RobertScorpio
Pariah
To me TNG was PHASE TWO all over again. And to those who say it wasn't? Well, I have the PHASE TWO book and on more than one occasion in that book they say TNG pretty much borrowed from PHASE TWO's format...
Which brings me to DS9. The reason I like DS9 more than TNG is because DS9 is the more original of the two shows. The Captain is some dude who has a kid and hates Picard (well, I could identify with that..wink wink) and pretty much the rest of the crew and characters (Quark) were so 'un-trekky'.
I know many didn't like the first season or so with all the Bajoran stuff going on...but I did. I know many prefer their STAR TREKS out on ships going from planet to planet. But me? I found the final two seasons of TNG very boring because nothing new was really being found. And Voyager-Enterprise in the years to come seemed to be running out of new ideas and were retelling stories told to us on TOS and TNG but with new actors and new bumpy headed aliens..
DS9, with its rich bench of back-up characters, just got better as it went. Some don't like the show as it moved into the Dominion arc; I did. It was fun finally seeing these galactic powers, Feds--Roms--Klingons--Cardassians, duking it out.
But the most rewarding part of DS9 that none of the other TREK shows, including TOS, really had was the evolution of the characters...
Picard and Janeway pretty much seem like the same people they were at the start. Not Sisko...not at all.
Kira? She goes from being this anti-federation Bajoran to a respectable officer who realizes the reality of the situation.
Bashir? hardly the person we first met.
Nog? Ummm...shoplifter to an officer in Starfleet?
Jake? Quark? Dukat?
DS9 told a story. Was it always A+ material? No. But I liked the characters because I watched them grow in depth, and that to me is far more important than Phasers and Shields and Borg-implants. CHARACTER CHARACTER CHARACTER....
And that is why I liked TNG...but I loved DS9.
(reaching for my hankie to dry my eyes...I miss this show)
Robert
Scorpio
Which brings me to DS9. The reason I like DS9 more than TNG is because DS9 is the more original of the two shows. The Captain is some dude who has a kid and hates Picard (well, I could identify with that..wink wink) and pretty much the rest of the crew and characters (Quark) were so 'un-trekky'.
I know many didn't like the first season or so with all the Bajoran stuff going on...but I did. I know many prefer their STAR TREKS out on ships going from planet to planet. But me? I found the final two seasons of TNG very boring because nothing new was really being found. And Voyager-Enterprise in the years to come seemed to be running out of new ideas and were retelling stories told to us on TOS and TNG but with new actors and new bumpy headed aliens..
DS9, with its rich bench of back-up characters, just got better as it went. Some don't like the show as it moved into the Dominion arc; I did. It was fun finally seeing these galactic powers, Feds--Roms--Klingons--Cardassians, duking it out.
But the most rewarding part of DS9 that none of the other TREK shows, including TOS, really had was the evolution of the characters...
Picard and Janeway pretty much seem like the same people they were at the start. Not Sisko...not at all.
Kira? She goes from being this anti-federation Bajoran to a respectable officer who realizes the reality of the situation.
Bashir? hardly the person we first met.
Nog? Ummm...shoplifter to an officer in Starfleet?
Jake? Quark? Dukat?
DS9 told a story. Was it always A+ material? No. But I liked the characters because I watched them grow in depth, and that to me is far more important than Phasers and Shields and Borg-implants. CHARACTER CHARACTER CHARACTER....
And that is why I liked TNG...but I loved DS9.
(reaching for my hankie to dry my eyes...I miss this show)
Robert
Scorpio