Possibly. All I know is the between deBoer and James Darren, they pretty much ruined the final season of the show for me. Probably some of the least rewatchable Trek this side of Discovery and Picard.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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Possibly. All I know is the between deBoer and James Darren, they pretty much ruined the final season of the show for me. Probably some of the least rewatchable Trek this side of Discovery and Picard.
Ezri was symbiosis gone wrong. Normally, Trill hosts are carefully selected, get years of training, and are precisely matched with an available symbiont. Ezri was just "hi, we're gonna put this slug in you, hope you don't mind". Last time a bad Joining happened with Dax, people died. So I guess Ezri got lucky that she was just super neurotic...
Amazing.
Different strokes and all that.
Indeed, indeed.
I thought that they should of made the follow on Dax character male. It would have made the new Dax dynamic with the existing characters, especially Worf, interesting.
It was Berman Trek. You would have lost the coveted "will they or won't they bang" of the first few episodes.
Shouldn't the Dax symbiot die when Ezri does due to completely reassociating with her former life? (See:"Rejoined")
Another from me...
In "When the Bough Breaks", Picard risked Riker and Data's lives unnecessarily. Beaming them through the Aldean shield was super risky, and a failure might have scattered their patterns into space.
Certainly, the Enterprise kids had to be gotten back. However, Beverly had diagnosed the Aldean's illness and knew how to treat them, Picard had a diplomatic solution. All he had to do was comm Radue and basically say: "you return our seven kids, we'll give you the ability to produce hundreds, maybe thousands, of your own."
There's actually a real world reason for this, but it's too lengthy to type on a smartphone.
In "When the Bough Breaks", Picard risked Riker and Data's lives unnecessarily. Beaming them through the Aldean shield was super risky, and a failure might have scattered their patterns into space.
Certainly, the Enterprise kids had to be gotten back. However, Beverly had diagnosed the Aldean's illness and knew how to treat them, Picard had a diplomatic solution. All he had to do was comm Radue and basically say: "you return our seven kids, we'll give you the ability to produce hundreds, maybe thousands, of your own."
There's actually a real world reason for this, but it's too lengthy to type on a smartphone.
pairing those two off together felt like the writers just didn’t know how to end their characters. So they just decided to finally let Bashir get to be with Dax, even though it wasn’t Jadzia.
That would have left just one female character in the main cast. I think the writers just wanted to avoid a "Kyra and the boys" situation.
I have a 55" 4K screen in the living room, and DS9 actually looks really nice on it. I find the best streaming platform is actually CBSAA for it. It doesn't seem to look quite as good on Netflix or Amazon. Give that a shot.
100%. I just got to Season 7 in my DS9 Rewatch (first time I've seen it in about 10 years), and Ezri has fallen flat for me thus far. I think Nicole deBoer wasn't quite up to the challenge, or the writing for her was blah....but something just doesn't click.
Thanks. I used to watch it on Netflix. Or rather, I tried to watch it. Each time it looked like a pixelated mess. It's the real reason I haven't watched it very much in recent years.
I'll try it on CBS All Access.
Controversial Opinion:
Star Trek is the 1966-1969 series and 6 feature films. Everything else is "work based on Star Trek."
I honestly don't mean that as an insult or as a statement on relative quality, etc. It's just the best way to describe how I feel about the franchise, canon, continuity, and all that shit everyone looses their minds about.
Star Trek is TOS. All the other stuff are interesting stories and characters that happen to take place in that same basic setting or with those same fundamental conventions/elements. I view it all like it's another take on the source material. Nothing more, nothing less.
Star Trek is the 1966-1969 series and 6 feature films. Everything else is "work based on Star Trek."
I honestly don't mean that as an insult or as a statement on relative quality, etc. It's just the best way to describe how I feel about the franchise, canon, continuity, and all that shit everyone looses their minds about.
Star Trek is TOS. All the other stuff are interesting stories and characters that happen to take place in that same basic setting or with those same fundamental conventions/elements. I view it all like it's another take on the source material. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Do that, and try watching it with the darker "cinema settings " on the TV. That gave me the best results.
I don’t think it was the actress. I think it was the writing. They tried to create a complex character, that was already sort of a legacy character, leading to a few to many episodes devoted mostly or in part to her backstory or her awkwardness around Worf. Then shoehorned in a relationship with Bashir all in the final season of the show.
my opinion, you had a good established female character that could have been promoted to series regular in Kassidy. She wouldn’t have been a member of the Starfleet crew, going on the Defiant, etc...but I’m sure they could have found a way to expand her role. Or you could have done a one season thing and go back to the TNG well and try to talk Forbes into being Ro for a single season.
Penny Johnson may have had some conflicts which prevented her from becoming a series regular. She had a recurring role on ER at the same time she was shooting the final DS9 season. And before that last season she was also on The Larry Sanders Show.
But although I like Nicole DeBoer, I agree that it would have been great for Kasidy to be a regular.
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