Re: Star Trek is awesome
When DS9 was originally being aired, I wasn't very interested and I didn't bother to watch many episodes. Having seen TOS and TNG, the idea of the series being set on a space station seemed wrong to me - "there's no treking involved if everyone stays put in the same place."
But having the whole of DS9 on DVD and being able to watch several episodes back-to-back soon changed my mind - now I think it was better than TNG.
I admire TOS for its inventiveness - pretty much the whole of the Trek franchise was there right away: warp drive, phasors, 'beaming down', tricorders, etc., etc. Everything after has just been embroidery on an existing theme.
I think the acting in DS9 was generally better than either TOS or TNG. (Exception: the captains - Patrick Stewart is a far better actor than Avery Brooks, imo. Avery's breathy over-acting I found rather annoying.) DS9 made much greater use of long-running plot themes than TOS or TNG. There were many multi-episode 'arches', so that a viewer watching only occasional episodes, or watching them out of sequence, would not fully understand what was going on.
Anyway, I shall soon begin watching TNG again - I doubt if there are many episodes that I've not already seen at least once. After I've watched a few of them again, I'll let you know if I still think DS9 is better.
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