bashir: pompous twat. gets even worse once his genetic engineering is revealed.
Eh I’d disagree. Bashir is like a high functioning autist especially in the early seasons. He doesn’t have social graces(at least not very well) and can’t read the room a lot of the time. But he does grow, demonstrate his competence and the genetic reveal adds a level of depth to the federation as a polity and his own outlook.
they mention curzon dax way way too much. especially in the first few seasons it seems they mention him at least 2-3 times per episode. i got very sick of hearing about him tbh.
Curzon was Dax’s previous host and Sisko’s mentor/drinking buddy. (And he only appears briefly in the pilot). I can understand why people would ask “wait why should I care about this guy?” but he is important, at least to understanding Dax and Sisko’s relationship with Dax.
the dominion war stuff is really good but i feel that they didnt dedicate enough episodes to it. like in season 6 and 7 it is a war killing millions and the federation is struggling yet it seems most episodes dont even mention it.
This is a bizarre take. The last half of season 7 is basically serialized television. It’s present throughout season 7 either in the background or the front of the story. It’s all dominion war or plots related to the dominion war. As for season six-Waltz, Far Beyond the Stars, a little ship, and many other episodes reference the war in some fashion. Though season six is generally more character focused tbh.
I liked when odo became solid. I thought it was an interesting concept to explore. he could have really grown as a character as he struggled to adapt to being a solid, learned to appreciate the solids around him, and dealt with his longing to go back to being a changeling. but this only lasted liked two episodes before the retconned it, and it was such a stupid and unsatisfying way they did it too.
It wasn’t one episode? I forget how many it was, but there was quite a gap between them.
way too many mirror universe episodes. not that they are bad, but the mirror universe is best when it is a one off thing. too much use ruins the concept.
I sort of agree and disagree here. The MU in DS9 evolved into its own separate plot. Admittedly by season 7 it got rather slapstick and kind of lame. But I liked the whole Terran freedom fighter thing. Change of the faction dynamics and all. Also the Intendant, no more words needed.
it was very unsatisfying how they dealt with all the dominion ships traveling through the wormhole. they pulled a literal deus ex machina and just had the prophets zap them to the extreme simply because sisko is black space jesus.
I mean…they needed a deus ex machina. Just so happened there were gods nearby. It’s repeatedly stated that the dominion fleet if allowed through will stomp the federation and it will be over.* Sisko has to plead with the prophets and outright remind them of their ties to Bajor, something they don’t take pleasure towards(him extracting action out of them).
*Important to note the whole dominion war is fought against a dominion expeditionary force and its allies. Not the gamma quadrant dominion which is implied(if not stated) to be much much bigger and to be overwhelmingly powerful. Fact is, they needed divine intervention. Just to prevent a total dominion victory.
not enough romulans. i like romulans way more than kligons and think there should have been more of a feature in the show.
I agree here actually.
rom: i prefer him as an engineer, but it was clunky how he went from drooling retard to literally genius engineer in the span of a single episode with no explanation.
I think it’s stated as early as season 3 that Rom is a technical genius, he just sucks at business. In the episode where quark and odo get stranded and have to climb a mountain, also where Nog asks to join starfleet. Rom leaves the same season, in Bar Association. Problem with Rom is they didn’t really have a set character for him until the late first season/early second season? He was a stereotypical ferengi in the first few episodes. The whole idiot savant thing came later.
