Deep Space 9 on Spike TV, people!

Forgive me, I can’t search right now…waiting for payday to subscribe, so I apologize if this was already covered.

Less than two weeks now!

As soon as I get home I’m setting the TiVO (no matter what my husband says)! :slight_smile:

DS9 was by far my favorite of all the incarnations.*

*Which has absolutely nothing to do with the crush I had on Alexander Siddig (Julian Bashir).

Woo hoo! S’bout time. I fully expect to snicker a bit at how dated the sFX are now but that will in no way detract from my total enjoyment of the show. I only have a handful on tape from the first run.

gooti, you too? Hated him at first but he grew on me mightily. I’m over him now.

YAY!
excited

Aw, yeah. As a diehard DS9 fan (TNG’s not even close to being as good and it’s my second favorite), this is going to rock. Spike might very well become my new favorite station for this.

I have the first two seasons on DVD, so no commercials for me!

I haven’t watched them all, but I can say that the effects don’t look drastically outdated. They’re quite good. Better than, say, early B5 effects.

DS9 runs a very close second to TNG as my favorite of the shows because TNG was what got me into the Trek thing in the first place. I’m not the rabid fan I was as a teenager, but I still like 'em a lot.

I just started watching season 7 on DVD. Man is it sweet.

You guy who don’t have the DVD really don’t know what you’re missing.

A minor hijack.
I loved DS9, save for the end.
Killing Sisko and Gul Dukat. I had hoped Dukat would again be a “good bad guy” and grudgingly save the day.
No DS9 movies! Damn.

I’ve been looking forward to this. I’ve never seen the first episode.

When TNN (now Spike) bought the rights to the franchise, they announced DS9 in 2003. I’ve been wondering why it hasn’t shown up yet.

Killing Winn, Dukat, and Sisko didn’t bother me but the crap about the Pagh Wraiths and the Fire Caves did. Ugh. It was almost as annoying as when the Prophets closed the Celestial Temple to the Dominion warships. So contrived.

What is this… Deep Space 9 you people keep going on about?

I’ve got all 7 seasons on DVD on my shelf. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed going through them all - I’m halfway through season 6 now. I think one of the biggest things that set DS9 apart is the quality of the characters, especially the “evil” characters. No other show I can think of had so many great villains that you loved to hate. Dukat and Weyun (sp?) just ooze menace when they’re being bad, but can also pull off a smarmy likeableness when needed.

Except near the end of the series when Dukat goes from a multifaceted person to the cliched personification of evil. I still liked him but his character took a huge dive in seasons six and seven.

My absolute favorite shot in all of Star Trek was at end of the episode where the Cardassians retook DS9 at the beginning of the Dominion war.

The Defiant is cruising through lonely space, the camera pans and you see the entire Federation armada. Then the Defiant turns around…

Although I was disappointed the armada didn’t immediately strike back, I was pleased at how the whole Dominion War went.

A Star Trek war that lasted longer than 3 episodes… wow…

::Happy Dance::

I also have them all on DVD. It was a joy to watch the entire run from start to end, at my own pace, without having to wait a week between episodes. That said, you can put me down in the camp that found the ending disappointing. This is easily remediable though. All they have to do is continue the storyline. Bring on a film or three!!

Exactly! I like to bring that one up every time anyone brings up DS9 whether relevent to the OP or not. :slight_smile:

Is it wrong to fancy Cardassians? :slight_smile:

I have the DVDs, but I’m glad to see that this is going to be back on the air–the last time, I believe, the local Paramount station showed it sometimes at 2:00 or 3:00 a.m., which was never easy to catch on tape.

This was my favorite Trek show. I generally prefer the early shows. While the story arc had not come into focus yet, and there are some awfully goofy episodes early on (“Storyteller”? “If Wishes Were Horses”?), I think that the best episodes of the first, second, and third seasons sum up so much of what was great about DS9: the outside-the-Federation points of view; the moral complexities of both the “good” and “bad” guys; the aftermath of the Bajoran Occupation; the Cardassian intrigue.
There are some wonderful shows later on (6th season’s “In the Pale Moonlight,” for example, has 3 out of 4 of the above when Garak and Sisko conspire to bring the Romulans into the war), but a lot of the things I enjoyed most seem to have gotten lost or oversimplified by the final seasons.

I have always thought when DS-9 was at it’s best no other Trek incarnation could touch it, however I feel the series had some major shifts in concept that bother me.

[spoiler]Such as: Sisko embracing the prophets, I liked it much better when they were the wormhole aliens. The very first episode establishes the WHAs did not know anything about humanoid life, did not know about linear existence, they had no idea the Bajorans worshiped them as gods. DS9 should have never made Sisko into a “religious” believer in the prophets. Sisko should not believe in magic or have his “mother” as an avatar of the prophets as well! Dukat turning into a Bajoran religious fanatic with magical incantations to the evil prophets complete with glowing eyes, this was horrible! Bajor should have joined the Federation at the end of the series. That was the whole point ofSisko’s mission in the pilot episode. Gowron. Why did they portray him as a fool and kill him off? Gowron throughout his appearances was never shown to be incompetent. The Dominion War. Why could they not have the Federation/Klingons win fair and square? The prophets saved them by “magically” making the Dominion fleet disappear. This bothers me to know end, after all if The Dominion could overwhelm them so easily why go to all the trouble trying to undermine theFed/Klingon alliance?

How I would have liked the series to have ended: The Federation & Klingons win the war due to superior tactics, ingenuity and spirit but in the process Cardassia is destroyed thus fulfilling the female founder’s comment to Garak that Cardassia is dead. A completed reversal from the pilot episode would have Bajor rebuilt, proud and taking it’s place as a full member of the Federation. Cardassia is in ruins like Bajor was a the beginning of the series and Dukat would take the blame as it was he who brought Cardassia into this mess by embracing the Dominion.[/spoiler]

Well, so much for my rants.

Siski isn’t dead. He’s with the prophets, and he told his wife he could return at any time, “Ten years from now, or yesterday.”

So, there could be a movie, although the disappointing showing of Nemesis and the iffy future of Enterprise means the franchise might need to take a rest for a while.