn't how the good guys act. That's part of what made him an interesting character.

 

[kirkfan]

Garak was always self-interested. He was also interested in what was good for Cardassia as he saw it, but only as far as it helped his self-interest. I think it was a source of concern to him that the way to help himself and Cardassia coincided with helping the Federation powers-that-be as often as they did.

When Tain invited him to come back, he didn't even blink before saying yes and returning to the good old days of torture and disappearing people he didn't like. This isn't how the good guys act. That's part of what made him an interesting character.

Actually if you watch that episode you can see that he did that as the only way at his disposal to save Odo. It's likely that Tain would have tortured Odo to death otherwise.

 

[JD5000]

That's pure conjecture. At best, we can only rationalize that Garak was at a point of personal conflict, a bridge between his old life pre-Federation occupation of DS9 and his exile, and his 'new' life.

 

[Inactive-Shapeshifter]

Why i became a fan? Blame Odo, Bashir and Garak.

 

[Greg Cox]

The usual way. Both eyes open. :P

I watched it first run, every week, beginning to end. I don't think I missed a single episode.

Hey, that's good. I did exactly that for... well, never actually. I don't have the patience to follow a show, week after week. So I buy the dvds, blue rays, what have you? And so I can watch as many or as few episodes over a given period of time as I want.

Well, since there was no Netflix or "on demand" back in the olden days, people either watched a show when it was on or they bought one of those newfangled expensive VCRs and learned how to make it stop flashing 12:00 ... 12:00 ... 12:00 ...

I still have a VCR although I'm gradually converting my Trek library to DVD. Haven't made the jump to Blu-Ray or Netflix yet, and have only a vague idea how "streaming" works.

Yes, I'm a Luddite, I know.

 

[JD5000]

When TNG first aired, we had to rent the VCR with the movie we wanted to watch.

Fox was only on satellite TV.