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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() [img ![]() ![]() DS9 @ Startrek.com DS9 Episode Guide Well, for start, you could say how (and why) you started watching DS9, and what are your favourite episodes. ![]() ![]()
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![]() Post Edit: ooopsie! Favorite Episodes you say? erm... "Necessary Evil", "In the Pale Moonlight" (Avery Brooks really shines in this one), "In the Cards" (just love it), "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River" (I laugh every time about Sisko's desk and poor O'Brien), "Doctor Bashir, I presume" (Just because of the whole shock value of it), "The Baseball one", the Finale, "His Way" give me time I'll think of more! Sab, DS9 fan[/color ![]() |
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![]() I started watching DS9 back when it first came out. I was an avid TNG fan by that time and DS9 had a lot of hype behind it. So I watched "Emissary" and was blown away. That's still far and away one of my favorite episodes, I continued watching DS9 through high school and my first year of college, but DS9 came on late at night and I had a flaky VCR that wouldn't tape correctly and I had a life so I wasn't always at home to catch it. So I missed parts of Season 5, almost all of Season 6, and all of Season 7. I was not able to catch up on those seasons until recently when I bought the seasons on DVD. My favorite episodes are always changing, it seems. Actually, what's really interesting to me is that any episode I five improves my opinion of the episode. I guess in the end it's the episode that gets the last laugh... or something. My least favorite thing about DS9 is a certain type of fan I run into from time to time. This fan thinks that DS9 is the only good Trek and all the others are worthless (with the possible exception of TOS), yet at the same time feels that DS9 is the most neglected Trek and is constantly being snubbed in favor of the other Treks. It's not those views that bother me, but it's this certain attitude that comes with it, a certain feeling of victimization that really bugs the crap out of me. For an example of this type of attitude, make sure to read Zeke's Thoughts on the Death of DS9 Horizons.[/color ![]()
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![]() ![]() For an example of this type of attitude, make sure to read Zeke's Thoughts on the Death of DS9 Horizons.[/color ![]() ![]() [color=#000000 ![]() :madder: <--That's for all 'o them. And a "BITE ME, FREAKS!"[/color ![]()
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![]() Yeah, that's my DS9 story. ![]() ![]()
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![]() I guess I regard it as I do all the other Trek series really - it was Trek in its own right, inhabiting its own universe that happened to have some similarities with TNG, and by proxy TOS before that.[/color ![]()
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![]() So, I stand here before you and say, "You know, DS9 *was* a 90s sci-fi series." Probably not a very popular opinion, but that's how I feel about that. (Perplexingly, the only Trek video I own is DS9's Past Tense. Kinda Morissette-ly ironic, hm?) Gatac[/color ![]()
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![]() What I really really loved about DS9 was the great ongoing story arcs (again - the Dominion War, 4th season onwards) that let it achieve a complexity lacking in other Trek series. I got to know and love the characters, and the conflict and plotlines seemed to me so real and alive. I love the sense that this episode may have repurcussions that only turn up five months from now, or that this episode makes perfect sense to me [i ![]() ![]() A lot of these reasons are why I'm very very very eager to get my hands on B5 - it seems to be all this, only more so.[/color ![]()
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![]() ![]() Thankfully, several years later I managed to get some episodes on CDs. The first episode I saw was The Changing Face of Evil. Heh. My friend had CDs with only season 7. So I got myself this episode, to see if the series is any good. And of course it was good. It was [i ![]() ![]() Then I saw season 1 and 2, and I also loved it. Season 3 didn`t impress me very much the first time... The second time I saw it, however, I loved it. Weird. And of course, since the beginning of this year, I`ve been watching the entire series, almost every day... and I`m really enjoying almost ALL of the episodes. It really is THE best Trek series. The evidence is quite simple - the biggest number of great, interesting, compelling characters. And the fact it never ran out of steam, it was strong in season 7 just like in seasons 4, 5 and 6 (whereas TNG declined in quality quite noticeably in its own season 7...). Now, I love TNG, it`s fantastic, and TOS is adorable, and Voyager is the first Trek series I saw and I also love it and it will always be the "special" series for me, because thanks to Voyager I made a gruelling effort to obtain episodes of all the other series and copies of the movies... ...but DS9 is, in my opinion, definitely the deepest, most complex and simply the best Trek series. All of the main characters got an equal share of episodes to grow, and all of them used that opportunity excellently, plus the enormous number of marvelous supporting characters - Dukat, Weyoun, Garak, Martok, Kai Winn, Nog, Rom, Damar, Ziyal, Vic Fontaine, Eddington... and of course, the relationship between Odo and Quark, which is the most bizarre and fascinating "friendship" between two characters I have ever seen. Nothing beats Odo and Quark antics, ![]() The best episodes... hmm... there are plenty, but offhand... there are, of course, the all-time classics - Duet, Emissary, The Search, Trials and Tribble-ations, In Purgatory`s Shadow/By Inferno`s Light, Call to Arms, Favor the Bold/The Sacrifice of Angels, Far Beyond the Stars, In the Pale Moonlight (definitely the best episode of the series), Tears of the Prophets, Shadows and Symbols... and presumably the finale is also great (I just haven`t seen it yet). Along with them, I was quite impressed by Dax, Paradise, The Maquis, Tribunal, The Jem`Hadar, Life Support, Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast two-parter, To the Death, Body Parts, Little Green Men, Apocalypse Rising, Looking for the par`Mach in All the Wrong Places, Rapture, For the Uniform, In the Cards, Waltz, Statistical Probabilities, The Magnificent Ferengi, His Way, Chimera, Badda-bing Badda-bang, Treachery, Faith and The Great River, Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges... and of course The Changing Face of Evil, my first one... There are two things, however, that I cannot forgive DS9. First is a certain episode called Ferengi Love Songs, which is simply the most boring and pointless episode of all Trek, and second is the terrible underuse of the Romulans. Was it really necessary to make three or so Ferengi episodes and not a single Romulan one in seasons 1, 2, 4 and 5? Okay, In the Pale Moonlight, Shadows and Symbols and Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges were great, but still... definitely not enough Romulans. Okay, I`m done. ![]() ![]()
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![]() The main advantage of BitTorrent is that the incredible range of things you can find there. Trek's among this range, but there's so much to see and find - well, suffice to say, it's the chief reason why I have a 250 gig harddrive. ![]() Gatac[/color ![]()
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![]() ![]() Thanks to anyone who can help. PM me if you think it's too complicated to describe here...or email me...whatever. Admiral_sab at yahoo dot com POST EDIT: Um DS9 is awesome! (I wanted to stay somewhat on topic! )[/color ![]() |
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![]() Er, on topic...Past Tense is good, because it's the only Trek episode where a Starfleet captain gets to rack the pump on the quite cool Franchi SPAS-12 shotgun. And because it leads up to what is possibly the best inside joke in all of Trek in Little Green Men. Gatac[/color ![]()
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![]() Also, it did pick up where I left off last night. I do like to shut my computer down at night because of hackers and stuff... but I leave it on all day. Plus I think it's good to shut a computer down and let it rest... am I the only one? On Topic: I also liked the episode Past Tense because of Kira's bandaid on her nose. ![]() ![]() |
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AAAAAAAAAH! You`ve all gone completely off-topic!
I am going to kill you all! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: The topic is: Deep Space Nine - Favourite Episodes. And why. :twisted:
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