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Post by rejeenagracia on Sept 6, 2015 7:40:09 GMT -6
When it first began, the Star Trek: DS 9 TV series did not curry much favour with the Trekkies addicted to spaceships zooming across their screen and tales of human bravado in alien lands. Despite the name, there was no ‘deep space’ in this series at all, which led to it being tagged as boring and unimaginative. However, it soon became clear that DS 9 was a much darker and socio-politically aware show, with full-fledged characters that did more than just run around the galaxy, trying to solve the week’s adventure. worldofoddballs.com/then-now-star-trek-deep-space-nine/
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Post by lcars24 on Sept 8, 2015 16:45:10 GMT -6
DS9 is definitely good Trek, very watchable.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Sept 10, 2015 7:42:37 GMT -6
I am one of those who did not particularly care for DS9. For this reason I normally wouldn't even post in the DS9 section, because I have nothing positive to say about it. I have no argument with people who have different tastes than I do. I'm making an exception in this case purely for the sake of starting a conversation. If you want to talk about it, fine. If you don't, also fine. You have to admit the wording of the topic invites argument though. It's one thing to say that you like DS9 better than the others, but when you say it was "a much better show" (than what? The Simpsons?) the rest of us have the right to presume you have some definite, measurable criteria with which to judge it "better". And we have the right to ask what those criteria are. How is "darker" better? Personally I found it dull. Dull premise, dull characters. Odo in particular felt like a character you might meet in a comic book -- a gelatinous blob who can assume any shape he wants? The episodes I saw struck me as chiefly concerned with politics between the Cardassians and Bajorans, which did not interest me at all. And then the rumor reached me that, since certain people didn't like the humanism in the previous series, DS9 was going to concentrate more on Bajoran religious beliefs. As a secular humanist myself, this struck me as roughly equivalent to "let's all watch paint dry." Now, admittedly I only watched the first couple of seasons. I also saw a few episodes toward the end when the Dominion War started, but by then I had no context, so they didn't mean much to me. So I really have no basis to judge, apart from "I just didn't care for it." If you guys would like to talk about it, give me some specific ideas about how you thought it was "better", I would be delighted to listen.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Sept 11, 2015 7:50:04 GMT -6
Or if you don't want to run with that, here's another question I've always wanted to ask a DS9 fan -- what do you make of the accusation by "Babylon 5" fans that DS9 was a blatant copy of B5?
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Post by Spock on Sept 11, 2015 16:41:08 GMT -6
I disagree that ds9 was a copy of b5 but you know people like to argue about it
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Post by Atoz 77 on Sept 14, 2015 8:34:59 GMT -6
I disagree that ds9 was a copy of b5 but you know people like to argue about it I don't have a horse in that race because I didn't particularly care for B5 much either, for much the same reasons I mentioned earlier. On the one hand, the idea of series concepts leaking between networks isn't new. In 1964, ABC had "The Addams Family" and at the same time CBS had "The Munsters". Coincidence? I doubt it. On the other hand, there are some eerie similarities between DS9 and B5 that seem to go beyond that -- the way both space stations were situated beside a stargate or wormhole, the way they both concerned the reappearance of a mysterious alien race and lead to an intragalactic "world war"... But at the same time you can't deny that Berman and Pillar did some really creative things with that basic concept. It felt to me like Strazinsky (however it's spelled) was just re-telling the Lord of the Rings.
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