What do you love about DS9? Should I buy the series?
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I could see a Huge TNG fan not liking DS9.
DS9 is very different from the rest of Trek. I like DS9 more than the other Treks so my opinion may be of no use to you.
I think much of DS9 was stolen from Babylon 5 and B5 is better than DS9.
psik
DS9 is very different from the rest of Trek. I like DS9 more than the other Treks so my opinion may be of no use to you.
I think much of DS9 was stolen from Babylon 5 and B5 is better than DS9.
psik
I huge TNG fan will love Season One though. It is pretty much spot the TNG cameo for 20 or so episodes.
The father-son relationship was simply fantastic.
In addition to all the other things mentioned, that is.
My favorite of all series.
In addition to all the other things mentioned, that is.
My favorite of all series.
I bought some of mine used, and had this issue. That, and because of shrinking space in my house because of a 2-year-old, I ditched the cases and bought these.
I'm able to fit an entire seven-year series in one of these, and they only take up a few inches on the shelf, and look like nice books. One binder each for TNG and DS9, and one for TOS and ENT together. One for Voyager if I ever find it cheap enough.
Everything. Yes.
Baseball!!!
African-American themes.
The concept of non-linear time.
The examination of religious institutions as political entities.
One great big seven-year story arc.
Miles O'Brien is a main character. Colm Meaney can act.
Trills.
Season Four, the arrival of Worf.
Speaking of acting ability, I bow before Avery Brooks! We're not worthy, we're not worthy!!!
I'm glad you decided to buy them.
African-American themes.
The concept of non-linear time.
The examination of religious institutions as political entities.
One great big seven-year story arc.
Miles O'Brien is a main character. Colm Meaney can act.
Trills.
Season Four, the arrival of Worf.
Speaking of acting ability, I bow before Avery Brooks! We're not worthy, we're not worthy!!!
I'm glad you decided to buy them.
I love the fact that is was so different from the other star treks .
I loved everything about this series all until the last episode of Season 6 "Tears of the Prophets". That episode (which has more contradictions than the series Enterprise) created the sourly bad storyline that the series stuck with for no good reason.
The only thing that's good about Season 7 all involves the Dominion. Everything else that involves Dukat and the Pah-Wraiths was just so poorly thought out and executed.
Oh, I loathed the Dax/Bashir relationship.
The only thing that's good about Season 7 all involves the Dominion. Everything else that involves Dukat and the Pah-Wraiths was just so poorly thought out and executed.
Oh, I loathed the Dax/Bashir relationship.
Hello,
Merry Christmas | Happy Solstice.
We had a wonderful Trek-filled day.
The first episode of DS9 was excellent, and we are looking forward to many, many more.
I think it is fascinating to have a leader who has experienced such recent grief while in the line of duty, and one who actually has some anger towards Captain Picard....
I always wondered about the dozens of side stories that were created that fateful day when so much of the Federation Fleet was destroyed by the Borg, and it is very interesting that the writers picked up that thread and wove it into the start of a new series.
I thought that the Cardassians and the Bajorans were excellent wells of stories just waiting to be tapped, and I can already tell that DS9 will do just that.
Thank you very much for the advice.
(I do wish that the packaging were nicer though, it looks a teensy bit shabby net to your TNG silver boxes - - - wait, but, I guess that is part of it right? They are stuck on some nasty-looking deep space station, not the big shiny flagship. Hmmm. Embarrassed that it took me 36 hours to flash on that.)
DataLives.
Merry Christmas | Happy Solstice.
We had a wonderful Trek-filled day.
The first episode of DS9 was excellent, and we are looking forward to many, many more.
I think it is fascinating to have a leader who has experienced such recent grief while in the line of duty, and one who actually has some anger towards Captain Picard....
I always wondered about the dozens of side stories that were created that fateful day when so much of the Federation Fleet was destroyed by the Borg, and it is very interesting that the writers picked up that thread and wove it into the start of a new series.
