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0 pointsrpmisms2y ago0 comments

You should force yourself through the first season or two. I promise the dominion war is worth it.

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For anyone who hasn't seen it, before you get confused: First contact with the Dominion is made at the end of Season 2, though they are mentioned earlier than that. It's mostly character and setting building until then. Relations are tense for a few seasons, and hot war doesn't actually break out until Season 5 or 6. Series ran for 7 seasons.

And yes, this is the same Dominion War that was referenced in the last season of the Picard series.

aidenn02y ago

I am the only Star Trek fan I know who was not a big fan of the dominion war arc. I really liked some of the later season episodes, but the arc itself was a bit of a letdown.

OTOH, DS9 is the only Star Trek that my wife will willingly watch with me; she finds the others too campy. As another data-point she likes the dominion war arc as much or more than B5, which was her favorite sci-fi series previously.

zdragnar2y ago

By Inferno's Light is among my favorites, if only for Andrew Robinson acting through his own actual claustrophobia in the episode.

I might also be slightly biased in favor of cardassian plots and actors, if only for Stewart's acting in Chain of Command.

The dominion and bjoran plots didn't really resonate with me at all, unfortunately.

aidenn02y ago

Now that episode I loved, but the parts I liked would have worked just fine in a TOS-style episode where the same 4 characters are captured by <some random species we've never heard of>.

hef198982y ago

Garak is one of the best ST characters, ever. And the acting is great. What I like about Garak is, the character is consistent and yet develops.

adastra222y ago

It makes a lot of sense to realize that DS9 was direct competition to B5, which was being produced and aired at the same time. That’s why DS9 is so different from other Trek. It was trying to be or beat what Babylon 5 achieved.

Even saying that though, I don’t think you can say one is better than the other. I can see why your wife likes them both though.

aidenn02y ago

> It makes a lot of sense to realize that DS9 was direct competition to B5, which was being produced and aired at the same time

I know; they were even aired in the same timeslot (IIRC Wednesdays at 7) where I lived, and I had a prior engagement on Wednesday nights and only one VCR, so I had to pick which one to record. I settled on B5.

I didn't watch all of DS9 until it was on Netflix.

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samus2y ago

Some of them are quite special though, for example 6x19 "In the Pale Moonlight".

aidenn02y ago

Brooks turned in a stellar performance in that episode, and everybody else (including my wife), seems to love it, but it would not rank among my 10 personal favorite DS9 episodes.

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Izkata2y ago

And yes, this is the same Dominion War that was referenced in the last season of the Picard series.

aidenn02y ago

I am the only Star Trek fan I know who was not a big fan of the dominion war arc. I really liked some of the later season episodes, but the arc itself was a bit of a letdown.

zdragnar2y ago

By Inferno's Light is among my favorites, if only for Andrew Robinson acting through his own actual claustrophobia in the episode.

I might also be slightly biased in favor of cardassian plots and actors, if only for Stewart's acting in Chain of Command.

The dominion and bjoran plots didn't really resonate with me at all, unfortunately.

aidenn02y ago

Now that episode I loved, but the parts I liked would have worked just fine in a TOS-style episode where the same 4 characters are captured by <some random species we've never heard of>.

hef198982y ago

Garak is one of the best ST characters, ever. And the acting is great. What I like about Garak is, the character is consistent and yet develops.

adastra222y ago

Even saying that though, I don’t think you can say one is better than the other. I can see why your wife likes them both though.

aidenn02y ago

> It makes a lot of sense to realize that DS9 was direct competition to B5, which was being produced and aired at the same time

I didn't watch all of DS9 until it was on Netflix.

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samus2y ago

Some of them are quite special though, for example 6x19 "In the Pale Moonlight".

aidenn02y ago

Brooks turned in a stellar performance in that episode, and everybody else (including my wife), seems to love it, but it would not rank among my 10 personal favorite DS9 episodes.

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