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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
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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Ds9 did take a couple of years to really get into full sprint, the first season wasn't great but you could see a lot of potential in the permise as a whole.
I'd argue that the first really strong episode in season one was the one where they crash on a planet where there's a perpetual war but the people fighting it keep getting bought back to life.
Progress the one where Kira try's to talk a old farmer off of his land was actually a really good character episode.
The Circle story line that started season two was really well done as well.
Necessary evil was a neat look at the Occupation of Ds9.
The Maquis two parter though was when the series really started to find its legs. And the first mirror episode cross over was great as well.
After that the next few seasons were really strong.
But the beginning premise of the series really kept me watching it, because you felt like it was developing and going somewhere.
And yeah Jake was annoying except for old man Jake.