Deep Space Nine: a thread for (re)watching this awesome series

Just animate it, problem solved. (I doubt they'll do this) Happy to see this and the doc

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i'd watch the shit out of a muppet episode of ds9

Are they suggesting that they're going to actually produce an episode? I read it as the writers just writing a script.

Still doing this but at a much slower rate than before. Just finished season 2, pretty good run at the end. One reminder of bajoran political intrigue (not as dull as it sounds), one reminder that the cardassians really are eeeeeeevil (just in case garak was contributing to a false sense of security), and then an introduction to the badass jem'hadar.

so if i were to watch this, do i need to start at the beginning? heard tell that like tng, it doesn't settle in until season three. i saw a few here and there back in the day; i know who everyone is

and what should i know to skip over, like wesley/lwaxana episodes in tng

not really looking forward to cardassian facial divots and ferengi teeth every damn episode tbh

you have to start from the beginning - it sets up Sisko & DS9 in relation to the Enterprise, etc and gives a lot of context.

it's much more watchable from the beginning than TNG & finds its groove very quickly imo

SKIP NOTHING
WATCH ALL OF IT

:D

when does sisko grow the goatee

i forget but he has it by season 4

you do have to start from the beginning but if you really wanted to you could probably skip all of the season 1 episodes that aren't about the Bajoran/Cardassian political situation. i think season 2 is actually pretty solid.

you can skip the Quark/Ferengi episodes at all points, most of them are pretty lame and none are essential to the story arcs iirc. the one in season 6 that had Iggy Pop in it is the only one i would watch again

boooooo disagree!

disagree disagreee

the people have spoken. ferengi episodes are good now

lol thanks

Ferengi eps are good. Needed to break up the serious eps.

is it okay if i think of him as captain sisqó

(tbh i will always think of avery brooks as hawk from spensaaah)

a while back i compiled four lists of the most-recommended ds9 episodes (from geek.com, medium.com, thr.com, reddit.com/daystrominstitute, trekbbs.com/daystrominstitute) and came up with a weighted stack of best-loved episodes – season 3 onward. have at it:

http://bit.ly/2nObGKu

Don't skip Vic/holosuite eps either. Don't you dare.

there is maybe one inessential one, but the "Nog returns from war" one is among the best episodes

I only recommend skipping one episode.

https://youtu.be/WY4w0RCZTqQ

From my favorite holosuite episode

https://youtu.be/6hPrxYRzuAg

omg who the hell cut these promos

I remember watching them and ignoring the tone and voiceover to try to figure out who the main characters in the episode would be and a hint as to the plot

Still waiting for the third season leap in quality. Dax's featured character episodes reveal her to be a charisma vacuum, and boy am I tired of the running 'gag' of the Ferengi's brutal oppression of their women. Just had to sit through Jake apologising to Nog for being offended when he treated their partners on a double date like shit.

The ol' stranded back in time double bill was ok though, kudos for some creativity in actually setting it in our future.

such a great show, started a couple months ago and am nearing the end of S3 now

i've watched nearly the whole first season now and idk

imo the only *good* episode was the one with kira trying to evacuate the dude from the moon they were going to energy-tap

i guess every show needs a grumpy competent dude who's secretly nice, but in odo and o'brien we have two

quark is okay, but they keep fucking with his character -- sometimes he's arranging a hijacking, the rest of the time he's secretly a good guy who loves our hu-mans. nog and all of the rest of the ferengi suck

never has a creature with the experiences of a dozen lives been as boring as dax. bashir is a puppy. kira moves from shrillness to shrillness, but that one episode was cool and showed promise

sisko is awesome; keep waiting for him to give someone the d'onofrio head tilt when he issues orders

jake is cool too but i am not a child and do not care about his scamming on girls with dumbass nog

oh hey this evil genius discovered a way to transfer his soul into another person's body and then dax figured it out in a few hours and then we never heard of it again. oh hey these gamma quadrant ppl discovered a way to make everyone eternal with nanobots but we're just going to leave the bajoran high priestess here and gtfo

idk man

;_;

you'll change your tune

mmm imagine basing your opinion of TNG off the first season

also at some point TNG ends and DS9 gets all of the writers from TNG and the writing gets 10^6 times better

quark: hey odo want a drink
odo: i'm watching you quark
quark: you need to get laid
odo: i'm watching you quark

well it never gets that good

tbf the cardassian tailor was cool and my understanding is that he becomes a more important (if less gay) character

otoh my next episode to watch apparently involves lwaxana troi hitting on odo

oh hey we are being invaded by aliens whose attack involves manifesting our (most boring) imaginations but it's not really an attack it's just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ with little people and plump japanese baseball players

u are so mean

i want to <3 tho

With the first season, it was obvious they didn't yet know what kind of a series they were doing... They did plant some seeds for longer story arcs with the Bajoran/Cardassian situation, with Sisko's relationship to the wormhole aliens, and with the mystery of Odo's origin, but mostly the episodes were TNG style standalone stories, only with Weird Space Encounter of the Week being replaced with Weird Gamma Quadrant Visitor of the Week. But during the second season they do start to build longer arcs, and the 2nd season finale/3rd season opener introduces elements that will define the rest of the series. From the 3rd to 6th season the quality remains almost constantly good, it's the best stretch of Trek I've ever seen. (Season 7 is not bad either, but unfortunately the P**-Wr**** storyline is silly and feels completely out of place in Trek.)

nog and all of the rest of the ferengi suck

I'm hoping you will change your mind once they start properly developing Nog and Rom too. The scene with Nog in Sisko's office (won't say more not to spoil it, but those of you who've seen it will know what I mean) especially is one of the strongest moments in all of Star Trek, it made me cry.

was that before or after he was a humongous misogynistic dick on the double date and then jake apologised for getting offended?

I mean I am looking forward to federation nog or wherever they're going with that, but c'mon.

starfleet nog I mean.

otoh my next episode to watch apparently involves lwaxana troi hitting on odo

this turned out to be one of my favorite episodes. it's sweet but also pretty weird. feel like Lwaxana episodes start off bottom-barrel in TNG and get better and better from there.

xps yeah i was gonna say, nog somehow ended up being one of my favorite characters

into S5 now and tbh DS9 is better than TNG for me

also i just watched hellraiser and garak's actor is the main character lol

he was the bad guy in the first dirty harry!

yeah saw on imdb, never seen the movie

heh yup, andrew robinson is amazing
so is jeffrey combs!

the vorta annoyed me sooo much at first, but now i've come around to weyoun

which one? :)

Poll?

feel like Lwaxana episodes start off bottom-barrel in TNG and get better and better from there.

OTM. Like a lot of fans, I dreaded the DS9 Lwaxana episodes, but they're good! They start off as light comedy and show a little bit of heart too.

the one where she causes the crew to all get horny for each other is one of the more embarrassing ds9 eps. the one(s?) about her and odo are fine tho