Prefer being on the station or planet?

[STEPhon IT]

I honestly prefer the episodes that take place on the station. There's something about the station I love about the show and if I want to see something more, I could just watch any other Star Trek series. No, I understand it couldn't always take place on the station. I understand. I'm just saying, when I'm in the mood for a chill environment, I prefer the episodes set on the station, and in all honesty, it makes this show stand out more. Like the show was focused on having the galaxy come to them, rather than them going to the galaxy. Anyway, what are your thoughts?

AGREED AGREED. Which was the WHOLE point of DS9. Star Trek and TNG was Wagon Train to the Stars while DS9 was The Rifleman. A perfect description of the show and there was nothing wrong with it. The show is set in it's own sub-culture and doesn't have to rely on Trek cliche's. The Klingons, Romulans may be around from time to time just establish and respect what Trek was but the show will explore new characters and villains who would be different and the crew would NOT BE ABLE TO RELY ON Starships because they're by the EDGE OF THE FRONTIER.

No back up no nothing, they'll have to deal with their issues themselves. I thought those early episodes were interesting and I liked the station wasn't a super fortress ala 4th season and beyond.

After the 3rd season, the series turned into a steaming pile; everything the writers tried so hard to prevent went right into the show - like a train running off the rails. It went off so bad we got a disjointed, idiotic ending like "What you leave behind?" Where Odo can simply link with the Lead Changling and wipe out all the hate she had for humans. An Evil, retarded coward like Dumar becoming somekind of freedom fighter??? And Bajor never becoming members of the Federation which destroys the WHOLE POINT of the series.

Sisko is dead and fails to get Bajor into the Federation. But for the fan-wankers, there were a lot of fighting and killing and EXPLOSIONS which kept their attention spans. So to them it doesn't matter that by the end of the series it didn't make any sense.

 

[nonbelligerency]

I am the one vote for planet. I liked it when they'd go to a new place. And not just in the holodeck.

 

[BuckBokai]

One of the big "what ifs?" is that they originally tossed up between a space station, or a planet-based facility on Bajor.

In practice it wouldn't have made much difference when it came to shooting episodes (there'd be planetary equivalents of all the regular sets), but it would make for a very different "feel" for the series.

I feel like 'station' based on Bajor would have forced the show to focus more on what's happening on Bajor in terms of politics, etc. One would assume that everyone (at least the Bajoran crew anyway) would not live on the station, but would live in the nearby community and be effected by what's going on there. Having it in space allows thing to happen on Bajor that won't effect the crew on DS9 as much as it would if they were planetside. It may have made for some interesting episodes, but I think using the station was the right choice and made for a better series. Plus space station just sounds more exciting than "base on an alien planet somewhere," in my opinion anyway.

 

[IrishNero]

The show was named Deep Space Nine for a reason. The station provided a waypoint for various species to intermingle in ways that no other starship or planet ever did. I think the show was genius in that it made you think you were watching a sci-fi series when it was much more than that; more like a drama series that just happened to be on a space station.

 

[Sybok Was Wrong]

I personally found the DS9 station sets more often than not- ugly and unappealing.

Now, that they were supposed to represent an alien architecture- it works. I get what Zimmerman & the producers were aiming for-

I just don't think it was a visually appealing setting to attract a general audience- just another reason this is the most "cult" of all Star Trek shows.

The sets could be lit well- like Siskos quarters, or Quarks. It would be depressing to live in all that moody lighting all the time, tho. By extension for the viewer.

The producers of DS9 were really testing the audience with this show, and making this setting one a casual viewer would want to tune into each week was just one example.

That's why Bajor, and location shooting, provided a nice contrast to DS9.

 

[Kilana2]

I´d like to have seen more of Bajor either. Not only the Kai´s residence or the occational village. Or Cardassia, not only during times of war and annihilation.

 

[Reaper63]

on the Station. it allowed ALOT of or unusual interaction between the Starfleet Officers and people you just don't see on a Ship.

plus there is still the option of going out on ships from time to time.

 

[Ithekro]

If it was a starbase, than it might have had both a ground installation and an orbital station (or even stations if there were shipyards present). But a Deep Space station would seem like something out in the middle of nowhere (like the old Deep Space Station K7 seemed to not be near anything but Klingon space).

 

[Cromwell]

On the station!

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There are innumerable reasons why I loved Deep Space Nine but a lot of them had to do with the station itself.

First, I like the back-story; the idea that it was previously a Cardassian station. Because, episode-to-episode, you're experiencing life inside an alien environment. Imagine, for example, if a whole season of The Next Generation had taken place on a Romulan or Kilngon ship.

Second, I loved the hustle-and-bustle; the comings and goings are various aliens, the regulars and the civilians all contributed to this wonderful sense that the universe was lived-in.

This wasn't the kind of show where, week-to-week, you'd seen a few square feet of an alien world and an oddly human-looking alien race never to be mentioned again. On Deep Space Nine, you got a sense of exactly what "the galactic community" looked like and felt like.

Third, I enjoyed the fact that it grounded the show, for lack of a better word; it seemed tailor-made for the kind of serialised story-telling that, in the later seasons, came to define the show. Invariably the threats came to them; the Bajorans, the Cardassians and the Dominion were all, basically, at the door step so it was so easy to craft a seamless narrative around the station.