D.S.9. certainly wasn't the worst (that's kind of a tie between Voyager and Enterprise) Trek series, but it's certainly the most overpraised. I watched every episode and that depth was more often than not, topical at best. For a show that became so convoluted in war, it seems the writers just didn't want to be bothered to read about real war in history or even battle tactics, to add realism to the show. Surprisingly the characters that had depth were the ones brought off TNG; even Sisko had less and had there been not wife loss in the Wolf 359 battle, what would we have been left with? Same thing for the strong religious underpinnings of the Bajorin people -- it's almost as if a lot of that was written by people with light to no religious faith.
And for every shit Voyager did on the Borg, D.S.9. did on the Klingons. What a waste.
Now, props are given for defining the Ferengi better and expanding them from cowardly hunched over laser-whip carrying trolls. But Armin's assertion seems to indicate this was more or less his idea.
The bad guys feel wasted, the clash between good and bad often feels empty, so much potential was never seen, and in the end I don't feel anywhere near as satisfied as I was with TNG. And TNG had some weak episodes in the first season, and a number of boring fillers in the last two. And it also had "Code of Honor".
If anything good came out of it, it was the scoring.
