Hard to judge DS9 as being worst ever when you openly admit you haven't seen hardly any of it.
I have seen enough over the years to know that everytime I turn & try to watch it on it makes me turn it off again because it stinks that bad
You have smell-a-vision? OMG! Want!
The writers are right you don't need a fancy ship to explore...
Non sequitur. Your facts are uncoordinated. If the writer were right about not needing a ship then why after 2 season did the suddenly add the defiant. They realized they made a big mistake that was hurting the rating of the show. When major changes are made to revamp a series such as adding a new ship, or hiring a actor from a previous series (Michael Dorn) to reprise their character role (Worf) as permanent cast member addition that is a sign the a show is flagging.
And yet similar changes were made to Voyager on several occasions. They have been well documented and debated to death. Several have already been presented in this thread. You chose to ignore them. I can list more if it meets your fancy.
Also, do me a favor: find a dictionary and look up
non sequitur.
Adding, or replacing a cast member with one from a previous series is & remains a DS9 exclusive.
DS9 is the only Star Trek series in history to have done this.
Quoting yourself, huh?
...there is more than one kind of exploration, exploration of humanity and interacting with all the various alien cultures that travel to the station as opposed to the tired planet of the week setup.
Oh puke.
I had enough of the touch-feely exploration of the inner depths of our feeling from watching TNG (why didn't they just phase Deanna Tori into sub atomic particles).
Where do you get "inner depths of our feelings" from "humanity"? That seems like a logical fallacy perhaps even a ... Oh never mind.
Maybe Voyager is more your speed, then...
Yep you got it right. Voyager is among some of the best Star Trek ever produced. Right up the with the likes of the Star Trek: The Original Series.
This is a joke, right? You're just having a little fun with us. Very cleaver.
In case you really were serious, then I would be more than happy to honor you by starting a similar thread in the Voyager forums. Be warned though as it is sure to be more factual, coherent, and well informed than this one.
I actually,
like Voyager and find it more entertaining than TNG, but holy fuck did it have its problems.
Voyager was the series that got Star Trek back to its roots of exploring strange new world, to seeking out new life and new civilizations and boldly going where no one had gone before.
If by "exploring" and "seeking out new life" you really mean
aimlessly stumbling around in the dark hoping to get lucky like a blind man at a circle-jerk, then you're probably right.
DS9 was so awful it was the first & only Star Trek series that hired a actor from a previous series (Michael Dorn) to reprise their character role (Worf) as permanent cast member addition.
Adding, or replacing a cast member with one from a previous series is & remains a
DS9 exclusive.
Nuff said!
Quoting yourself again? Jesus, Dude, narcissist much?
The Defiant was introduced for plot related reasons - they'd introduced a threat capable of taking out a Galaxy class starship, which at the time was considered the best ship Starfleet had to offer, and all DS9 the station had as a defense were three dinky little runabouts. It was give them something with some teeth or completely defang their new villain before they'd managed to do anything with them by letting them be defeated essentially by fleas in comparison.
Plot reasons being reshaping the show from sitting on a space station that was totally boring. They revamped the show by adding the Defiant so that there could be adventures off the space station. You can only go so far with episode that are on the space station each week.
First of all, I think you need to educate yourself to the real behind-the-scenes reasons the changes were made. Incidentally, a lot had to do with certain "talent" leaving to go do Voyager.
More importantly, however, your argument fails because, even after its introduction,
The Defiant was used very little--maybe 10% of the time. It was really just a glorified new set piece. You'd know that if you actually watched the show.
Furthermore, the handful of episodes that are pretty unanimously considered the best of the series spent little or no time what-so-ever aboard
The Defiant. This includes the most critically acclaimed
Star Trek episode to date.
Also, one such episode occurs at the end of season one. So you can throw that argument out the window too.
