WHY?

[Deckerd]

I didn't like Ezri as much as Jadzia but she did well considering she knew the gig was only going to be one season. I agree that the Dukat character was completely squandered. What the writers were thinking of with his story lines is beyond me. That aside I really enjoyed season 7 aside from my absolute bête noire - mirror universe shite.

 

[toughlittleship]

Farrell must have auditioned for Becker before she left DS9, as she was given time off from The Sound of Her Voice to do so.

 

[Capt_Piett]

DS9 did continue beyond Season Seven, more or less, depending on if you consider the relaunch novels canon material or not. They essentially pick up where Season 7 left off; and if you haven't read them, the Omnibus edition collecting the first several just was recently released.

I haven't seen most of the latter part of DS9, but I don't hold anything particularly against Ezri versus Jadzia. Jadzia seemed to be more quirky and fun, but Ezri had her moments as well.

 

[Jack Bauer]

I thought with the exception of a few episodes (mainly at the start and middle of the season and one or two at the end) that the seventh season was very good.

 

[D Man]

The biggest dissapointment of the season was definitely "Extreme Measures," which did not at ALL live up to the previous Section 31 episodes. Plus it put all the other Final Chapter storylines on hold, which didn't help. Similar to "Sons and Daughters" in that it stopped all the momentum of the story for a week.

 

[Tomalak]

Season 7 is excellent. Ezri works remarkably well, though it is a shame that her stories (although necessary) deprived other characters their chance to shine - notably Colm Meaney, but also Cirroc Lofton.

With episodes like Shadows and Symbols, Treachery, Faith and the Great River, Once More Unto the Breach, The Siege of AR-558, It's Only a Paper Moon, Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges, Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang, and the entire final chapter, there wasn't a lot wrong.

The only missed opportunities were the forgettable Chrysalis, Prodigal Daughter, The Emperor's New Cloak and Extreme Measures. Even so, they are decent episodes, but just could have been something better in the final season.

On balance, I prefer the seventh series to the first, third and sixth.

 

[Deckerd]

It was wound up quite well, although I didn't like the way Dukat was worked into the big finale - it didn't seem right for his character in all its previous incarnations. There was a sort of elegiac quality to the last episodes but perhaps that's just my imagination. If they had resisted mirror universe and fillers just once, just this once, it would have been a very good ending to the story.

 

[Blueicus]

Also, the editing of "What you Leave Behind" makes it seem like Winn and Dukat were in the fire caves for days... although I didn't see any camping equipment.

 

[Tomalak]

Seems a minor nitpick.

 

[Trekwatcher]

I actually liked Ezri Dax better than Jadzia. I thought de Boer was a better actress overall.

 

[OldManDax]

Season 7 struck me as a little clumsy and uneven at times - like the writers had grown a little tired, and weren't quite on their game as much as Seasons 3-6. One noticeable issue for me, was the way in which Sisko seemed too often consigned to the sidelines of the drama, in ways that were pretty distracting and questionable, IMO. I always wondered why, for example, we didn't see Sisko and Ezri interact in any significant way after "Afterimage". I realize she was a different character, and they wanted to kind of mark her as different from Jadzia, but the series itself marked their relationship as being one that should extend beyond individual hosts, when she herself went to Sisko for help with the new symbiont.

Plus, I thought there a little too much time spent on recurring characters. Yes I love Weyoun and Dukat and Winn and The Female Changeling, but the show is called, and always had as its anchor, DS9 and the effects of different arcs on its central characters. The show is not called Star Trek: Damar or Star Trek: Weyoun or Star Trek: Winn and Dukat. Lose the focus (at least for me), and you lose a lot of what made the show a must-see.