That was horrible. With the singular exception of the wonderful TOS time travel tribbles episode, DS9 never once exceeded mediocrity at its very best.
The entire thing was stupid. The entire thing was boring. All of the original characters (exceptions being Garak, Quark, and briefly Nog) were boring and one dimensional. It says a lot when the only actually likable, interesting characters are the two B-listers they pulled from TNG (O'Brien, Worf).
Avery Brooks can't act. None of the cast could act. It's like they were directed to play someone playing an actor playing their part. And then there's Avery Brooks who had to have been directed to play an actor overacting the part of an actor overacting the part of an actor playing Sisko, a man with a debilitating brain injury.
Sisko wasn't even the worst though, that honor is split between Jake and Kira. Jake would clinch it easily if he had appeared more often (though he still appeared WAY too much) and this fucking episode that Reddit ADORES remains the single worst episode of anything I ever remember seeing. Kira ties him though with the sheer volume of her appearances and how the writers were deadset on having her be this sexpot despite being an aging, fuck ugly hag with some of the ugliest hair ever to grace the 90s, a grating voice and an utterly hateful personality. The mirror universe episodes where she was always in leather are going to haunt me for the rest of my life.
"teehee rom sounds goofy but hes actually a super smart engineer" would have been a funny bit for one episode but they built large swathes of the later series around this. It wasn't cute for very long and Rom is insufferable.
Bashir x O'Brien forced bromance is the most egregious example of what Peter meant when he said something insists upon itself.
Ezri was a horrible replacement for Jadzia and I don't know why we needed a trill for the last season. Just write the character out instead of inserting this pointless therapist bitch with a pixie cut and spending HALF THE SEASON telling us her backstory and showing us who she is.
Bajoran mysticism is fucking retarded and the entire show was built around this nonsensical space magic. Everything about the bajorans sucks. I think there are probably a double digit number of episodes where the premise is "Kira must work with a hated cardassian but what if the cardassian is actually a good guy????" and absolutely none of them were remotely interesting and having Kira be the focal point just made them all the worse.
Absolutely no one wanted 20 episodes of boring ass horrible actor Sisko romancing the ugliest women in the galaxy but we got them anyway
Oh and don't even get me started on fucking Odo and the entire race of shapeshifters
And that sappy fucking bittersweet instrumental music montage of all the Moments throughout the series at the end???? It didn't even come close to earning that fuck OFF
What else
EDIT: OH AND FUCK VIC FONTAINE
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I think it has some charm. In the middle seasons there's occasionally a really good episode. Garak is a great character. Dukat was a good character except the writers got pissed off that fans liked him so they made him do a bunch of out of character evil stuff. I'm not a big fan of it as a whole but parts are worth watching.
Having said that, I agree with about 100% of what you said. This is the first time I've seen someone opine on it who isn't in love with it because "They call it Star Trek but it's morally grey, so that means it must be more sophisticated!"
There was nothing interesting about him as a kid and the acting sucked. But it really gets afwul when they make him a copy of Alexander from TNG. "Boohoo, my dad is a captain in Starfleet. So I'm going to rebel against him by doing something weak and effete like being a journo instead."
That's not an exaggeration at a ll. Call me shallow, but this alone totally ruined the character for me. Half the scenes she's in, it feels like nobody is mentioning the elephant in the room. And then they put her into all these heterosexual romances where she's supposed to be attractive to men. If they had any guts they would have made her a crazy cute butch terrorist instead. That might actually be interesting.
This is what my Mirror Universe was like.
During the middle seasons it didn't come up very much, but toward the end they just go completely nuts with it. If I wanted to see this kind of show I could just watch Charmed, which I'm sure it does it way better. Just when I think they couldn't make it any more lame, they decide to make Sisko into literal Space Jesus.
This is around when the show gets unwatchable. The showrunner Ira Steven Behr gets increasingly self-indulgent to the point where he includes this shit. He likes the rat pack bullshit (something that my parents' generation already thought was really tacky and lame) so he just throws into a bunch of episodes for no reason. It's like if I was making a Star Trek show and I had Reel Big FIsh come on to play a ska band in 15 episodes. He might as well have just said "frick you audience, I don't care if you like this or not".
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Ronald D Moore can't help himself, he does the same thing in the Battlestar reboot where the mysticism and Starbuck as Jesus aspects get more and more prominent.
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That show is one of the main reasons I quit American tv and watched Asian dramas for several years. I was just so sick of this, where even a good show would get dumber and dumber as the writers grasped for straws, trying to come up with some new bit of story to justify another season. When they had the big reveal that 4 people had really been Cylons all this time, that's when I lost it. I knew darn well that there was nothing leading up to this, they just needed a plot twist and they were out of good ideas.
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You didn't miss much stopping there. It gets worse with one or two standout episodes and then ends 4 separate times, the last two being "DID YOU GET IT YOU MORON".
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