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Dukat frowning in the corner, Winn shaking her head saying "my child" over and over
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No way!
Dukat? A villain? No, he is a hero of Bajor! They should have built a statue of him in his honor.
They still can
Brunt! FCA!
Is going to sue for defamation.
Hey that actor looks familiar
But WHICH Weyoun?
If you need a good read, I highly recommend "Deep Space Nine: Millennium" trilogy. Weyoun is the big bad, naturally, and he's got all the smarm we know and love with a heaping helping of religious zealotry on top (he's literally Kai Weyoun in the book and is the combined worst parts of Kai Winn and Weyoun (except Weyoun 6).
Is Shran a villain? How about Brunt, FCA?
Oh dear God not Brunt, FCA
Hey that actor looks familiar
Shran isn't in DS9.
May the prophets forgive my poor reading
Weyoun is way down the list, to be honest. Dukat, Winn, Brunt, the female Changeling — Hell, even Gowron or Eddington, maybe — are all more compelling.
Weyoun is just an affably-evil punch-clock toady who, at the end of the day, is merely the female Changeling's "dragon," not a villain in his own right.
gimme Iggy Pop any day
His seashell from hell ears are freakin' me out.
Winn is definitely NOT my favorite. She is a very unpleasant person to experience
Oscar winner Louise Fletcher!? Nurse Ratched herself! She is acting her ass off, a performance we barely deserve. She elevates the entire prophet arc with her venom. When she died I read a lot of fan takes on her and paid more attention to how she made this awful, irredeemable, power starved ghoul, it's high art, one of the great Star Trek performances.
She had such an amazing talent. Her just saying "my child" was enough to make you want to hate her.
Oh for sure, she did a fantastic job of making this unlikable character truly unlikable!
I really tried but DS9 never worked for me. Went from TNG straight to Voyager.
Tell me it gets significantly better halfway through season 2?
It actually does, right about then. Season 1 is indeed rough (like most Trek series). Season 4 is where it really steps up.
Yeah, I think I bounced off of DS9 like 3 times before I managed to get past the start. After that it gets great though
The thing that interfered with my ability to follow DS9 when it was first broadcast was how tightly serial it was. (This is not a complaint as I actually think in hindsight it's something awesome about DS9, but it bears thinking about in context.)
In the pre-binge, pre-DVD, pre-online-episode-recaps era TV viewers sometimes had to just miss a couple episodes of something because of real life, busted VCR timers, or whatever. You could hope to catch what you missed months later in rerun season or years later in syndication, but that was it. Missing a stretch of TNG or Voyager was no big deal in the vast scheme of things, you could generally just jump right back in and keep enjoying the plot of the week while any really necessary missed details would be filled in more often than not. Miss more than a couple DS9s in a row and, if you were particularly unlucky, those were huge arc episodes and suddenly the entire plotline was twisted in some other direction and you could really struggle to understand what the hell was going on or get back into it.
I was a devoted 1980s/1990s Trekkie, but not until the digital era have I been able to actually sit and watch and enjoy DS9 all in a row as intended.
IMO DS9 has the least-rough first season of any of the Berman-era series.
IMO DS9 is the best ST ever. period. Nothing comes close
You thought Voyager was better than ds9? That's a very uncommon opinion
One that I personally support. :)
I don't know that it was better, but I'm also one of the rare few that liked it more overall
Voyager is just a bad boyfriend. Not memorably bad...just bad. "You've had a car wreck and he stopped to get a beer with friends on the way" bad.