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Originally Posted by Locke
See that would have been a cool idea except the concept of a season-long story-arch was something that was effectively unheard of at the time and something to which the Star Trek writers seemed fundamentally opposed to.
And then they've taken STD and gone all the way off the batcrap crazy deep-end with it.
I too have been re-watching DS9 because I didnt give it the fair shake it deserved at the time, and they did some small 2, 3 and 6 episode mini-arcs that I think worked quite well.
Further, this was back in the Golden Age of television when a season would have ~26 episodes.
Thats a lot for a single story arch.
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I don't feel like a year from hell would be that far off from the story building blocks from DS9. Two - Five episodes on each portion of the arc before it reaches the climax. I do understand your point though. I also don't know how you'd finish that season up as an entire season hand waved away would be absolutely infuriating. I still think it was an opportunity to give a look at something very different.