What season 7 does really well is build up the momentum of the war-it spends time dealing with the aftermath of season 6 and developing Ezri, but the last 10 episodes or so are basically an accelerating train ride to the finale.
Season 7...Love It? Or Hate It?
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I found it really disturbing when those two got physically intimate with one another. Ick!The Pah-Wraith thing was a bit of mumbo-jumbo but it actually created some really good episodes and it also gave us one of the most charming couples in Star Trek: Gul Dukat and Kai Winn!
They were just such an unappealing couple.I didn't care for the pah-wraith storyline. But in the series finale, when Dukat and Kai Winn were together in the fire caves, it was unintentionally hilarious. They sounded like an old bickering couple, trading put-downs and insults at one another. That was the best part of the pah-wraith storyline.
I Ioved it, with some aspects being great and shaky at the same time. They realized all the 24th century shows had detached emotion in them, and they knew they had to break out of that and overcome it. So they added a building sense of the "epic", and while that worked so well most of the time, they wound up with some melodrama too, letting good vs evil creep in, letting the magical in. Never was the wall between SF and magic really breached, but it got wobbly.
The addition of Ezri Dax brought S7 something new and fresh. It gave the writers the opportunity to re-explore the other characters without falling in the family-trope like TNG in its last season.
The ending of the series was just spectacular. The Dominion War, the Pah-wraights, … I loved everything!
If there’s one series that deserved an 8th season, it’s definitely DS9.
The ending of the series was just spectacular. The Dominion War, the Pah-wraights, … I loved everything!
If there’s one series that deserved an 8th season, it’s definitely DS9.
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Episodes centering around the war were great. Episodes centering around the individual characters were shaky.
Like Duet, Necessary Evil, The Wire, Whispers, The Abandoned, The Visitor, Indiscretion, Rejoined, Hard Times, The Quickening, Nor the Battle to the Strong, The Assignement, Rapture, Darkness and Light, Statistical Probabilities, Inquisition, It's Only a Paper Moon, Inter Arma or Chimera?
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wait - what season are we talking about here?
All of them, including 7.
The only Ezri episode I didn't particularly enjoy was Prodigal Daughter. I've gained even more appreciation for her episodes over the years, especially Afterimage. The issue with Season 7 was the first half of the year should have wrapped up the War. You didn't need episodes like Take Me Out to the Halosuite (While a good episode) or Badda Bing, Badda Bang. There was too much filler in the first half of the season, and the Pah Wraith story didn't work as well as it could have.
I enjoyed all the Ezri episodes, especially Prodigal Daughter. I enjoyed meeting her disfunctional family, which we usually don't get to do with Star Trek characters.
I'm not sure what they would have done with the second half of Season 7 if they wrapped up the Dominion War halfway through. Would they spend half the season on concluding the Prophets vs. Pah Wraiths? It might have been better to wrap up the Pah Wraiths story earlier and without the Dukat as devil story, and then take the second half of the season to wrap up the Dominion War. I liked Take Me Out to the Holosuite and Badda Bind. Not every story in the whole season should be about the overall story arc. War as seen from the ground is long periods of boredom, occassionally relieved by terror.
I'm not sure what they would have done with the second half of Season 7 if they wrapped up the Dominion War halfway through. Would they spend half the season on concluding the Prophets vs. Pah Wraiths? It might have been better to wrap up the Pah Wraiths story earlier and without the Dukat as devil story, and then take the second half of the season to wrap up the Dominion War. I liked Take Me Out to the Holosuite and Badda Bind. Not every story in the whole season should be about the overall story arc. War as seen from the ground is long periods of boredom, occassionally relieved by terror.
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