Star Trek DS9 Reviews: From Start to Finish!

Were they admirals?

^No, they were wearing standard non-line officer uniforms(probably Patrick Stewart's uniforms), command red. They stuck out like sore thumbs!

Alameraine and count to 20.

That the Voyager thread is 17 pages long and DS9's is only 2 speaks 'orribly of this website.

Uniform retcons gaffs the guys in brown were originally marines on nbsg now they are the warrant officers.

Kyle is here a lot more than gul.

The length of my thread about Voyager speaks horribly about me.

Go do a review of the L word.

If I had all of the eps on DVD, I'd start this. Unfortunately (or fortunately for me), I've only burned the eps I like (or those that are important to the overall arc).

Jadzia is ultimate trek babe.

Not necessarily.


It's usually more fun to bash something than to praise something.









Plus, the thread starter for the DS9 thread isn't nearly as prolific a reviewer as Kyle.

Yeah, this "review" thread is notably fucking short on reviews.

Google "Star Trek - Deep Space Nine (DS9) - The Complete Series - H.264"

Apparently, some nice fellow who loves DS9 downloaded the entire series, converted it to mp4, then spent a month and a half seeding all 148GB of it. I also hear he likes noodle soup.

Is there anything smaller than 150 GB? I mean, I found some for 28 GB but the download speeds are craptastically low.

http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/399.html

Can watch them all online.

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What the heck man ?! When I post stuff like that they try to ban me.

I thought about taking this thread over and continuing on with my reviews, but maybe someone else wants to take a shot at it?

I'm not sure I even want to watch Ds9 again so soon. Saw it just a few years ago.

I just finished DS9 like three weeks ago...so no.

It took me 2.5 months to do all that.

There are others, but that are inferior.

Here's my DS9 series review.

Sisko ruined a planet for life out because of a grudge.

Sisko murdered a Romulan to get them into the war, then slept like a baby.

Sisko > all other Trek captains

The end.

Just watched some old Spenser: For Hire movies.

I still can't figure out how Avery Brooks was so totally electrifying and entertaining as Hawk, but duller than a dried dog turd as Sisco.

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Sisko had more balls than any Captain before or since in Trek (besides Kirk, but that's a given), but in the end of a day, he's still Starfleet.

Plus, Avery Brooks is more of a stage actor, IIRC, which is why he seems liek he's always overacting. It works in theater where not everyone can see the same thing at the same angle, but on film? Not so much.

But I'll take Sisko's almost-yelling to Archer's wearing a hole in the floor any day, and I like Scott Bakula.

Yeah, Sisko never dominated the show like Kirk or Picard but its okay because DS9 had an amazing ensemble of characters.

Fuck... Nog was more interesting than most of the main characters on VOY and he wasn't even listed in the opening credits.

Actually, I agree with someone above who said that reviewing a bad show is more fun than reviewing a good show.

Most of my Ds9 reviews would consist of 'this episode rocks' or 'Sisko/Kira/Odo FTW'

I found where some nice fellow uploaded the entire series in .mkv format; good pic quality & smaller size than .avi or .mpeg. Unfortunately, the only subtitles are in Swedish (I think). So here goes:


5) Captive Pursuits
The station's first visitor from the Gamma Quad comes through the wormhole with his ship in bad shape. He seems quite paranoid, but O'Brien befriends him and earns some measure of trust from him. O'Brien gets his name (Tosk), but that's about all (Hey Miles, Why don't you ask him if he's going to stay? Why don't you ask him if he's going away?). He doesn't earn the viewer's trust yet because he promptly asks the computer about where the weapons are stashed. Odo (they still haven't gotten the final 'Odo' look down yet - he looks really thin in the face) catches him tampering with some control panel & locks him up.

Meanwhile, another ship comes through the wormhole and does it's best V'Ger impression, scanning the entire station before making DS9's shields their bitch. They beam on board the station and have a firefight with Sisco, Kira, and some of Odo's punk-ass security men. We're again reminded that Odo doesn't use guns because that point hasn't already been hammered home in the first 4 eps. They get through to the security office where we learn the whole story: Tosk has been bred by these aliens to be prey; he believes it's the ultimate honor to be hunted down and finally die at the hands of the hunters. Since he was captured alive, he will be taken back to live the rest of his life as an honored hero. Not really, he'll be forced to endure ridicule & shame until he dies (kinda like Rick Berman). O'Brien helps him escape so he can die with honor. And the hunt is back on...

Rating:
If judged against Season 1: 3.5/5 (extra 1/2 because Bashir has no lines - God he was annoying in the early going)
If judged against the entire series: 2/5

Typical lazy first season writing (it happens on all of the series) - let's take a familiar story (The Most Dangerous Game) and give it a twist (we don't know he's the prey until about 2/3 through, Hunters breed the prey & they're ok with it). Still, a watchable episode, especially compared to some of the drivel coming up next: TOS ripoffs(If wishes were horses), TNG guest stars (Q-Less, The Forsaken), Ferengi BS (The Nagus), and stupid shit (Move Along Home).

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Not necessarily. Maybe it's Bajoran law that killing a clone is a no go, but the Federation feels that snuffing a clone that isn't aware actually sentient yet is nothing more than abortion. It's just a clump of cells, so vacuum cleaner and a coat hanger or hand phaser set on charbroil, it's all good. It just ain't a person yet.

Might have made an interesting take on the abortion debate.