Does DS9 ever get you depressed due to how LITERALLY dark it is?

[happydave]

Keeping it spotless is easy. Just empty the area you wish to clean, air-lock a few bulkheads and then just open the area to space. Anything which isn't nailed down will be sucked away into the lovely vacuum of space. Then just re pressurise and reopen.

But it is spotlessly clean, which can be considered odd considering it was a refinery and they're considered generally dirty.

 

[Captrek]

Keeping it spotless is easy. Just empty the area you wish to clean, air-lock a few bulkheads and then just open the area to space. Anything which isn't nailed down will be sucked away into the lovely vacuum of space.

Didn’t work for Voyager 6.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

But it is spotlessly clean, which can be considered odd considering it was a refinery and they're considered generally dirty.

If you see footage of the station's days as Terok Nor, when it was in fact a working ore refinery, you'll definitely see evidence of dust in the air.

 

[T'Girl]

The inside of the station was like the inners of a bloody german u-boat, what effect must that have had on the long term psych of the crew. By the end of the series, truthful, O'Brian was the only normal one left!

 

[CaptainStoner]

It is a darker overall set than the Enterprise-D, for sure. I don't find it depressing, however. The use of lighting in the TNG-era shows was often brilliant.

For instance, Sisko's quarters are relatively dark, but there is a good use of light. The Bajoran Temple, Odo's office, Quark's, all relatively dark, but again, nice usage. Doctor Bashir's office is an exception, isn't it? The O'Brien's quarters I think are too dark. You would think Keiko would have more plants, and therefore lights.

 

[TenLubak]

No I have real life things that depress me. Star Trek usually makes me happy!

 

[DevilEyes]

DS9 didn't usually look literally dark. But it did in the flashbacks in episodes like Necessary Evil and Things Past - which makes sense because it was established that Cardassians don't like too much ligher - which gave Terok Nor this wonderfulm appropraite dark feeling (Terok Nor = Trek Noir?). It looked about as dark as the insides of Galactica on RDM's Battlestar Galactica.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

(Terok Nor = Trek Noir?).

I like it!

 

[DevilEyes]

(Terok Nor = Trek Noir?).

I like it!

I can't take credit for it - I read it in an online review of "Necessary Evil".