It had it's moments. There were some spectacular and impressive episodes and mini arcs... But regrettably the producers chickened out and backed off on making those themes more permanent and over arching.
A reboot now, seeing as how every one is going the "dark and gritty" route is EXACTLY what this series should have been.
A starbase on the very ragged edge of explored space where Starfleet's presence is minimal outside the tiny detachment for Bajoran Joint Operations, where hundreds of species meet to do buisness?
Shit. DS9 should have had Joss Wheedon on the writing staff and been on HBO. That's what that series deserved.
The Dominion was a brilliant concept that was poorly executed. Like the Borg, the Dominion was a dark mirror to the Federation, though they were so in different ways.
Yep. And then, it really got dumb when the Cardassians joined the Dominion. Because... for the evilz, I guess? That made absolutely no damn sense to me at all.
The episodes were just so repetitive. It felt like the same shit every time. Quark is scheming, Odo is being a bland loser, bashir is fucking around on a mission with o'brian
I still really enjoyed a lot of the show, but it is easily the most uneven of the 4 original Star Trek shows. At it's best, DS9 hit emotional levels that none of the rest even came close to matching, but at it's worst, it was as you said: dull and repetitive. Though at least it didn't totally lose it's way like Voyager did in the final year or so.
I liked the dominion in the beginning, but with the war they were way too powerful, and they had to do an enormous amount of backpedalling and just forgetting various details to justify the federation not getting immediately obliterated(which still should've happened.)
MHMMM YESS GIMME THAT JULIAN AND GARAK YESS MMMM HELL YEAH. I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST DISCOVERED DS9 I HAD SUCH A HARD TIME GETTING INTO IT. BUT I FELL IN LOVE WITH JULIAN AND GARAK THEY WERE MY LIFE. i HAVE SO MUCH DS9 MERCH IT'S RIDICULOUS.
A reboot now, seeing as how every one is going the "dark and gritty" route is EXACTLY what this series should have been.
A starbase on the very ragged edge of explored space where Starfleet's presence is minimal outside the tiny detachment for Bajoran Joint Operations, where hundreds of species meet to do buisness?
Shit. DS9 should have had Joss Wheedon on the writing staff and been on HBO. That's what that series deserved.