Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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When the Cardassian occupation of Bajor ended in 2369, the mining space-station Terok Nor was left abandoned, its systems ripped out. By invitation of the provisional Bajoran government, Starfleet stepped in to oversee the rebuilding and day-to-day operations of the newly christened Deep Space Nine. Starfleet's position was a tentative one, many Bajorans suspicious and unwelcoming as a result of Cardassian oppression and brutality. However the alliance held and soon DS9 was a center of travel and commerce thanks to a newly found stable wormhole, leading to the largely unexplored Gamma Quadrant.''''Then after two years, the Dominion - a hierarchy of three separate species, the xenophobic Changelings, the diplomatic but shifty Vorta and genetically-bred soldiers, the Jem'Hadar - made their presence known. Seeing these new travelers coming through the wormhole as a threat to their power base, they decided to bring their version of order to the Alpha Quadrant... by conquering it.''''So began the war. At first fought covertly, then in plain sight, the war would soon drag each of their major powers in as their governments struggled against paranoia and shifting loyalties, thanks to Changeling infiltrators. This war wasn't for territory or power, it was for freedom.moreless
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    This show is great. i mean the writing is just is so good and emotional. I loved how some of the episodes were very dark and some made u think alot. Some were just so crazy it was really great. This show seriously got me hooked everything about is great. It starts off little slow but u have to stick with it and youll see how awesome this show really is. Theres not to much more i can say other then its a masterpiece so go watch it now, if u never have its on netflix for instant streaming. Sometimes i even think i like it even better then the next generation. Because this was the first series not created by gene rodenberry the creators explore alot of uncahrted territory and go all out. I highly recommend this show to any star trek fan youll definetly fall in love wit itmoreless

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  • DS9 in one word? Overrated. Oh, it's a good series but the overacting at times is more than I can deal with. Bojarans?! Who cares about Bojarans!? Anyway check it out this show will make you care but in my case it may be caring in the hatred way.moreless

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    DS9 in one word? Overrated. Oh, it's a good series but the overacting at times is more than I can deal with. Bojarans?! Who cares about Bojarans!? Anyway check it out this show will make you care but in my case it may be caring in the hatred way.


    Ben Sisko how I love your overacting! I mean my god. I really appreciated the African American lead but isn't there some stereotyping when Q shows up, and he's the only captain that gets into a fist fight with the omnipotent being?! I don't want the only brother Captain to be the Tyson of captains :'( It's all good though. Anyway, this show is very good.. but there are things that hold it from being the best Trek.
    1. Ferengi- Yuck. Worthless.
    2. Sisko kissing grown azz Jake. Jake was like 28 years old and still getting kissed on by his pops like he was an infant.
    3. The Defiant. How "convienant they give Sisko the baddest ship in the fleet even though he works at a stationary slave base. Luckily other captains didn't need it like those who actually traversed the galaxy in exploration!
    4. Deseree Dax personally they should have just let Dax die that new chick was cute. So cute it made me sick.

    The show had a good plot with the war and all but Odo didn't cause me to attach any sympathy to his whiny sniveling angry self. Quark my god I didn't care for the Ferengi one bit. Or ROM! I hate his guts... I mean what was rom other than a goofy excuse to show quarks shallowness? This show was pretty good but not the best of the treks If you like a soap opera type shows that are slow and lets you get attached to the characters then this is the show for you. They kill a lot of people!!! A lot of people die! A lot of the federation is massacred you have to like that outcome. For while I love trek.. I hate the federation mightily Just look at what Janeway is!(Preposition!) Self righteous, piece of crap. DS9 is definitely worth the watch.
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    Now, I know there is an on going battle of willsand wordsabout this series installment, Deep Space Nine. There are those that like it and those that don't. I'm afraid I'm one of those that don't.

    I know that it maintains a great continuity of current Trek canon. I know that it actually pivots Next Gen and Voyager together. I also know that it created stories that tranversed into the films. But it doesn't matter if the storythe actual settingis weak.

    I found Deep Space Nine to be a Space Soap, Hotel in SpaceGeneral Hospital Of The Federation. It was preachy, moody and too personality filed to be of anything dynamic. God, if I saw one more holo-deck episode I was going to scream.

    The last 2 seasons were good. The Dominion War gave the series a boost back into what Trek and Sci-Fi is. But it was frankly too little too late. I just really didn't care about what happened on Bajor, or to their religious culture.

    I rank this series a 7, only because of it's ground breaking CGI introductions, its grounding in Trek canon and its maintenance of old Trek values. But other than thatIt's boring.

    This series is available on DVD but was terribly high priced. It is now available at half the cost by some retail outlets.
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    6.0
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    i liked the show when it first started, but it was cindemned to evolve in a tyrpical sf/soap opera. i mean, you really can't have million sf shows without them starting to repeat the same character and plot paradigms. there is the wise, but energetic captain, some sort of technically developed or enhanced being like the doctor, the wise councellor, and, offcurse the loyal staff.

    the dynamic setting (station in deep space as the crossing point for travellers of all species) helps, but its potential is eventually exausted by ever-repeating moral dillemas and predictable resolutions (always tough, but fair,made by the wise captain with the help from the loyal crew)...you can see it going down the hill.moreless

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  • I started out watching this show with great anticipation of what was ahead, but was soon disappointed. With the types of plots written and the redundancy of story lines, it could have been shot in Ralph Cramden's kitchen, except not as funny.moreless

    5.0
    "Mediocre"
    The fact that the setting was in deep space and right next to a wormhole that could take the cast to the far reaches of the Galaxy gave it ENORMOUS potential for story line of distant civilations both good and bad. It seemed like it took forever to play out the scenario that lead them to war with the Dominion and there were so many wasted opportunities to go beyond the status quo and search out new life and new civilizations and boldly go where no man has gone before.

    After a while I felt like I was watching a show that for the most part could have been set in any town in the good old USA, without the Star Trek setting, and would possibly have been more entertaining.

    They had the occasinal show that took them through the wormhole, but most of the time they just stayed onboard Deep Space Nine, and dealt with their hum-drum daily lives at home.

    The final episode beckoned me back, and I'm glad I watched, because it was the type of story that should have been told all along, but it died with a whimper and not a bang, unfortunately for all us Trek fans who longed for adventure through the wormholemoreless

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