Star Trek: Deep Space Nine TV Show Review (Part 2 of 2)

My Star Trek Deep Space Nine review

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[MrZingnigga]

i take issue with the "star trek is supposed to be this and this but not this" mentality. had ds9 just stayed inside that narrow box established by tos and tng, it would have been no different from them. the point of a spin-off is to be different, otherwise why bother? to me, star trek means a universe and set of ideals, not a storyboard.

[0its0green0]

DS9 is Trek. It just discusses humanity in a way that TOS or TNG did not. In the originals it would be thing hapens -> technobabble to fix -> MORAL In DS9 they viewed humanity in such a richer and deeper context. Instead of having big, bad enemies like nameless Klingons or the Borg, they humanized villains. Dukat was turned mass murderer to good guy and then went mad when his daughter was murdered. The Founders were turned into what they were because of the hatred and distrust of solids. (Cont.)

[Johnrl21]

I liked the soap-opera type style that DS9 portrayed. I also loved the non-utopian society it communicated to the audience. The reason I have always liked Star Trek more than Star Wars is because I found more human reality in Trek. DS9 focused on that. I always loved it for that reason.

[dtmc666]

TNG was far better than the original and DS9.

[kurumako]

This is the drivel you get when a TOS/TNG fan does a review. Your dad hated it? My dad doesn't even know what Star Trek is. Geek Family Alert.

[danceoutnow]

To me every single star trek series has has a different purpose, shown a different side of humanity, and been meant to demonstrate a new piece of the "human condition" as it is refered to. TOS was meant to encourage exploration of the universe. TNG was meant to explore the self and how we get along. DS9 was once we are there, how do we operate there. Voyager was if we are thrust into a new environment without a safety net, how do we pull together. And Enterprise was how do we start out.

[x0xDarthWyylokx0x]

I like Seinfeld and the news... problem officer? 

[thewewguy8t88]

@tbeller80 i agree its like alot of the series each episode needed to be placed in that order otherwise well it would not make a whole lot of sense lol. but also i think the seires needed each episode to be where it was because in any other way the series would not work the way it did. things needed to happen in episodes in order for other episodes to happen so other episodes could happen. take our man bashier it was a somewhat important subttle episode that led to something.

[thewewguy8t88]

@0its0green0 you are right i rember just watching the female changeling making a subtle comment that she felt that it was her duity to make every soild a slave to them because they can change shape and solids can not so changelings know better then solids and must obey them for their own good and if they do not they must die for their own good. and i honestly think thats why jemhadar do not seem to fear death. because if they have to die it is for their own good.

[thewewguy8t88]

@Vader47000 i agree out of all the series i have watched honestly this show was the most human it had alot of episodes that showed humans are and what we could become. they explored themselves quite alot. and their were quite a few memberable episodes i mean even an extremely boring episode at the time called the quickening was still memberable as i watched it as a child and i hated episodes where all anyone did was just talk about boring stuff and nothing happens.

[Usul573]

He sure has stirred up the hornets nest on this one, hehe.

[tardisbuff]

@MrZingnigga Star Trek is a narrative form at least as much as those other things. If you set a pornographic film on the Defiant, could you call that Star Trek? A sitcom?

Star Trek didn't enter the popular consciousness because of phasers and William Shatner. It became timeless because of the stories it told and the way it told them.