I don't hate Distant Origin. I think it was an original idea that I'd never seen before. I wish we could have seen more of the heretical Voth. I'm not saying the idea hadn't been done before, but it was the first time I had seen a story like it.
I officially began my journey through all Star Trek on October 9th...
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That's a good one too.
Who hates it? I'd like to have a word with them
People I know, reviews too.
I think that was actually the first, still techno'd up Quasi Borg suit from The Gift. It was the actual Borg outfits that were the problem. The tight high collared suits made of stiff rubber or latex put pressure on her carotid arteries and caused her to faint. The horrid silver catsuit was actually the compromise solution to avoid that. If I remember correctly Alicia Silverstone had a similar problem with the rubber Batgirl suit from Batman and Robin.
Could it be because Braga approached Trek as an anthology show, more akin to Twilight Zone?
Most of us originally watched DS9 episode after Voyager after DS9, etc., but I don't think it added anything to our viewing to do so.
Aaaand... that's season 4 of VOY!
Finally, I'm on the last season of DS9 now, gives me a sense of excitement (and dread, I don't want to finish it). I've recently been considering alternating between season 7 of DS9 and season 5 of VOY in order of airdate, just as I did for the first two seasons of DS9 and last two of TNG. The reason I didn't do that for the rest of DS9 and VOY was because I felt it made everything go by too slowly if that makes sense. It felt like I was barely making any ground (even though I was) and it started to get somewhat tiresome by the end of TNG season 7. I don't regret it at all, but I wouldn't have wanted to do it for five more seasons.
Now, I think it makes sense. Not only so that I can put off finishing DS9 for longer (lol), but then I won't have to watch three straight seasons of VOY which, after all this alternating between shows each season, sounds almost a little off-putting.
I doubt you guys care much, but any thoughts/feedback on the idea would be nice.
That's how most of us watched it. But keep in mind the back half of DS9's Season 7 goes full on serialized. One episode leads into the next into the next etc. More soap opera or comic book like then any other Trek shows. I'm not sure if breaking those up and inserting a Voyager episode between them is good or bad.
One of my favorites. Out of 730 odd Star Trek episodes it's probably in my top 30 ever.
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There is a lot--too much, perhaps--going on in those last episodes. It does make sense to break them up a little on one's first viewing.
There are no "too be continueds" and few "last time on DS9." Often the dialogue serves to bring up relevant plot points. Even so, there is a lot going on in every episode. Most threads don't get enough air time; others too much, peaking too early before they can pay off. Don't get me wrong, the final ten episodes are exhilarating, but it is easy to see how they could have been made better.
I don't remember how many episodes it is, but in the last part of the season, DS9 goes full serial...one episode flows directly into the next.
Or you can continue to go by airdate and suffer the interruptions...we had to wait until next week, it's not like they can't be watched as individual episodes.
I remember renting videos to watch season 5 of VOY and season 7 of DS9. I used to just want new episodes so wasn't bothered how I watched it. 
These days I just watch them individually of each other. The 10 part Final Chapter arc is better watched as one anyway.
Glad you enjoyed season four of VOY. It's easily my favourite, though season five is pretty good too. It certainly wasn't a perfect show but it could definitely be entertaining.
These days I just watch them individually of each other. The 10 part Final Chapter arc is better watched as one anyway.
Glad you enjoyed season four of VOY. It's easily my favourite, though season five is pretty good too. It certainly wasn't a perfect show but it could definitely be entertaining.
It isn't a "To Be Continued" thing. But where you leave a character at the end of episode A ir largely where you pick up with them at the start of B. And given some of the ongoing arcs and stories it is hard to compartmentalize them. With a few exceptions, such as "What You Leave Behind" the back half of DS9 sort of runs together in your memories. You remember Bashir's story, Sisko's story, Kira's story etc. You remember them very clearly. But the individual episode breaks get a little fuzzy in hindsight. There are no stand alone self contained episodes in the back half of season 7. "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang" is the last more or less self contained episode of the series.
You haven't watched Insurrection, yet? You have to see that. Picard, Data and Worf singing Guilbert and Sullivan's songs. That's something!
Ezri is kind of a mixed bag. By and large the fans love Nicole deBoer, but hated Ezri Dax. Just some of the Dax storyline and character stuff felt forced. There was certainly some interesting stuff in there. But it was rather hamhanded in many ways. Personally I think deBoer is adorable and would have loved to see her as a squeaky new Ensign coming into the war zone. But the Dax parts of the character left me cold. Not to mention the writers showing some of their familiar late season Trek Tropes that they pioneeded oh so horrifically in TNG with her. (Yeah, let's just say that Nicole's (sp?) prior TNG appearance as a "knocked up alien teenage princess" was the least creepy and romantic high point of her Star Trek career.) If you move on to Babylon 5 in the future you will find that that show has a similar jarring and unexpected character replacement for its last season (for pretty much the same reason.) And fans are similarly divided on it. Most love the actress and hate the character.
Be slightly warned. DS9's Season 6 taken as a whole is the best overall Season of the show, if not the franchise. For season 7 all the weird, dull, oddly out of place, and otherwise stand alone classic 'Trek" episodes are front loaded in the beginning of the season. None of them are bad per se. But it is just a little jarring to get such a solid run of them after the steady ramp up of season 6. Obviously they were clearing the calendar and using up the purchased scripts before they began the big run up to the end. So you get some seemingly oddly out of place stand alone stories in the middle of a war arc. Like "Take Me Out To The Holosuite". The result is Season 7 feels a little more uneven than Season 6. Season 6 spread the really great stuff throughout. Season 7 saves much of the best for the end.
Be slightly warned. DS9's Season 6 taken as a whole is the best overall Season of the show, if not the franchise. For season 7 all the weird, dull, oddly out of place, and otherwise stand alone classic 'Trek" episodes are front loaded in the beginning of the season. None of them are bad per se. But it is just a little jarring to get such a solid run of them after the steady ramp up of season 6. Obviously they were clearing the calendar and using up the purchased scripts before they began the big run up to the end. So you get some seemingly oddly out of place stand alone stories in the middle of a war arc. Like "Take Me Out To The Holosuite". The result is Season 7 feels a little more uneven than Season 6. Season 6 spread the really great stuff throughout. Season 7 saves much of the best for the end.
What? Nicole De Boer was never in TNG.
While never specified directly (Insurrection never gives a Stardate to reference) It's generally viewed that Insurrection takes place just after the beginning of "It's Only a Paper Moon". How to have Worf two places at once is generally the issue.
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Wasn't she the Pregnant Teenager in the utrageous Okana? or am I thinking of another actress that looks like her?
She was played by someone else, though she does bear more than a passing resemblance to Nicole:
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Yanar
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Yanar
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