Weird, I had the opposite experience. I tried to watch DS9 recently and found it so dumb by about the middle of season four I gave up.
There is a lot of dumb stuff, but also a bit very cool space pew pew, very charismatic actors and occasionally Odo emerging from a wall panel, being one step ahead of everyone.
Also, the versatile actors playing different characters are awesome, if you know about it. Oh and the mirror universe.
Mark Alaimo doesn’t get enough credit for being a solid anchor for the series.
Dude has chops.
I love all the day players that are the villain/vicitms of the week. It’s kind of hilarious to see the same actors again and again, but also a lot of them were also on Babylon 5.
The characters are mid and despite there being six seasons there are only four episodes:
- Odo solves a problem by changing shape
- Propaganda for the Bayjor religion
- A beloved crossover character saves the day
- Something unimaginably horrific happens to the O’Briens
You can simplify every series that way…
Agatha Christie wrote one novel over and over!
Chefs make the same three dishes over and over.
4 chord songs!!!
Life gets really monotonous if you’re pessimistic enough.
At least I only have to worry about seeing Wesley for only one episode.
EDIT: Actually I dont have to worry about him at all, because I was hallucinating one episode ans replacing Nog with Wesley for some reason.
Wesley isn’t in DS9.
Turns out I have been hallucinating when Nog is listening to Vince Fontaine and sharing a room with Jake.
This whole time I remembered that as a Wesley episode.
I mean, canonically, isn’t Wesley basically a Q at this point, doesn’t he have Phenomenal Cosmic Powers™? Wesley disguising himself as Nog shouldn’t be too hard to do. Hell, it was in a holosuite, and if anyone can rig one of those, it’s Wesley.
So, what I’m saying is…canonically, there is no reason that it couldn’t have been Wesley hanging out with Jake…
Wow. And Paper Moon is legitimately one of my favorite episodes that doesn’t get a lot of fanfare. Replacing Nog for Wesley mentally is something I can not conceive of in that.
You thought Wesley was in “It’s Only a Paper Moon”?
I still refuse to believe Starfleet’s go-to drink is caffeine-free.
Admiral Janeway, please calm down.
I’m still smarting from the betrayal that is Diet Barq’s
Maybe they have Barq’s. It’s caffeinated root beer.
They don’t even drink alcohol. What makes you think they allow caffeine?
Picard has actual earth produced wine from his family’s own ancient vineyard in stock. They usually just don’t drink alcohol unless it’s a special occasion, but synthol has the same effect, it just wears off faster, so people can drink within 4 hours of a shift.
“there’s coffee in that nebula”
They clearly allow it, whether or not most partake is another matter. I’m also not familiar with anything saying they don’t allow alcohol, just that synthetic is a widely used alternative
I’m just about to finish watching season four … and I’ve suddenly realized how terrible it will feel when I get to the end. Man I love this show!
You’ve hit the sweet spot. Season 5 is by far my favorite. A few dry spots, but solid overall.
Great times!
Introducing my daughter to Trek this year, just wrapped up S4 of DS9 a few weeks ago and S3 of Voyager the week after.
We have a few more months of golden age Trek… soaking it in.
Why is that PNG file 1.3 MB? Is it huge or just unoptimized? Is someone using it as a fullsize Quark poster or something?
PNG is lossless and its compression not well suited for photos. It doesn’t even have to be huge to get a photo PNG of that size.
Quark is wise
Just like root beer
