I'd give DS9 a big fat 10/10 =D

[Lt.Cmdr.LaForge]

About 6 months ago, after me and my house mate had finished watching all 7 Seaons/4 movies of The Next Generation we decided we hadnt had enough of the star trek universe, so i invested in all 7 seasons of DS9.

This was our first time watching through TNG and DS9 as we are both 19 (i wasnt born when TNG first aired, and was only 2 when DS9 premiered).

So we are of the new generation of star trek fans i guess. Anyway, ive jus been through what alot of you went through a decade ago.

I grew so atached to the crew of TNG i never thought DS9 would live up to them. However i was very wrong, and in my (and my house m8s opinion) DS9 far surpasses TNG.

I realyl grew to love DS9 and its characters and having finally finished it all im feeling pretty gutted.

-I cant believe Sisko became a prophet, leaving his wife, son and unborn child.
-I never thought Bashir and O'Brien would seperate. they were the best of friends.
-Odo going back to cure the great link made sense, but i didnt think he'd stay forever, leaving the women he loved.
-I did like how bashir and Ezri get together and stay on the station.
-I liked how Rom becomes Nagus and how Quark decides to keep running his bar.
-Worf going off to serve with Martok was cool, but ofcourse his story doesnt end there so im cool with that too. I like how worf stays on the enterprise to continue his adventures with Picard, Geordi etc.

I just think it would have been nice if everyone could have stayed together, to continue on as they had done. Like the ending for 'All good things'. I dont like change XD

But in the end id give Deep Space Nine a big fat 10/10. The ship battles were epic. The long story arcs sucked you in more than any other star trek ive watched. The characters and their relationships were ace.

=]

 

[happydave]

For everyone to stay together at the end goes against the whole progress of the show which is about change. Bashir and O'Brien used to hate each other and then they became best friends. Dax changes bodies, Jake grows up, Kira grows in huge steps. Sisko moves from disliking his role as Emissary to embracing it.

Quark is basically the one strong consistent icon in the show.

 

[urbandk]

yep. i'm 29 and saw the first couple seasons when they were first on air but then stopped watching for some reason. my wife and i watched the whole show together this summer. in our opinion the best trek show to date.

 

[Captain Randy Hall]

I'm lucky enough to have seen DS9 from the start on the tube. I've always felt that watching TNG was the price we had to pay to get DS9.

From the word go, it was a terrific show. (Hey, that rhymes.) I liked all the characters and enjoyed the adventures. Seven years wasn't enough, but it sure was good while it lasted.

 

[PSGarak]

Get off my lawn, you young whippersnappers! *shakes the candy cane*

I have to agree about DS9 on the whole. Sure, it had a few stinker episodes, but taken all together, it was a work of art. Love it.

 

[StarshipDefiant]

I can see what some people are saying, in someways the finale depressed the hell out of me, as people had left and moved on, while others it was a pretty good idea. As it came to be, we did not get a DS9 film, so leaving to many threads open was probably not a smart idea. The only reason TNG had such an open ended, is I would imagine they knew that the TNG crew would be making at least one movie. With that said, despite the departures being sad, I found that they were quite natural and made sense, O'Brien had said for years how much he hated being a 'soldier' and being on the field, so a job at Starfleet Academy is perfect for him. Jake grew up to be a wise young man, who lost his father at to early an age, my one disappointment in this area, was that Benjamin did not speak to Jake, but to Kassidy...*sigh*. Worf leaving to serve the Klingon Empire on a more direct path was good to, he had wanted to for years but never could for various reasons, the people that stayed made sense because they still had a career head of them. I just wish we saw some Jadzia memories from Worf, but ah...we all know how that goes.

In short, it was a good finale, it wraped things up in terms of the series, while allowing some ends to be explored should it have somehow, been continued.

 

[Admiral Shran]

-I never thought Bashir and O'Brien would seperate. they were the best of friends.

Best of friends? More like heterosexual life partners.

 

[Bones2]

I say Deep Space Nine out of ten. It's brilliant, but I don't like the writers' Sisko worship and Dukat hate. Sisko wasn't perfect, and Dukat wasn't evil, but they decided to resort to such black and white. It doesn't ruin it for me though, and it may well be my favourite TV show ever.

 

[Dane_Whitman]

Glad you like it. DS9 is my favourite of the five Treks.

First time I see a Dark Funeral avatar on the BBS.

 

[Lt.Cmdr.LaForge]

Are you a dark funeral fan by any chance?

 

[Piper]

Forgive me for saying this, but there's a certain level of double entrendre about your thread title here...

 

[Lt.Cmdr.LaForge]

Forgive me for saying this, but there's a certain level of double entrendre about your thread title here...

Huh? Please ellaborate

 

[PSGarak]

Forgive me for saying this, but there's a certain level of double entrendre about your thread title here...

Huh? Please ellaborate

Don't feel bad. I usually pride myself on my dirty mind, and I don't get it either.

 

[Sykonee]

Forgive me for saying this, but there's a certain level of double entrendre about your thread title here...

Huh? Please ellaborate

Don't feel bad. I usually pride myself on my dirty mind, and I don't get it either.

"=D" can represent more than one thing, especially if you add a few more "==" to it.

 

[PSGarak]

^ Thanks for clearing that up. I had always seen =D as just a sideways smiley. If it had lots more == to it, might've been a different story.

 

[Piper]

The juxtaposition of that and the use of the words "big fat" were too much for my simple mind. I do apologise for hijacking your thread.

To get the thing back on target I fully agree. DS9 is full of win.

 

[Dane_Whitman]

Are you a dark funeral fan by any chance?

Not really, I find DF a bit unremarkable, however black metal is one of my favourite kinds of music.

OT: DS9 is awesome.

 

[Lt.Cmdr.LaForge]

Yeah man black metal rules: Dimmu Borgir, Darkthrone, Emperor, Enthroned, Gorgoroth, Mayhem, allll good =]

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I'd give it 9/10. There were many problems: romance episodes and plotlines (never Trek's forte), painfully unfunny Ferengi "comedies," a war plotline so badly conceived that a good case could be made that the Federation started it, and so badly paced that it seemed to be put on hold so the crew could play baseball, the destruction of Dukat's character in S7, the illogic of the war's actual end - if the Federation didn't win through genocide, then exactly what the frak happened?

But man oh man, I wish there was a space opera series on TV of DS9's caliber right now, called Star Trek or not. I still miss DS9.

 

[Kegg]

I'd give it 8.257/10. Becuse decimal places make my marks look smart and intelligent-looking and imply I have given a great deal of thought to the matter.

I say Deep Space Nine out of ten.

You didn't mark it.

Wait... wait... oh god, the punnery!

But man oh man, I wish there was a space opera series on TV of DS9's caliber right now, called Star Trek or not. I still miss DS9.

This, painfully so.