# Deep Space Nine **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-space-nine/169802 "2003-04-20T05:30:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![drhess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@drhess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drhess)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-space-nine/169802/61 "2003-04-25T19:26:30Z")
Ds9 had the most continuity of characters and I liked the war story, but Sisko was like Kirk in the school of over-acting. I guess it would be cool to just have the entire war story episodes listed together to watch the war over time. What would it be? Half the series? Odo, Garak and Quark were great at wise ass sit-com, the gay subtext of many of their episodes is hilarious, if you are clued in on it. Anybody else catch that? ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-space-nine/169802/62 "2003-04-25T20:30:43Z")
not much to say that hasn’t been said. Only chiming in with my vote: DS9 is the best trek, hands down. Odo was my favorite, but I cared about every main character more than anyone on voyager and enterprise. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-space-nine/169802/63 "2003-04-25T23:41:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by drhess \* > \*\*Odo, Garak and Quark were great at wise ass sit-com, the gay subtext of many of their episodes is hilarious, if you are clued in on it. Anybody else catch that? \*\* What, you mean Odo, Garak, and Quark diddled each other in a three-way? ---
**Author:** ![drhess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@drhess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drhess)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-space-nine/169802/64 "2003-04-26T00:10:23Z")
Subtext you freaking moron. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-space-nine/169802/65 "2003-04-26T00:22:19Z")
Hey, only the women characters kissed on DS9! The men just wanted to. And the Ferengi ruled! ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-space-nine/169802/66 "2003-04-26T03:14:20Z")
Well, Bashir and O’Brien _did_ spend an inordinate amount of time in Quark’s holosuites. ---
**Author:** ![Foolonthehill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Foolonthehill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foolonthehill)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-space-nine/169802/67 "2003-04-26T03:28:55Z")
DS9 had a Gothic feel to it that the other ST’s didn’t. If we really do get out there we will have all this excess energy and, like Medieval kings, we will build these immense structures, spaceships with flying buttresses. And it’s the only ST that doesn’t use a federation ship as a setting. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-space-nine/169802/68 "2003-04-26T13:33:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by drhess \* > \*\*Subtext you freaking moron. \*\* **Moderators Notes** **drhess** , I will thank you to keep these kind of abusive comments out of this forum. Thank you ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-space-nine/169802/69 "2003-04-26T13:52:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Foolonthehill \* > \*\*DS9 had a Gothic feel … like Medieval kings, we will build these immense structures, spaceships with flying buttresses. > \*\* Actually the Cardassians (whose _necks_ are Gothic) built DS9 as Terok Noir (sp). -CP, whose spell chekcer is Gothic. ---
**Author:** ![drhess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@drhess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drhess)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-space-nine/169802/70 "2003-04-26T16:56:06Z")
Oh, sorry, you can only flame in the pit? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-space-nine/169802/71 "2003-04-26T21:11:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Foolonthehill \* > **spaceships with flying buttresses.** \ > [@](#): > > **And it’s the only ST that doesn’t use a federation ship as a setting.** Sometimes. Many of the episodes were set on the _Defiant_ – particularly during the one-year gap between the end of _ST:TNG_ and _ST:Voyager_ where many of the old _TNG_ scripts that hadn’t gotten produced were turned into _DS9_ scripts. (That episode where Jadzia Dax falls in love with the guy on the planet that only appears once every 50 years comes to mind. It was _so_ obvious that it was originally supposed to be Deanna Troi in that role.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-space-nine/169802.md?page=3)