Its ironic how Bashir arguably has the best character development of the entire cast. Especially considering they seriously considered killing him off at multiple points and for a while didn't know how to write him.
Kids who were big fans of Buffy/Angel.
If someone needs to get a taste of DS9, watch the episode "The Visitor." It's stand alone, you can get what's going on from context, and it's outstanding.
Ironic because Andor S2 only needed the last 3 episode. Skip the first 9.
Late, but that's the one.
DS9 and Babylon 5 had a heated fandom rivalry on par with Hal Jordon vs Kyle Rayner, Mike vs Joel, Kimberly vs Amanda, and Rap vs Alternative Rock. Lots of people claiming that DS9 ripped off Babylon 5 and JMS taking potshots against DS9 on Babylon 5. It was a crazy time, especially since DS9 itself got tossed on the back burner for Voyager when that show launched as certain folk felt that Voyager was the real heir to TOS and TNG, while DS9 was the "experiment" that was too profitable and loved to kill, especially given how UPN has really shitty carriage in the early days, meaning DS9 had more eyeballs on it even if promotion was largely devoted to shilling Voyager.
A great season 1 episode of DS9 is Duet. It is very Jewish-coded though.
It is, but then all of Star Trek is a Communist fantasy to various degrees. As lame as it sounds, you just have to turn your brain off when it comes to that sort of thing.
JMS did approach Paramount first to produce Babylon 5 so they did have his show bible when they started production of DS9. There's a couple of characters that share the same or very similar sounding names in both shows. Beyond that there isn't that much in common and are different enough to not get into legal trouble.
Very quotable though, you'd be surprised at how often you can use, "What you call genocide, I call a day's work," in everyday conversation.
The mature viewer will see that the Cardassians were right and Gul Dukat did nothing wrong
I do think it's rather surprising that RLM's more leftist fans haven't raked them over the coal for this.
Well, Nerdrotic is a felon. He went to prison for burglary and making/selling meth. If you try to be unfair or disrespectful to people in the drug business or in prison, that ends one way or another real fast.
I like to compare Dukat as a very interesting mirror to Kirk. The problem is he doesn't have the human moral system or steady companions to balance him out. Everything he does also makes sense through the lens of cardiassian morality.
Thing is, the acting and writing was good enough to sell it as a psychotic break. The man was basically in the process of going insane from loss and that whole experience pushed him over the edge to embrace the worst aspects of himself.