Well, you see, Dukat is not a bad man.
Description of DS9 from a netflix envelope.
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Dukat's a woman?!
Geez, you have missed a lot, haven't you?Dukat's a woman?!
http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=104288
http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=109643
Holy cow!
I never opened those threads because I thought they were going to reinforce the typical stereotype of male Trekkies lusting after alien women. I had no idea they were so... transcendent. 
Boy, you really have been missing a lot! Make sure to check the other "Miss" Universe threads too, especially Miss Klingon Empire and Miss Ferenginar!Holy cow!
http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=104666
http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=105221
http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=105885
http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=106246
The station did move again during season 1 in 'Q-Less', (I if remember correctly) when an embryonic lifeform encased within a crystal causes a graviton field which moves DS9 towards the wormhole. It's assumed that the same manoeuvre used in 'Emissary' gets them back to their former position.
Commander Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) heads the crew of Deep Space Nine -- including Odo (Rene Auberjonois), Worf (Michael Dom), Dax (Terry Farrell) and others -- as it travels through space, trying to keep both the ship and the areas it travels safe, secure and free. One of the first (and greatest) challenges the intrepid voyagers face is the violence of the Dominion, a group composed partially of the shape-shifting Changelings.
This is quite possibly the worst description of DS9 I have ever read.
Jeez...they coulda done better than that if they'd simply looked up the show on Wikipedia.
And then they had to say "INTREPID VOYAGERS," on top of all that. I think they have their DS9 and their VOY mixed up! 
looks like they woke up on the wrong side of the worm hole again....how many times must one give them the space map and point it out to them....DS9= S...P...A...C...E...S...T...A...T...I...O...N... voyager...S...T...A...R...S...H...I...P...must I spell it all out??....wait....I just did...its called a forum post...damn....GET IT RIGHT PEOPLE!!!
And then they had to say "INTREPID VOYAGERS," on top of all that. I think they have their DS9 and their VOY mixed up!
No kidding. They make it sound like the crew of DS9 is out exploring beyond the rim or something...rather than fighting a war on their own turf to save the AQ from a formidable invading force.
Can't fault Michael Dom's performance though.Commander Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) heads the crew of Deep Space Nine -- including Odo (Rene Auberjonois), Worf (Michael Dom), Dax (Terry Farrell) and others -- as it travels through space, trying to keep both the ship and the areas it travels safe, secure and free. One of the first (and greatest) challenges the intrepid voyagers face is the violence of the Dominion, a group composed partially of the shape-shifting Changelings.
This is quite possibly the worst description of DS9 I have ever read.
Jeez...they coulda done better than that if they'd simply looked up the show on Wikipedia.
Which is actually a great mystery with a cool twist.....if you can't HEAR.
I may not even tell my kids the prequels exist. Let them figure it out on their own and be duly disappointed.
How bad is that? Let us count the ways.
1. As mentioned, the shapeshifters are the founders, which is revealed in the last episode of the season. So it's a horrible spoiler.
2. Michael Dom (sic) doesn't show up until Season 4.
3. You don't have to mention Armin Shimmerman, Cirroc Lofton, Nana Visitor, or Alexander Siddig, but Colm Meaney is pretty much the second lead of the series, especially in the first three seasons. And Colm Meaney is without doubt the most widely known actor on the show. Almost every other story is mess-with-Miles day on DS9, at first.
4. It doesn't travel. It's a space station. They aren't "voyagers".
5. And "intrepid" doesn't mean "itinerant", it means resolute. A common malapropism.
6. Their first challenge is the clash between the humanistic worldview of the Federation and the intense religious nature of the host-planet, Bajor.
7. Their most obvious enemy species is the Cardassians, whom those of us who watched the pilot had just seen torturing a naked Picard on TNG two weeks before (dec '92). Poor Picard! First the Borg turn him into Locutus, then before he can even recover, the Cardassians torture him. Then we get the pilot (jan '93) and here's this junior officer who hates him because he blames him for his wife's death. Dominion Schmominion!
8. No need to say both "including" and "and others". It's redundant.
9. Calling Jadzia "Dax" is a misunderstanding for sure, but some of the show's own writers make that mistake at first, so it's almost forgivable.
10. "...trying to keep both the ship and the areas it travels safe, secure and free." They do seek to "secure" the wormhole, and they do try to safeguard Bajor as part of their alliance, but whether they do anything to keep anyone "free" is open to debate. Sisko does help free a few Ferengi from their narrow-minded culture, and condones the dabo girls attempts to be independent of certain contract terms with a Ferengi, but mostly there is no push to establish liberty over any of the totalitarian regimes they encounter. That would violate the anti-ethnocentrism values of Starfleet.
How many more can we spot?
p.s. Dukat explained to Weyoun why he didn't just blow up whole worlds. He said something like, "It's not enough to defeat them, you have to enjoy the pleasure of seeing them grovel before you and acknowledge that you are their master."
1. As mentioned, the shapeshifters are the founders, which is revealed in the last episode of the season. So it's a horrible spoiler.
2. Michael Dom (sic) doesn't show up until Season 4.
3. You don't have to mention Armin Shimmerman, Cirroc Lofton, Nana Visitor, or Alexander Siddig, but Colm Meaney is pretty much the second lead of the series, especially in the first three seasons. And Colm Meaney is without doubt the most widely known actor on the show. Almost every other story is mess-with-Miles day on DS9, at first.
4. It doesn't travel. It's a space station. They aren't "voyagers".
5. And "intrepid" doesn't mean "itinerant", it means resolute. A common malapropism.
6. Their first challenge is the clash between the humanistic worldview of the Federation and the intense religious nature of the host-planet, Bajor.
7. Their most obvious enemy species is the Cardassians, whom those of us who watched the pilot had just seen torturing a naked Picard on TNG two weeks before (dec '92). Poor Picard! First the Borg turn him into Locutus, then before he can even recover, the Cardassians torture him. Then we get the pilot (jan '93) and here's this junior officer who hates him because he blames him for his wife's death. Dominion Schmominion!
8. No need to say both "including" and "and others". It's redundant.
9. Calling Jadzia "Dax" is a misunderstanding for sure, but some of the show's own writers make that mistake at first, so it's almost forgivable.
10. "...trying to keep both the ship and the areas it travels safe, secure and free." They do seek to "secure" the wormhole, and they do try to safeguard Bajor as part of their alliance, but whether they do anything to keep anyone "free" is open to debate. Sisko does help free a few Ferengi from their narrow-minded culture, and condones the dabo girls attempts to be independent of certain contract terms with a Ferengi, but mostly there is no push to establish liberty over any of the totalitarian regimes they encounter. That would violate the anti-ethnocentrism values of Starfleet.
How many more can we spot?
p.s. Dukat explained to Weyoun why he didn't just blow up whole worlds. He said something like, "It's not enough to defeat them, you have to enjoy the pleasure of seeing them grovel before you and acknowledge that you are their master."
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Wow, that is really sad. I watched all of DS9 through Netflix. I'm glad I didn't bother to read the descriptions. Hmm I have some Star Trek movies on the way from them. I think I'll take a look to see what their descriptions say.
Um, no, he isn't. He has an occasional centric episode just like everyone else, but he has very little connection to the central storylines. If anyone is the second lead on DS9, it's Nana Visitor or Rene Auberjonois. At times Kira and Odo seemed more like leads than even Sisko.
At least in my opinion. You might say that O'Brien is the second lead in your opinion, but that's an opinion, not a fact.
Your opinion is noted.