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Why is DS9 so much more exciting than TNG?

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tommo123

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picard was great and gave us best of both worlds - one of the best eps of any sci fi show eva! DS9 gave us 4 seasons of win though (1-3 were poop!) thanks to ripping off parts of babylon 5 core. competition made the writers actually have to try.

i can rewatch DS9 but i can't sit through TNG - only select eps. voyager was surprisingly watchable on reruns - after 7of9 turned up

i'm also hoping for a new trek at some point but something that has a bit more thought put into it ahead of time.
 
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Nintendesert

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BoomerD said:
Because you have terrible taste in television shows?

I suppose you also think Voyager was a great show too...

I presume you were a child when you were watching DS9...an adult would have recognized the crap that it was.

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You sucked down way too much Agent Orange if you think DS9 was crap. :colbert:
 
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child of wonder

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The Sisco character was good but Avery Brooks' acting style annoyed me. Whenever he got angry his voce went into this shrill whine and it bugged me.
 
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crownjules

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Fritzo said:
As for Enterprise, that never took off because it made humans look like whiney crybabies that leeched all of their tech and smarts off of other races. They fixed that in the last season, but it got the axe by then.
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Nah, I don't think it was that at all. I liked the whole Vulcans trying to slowly introduce humans to the larger "universe" but the humans just feeling like they're being held back for no reason. I overall like ST:E, but I thought it got really hammy at times and Scott Bakula's acting was sub-par at best.

Once I finish off ST:E, it's on to DS9.
 
Indus

Indus

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TNG wouldn't be TNG without Picard. "There are 4 lights!" enough said..

DS9 was darker and more *real* compared to TNG being ideal fantasy.

I also think TNG didn't really come into it's own till Gene Roddenberry died and the heirs took over and made it their own. Also DS9 had Ronald D Moore writing for them.. and if you've seen his vision in BSG.. it is way darker and more real than even DS9.
 
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AyashiKaibutsu

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It's been a long time since I've seen DS9, but from memory the start of it was way worse than anything in TNG and once it got good it was about as good as the good parts of TNG.
 
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yllus

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DS9 was a complete snore. Bajor this, prophets that, Cardass-zzzzz. I wish the entire quadrant would get sucked into the wormhole and stay there.

The Defiant was legitimately badass, though.
 
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maniacalpha1-1

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tommo123 said:
picard was great and gave us best of both worlds - one of the best eps of any sci fi show eva! DS9 gave us 4 seasons of win though (1-3 were poop!) thanks to ripping off parts of babylon 5 core. competition made the writers actually have to try.

i can rewatch DS9 but i can't sit through TNG - only select eps. voyager was surprisingly watchable on reruns - after 7of9 turned up

i'm also hoping for a new trek at some point but something that has a bit more thought put into it ahead of time.
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Funny enough I've been rewatching Babylon 5 and, well, frankly EVERY time I watch ANY of these shows I think of something I want to come here and post about, like for example I saw something in B5 the other day that was like, come on, that was so easy to figure out, etc, I always resist it though.

But I saw the B5 episode Exogenesis and was like...I couldn't decide if the Vindrizi parasites/symbiotes were more like SG-1 Goa'uld or DS9 Trill.
 
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maniacalpha1-1

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Fritzo said:
Sisco is bat-shit crazy. Watch William Shatner interview him on the Captains.

I'm talking "Needs Gary Buesy to talk him down" crazy.
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Who the hell is the dude at 47:13 next to Jeri Ryan that looks like Roberto Picardo's younger clone?
 
StinkyPinky

StinkyPinky

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Bateluer said:
At least its set in the normal 'Trek' canon, not the JJ Abrams crap. Oh, and post-Voyager not a prequel.



The idiotic temporal civil war story arc didn't have anything to do with it? :p Humans did start behind the other 'common' alpha quadrant races.

Edit -
The Bryan Singer pitch actually looked interesting.
http://www.slashfilm.com/bryan-singers-star-trek-tv-pitch-details-revealed/
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Sounds really good. Would have liked to have seen that. Although perhaps push it back to about the 27th century.

Getting really tired of sci-fi prequels. Enterprise was ok but would have been better as a mini-series.
 
Bateluer

Bateluer

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Sounds really good. Would have liked to have seen that. Although perhaps push it back to about the 27th century.

Getting really tired of sci-fi prequels. Enterprise was ok but would have been better as a mini-series.
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They could have skipped the first three seasons and not really lose munch.

Berman and Braga should, in no way, be involved with any new Star Trek series.
 
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JC

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I've been re-watching DS9 on Netflix lately. My observations:

- show was lame until Sisko shaved his head
- the Worf/Dax thing was just as creepy as the Worf/Troi thing on TNG
- Brooks' acting is...uhh...interesting. Witness "Image in the Sand", Sisko shaking his father yelling "I have to know! I have to know!" lol. He's much better in combat situations, IMHO.
 
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