what the hell is wrong with DS9, nothing thats what. have you ever seen another series that deals with much more poignient ethecal problems, like genocide, prostitution, opression, mental breakdown, abandonment, disability, genetic experimentation, secret police, racism, terrorism. some series covers the odd one or two, ds9 did them all, and the obligitary touch-feely star trek episodes too.
in ds9 you had real emotion, real feelings, where the goodies didnt always win, where breaking the rules happened ALOT, where you got to see how the other side lived. The variety of episodes ds9 had was remarkable, they had the dominion war, prophets, section 31, mirror universe, time travel, planetary politics etc. there was something new every week, and the last 3 series were the icing on the cake for me. the series evolved from star trek altogether, branched off from the norm and made its own rules with massive series arcs and re-ocurring characters that gave each story the continuity to link them together. the story of 'terok nor' was ongoing in ds9 not split up into bitesize 15 minute chunks, everything effected the story. and of course, a series closer you can only dream of, i mean having the captain become a god, where time and space no longer had any meaning for him...thats pretty far out.
-arcon
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Sun Jul 06, 2003 5:43 pm 
