It's been a long time since I've watched through DS9, so I'm on vacation this week and I'm giving it a go.
I like DS9 just... "fine" though I think quite a bit of it is a slog and I am not a fan of the "War Arc" as it's just too contrary to everything that got me into Trek in the first place and is too much like the type of Sci-Fi stories that was being done in the 90s and, well, continues to be done today where everything has to be dark, gritty, and have action and CGI battles in it. DS9 was able to have both the "darkness" of the war but at times also have some lighter stuff, but the war story for me was just... Exhausting. Particularly how odd it seemed there could be this war going on where countless people are dying in battles but there still be room for a wacky holodeck adventure on a space station pretty much right on the "front lines" of this war given that it was at the passage between the two areas fighting one another.
But, I digress.
Anyway, today I finished Season 1 and... Oy. I recall why the show never fully caught me in the first place, there's a lot of dullness in that first season and, honestly, I struggle to think of a good, solid, episode that stands out as something fun and interesting. There's some good drama and story and stuff in there but, really, it just all feels very, very, dry. And the final episode with the battle over Keiko's school is just a bit too... broad of a hammer when it comes to Trek doing episodes to shadow present-day things. (Which modern trek often did a bit too broadly, all of it.)
It's just an okay season. I'll likely start Season 2 tonight or tomorrow.
If there's one thing the show has going for it, though, it does have interesting characters that can make the stories somewhat interesting to watch unfold, but there were a few episodes where I was just mostly bored.
I like DS9 just... "fine" though I think quite a bit of it is a slog and I am not a fan of the "War Arc" as it's just too contrary to everything that got me into Trek in the first place and is too much like the type of Sci-Fi stories that was being done in the 90s and, well, continues to be done today where everything has to be dark, gritty, and have action and CGI battles in it. DS9 was able to have both the "darkness" of the war but at times also have some lighter stuff, but the war story for me was just... Exhausting. Particularly how odd it seemed there could be this war going on where countless people are dying in battles but there still be room for a wacky holodeck adventure on a space station pretty much right on the "front lines" of this war given that it was at the passage between the two areas fighting one another.
But, I digress.
Anyway, today I finished Season 1 and... Oy. I recall why the show never fully caught me in the first place, there's a lot of dullness in that first season and, honestly, I struggle to think of a good, solid, episode that stands out as something fun and interesting. There's some good drama and story and stuff in there but, really, it just all feels very, very, dry. And the final episode with the battle over Keiko's school is just a bit too... broad of a hammer when it comes to Trek doing episodes to shadow present-day things. (Which modern trek often did a bit too broadly, all of it.)
It's just an okay season. I'll likely start Season 2 tonight or tomorrow.
If there's one thing the show has going for it, though, it does have interesting characters that can make the stories somewhat interesting to watch unfold, but there were a few episodes where I was just mostly bored.
