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Probably my favorite of all the Star Trek shows. I especially like the storylines that owe something to Ronald D. Moore (who also did the new Battlestar Galactica). Also, the cast and the characters are very real, very likable. Has a very unique feel, and is much more "down-to-earth" (so to speak) than Star Trek usually is.
Update: And that's all true, but do you know what else (I just realized)? And I think that this is also a RDM thing, because it's also something shared with BSG, (albeit perhaps not done here to the freakishly exaggerated degree that it is there)-- it's also more *militarized*. It's *military*.
It's not just Star Trek without the starship, but also, to a large degree, without the *diplomacy*, without the (non-war) *drama*: this is war-diplomacy, and war-drama.
Because, God, I liked Garrick-- and I still have this thing against Patrick Stewart-- but maybe, you know....
Maybe I shouldn't have trusted that scale-y, reptilian, Cardassian *fascist*....
*Bravo moment* (*sobbing*) "I trusted the wrong people...."
And it's still a cool show, and since it deserves marks at least as good as those for BSG, and since that show really *is* very good, and better than average, I had to give it at least a 9, so.... I guess that DS9, can keep its 9-- lol.
Even though maybe, say, Constable Odo isn't *really* as cool as, say, Captain Stacy, (to whom I refer to as "Police Chief Swan"), although I grant that he may be better than Monk, *at least in a certain sense*.
{And, to paraphrase Commander Adama: the military and the police have different duties: it's the duty of the police to protect & serve the people, while it's the military's duty to kill people and break their things, and I wouldn't know the difference between an army security detail in a civilian zone, and a scandal waiting to happen. And to paraphrase President Roslin: Eh, let's just roll the dice, and hope that the hypocrisy leans in our favor.... After all, there aren't many consummate career politicians portrayed sympathetically on TV today, now are there? Adama: *serious* That isn't funny, Laura. Roslin: *exasperated* Well, at least tell your pampered British son, 'hi', for me, okay, *chicano*?}
But anyway, what's good is good.... I guess.
And, yeah, I guess that Sisko is still my favorite captain, and I guess that that must (still) count for something.... (I've gotten to the point where I sorta prefer Kirk to Picard.... But I still can't quite bring myself to whole-heartedly approve of anything that William Shatner does....)
I mean, I guess that I used to really like the doctor, (and fuck knows that he's better than the doctor on fucking *Voyager*), but, to honest, I can't quite think of Alexander Siddig without thinking of that fucking agitprop flick, "Syriana", that I used to like.... And then, I can't quite help but think-- Was I a fool to.... *like* Julian Bashir too? Ooooh, Section Something, it's Section Something-- Section Something is out to get you Julian! Hell, man-- you better run like hell!
*embarrased laugh* Yeah, you *better* run like hell.... With your empty heart, and your, Hungry smile-- You better run!
It would be a mistake to try to write more-- the archives can be deceiving.... And maybe the less said about Dax, (and 'Bronte', lol), and so on, the better.
Bottom line: I hate it....
And I used to like it.
And I know that I've babbled a bit, but let me try to say one last thing, and say it straight, so that it won't matter as bad if I botch my 'and' and 'although'.... (Sometimes I write that that, or even there, there', although I at least deleted the 'than there, there, or whatever it was, *that* was ugly!).... *Anyway*, with RDM, the stuff is good, and has a good technical quality-- even with character development, sorta! But this is military stuff, and it gives you this grand feeling, this feeling of a great story unfolding, of a vast arch-- a story arch!-- being set in place, from a *war*, and *war's egotism*.
*shrugs* And at least William Shatner's smarmy arrogance is so *painfully obvious*.... But, now, so is this other's, eh!
*sighs* Even though, yes, in one sense, it's better.
(9/10)
