I couldn't ask you to have a better cervix.

[dolari]

You wanna know why Voyager sucked? And why Enterprise is having a huge struggle to gain an audience?

Deep Space Nine.

I've been watching reruns on DS9 on Spike TV. And it's AMAZING how even it's bad episodes are a HUGE cut above anything seen since.

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[evillord.livejournal.com]

Early on, DS9 struck me as "in need of a focus". They wanted SOME unifying plot, but they couldn't figure out what could carry the episodes along. We had "look at the cool new aliens coming through the wormhole". We had "Cardiassians and the Maquis." We had "Bajoran religious politics." But they had an ace up their sleeves in case none of these worked out: they kept hinting at something called "The Dominion". When the Dominion wars started, we saw sides of the Federation we had never seen before -- The Federation at war!

I kept wondering why the Federation didn't just send a probe into Borg space, giving them a map to Dominion space saying "Look at all the cool stuff this bunch have! Wouldn't you want to assimilate them?" But no, they had to save the Borg for Voyager, in case people couldn't take the Kazon seriously (which we couldn't).

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

The fin thing is, once DS9 found it's niche, and ran with it, you could go back to earlier episodes and see some of the threads and seeds that ended up coming full circle down the line.

The Kazon confused me. They were a backwards culture that could barely survive in the Ocampa desert...but they had battleships?

And considering how fast Voyager was making a beeline for Federation space, hey sure hung around a LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time....