Improving Season 7

[Rush Limborg]

I like Ezri. Its just a shame too much of her stuff involved Worf who was given far too much attention in the show.

Agreed. Worf is a great character--but he seemed like the second central character after Sisko, with the others often being shoved out of the spotlight so we can see Worf do something awesome....

And, after Worf basically treating Ezri like dirt in "Afterimage"--and giving a bumbling half-apology--

Well, as Quark himself said to the princess, "Worf has done nothing--and I mean nothing...to deserve you. Should you go after someone who's willing to win your heart--not just inherit it? You deserve better."

(Interestingly enough...by saying she deserves better, Quark unintentionally ruled himself out of the picture....)

 

[G2309]

Yeh I like how Quark says some wise things at times.
Another thing I would have liked was Nog in the last bar scene. He had become an important crewmember as well.

 

[Thestral]

Oh, there is one thing I would improve (I don't think I said this yet?) - more Jake! For a main credits character, he was criminally underused. Take "Prodigal Daughter" and give it to Jake. O'Brien could've used an episode too, for that matter. Also, Rush... "the princess"?

 

[Utopianvista]

Ezri was a giant mistake. She's an awful character and really sidetracked season 7. You don't introduce a character like that in the final season. Especially one that uninteresting. DS9, at that point, already had a large cast and didn't need someone new.

The Pah-wraiths were just stupid. The whole Bajoran religion thing was tiresome and failed. Wynn was fun but more so as a political character. The Sisko part Prophet thing didn't really work either. DS9 worked best as a political drama and failed as a supernatural religion show.

Odo-Kira should've never happen. It destroyed both characters.

Where was Jake? I do find it amusing that Cirroc kept his listing as a major character when he basically disappears from the show. Instead of spending time on Ezri they should've spent that time on Jake. Throw Nog in there as well since he became an incredible character.

 

[Rush Limborg]

Oh, there is one thing I would improve (I don't think I said this yet?) - more Jake! For a main credits character, he was criminally underused.

O'Brien could've used an episode too, for that matter.

Agreed--which is why I'd say an eighth season was warranted--that is, expanding the seventh season into two.

Take "Prodigal Daughter" and give it to Jake.

Uh...Jake already has a family we know of. I don't think it would've worked.

I'd have liked the idea of giving "The Emperor's New Cloak" and giving it to Jake, instead of Quark, though. Perhaps actually pairing him up with Mirror Ezri, albeit temporarily....

Also, Rush... "the princess"?

(shifts nervously) Ah...Ezri's an heiress to a wealthy and powerful mining coorporation, so..."capitalist princess" kinda works....

 

[G2309]

I liked the idea of Ezri as an unprepared Trill confused by so many memories. And i liked how her appearence let Sisko forgive himself. But they could have done with more discussion of this in dialouge.
Another scene that was needed was Garak, Kira and Damar about Ziyal.

Poor Jake the writers say in the ds9 companion how they kind of lost him in the narative.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

I actually like season 7 but there are things I would change. I would have dropped Ezri as she appeared in season 7. I'd keep the next Dax a woman (the name doesn't matter, Ezri would be fine) but I'd have her come on for one or two episodes only. She'd be completely sure of her new identity and I'd make her not particularly interested in continuing on with her close relationships with Sisko and have little interest in Worf and have the episodes partly deal with the closure of the Sisko-Dax relationship and have a bit of a torture Worf over his struggle not to see this new Dax as the old Dax. However, in the end she moves on with her life and so does the rest of the crew.

Next I'd move the end of the war forward between two to four episodes from the end. Have an episode or two dealing with some post war stuff and in the final episode I'd have Bajor joining the Federation. Dukat would still come long to try and woo Winn to the Fire side, him and Sisko would have their show down and both would end up with their respective benefactors. I'd also make sure that Jake has a scene with his father in the final episode after Sisko joins the Prophets, as would Kasidy.

The other change I'd make would be to either make sure no used battle footage was used in the final battle of DS9 or at the very least took out the "Sacrifice of Angels" reused sections as they stand out far too much and don't really gel with the new footage they created or the rest of the used footage.

I'd also be tempted to kill someone with the end of the war. It would have probably have been Worf, but TPTB would no doubt never allow it.

Couldn't have said it better, myself.

Though I'd bring back the Dax woman near the end to make sure she and Bashir ended up together (I rather liked the fact that Bashir did end up with a Dax, actually), and thought could "try out" life on the station, thus also making better acquntance with her Jadzia memories and all.

Other than that, I'd be fine with that.

