Been watching some DS9 recently. I don’t have nearly the love for this show that some trek fans do. It’s good and goes some interesting directions (war, bajorans/cardassians, race, Dukat, Garak) but it’s clearly a step down from TNG. Some of these episodes are TNG S1 bad. And they don’t have the excuse of being from the late 80s on a shoestring budget being written by Gene Rodenberry’s idiot lawyer. When it was good, it was really good. But when it was bad, it was really bad.
From the ferengies cross dressing to some of the awful romantic relationships to odo being a traitor annd everyone forgetting in 10 minutes, the hilariously bad Kai Vedic stuff etc.
But the worst thing DS9 cursed us with was Section 31. They somehow were simultaneously so grossly incompetent as to be comedic but also omnipotent to a level that belonged in a bad Michael Bay movie. Made all of starfleet look like a bunch of morons. Worse yet they thought it was such a brilliant idea they put it in one of the reboot movies. Ugh.
It’s too bad because there’s so much to like about this series. But section 31 really represented the beginning of the end of classic trek and led directly to godawful garbage like discovery.
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