I thought that the Cardassians and the Bajorans were excellent wells of stories just waiting to be tapped, and I can already tell that DS9 will do just that.
Thank you very much for the advice.
(I do wish that the packaging were nicer though, it looks a teensy bit shabby net to your TNG silver boxes - - - wait, but, I guess that is part of it right? They are stuck on some nasty-looking deep space station, not the big shiny flagship. Hmmm. Embarrassed that it took me 36 hours to flash on that.)
DataLives.
The plastic is scored to create the areas where it is folded, but that is also the greatest point of weakness. Several of my DS9 boxes have come apart along the plastic folds, so be careful there.
Yes, it was fascinating... for the one episode where it was given any relevance.
Sadly, Sisko's character gets a little lost after the pilot and he spends the next two years wandering about aimlessly. He makes a fine commanding officer but, beyond the one good scene in Q-Less and a poor romance episode, Sisko doesn't get much else to do. Luckily, in season 3 the writers started to define the character better, and by the time he shaves his head in season 4 (and brings us badass Sisko) he's a very good character.One of the reasons why I love Season 3 so much, but I'd say that badass Sisko was born in Past Tense. Damn, Sisko and Bashir were cool in that episode!
The dialogue. DS9 has some of the best dialogue in any Star Trek series. Sometimes it seems half of that is crammed into "The Way of the Warrior", also; but a good 120% (I suck at math) additionally comes from Garak.
The mathematical crux of this isolaxative equation is, of course, the root beer conversation between Quark and Garak. I think this is possibly the greatest use root beer has ever been put to.
The mathematical crux of this isolaxative equation is, of course, the root beer conversation between Quark and Garak. I think this is possibly the greatest use root beer has ever been put to.
Substantively true, but he is cool in "The Maquis" two-parter, both with his teaming up with Dukat and making the 'saints in paradise' speech.Yes, it was fascinating... for the one episode where it was given any relevance.
/\ the root beer conversation would have been infinitely funnier from my point of view if they'd substituted Irn-Bru or Vimto for root beer!
It's been a while since I've seen The Maquis, but I seem to remember it wasn't very focused on Sisko as a man but as Sisko as a commander. He had plenty to do and it was fun watching him do it, but he could have been replaced with Picard and it wouldn't have been much different. But as I said, it has been almost four years since I've seen it so I could be wrong.
I agree, Past Tense was the real beginning of badass Sisko, I have a hard time imagining Picard doing the same things Sisko did in that episode. Putting Sisko into the position of being a civil rights leader allowed Avery Brooks to be emotionally invested in a way he hadn't been since Emissary, so they finally found Sisko's voice and developed the character in that direction. I guess that's the episode where Sisko finally set himself apart from the other captains, it's just a pity that it took so long to get there.
I don't know - for me, the 'saints in paradise' speech pretty much defined DS9's ethos versus TNG (even if it was about setting up a VOY premise, but so things go).
Okay, he's talking about Earth and the Maquis, but isn't also TNG versus DS9? DS9 does give us a messier humanity, after all.Sisko said:
Aside from that, maybe he could have been played by Picard, I'll give you that, and his 'best friend forever IMATRAITOR' felt more than a little forced and certainly rather bland... but the consequences of this episode in Sisko/Dukat interaction can be seen in stuff like "Defiant" and intermittently right up to "Waltz"; Dukat's effort to make himself understandable to Sisko, in a way.
I had a friend who recently stated that as a child watching DS9 he thought all the characters were jerks and didn't like it, but I did like it as a kid and now as an adult even more so because I have grown to appreciate the character flaws that everyone had, it added more to the three dimensionality of those characters how they would grow and change throughout the seasons and on some episodes. DS9 has aged better for me than TNG has, I am really rediscovering DS9 now at 28, although I will always be emotionally attached to TNG I think DS9 is better.
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