Photon said:
D)Dax's death-there had to be a better way than that
Actually they
were gonna use a better way, they were gonna have Dukat brutally execute her. But Berman wouldn't let them and hence we are left with the total crap "death scene" that is now there.
Although I say it would have been way better to have killed Jadzia off
before she ever got to be a "regular cast member".
Things I hate about DS9:
1. Both Dax characters - totally useless, 100% irrelevant to the show, and incredibly obnoxious in my view. Not once did any of them say anything even remotely interesting, or worthy of saying. To add insult to injury, let's be frank, Terry Farrell is hands-down the worst actress on the show. The other actors/actresses on the show have cut their teeth on theatre and real acting well before DS9. They were chosen for their acting ability, Farrell was not, and it shows.
2. Horrible episodes that are sprinkled throughout every season, ie: Profit & Lace, Melora, Chrysalis, Time's Orphan, every single episode that has Lwaxana Troi in it. There are many, many others. I skip every one of these episodes each time they come up.
3. Not nearly enough Weyoun, Kai Winn, Dukat and Garak. These four are way too awesome characters to be given only guest roles. They easily out-shine most of those on the "main cast", it seems unjust they would have gotten paid way less than the "main actors", when their actual impact was way more.
4. Hideous noses on the Bajorans. Can't stand looking at any Bajoran. I wish Dukat would have ordered every single one of them to be surgically altered to fix their hideous noses so that they wouldn't be an eyesore assaulting my eyes all the time.
5. Kira's bitchiness in the early seasons. Puts her right on par with Keiko O'Brien.
6. Keiko O'Brien. Totally useless character who is incredibly bitchy 100% of the time even though she is not
supposed to be. Easily one of the most obnoxious characters ever put on-screen. Knowing that she had almost as much appearances in the series as true greats like those in item #3 above is very disturbing.
7. Dominion should have won the Dominion War. The hokey, rushed, cornball ending of the Founder surrendering for no reason even after she just said she would fight to the last man and having been subject to Odo's pro-solid propaganda via many previous linkings - was a huge cop-out. It may have been necessary for the sake of "Letting other Trek IP's ignore DS9". But in terms of DS9 itself it totally doesn't work.
8. Ruining of the Ferengi race. What happened to IDIC? They took a perfectly great race and then turned them into a carbon-copy of humans. Saying that being different from humans is "bad" and eventually the "normal" course of history is for every race to become exactly like humans. Such pro-human propaganda like this belongs on a lesser show like Enterprise, but not DS9. DS9 did a great job showing how screwed up humans are, like when Quark and Laas point it out, then flushed that all down the drain by ruining the Ferengi race.
9. The fubaring of Dukat. This was a real shame and insult to how DS9 built up deep characters in shades of gray. The decision to fubar Dukat was insane. It will go down in history as one of the biggest fubars of all-time.
10. Space battles were not engaging like in "Balance of Terror" from TOS, because it never shows the enemy bridge during them. This results in the "enemy ships" always being generic and having no personality whatsoever. "Balance of Terror" had it right by showing the enemy bridge during space fights, DS9 should have done this too instead of using the worse formula that they did.
11. Not enough space battles. Definitely not enough usage of DS9's weapons.
12. Unrealistic fight scenes. As mentioned in the OP. Especially with Kira who is the worst offender. The fight scenes in DS9 are always corny and unrealistic. Ie: A character grabbing his own wrist and then "bopping" someone else whilst grabbing his own wrist apparently imbues god-like strength into the wrist-grabbing bopper. Kira even knocks Damar out-cold by flailing her hands around Damar's face a few times, with each comes with a very loud & very cheesy "BAM!" sound inserted by the FX guys - even though she never actually touches him during any of these hand flails. She does this a few times and
the knockout blow is her holding her hands together and bopping him on his upper back?! What the heck?! LOL
The good guys had a much cleaner win-lose ratio on the other series. At least DS9 made an attempt to show csualities and grittiness.
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