Eh?

[-Brett-]

Personally I think it's "popularity" (if you can call having marginally more viewers than Stargate: Atlantis "popularity") is due to one of the same factors that contributed largely to TNG's. No competition. With Stargate in hiatus, there are really no other shows of it's genre on right now. I know that's the only reason I watch it.

Well, there's Doctor Who, but the two are so far apart in tone that there is easily room for both without difficulty.

Well, there's that, but between the accents and the characters talking at 6,423,569 words per minute, I have no idea what they're saying half the time.

 

[Lindley]

Eh, I have no trouble understanding them. The occasional word slips by, but not enough to cloud the meaning.

 

[Eric Cheung]

My main problem with DS9 was that it kept falling into the Star Trek type stand alone episodes in the middle of important events in the galaxy. Dominion War? Pfft, lets go piss about on the holodeck. That stuff wouldn't happen in BSG. What if Adama had done something as grave as Sisko in ITPM, would that not have long standing affects in BSG? Yes, but in DS9 it was forgotten about.

I think, besides perhaps being filler, the point of those episodes is in part that life does go on, there is relief once in a while from the constant pain and misery of war. If you're on death row you still have to pass the time while you wait to die.

And BSG has the occasional episode that's relatively lighter. Just in the first season there's Tight me Up, Tight me Down and Colonial Day.

 

[Frenzy]

How is Deep Space Nine 'obscure?'

 

[Phily B]

My main problem with DS9 was that it kept falling into the Star Trek type stand alone episodes in the middle of important events in the galaxy. Dominion War? Pfft, lets go piss about on the holodeck. That stuff wouldn't happen in BSG. What if Adama had done something as grave as Sisko in ITPM, would that not have long standing affects in BSG? Yes, but in DS9 it was forgotten about.

I think, besides perhaps being filler, the point of those episodes is in part that life does go on, there is relief once in a while from the constant pain and misery of war. If you're on death row you still have to pass the time while you wait to die.

And BSG has the occasional episode that's relatively lighter. Just in the first season there's Tight me Up, Tight me Down and Colonial Day.

Thats fine, but in BSG those episodes are still making reference to the events or are direct causes, as well as being a bit of fun. Why in the blue hell is the Defiant out on scientific missions in one little ship for example? ITs A WARSHIP!

 

[Damask]

Thats fine, but in BSG those episodes are still making reference to the events or are direct causes, as well as being a bit of fun. Why in the blue hell is the Defiant out on scientific missions in one little ship for example? ITs A WARSHIP!

Yes? You would want a heavily armed ship around in case the Jem'Hadar attack? Should any research missions be limited to a shuttle? Anyway looking at Memory Alpha (because I can't remember every detail in the episode) it was linked to the war.

"They are investigating a subspace compression anomaly. The vortex was discovered recently, and gaining an understanding of the principles behind the subspace compression could give Starfleet a significant tactical advantage over the Dominion."

 

[jimbtnp2]

DS9 is better because Moore actually had other great writers with him to keep the show on track and reign in bad ideas of his (Ie: turning the show into a badly-made soap opera like nuBSG) from dominating the show too much.

There's a good reason why DS9 lasted for 7 seasons and nuBSG only lasted for 4. It's because DS9 is a way better show.

BSG has more than just Moore as a carry-over from DS9, namely Michael Taylor and Weddle & Thompson, three of the best writers on DS9.

A large part of the reason BSG is ending next year is for creative reasons. It's positively refreshing for a show to go in, tell its story, and get the hell out of there. I have no doubt that if they wanted to stay on, Sci Fi would keep them on the air. Instead they're developing Caprica because Sci Fi wants these same people telling stories with the BSG brand name.

What story? its a soap opera