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'Space, the final frontier. This is the story of Deep Space Nine, its continuing mission to . . . just sit there.' Sorry, but I'm not convinced. I understand it now as something different, a way of letting the story come to us rather than go out chasing it all the time. Still, at the time it seemed a bit dubious. There were some good points, I liked the fact that fewer than half the characters were Human for a start, since it provides more scope for differences. Then there was Picard's 'handover' moment, and some very good acting by Patrick Stewart where you just knew what Picard was really thinking in that meeting with Sisko. I wasn't so sure what to make of Avery Brooks, but time would tell there. Sisko seemed to be a troubled man, who we now know had found his calling. Anyway, the story went on and we saw the wormhole and met the prophets and it all seemed strange and different, nothing like what we were used to at all. Overall, I watched it because it was Star Trek, but Gene Rodenberry would scarcely have known it. |
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Sorry, but I am one of those apparently rare people who thought the opening episode to DS9 was over-long, cheesey and boring. There were very good moments, including the scenes aboard the Enterprise and the crew trying to restore DS9 to some kind of working order, and I very much liked the fact that most of DS9's current residents (and many of the Starfleet crew) hate it there. Seeing Sisko and Dax's different viewpoints was cleverly done and I am sure I remember it being on the news in the UK. However I found the scenes between Sisko and the Prophets to be embarrassing. Why do aliens, worshipped as gods for centuries or millennia, always choose humans (usually ones who aren't interested) as their emissaries? Imagine if the Biblical God sent a fleet of strange aliens to earth as his ambassadors. I felt Voyager and Enterprise got off to much stronger starts with attention-grabbing and exciting storylines. |
