gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Bucky Says No)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2006-03-22 02:36 pm
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Star Trek annoyances.

I have no problem stating that Deep Space 9 is my favorite of the Star Trek series. The situation was grittier, the people more real, and the overwhelming moralistic tone in ST:TNG was gone. (It's easy to be a preachy bastard when you have total matter conversion technology and run the biggest empire in known space.. try doing that when you've just thrown off alien occupation.

I even enjoyed the exploration of religion (and was amused by the fact the Prophets were real) as explored in the series. Plus we got a lot of Klingons and Cardassians, and I was in Trek heaven.

It did turn into a bit of a soap opera near the end, but I can deal with that.

However... after the death of Dax, Sisko takes a leave of absence. Excuse me, Captain Benjamin Sisko, of Star Fleet, perhaps the Federation's greatest expert on the Dominion, takes an open-ended leave of absence in the middle of a freaking hot war!!!

[identity profile] notthebuddha.livejournal.com 2006-03-23 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, what set them apart from any other of the dozens of omnipotent beings in Trek? Making the Dominion fleet vanish could've been done by Q, Trelane, the Metrons, the Organians, and several others whose names escape me.

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2006-03-23 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, the Prophets were actually interesting. Very limited range (Bajor was about it) and not interested in meddling with the course of history.

[identity profile] 10binary-cats.livejournal.com 2006-03-24 03:50 am (UTC)(link)

>Thud<
Q: Picard never hit me!
Sisko: I'm not Picard.

Best Q scene ever!