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Originally Posted by chemist 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!

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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.

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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.  

DS9 is like a summer ritual I suppose.   Back in Season 2 at the moment.. I found myself watching "House of Quark" tonight.   Such great stuff, the "A" plot about Quark trying to trump up his exploits in a bar brawl and getting mixed up in a Klingon marriage, and a "B" storyline of Keiko O'Brien finding that her school would close because there weren't children on the station any longer .. and Miles trying to find a way to make her happy.

It's a great episode, lots of fun.. and then you realize that the crew you think of as the "A" cast (Sisko, Odo, Kira, Jadzia, even O'Brien Julian etc.) are only tangentially involved, and the story gives a real look into the life of others on the station - it gives Quark more to his backstory and it fleshes out Keiko's side of a marriage of movement in Star Fleet.

The recent thread about how bad Voyager sucks made me mention that I thought the "B" characters on DS9 had a stronger storyline than any "A" character on Voyager.. and it's these kind of episodes that really prove that.