 

[Photon]

Completely taken Bajoran Farmer Dukat and replaced w/an ever evolving Dukat you is beginning to understand how much damage he's done to Cardassia

 

[mirandafave]

I always thought the end could have been vastly improved with the dumping of the Pah Wraith storyline. However, given some of the themes and arcs of the series it is a storyline that was required in the ending to the series. It however was very tacked on and ill-fitting to the war climax. Therefore, it needed to be better handled and better executed without reducing the great villain of Dukat to a caricature of his character.

I don't have any beef with the character of Ezri, however, I do have a beef with how they did the Trek trick of resurrecting a dead character instead of letting them stay dead. I would much rather have preferred had Jadzia died at the end of season 6 as a result of the war or have someone actually die in the culmination of the end battle. Sisko is whisked into thin air, Odo returns to the Gamma Quadrant, and other than what happened to Nog, the war has no real consequence to the main characters.

 

[Nick086]

More Dominion War episodes for season seven!!!

 

[Zeppster]

More about Dominion War and really go into good stories about it. Cut out all the fluff like Ezri Dax, Stupid singing hologram. The only episode he and Ezri really did anything worth watching was Paper Moon. Every other moment they were in the show for season 7 was a drain on the real story anyone cared about. I would have liked more episodes about battles in the war instead of having the Dominion basically deteriorate after being almost unbeatable for a few seasons.

 

[DonIago]

While disliking elements of season 7 or any other aspect of Trek is fine, it's tiresome to see people phrase it in such a manner as to suggest that they have unilateral support and anyone who disagrees with them is clearly wrong.

I wouldn't mind seeing that kind of questionable phrasing go away.

 

[G2309]

I don't have any beef with the character of Ezri, however, I do have a beef with how they did the Trek trick of resurrecting a dead character instead of letting them stay dead. I would much rather have preferred had Jadzia died at the end of season 6 as a result of the war or have someone actually die in the culmination of the end battle. Sisko is whisked into thin air, Odo returns to the Gamma Quadrant, and other than what happened to Nog, the war has no real consequence to the main characters.

I always expected a new dax. From the very first episode of ds9 we knew symbionts change host so I didnt feel itr was a cheap trick at all.

 

[Pemmer Harge]

I was OK with Ezri, but overall I think I'd have preferred her to be a completely new character rather than the next incarnation of Dax. I guess it could be comforting to know that Jadzia lives on in a sense in a new host, but to have that new host show up as a new regular the very episode after Jadzia died was a bit much, I thought. It came dangerously close to negating the impact of the loss of Jadzia.

 

[DonIago]

OTOH, it's something that couldn't have been done as plausibly in any non-Trek series. I liked the Ezri solution as a way of keeping a character around while introducing obvious, and less-obvious changes.

I would have been more frustrated if they'd handled this as a "typical" death and both the host and symbiont had perished.

 

[Pemmer Harge]

OTOH, it's something that couldn't have been done as plausibly in any non-Trek series.

I dunno - there's always Doctor Who, where the main character regularly dies and then comes back different but also kind of the same.

 

[TheLobes]

1. No Ezri. No Ezri. No Ezri. She failed in every way and I hate seeing her onscreen for even a second. So awful that it felt like they wrote her for Voyager.

2. Make Sisko act like less of a dick.

3. Make the Dominion War actually tie in with the end of the story. Eliminate the Pah'Wraiths and make Dukat threaten the wormhole directly.

4. Rom isnt made into the new Nagus.

5. Make the last episode into DS9 porn.

 

[G2309]

2. Make Sisko act like less of a dick.

What was wrong with Sisko?

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

1. No Ezri. No Ezri. No Ezri. She failed in every way and I hate seeing her onscreen for even a second. So awful that it felt like they wrote her for Voyager.

I liked her.

2. Make Sisko act like less of a dick.

This I don't understand. When was he such a thing? When he told Kassidy no one touches his peppers?

3. Make the Dominion War actually tie in with the end of the story. Eliminate the Pah'Wraiths and make Dukat threaten the wormhole directly.

I thought it did tie into the end of the story. I mean, it closed during the early moments of the final hour. If you mean the end of the story as in 'act nine of ten', then yeah, you're right.

4. Rom isnt made into the new Nagus.

Didn't mind this but I can see where people are coming from.

5. Make the last episode into DS9 porn.

You either mean nothing but big, honkin' space battles or nothing but big honkers. Either way I don't think I'd enjoy it as much but I wouldn't have minded less stock footage during the climactic clash.