What's your DS9 episode-skipping regimen?
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Kira-heavy episodes involving Bajoran religion. But I do really like Kira as a character.
Other than that... Hard Time is difficult to watch. And I don't like Far Beyond the Stars.
HMMM. [edit] I just watched Shakkar for the first time, and it wasn't too bad. Finally I could see where the real Kira/Kai Winn animosity started to heat up.
Other than that... Hard Time is difficult to watch. And I don't like Far Beyond the Stars.
HMMM. [edit] I just watched Shakkar for the first time, and it wasn't too bad. Finally I could see where the real Kira/Kai Winn animosity started to heat up.
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I just skip the Quark-as-a-transvestite episode.
If I ever rewatched DS9, I'd skip this episode too.
Well, I really don't know how to answer this question, because I've not watched DS9 from beginning to end since 2003, when the DVD sets came out.
These days, I tend to watch episodes of DS9 on a 'feel like it' basis. I know all the episodes so well that I don't need to see any run-up episodes or anything like that. I just pull the episode I want to see off the shelf and watch it.
One of these days I will re-watch the whole thing from beginning to end - right now I am doing that with both Farscape (I'm in the middle of season 3) and LOST (in the middle of season 2). And when I do, I won't skip anything - I'll watch it all.
But as things stand how, I tend to pull down episodes on a want-to-see-it basis...and most of the episodes I pull down tend to be around themes or characters I love.
I watch and re-watch the following types of episodes:
a) any of the more hard-core Dominion War episodes - In the Pale Moonlight, The Siege of AR-558 (and by extension, It's Only a Paper Moon), Favor the Bold/Sacrifice of Angels, The Changing Face of Evil, WYLB, etc.
b) Any of the episodes in the Garak/Tain thread - The Wire, Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast, In Purgatory's Shadow/By Inferno's Light.
c) Any of the episodes in the Bashir-as-genetically enhanced individual thread - Dr. Bashir, I Presume, the Jack Pack episodes, the Section 31/Sloan episodes, etc.
d) Any of the Damar-as-freedom-fighter episodes...after he turns the corner and decides to lead the resistance.
e) Weyoun-centric episodes, such as Treachery, Faith and the Great River.
f) Martok, Martok, Martok! My favorite Klingon. Especially gravitate toward episodes that feature LESS Worf and MORE Martok!
g) there are a couple of Ferengi episodes I really like - Little Green Men and The Magnificent Ferengi.
h) Bareil!!!! I'll watch any episode which has Bareil in it. PERIOD.
Up to and including Resurrection.
i) Also tend to like the Maquis episodes - particularly those dealing with the Sisko/Eddington thing.
Episodes which I actively avoid:
a) any episode which deals at all with the Kira/Odo 'ship' crap. Starting with Heart of Stone, and Crossfire all the way through His Way and onward. That 'ship creeps me out and I try to avoid it if at all possible.
b) both wedding episodes. *YAWN*
c) my desire to watch any episode of DS9 is inversely proportional to the amount of time Kekio O'Brien is present on the screen. Especially if she is whining.
These days, I tend to watch episodes of DS9 on a 'feel like it' basis. I know all the episodes so well that I don't need to see any run-up episodes or anything like that. I just pull the episode I want to see off the shelf and watch it.
One of these days I will re-watch the whole thing from beginning to end - right now I am doing that with both Farscape (I'm in the middle of season 3) and LOST (in the middle of season 2). And when I do, I won't skip anything - I'll watch it all.
But as things stand how, I tend to pull down episodes on a want-to-see-it basis...and most of the episodes I pull down tend to be around themes or characters I love.
I watch and re-watch the following types of episodes:
a) any of the more hard-core Dominion War episodes - In the Pale Moonlight, The Siege of AR-558 (and by extension, It's Only a Paper Moon), Favor the Bold/Sacrifice of Angels, The Changing Face of Evil, WYLB, etc.
b) Any of the episodes in the Garak/Tain thread - The Wire, Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast, In Purgatory's Shadow/By Inferno's Light.
c) Any of the episodes in the Bashir-as-genetically enhanced individual thread - Dr. Bashir, I Presume, the Jack Pack episodes, the Section 31/Sloan episodes, etc.
d) Any of the Damar-as-freedom-fighter episodes...after he turns the corner and decides to lead the resistance.
e) Weyoun-centric episodes, such as Treachery, Faith and the Great River.
f) Martok, Martok, Martok! My favorite Klingon. Especially gravitate toward episodes that feature LESS Worf and MORE Martok!
g) there are a couple of Ferengi episodes I really like - Little Green Men and The Magnificent Ferengi.
h) Bareil!!!! I'll watch any episode which has Bareil in it. PERIOD.
Up to and including Resurrection. i) Also tend to like the Maquis episodes - particularly those dealing with the Sisko/Eddington thing.
Episodes which I actively avoid:
a) any episode which deals at all with the Kira/Odo 'ship' crap. Starting with Heart of Stone, and Crossfire all the way through His Way and onward. That 'ship creeps me out and I try to avoid it if at all possible.
b) both wedding episodes. *YAWN*
c) my desire to watch any episode of DS9 is inversely proportional to the amount of time Kekio O'Brien is present on the screen. Especially if she is whining.
Probably some of the dumber episodes, like the one in season 6 with the mini-shuttlecraft flying around inside the Defiant, or the early (season 1 or 2?)episode where they're all trapped inside some kind of game. That sucked. Or the season six episode where Molly falls into some kind of time-hole and comes back all primitive. I could live with never seeing that again. And "Prophet and Lace." (Season 6 is fresh in my mind, I can't help it!) I never, ever want to see that again. I'm going to have nightmares about tranny Quark for the rest of my life.
Really? I saw it for the first time last week and I thought it was great. It was one of those "This is what Star Trek is really all about" episodes. Maybe that's precisely why some people like it, I don't know.
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