How I miss DS9

[ramonasno]

Well, as said in my profile, I can't choose between DS9 and VOY (and for some reason I have the feeling I'm the only one who likes both shows just as much )

But I still haven't read lots of books. I read one about the O'Briens being on Cardassia after the war, can't remember the title now...It was a pocket book with 2 stories, the 2nd I still have to read and is placed at Andoria.

I can remember DS9 being on TV here in the Netherlands, and that sometimes I watched a show. Some shows kindda made sense, and others were just one big mystery for me. It actually only worked out when I watched them from 1 till the end in the right order.

Personally I feel that the shows all have their own charming side. VOY being a show which you could watch in whatever order you'd like basically, and entertaining. DS9 being more of a social aware show, but faster and more understandable for me than TOS was. And TNG is again for me a show which was more about entertainment than it was about making a point. I don't feel like a show HAS to be educational, sometimes fun is good too. But I agree with CaptJamesScott, it is something different, and i appreciate it for being that

The knowledge thing though, I don't get it. I always saw myself as a real trekkie, but I can't remember that much about all the shows, it's like my head can't handle all that information(and if I don't like an event, I seem to block/forget it. For years the whole Data is dead thing wasn't really sure for me, I just blocked it I guess..)
But maybe it is because of the fact that in Holland there are less Trekkies, and as such less forums to discuss on in Dutch (It does take a while before a person can write some understandable English). Don't know, but I'm gonna read this forum all the way trough, or at least try, am curious what everybody here thought about it!

 

[Jefferies]

I empathise with you Tomalak! I'm currently watching the latter seasons of DS9 and the middle ones of VOY. In fact I'm seeing them in the order they were broadcast in, about 3 episodes each week. And I agree, DS9 gets me much more excited than Voyager does. Like you I appreciate Voyager and most episodes are fun and enjoyable but DS9 tends to exist on a different plain. It's such a shame the producers of VOY never took a leaf out of DS9's book but rather focused on copying the formula of TNG all the way through to the end. If only DS9 had done 8 seasons. There were still several story arcs they could have followed (aftermath of the war, Bajor joining the Federation). Very unlike Voyager that had run out of steam, especially as they weren't prepared to give Voyager any screen time in the Alpha Quadrant which could have injected some new life. Today with Abrams having redefined Star Trek almost beyond recognition I also doubt anything like DS9 or even TNG and Voyager will ever grace the airways again. Truly sad but at least we have 600-700 hours of material to nurture our nostalgia with.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Jefferies, I appreciate why you'd think we'll never see a Deep Space Nine in the franchise again, but I think it might be premature to think that way for certain... regardless of the implications. I like to think eventually audiences will want to see something consistently gritty and character-building in Trek again. The television world has a tendency of shifting back and forth like a seesaw.

 

[flemm]

You should have been here when the DVDs were coming out (I think 2003?). This forum was almost the most popular forum on this board because DS9 had been so un-accessable for so many years that there were so many people who felt like they were watching the series for the first time. I think you would have fit right in those discussions, at least if you wanted great discussion.

I'm sure that would have been fun. Oddly enough, that's actually when I first watched the show (not long after the DVDs came out). I wasn't posting on the Trek BBS at that point, though.

 

[Jefferies]

Jefferies, I appreciate why you'd think we'll never see a Deep Space Nine in the franchise again, but I think it might be premature to think that way for certain... regardless of the implications. I like to think eventually audiences will want to see something consistently gritty and character-building in Trek again. The television world has a tendency of shifting back and forth like a seesaw.

I really hope you're right! But I have a feeling it will be a long long time until that happens.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Unfortunately, so do I...

 

[RandyS]

I miss ST in general
It's not that it's not nice to re-watch but I hate that there's no new series on the horizon.

That's exactly how I feel!

So do I.

 

[USS Kongo]

I miss ST in general
It's not that it's not nice to re-watch but I hate that there's no new series on the horizon.

Yeah, same here. The movies are great, but Trek always worked better for me as a TV show. The storytelling is more epic and far more detailed on a series, plus there's the fun of revisiting the Trek universe on a weekly basis.

When DS9 first aired, it was shown on Saturday night in my area, and Saturday night was always Chinese food night. I always associated DS9 with sweet and sour chicken and egg rolls.

Sean

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

I think it may have been Saturday nights here, too.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I definitely miss DS9. There have been some shows since that are as good or better - Lost and Dexter (season premiere tonight!) - but neither of those are space opera, a genre I have a particular fondness for, and am feeling particularly deprived of lately!

I wish DS9 could return to TV, or at the very least, a new Star Trek series with the same virtues of DS9.

 

[RyuRoots]

What kills me about DS9 is how little recognition it gets overall compared to the other shows. Before my friend actively tried to get me into Trek, I knew about TOS and TNG, but I never knew DS9 existed, and there are probably still quite a few people like I was.

I never watched DS9 while it was on-air, but having finished it, does sorta make me sad that that's it. There's the novels still, sure, but it's not the same.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

That line of thought never really gets me down, because some of the other shows I love get that much less recognition simply for not having 'Star Trek' as part of their title. I can guarantee more people know about Deep Space Nine to this day than Farscape, which didn't even premiere until around DS9's closing chapter.