Deep Space Nine: For the Fans - Page 8

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I was asleep in front of the TV and I woke up to Back to School. I was amazed by how beautiful the girl on the screen was, and she sort of seemed familar. I finally woke up enough to realize it was Terry Farrell. I didn't even know she was acting back then.

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Count me as a brand new DS9 fan!



I'm a big fan of TOS and TNG, watched a few early season episodes of VOY, and the first season of ENT, but I've never watched DS9. It came on TV originally when I was transitioning from high school to college and watching a regular show was too difficult. I never watched the reruns because I felt the continuing story arcs wouldn't work well watching random episodes out of order. But I've always read about the high praise of DS9 from fans on the internet and have always meant to get around to watching it properly. My wife and I finished watching TNG on DVD in order in it's entirety and enjoyed it immensely. So we decided to do the same with DS9. We're only 5 episodes into the first season and I feel that already the show is firing on all cylinders! It's funny, I love TNG but felt that it took the show 2 full seasons to really find its pace and hit its stride. With DS9 it took about 2 episodes!

This show is going to be a joy to watch. I wish I had done this sooner. The only downside is knowing that VOY and ENT will never be able to match it!

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Nor TNG or TOS.

You're in for an amazing experience. It only gets better from there.

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Wait until the show really hits its stride. It was one of the best TV shows on at the time.

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Chemist,

That's great that you've discovered DS9. It's a wonderful series, with excellent writing. In my opinion, it's second only to TOS as far as writing is concerned. Enjoy!

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Welcome to the club! Personally I thought the first two seasons of DS9 were also patchy, like TNG, and it wasn't till S3 that it really 'hit its stride'. If you think S1 is already really good, then you are in for a real treat when you do reach the later seasons!

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i can't wait til i get to enjoy it. preferably with wife-in-hand, erm... u know what i mean.

I just picked back up and have been watching through DS9, some of the early seasons have some great, fun moments.. and solid stories - the most political and really on point of any Star Trek.  "Paradise" and "Homefront" are absolute masterworks for any Star Trek series.   They deserve as much credit as I can give them.

But Season 5-7, and really launching in Season 6, this show hits one of the most incredible runs of any series.  It is completey re-watchable and absolutely epic.  This is the one Star Trek series that I think for the last 48 episodes is so "ON" that it just stands out in my memory.  While I can go back and watch a single TNG episode, DS9 is like comfort food, you start, and then find yourself in the middle of a marathon.

 

And Quark/Odo... some of the networks first real "frenemies" ? 

Matt,

 

I'm with you with what you wrote regarding DS9.  I will contribute more as time allows, and I look forward to your thoughts on this excellent series.

I picked up all seven seasons yesterday on Craigslist for $70.   Best deal I think I've made in a while.   I'm enjoying the hell out of it

^^^

 

Wow, that is a good deal!  I don't want to mention how much I spent on that particular series.  Let's just say that my sets came from England, France, and Germany (seriously).

DS9 is the best of the franchise IMO. The writing was consistently excellent and the serialized nature of the show and it's later seasons built upon what came before in TOS and TNG to great effect. After a year and a half since the success of JJ Abrams' movie, why is there no talk of reunion films for DS9 or TNG? Both of them deserve a proper ending. (DS9's left one important thing unresolved, and TNG needs a better conclusion that Nemesis.)

DS9 spoiled all other versions of ST for me.  After watching a version of ST that didn't wrap up in the last 5 minutes of episode I just couldn't go back.  DS9 is head and shoulders above the rest, IMO.  The last three seasons were amazing.

I'd hold up seasons 4 and 5 as the best in the franchise, along with TNG season 3 and TOS season 1.

 

I love Season 7.  This is one of the few series that really had a hell of a run in it's final season.   Just watched "Under the Paper Moon" this morning, it's amazing how many actors could anchor this series, it's one of the first treks were you could have an episode minus the entire bridge crew for the most part, and you cared a lot about all the characters involved, because you had come to know them over the series.   That's great writing.

The resurgence of the drive for DS9 blurays in the other forum made me think of this.   I watched "The Ship" this morning (Season 5, Episode 2).  It's amazing how DS9 managed to turn age old Star Trek tropes and completely toss them on their ear.   In other Treks, "redshirts" would die and people would move on in fairly quick order.   TNG dealt with this once; but here, you have an episode where both sides of the battle lose people; and there is palpable remorse - and because the death is somewhat protracted, there is a huge debate about how just the end of life decisions are when no medical care is right around the corner.

 

It's the kind of episode that DS9 did so well.. "I stare at the same five casualties over and over"     There is an open debate over what you'd be willing to give your life for; whether or not a life lost in a good cause is still just.

 

DS9 had more consistency then any trek series I can think of; but the real unique value of it is that watching it again, it really holds up.