I wasn't a big fan of the pilot and if I do watch, it'll be when the season is over so I can binge.
But the leadup to this series got me jonesing for some ST so I decided to finally start DS9.
Couple thoughts on it so far (almost done S2).
- The first season is not good, just like TNG. They relied way too much on Quark to constantly derive conflict and the plot.
- STOP WITH THE JAKE EPISODES!!! HE SUCKS!!! He's so boring and I just don't care about him at all. Kids don't belong on star trek. They suck at acting. None of their conflict is even remotely interesting. Wesley Crusher only got interesting when he got older and almost brought down starfleet with ashley judd.
- They seem to have found some rhythm in S2. We are seeing more interesting storylines other than the wacky adventures of Quark every week.
- They've done a good job setting up and hinting at the dominion so far. The wormhole and the bajoran/cardassian war is a great premise with tons story potential.
- The episodes seem to have very quick, unresolved endings a lot. It is kind of annoying. To be clear, I don't mean morally ambiguous endings. I mean the climax happens with like 30 seconds left and then the episode just ends with no explanation as to what happened and then it is never mentioned again. Seems like most episodes were written to be about 60mins long and when edited down to TV time they decided to always keep the build up and conflict and then just edit out the resolution.
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