Ok, I am home sick, and decided to go ahead and get started on re watching Ds9, my fave Star Trek series. Still need to watch B5 and Farscape and other stuff, but when I am sick, I need to get back to a old friend that I been away from for too long.
Emissary - This is a really good Pilot of Star Trek, or of TV shows in general. These days people want action thirty seconds into a show, but I enjoy the nice 1990s pace of the pilot.
First off, its nice to see a couple of family men in this show, with Sisko with his son, and O'Brian with his family. Also I forgot how much fireworks you had between Picard and Sisko at the meeting. I always forget that Sisko looks like he wants to punch out Picard.
After watching TNG for a while, its nice to see religion as something other then "pay no attention at the computer behind the wall over there." But a faith group that ranges from the casual, to the devout but logical, to the crazies.
We show up at the station, have a first shot of Deep Space Nine, and then get to the plot. The plot is surprisingly deep, looking at the SF concept of what you had aliens who did not have our concept of time and perhaps how they would react to us.
You meet all the secondary characters, Julian is surprisingly bad, I still think of him in his later years on the show when he had developed out, but it just goes to show how much he was developed. Quark is spot on, as is Gul Dukat. It is fun to see the "Space Western" and the nice large cast the show had. I don't mind Major Kira, some ask if she wants cheese with her whine, but it never bothered me. Terry Farrel is stunning, but still not that good of a actress at this point.
In conclusion, sets up the series nicely, a strong first effort.
B+
"Past Prologue" - The first non Pilot episode. I did not remember it fondly, but it was a lot better then I remembered. Garak is a true gem of a character, and the plot idea (Blow up the wormhole so everyone leaves bajor alone) is logical for terror plots go. The Sisters are the first of a number of TNG crossovers that I remember from Season 1, Not great, but better then I remembered.
B-
"A Man Alone" - Strong STRONG space western feel to this, and a police procedural to boot. One of the many charms of DS9 is that it varied its type of episode a good bit, so watching a big block of them never gets boring. Some will be high adventure, some will be gritty detective work, some are mob stories, and so on. Also, I find cloning cool, so it works up some extra points. Of course, there is some plot holes (what really happens with the clone in the medlab tank, just given a 20 dollar bill, a replicated suit, and told "Best of luck?"
b-
From what I remember of season 1, there is a few good episodes, then it goes from middling to poor, to finish up strongly into season 2.
Emissary - This is a really good Pilot of Star Trek, or of TV shows in general. These days people want action thirty seconds into a show, but I enjoy the nice 1990s pace of the pilot.
First off, its nice to see a couple of family men in this show, with Sisko with his son, and O'Brian with his family. Also I forgot how much fireworks you had between Picard and Sisko at the meeting. I always forget that Sisko looks like he wants to punch out Picard.
After watching TNG for a while, its nice to see religion as something other then "pay no attention at the computer behind the wall over there." But a faith group that ranges from the casual, to the devout but logical, to the crazies.
We show up at the station, have a first shot of Deep Space Nine, and then get to the plot. The plot is surprisingly deep, looking at the SF concept of what you had aliens who did not have our concept of time and perhaps how they would react to us.
You meet all the secondary characters, Julian is surprisingly bad, I still think of him in his later years on the show when he had developed out, but it just goes to show how much he was developed. Quark is spot on, as is Gul Dukat. It is fun to see the "Space Western" and the nice large cast the show had. I don't mind Major Kira, some ask if she wants cheese with her whine, but it never bothered me. Terry Farrel is stunning, but still not that good of a actress at this point.
In conclusion, sets up the series nicely, a strong first effort.
B+
"Past Prologue" - The first non Pilot episode. I did not remember it fondly, but it was a lot better then I remembered. Garak is a true gem of a character, and the plot idea (Blow up the wormhole so everyone leaves bajor alone) is logical for terror plots go. The Sisters are the first of a number of TNG crossovers that I remember from Season 1, Not great, but better then I remembered.
B-
"A Man Alone" - Strong STRONG space western feel to this, and a police procedural to boot. One of the many charms of DS9 is that it varied its type of episode a good bit, so watching a big block of them never gets boring. Some will be high adventure, some will be gritty detective work, some are mob stories, and so on. Also, I find cloning cool, so it works up some extra points. Of course, there is some plot holes (what really happens with the clone in the medlab tank, just given a 20 dollar bill, a replicated suit, and told "Best of luck?"
b-
From what I remember of season 1, there is a few good episodes, then it goes from middling to poor, to finish up strongly into season 2.
