I don't understand how people can hate DS9. I think it's usually because they don't view the series as a whole especially the second half which features \ the most amazingly large-scale space battles and thick espionage, dark politics, as well as character and drama plots ever seen in Trek.
I consider DS9 the second best show after TOS. It's a series half-set in a brutal galactic war. The politics are great, the characters are even better.
I hated TNG and Voyager was just plain garbage. The problem was Berman and Braga created this completely boring, cliche, and Trek structure and Enterprise turned into Voyager all over again (oh really? Delphic Expanse doesn't equal Delta Quadrant? LOL).
The oniginal Trek just has a quality that can't be reproduced properly. It was always about the charaters and the stories...along the way those things were replaced by pastel plots and showing off technology. Stra Trek in TNG and espeically afterwards in Voyager just became: "oh well, we're in a fix, we'll just invent *technobabble* device and everything will be fixed".
The original Trek was just raw science fiction and character play at it's best. Nothing comes close to it. Everything else has been a pale imitation. Attempts and replicating elements from it just don't work...ie: the Vulcan or Unemotional Alien officer is just monotone and plain boring stick-the-rules guy or sexy babe in a tight outfit in Voyager and Enterprise. Leonard Nimoy as Spock in TOS...brough emotion and character into what was defined as an emotionless character...so much that it made you cry.
I think Walter Koenig said it best on CNN a few days ago that the rest of the cast could have been played by different actors, but Nimoy was unique. Nobody else could have been Spock that held the ship and even the triumvirate friendship of Kirk, Spock and McCoy together.
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