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by aidenn0 978 days ago
I am the only Star Trek fan I know who was not a big fan of the dominion war arc. I really liked some of the later season episodes, but the arc itself was a bit of a letdown.

OTOH, DS9 is the only Star Trek that my wife will willingly watch with me; she finds the others too campy. As another data-point she likes the dominion war arc as much or more than B5, which was her favorite sci-fi series previously.
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zdragnar 978 days ago
By Inferno's Light is among my favorites, if only for Andrew Robinson acting through his own actual claustrophobia in the episode.

I might also be slightly biased in favor of cardassian plots and actors, if only for Stewart's acting in Chain of Command.

The dominion and bjoran plots didn't really resonate with me at all, unfortunately.

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aidenn0 978 days ago
Now that episode I loved, but the parts I liked would have worked just fine in a TOS-style episode where the same 4 characters are captured by <some random species we've never heard of>.
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hef19898 978 days ago
Garak is one of the best ST characters, ever. And the acting is great. What I like about Garak is, the character is consistent and yet develops.
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adastra22 978 days ago
It makes a lot of sense to realize that DS9 was direct competition to B5, which was being produced and aired at the same time. That’s why DS9 is so different from other Trek. It was trying to be or beat what Babylon 5 achieved.

Even saying that though, I don’t think you can say one is better than the other. I can see why your wife likes them both though.

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aidenn0 978 days ago
> It makes a lot of sense to realize that DS9 was direct competition to B5, which was being produced and aired at the same time

I know; they were even aired in the same timeslot (IIRC Wednesdays at 7) where I lived, and I had a prior engagement on Wednesday nights and only one VCR, so I had to pick which one to record. I settled on B5.

I didn't watch all of DS9 until it was on Netflix.

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adastra22 978 days ago
You picked well.
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samus 978 days ago
Some of them are quite special though, for example 6x19 "In the Pale Moonlight".
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aidenn0 978 days ago
Brooks turned in a stellar performance in that episode, and everybody else (including my wife), seems to love it, but it would not rank among my 10 personal favorite DS9 episodes.
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