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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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I've been using Netflix to watch every Star Trek episode. I've completed the original series and TNG last week. I've just started DS9. I'm on disc 4 of season 1 now and I'm having a really hard time getting into it. Sisco and the doctor are terrible actors and completely uninteresting characters. Dax does nothing for me at all. The only 2 characters that I enjoy watching are Qwark and Odo. Anyone else have a problem getting into this one? Does it get better?
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Not sure since I never made it very far into DS9. I recently rewatched all seasons of TNG a few months ago and was surprised at how well it still seems to hold up. Best ST series of the bunch IMO!
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Aslanna wrote:Not sure since I never made it very far into DS9. I recently rewatched all seasons of TNG a few months ago and was surprised at how well it still seems to hold up. Best ST series of the bunch IMO!
I agree completely. I love those characters.
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Use spoiler tags, asshole!
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Spang wrote:Use spoiler tags, asshole!
It's over 10 years old. I didn't think I needed to. My apologies......asshole.
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Midnyte_Ragebringer wrote:
Spang wrote:Use spoiler tags, asshole!
It's over 10 years old. I didn't think I needed to. My apologies......asshole.
No shit, Spang. If that is news to anyone that's their problem, not Mid's.
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It was sarcasm. I was just fucking with him.
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DS9 premiered while I was stationed in Germany. A friend of mine over there got VHS tapes mailed to him each month with TNG and DS9 episodes, so I kept up to date on them through him, although I did miss a few episodes here and there. I lost interest in ST in general around '97 (Voyager killed my interest in the franchise), so I didn't see the last couple of seasons. I liked it pretty well - enough that I usually watched DS9 episodes before I watched TNG episodes (I still had to record them and watch them later after I got back to the states because of my schedule at the time). Overall, there's no question TNG was the stronger series, but I liked DS9 quite a bit. I do think it gets stronger as the series develops, but I can't say how good the last couple of seasons were, obviously.

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TNG is my favorite series. However, DS9 is very good in terms of breaking the Trek mold of not having a continuous storyline. I loved Sisko, so to each their own. You are right, however, in that Quark and Odo have the best storyline.
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I could sit through the first series but never went out of my way to see it. I did watch TNG when I was a kid. I never watched any of the other ones, because what I did see I thought was terrible.

As far as movies, Wrath of Kahn and the TNG movie with the Borg were good. I actually really liked Ster Trek: The Motion Picture too, but I know I'm in the minority there :) Oh yeah, the one with the whales was entertaining. All the other ones sucked, and there are a lot of other Star Trek movies.

I find myself really looking forward to the upcoming movie.
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DS9 took a couple of seasons to get going.
I didn't like it at all when it started but it had some very memorable storylines over the years.
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miir wrote:DS9 took a couple of seasons to get going.
I didn't like it at all when it started but it had some very memorable storylines over the years.
I'll keep pluggin away then.
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It starts to get good when Sisko grows the goatee.
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DS9 was the best series toward the later years. It was too bad Dax left to go to Becker.
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Dregor Thule wrote:It starts to get good when Sisko grows the goatee.
Haha. I was going to say that!
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Lynks wrote:
Dregor Thule wrote:It starts to get good when Sisko grows the goatee.
Haha. I was going to say that!
I agree. Sisko's character got a lot better when he went back to the 1985 "Hawk" look. 8)

Another recurring character I really liked was Vic Fontaine, played by James Darren. The last thing you'd expect in a sci-fi series is someone singing the big hits from the days of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis, Jr. In my opinion, he sang them all very well.
Vetiria wrote:It was too bad Dax left to go to Becker.
While it sucks she left the show, you have to admit, Ezri was hot!
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i just recently dl'd STNG and DS9...working my way through season 4 of STNG now...it is a nice time waster while at work.
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