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How did you become a DS9 fan?
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Are you the guy posing on the picture with Shatner?
I was too busy with college, drugs and girls to bother with TV during the original run. When the good times ran out, I embraced my introverted nerd nature and started watching Trek episodes after I got done with work instead of partying til I couldn't any more. I started watching DS9 when I ran out of TNG episodes, and then started watching VOY after I ran out of DS9 episodes. Rinse and repeat.
Fifteen years later, I'm still doing that.
Fifteen years later, I'm still doing that.
You had sex and drugs and rock and roll and you decided to leave all that for couch potato st tv watching? Tsk, tsk!
DS9 was the only Trek show I could watch on network TV (CBS): the rest I experienced through VHS tapes, friend's homes and motels, irregularly, or (the majority) DVD. At the time, I thought Sisko was the COOLEST character I'd ever seen, Bashir was the smartest, and Jadzia the most beautiful. I was a kid at the time, just about to hit middle school. In comparing it to the other Trek shows, I like its heavy use of Cardassians, the thoughtful drama (Bashir wrestling with the State's morality during wartime, the Maquis and their moral claims, etc), and the Defiant. The uniforms are also my favorites. Of course, I'm not sure if I have the cart and the horse in the right order: it's possible I like the uniforms because they are DS9s, etc.
In comparing it to the other Trek shows, I like its heavy use of Cardassians, the thoughtful drama (Bashir wrestling with the State's morality during wartime, the Maquis and their moral claims, etc), and the Defiant. The uniforms are also my favorites. Of course, I'm not sure if I have the cart and the horse in the right order: it's possible I like the uniforms because they are DS9s, etc.I was in the emergency room waiting area with my mother in canberra, australia. I was about 14 years old. My mother had sprained her ankle and we had to rush to the hospital.
On the tv i saw a weird big-eared looking freak in a bar.
The sound wasnt turned on but it looked interesting. Back at the motel i searched the tv stations to find the same show. I watched the rest of the episode, and well.... Now im posting on here!
So it was quarks fault!
On the tv i saw a weird big-eared looking freak in a bar.
The sound wasnt turned on but it looked interesting. Back at the motel i searched the tv stations to find the same show. I watched the rest of the episode, and well.... Now im posting on here!
So it was quarks fault!
I watched from the beginning and also remember being filled with doubt. I wasn't convinced any new Trek could be as good as TNG and no character could be as cool as Data. Then DS9 happened and I fell in love with the dark, rotating soap opera of doom. Characters like Garak, Odo, and Quark won me over quite quickly. Now I stream episodes on Netflix. It has yet to get old.
I believe, of all the series, this is the one where the main characters are the most important. In other shows, the characters often take a back seat to spacial anomalies and/or weird aliens of the day. On DS9, it's the characters first and the other stuff second. I like that better.
How did I become a fan? By watching the show.
Like that Lincoln ad guy says, "I just liked it."
Like that Lincoln ad guy says, "I just liked it."
Yes, but how did you watch the show?
The usual way. Both eyes open. :P
I watched it first run, every week, beginning to end. I don't think I missed a single episode.
I started watching with the 1st episode as it aired. I had fallen in love with TNG & DS9 only made my obsession with Trek grow. As others have said, when it found its legs it was & still is the best Trek series.
Hey, that's good. I did exactly that for... well, never actually. I don't have the patience to follow a show, week after week. So I buy the dvds, blue rays, what have you? And so I can watch as many or as few episodes over a given period of time as I want.
Well, since there was no Netflix or "on demand" back in the olden days, people either watched a show when it was on or they bought one of those newfangled expensive VCRs and learned how to make it stop flashing 12:00 ... 12:00 ... 12:00 ...
Mom thought I was crazy the summer I was a nanny full-time... I spent a lot of my earnings at Costco buying the entire DS9 series.
ETA: Darn... it'll be 8 years ago...
ETA: Darn... it'll be 8 years ago...
I can't believe how heavy these things were.
Well, since there was no Netflix or "on demand" back in the olden days, people either watched a show when it was on or they bought one of those newfangled expensive VCRs and learned how to make it stop flashing 12:00 ... 12:00 ... 12:00 ...
I just recently threw away several VCR tapes containing my favorite recorded DS9 episodes. Given my luck, Netflix will cancel their live streaming contract with the Trek franchise within the year.Well, since there was no Netflix or "on demand" back in the olden days, people either watched a show when it was on or they bought one of those newfangled expensive VCRs and learned how to make it stop flashing 12:00 ... 12:00 ... 12:00 ...
I just recently threw away several VCR tapes containing my favorite recorded DS9 episodes. Given my luck, Netflix will cancel their live streaming contract with the Trek franchise within the year.Well, since there was no Netflix or "on demand" back in the olden days, people either watched a show when it was on or they bought one of those newfangled expensive VCRs and learned how to make it stop flashing 12:00 ... 12:00 ... 12:00 ...
You shouldn't do that. They may someday become collector items.
Oh, man. I wish! These were grainy, beat up old manual recordings of TV shows. The only amusing (and possibly collectible?) content were the old commercials. I didn't think about that!You shouldn't do that. They may someday become collector items.I just recently threw away several VCR tapes containing my favorite recorded DS9 episodes. Given my luck, Netflix will cancel their live streaming contract with the Trek franchise within the year.
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