So I'm a little behind.

[quasigeostrophy]

When Star Trek: Deep Space Nine first aired, Toni and I got away from watching it regularly after only a few episodes of the first season. That was a big mistake. IMHO, no Star Trek series changed as much from the beginning to the end of its run as that one. We would catch part of an episode from around the fourth season or later and scratch our heads and wonder WTF?? I liked the original series when I was a kid, and as I've gotten older I can appreciate it for camp value. Same with the movies - I even appreciate some of them with the odd number curse (except I will say that the first one was too long (the story would have made a semi-decent one-hour episode) and number five could just go away). The Next Generation grew on me once it moved beyond the preachiness and poor writing of the first couple of seasons and the actors found their characters. Voyager never grabbed me, although I caught an occasional episode in hotel rooms (usually in California on business trips), and, despite Jeri Ryan's appearance, I stand by an observed opinion that the episodes focusing on Seven of Nine were some of the better ones. I tried to watch Enterprise. I really did. Meh.

With the DVD sets coming out for DS9 and reruns on Spike TV, I've started to catch up with regard to that series. I've still got quite a lot to see, but I can already easily say it is my favorite Star Trek series, and in particular that the character of Benjamin Sisko is my favorite of the lead characters. It helps to have someone with the talent of Avery Brooks (and I loved his IBM commercials from a few years ago), but I think the character is the most well-rounded. Patrick Stewart is highly talented and was terrific as Picard, but I think Sisko is a better character.

Comments

[sistercoyote.livejournal.com]

I <3 Sisko.

I also <3 Dax.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wouldn't mind being in the middle of a Sisko/Dax sandwich ;-)

[circumspectly.livejournal.com]

OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH...you done went and took the words RIGHT outta my mouth! naughty, naughty!!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Purely based on appearance, I <3 Dax (both of them - Jadzhia & Ezri, but the former more) and I <3 Kira. :-)

[dancingshaman.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU!!

I've been screaming that for years, but no one listened.

(And I agree about your assessment of the films as well. Always liked ST:III. All negatives of ST:V should be burned.)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Fab icon. :-)

[circumspectly.livejournal.com]

we've been watching a lot of the reruns on spike tv, too. friday nights are strangely compelling for hours on end of "uncut". now i've noticed that they are playing tng on spike...did they already run out of ds9?

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

They took it off the 8:00 EDT hour Mon - Thurs and replaced it w/ TNG (and first season TNG at that, at the moment - Yech!), but it is still on at 7:00 EDT Mon - Thurs. We've been missing those because the local Fox affiliate shows two episodes of The Simpsons then, and they'd been showing some of those we'd never seen as well, and since we're getting DS9 on DVD...

[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

DS9 is my fave of the series. I could never give a fig whether or not the Voyager crew ever got back to the Alpha Quadrant, and I k ept hoping the Vulcans would just puul the plug on those obnoxious, uppity humans on Enterprise.

The DS9 box set I'd really like to see are the Evil Kira(tm) episodes. Now that babe knows how to party!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

The DS9 box set I'd really like to see are the Evil Kira(tm) episodes. Now that babe knows how to party!

Ah, The Indendant. Mmmmm... *drool* Those episodes are in there, just in broadcast order in the sets w/ everything else.

[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I can't really justify buying the whole series right now and even if I could, it would still be nice to have those episodes as a set.

[stitchinthyme.livejournal.com]

Ray and I always thought that the best Trek characters are the ones who are non-human trying to be more human or adjust to living in a human world -- specifically, Data from TNG, Seven of Nine and the Doctor from Voyager, Odo from DSN. For whatever reason, the writers did a much better job with them than with most of the other characters in any of the series.

We watched one or two episodes of Enterprise before deciding it wasn't worth bothering. Ray gave up on Voyager, but I watched it fairly consistently in the last couple seasons -- there were a few really good episodes in there, many mediocre ones, and a few really bad ones. I plan to watch the DVDs (yay Netflix) after we're done with DSN. We're only in 4th season so far.

I like Sisko's character too...he's much more conflicted and human than Picard. As for the Voyager, captain...though it's about time they had a female captain, I didn't much like Kate Mulgrew. And they just didn't know how to write for her -- she was never consistent.