Q is kind of redundant in DS9 as they have Pah-wraiths and wormhole aliens, and Bajoran Orbs that do all the Q stuff... Not to mention random Gamma quadrant species who will put you into board games.
Q got replaced.
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- Vaarsuvius, Order of the Stick
Violence sometimes is the answer
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Eh. I always liked the Q episodes. Not sure why DS9 went that way but whatever. It all worked out in the end.
I guess they didn't want to have to figure out what Q and the wormhole aliens would do with each other.
I just started my DS9 rewatch today, having just completed Voyager, Enterprise and SNW in my "COVID then RSV then ENT infection" couch-misery marathon. I saw the Q episode with Vash just hours ago - loved O'Brien's reaction when he recognized Q.
I think they developed Voyager and DS9 to be two halves of the Star Trek whole. Voyager was flung so far that almost every species was new, so right from the start it highlighted the awkward first handshakes the Federation had to endure. DS9 included (mostly) known species and highlighted the increasingly awkward second handshakes, and third, and on and on: the real work of diplomacy beyond first contact. It's a political drama, The West Wing in space. Q has no patience for such intricacies, though that is what he often says he values so much in humanity.
Fair play, Q had had developed expectations from Picard. If Picard had punched Q when he first saw him, humanity would have been snapped to the soup age. The Q didn't have the greatest of attitudes towards humans as it was.
I think they need to stop relying on props from former series. Glad they mostly did, though it came back for Voyager. And they need to stop with evil parallel universe.
I liked the episode of voyager where you think it's an evil parallel universe at first but it's just a hearsay simulation of events from poorly informed future historians
Or Tuvoks security simulation mistaken for a Holodeck novel.
I was thinking of "Living Witness", S4E23, but that is also a really good one
For sure. I want a standalone series. Of the new shows, Lower Decks or Strange New Worlds got us closest to that. But they both feel like an homage to their counterparts (TNG and TOS respectively). I would appreciate a show like DS9 that takes a sort of "day in the life" appeal towards somewhere simple. They made a star base the entire show. I imagine they could take a newly colonized or colonizing planet and make a show about that. New plants, animals, dangers, phenomena, etc. I'm sure each planet could have plenty of stories to tell and subcultures to explore.
i really want a Star Trek show that does not play on a Star Fleet vehicle. Something like the Hansens from Voyager could be cool
I still want a series focused on other parts of the universe.
Imagine--
Star Trek: Warbird -- Follows a Klingon ship. You keep the same premise of a starship travelling the galaxy, but angrily, lol.
Shark tank with Ferengi
Follow an unknown race for a season or two, learning their lore & culture, culminating in them getting assimilated by the Borg.
I have high hopes for Starfleet Academy, but I don't want to have to subscribe to another steaming service to watch it... 🏴☠️
I’m sure each planet could have plenty of stories to tell and subcultures to explore.
That gives me some ideas:
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Rick Steves' Alpha Quadrant
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FNN exobiology documentaries narrated by a temporally-displaced David Attenborough
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Iron Chef Qo'noS, inexplicably cohosted by Neelix and Joseph Sisko even though both have to be holo-projected in from their homes on New Talax and Earth respectively, with judging by Q
I've got a stray note to use David Attenborough's voice-over for something Trek related, but haven't buckled down to flesh it out.
Speaking of famous people's voice-overs, I'm pretty sure technology has progressed to the point nowadays that you can train a local voice assistant to sound like the Star Trek computer voice even without the complete set of Majel Barrett's phonetic recordings. I've been meaning to try that for a while, and now that I just got a new GPU I've got one less excuse not to...
Or maybe I should use Jeffrey Combs' voice and make an AGIMUS voice assistant instead!
Make the assistant, disseminate it to fans, have it switch itself to Agimus on April 1st (and a few other days of the year) with no warning.
My husband and I are on season 5 of ds9. We watched the first mirror universe episode, but it’s not the vibe I want from Star Trek, tbh
I'm introducing my adult daughter to Trek. We're wrapping up season 6 in a few sessions...
We jumped around alot when first introducing her to Trek via TNG. Skipped a lot just because we hopped all through the seasons. Will have to go back for some.
In DS9... We're skipping almost nothing. That almost nothing? Mirror episodes.
Edit: You miss absolutely nothing in the grand overall plot for doing this. Feel free.
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