# DS9, the last year **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 28, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ds9-the-last-year/47552 "2000-12-28T19:57:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ds9-the-last-year/47552/21 "2000-12-28T22:34:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AVSC916 \* > \*\*Same as Kess on Voyager. Why did she leave, just when her role was getting interesting? She’s not shown up on anything else either. > \*\* The online rumors I heard involved drug usage on the set. She has been in the movie “SLC Punk” where she plays a brunette and has done some voice work for cartoons in the past year. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ds9-the-last-year/47552/22 "2000-12-29T00:36:38Z")
My understanding is that the writers wanted to have the whole season devoted entirely to the war plot line, but The Powers That Be (er… Were?) insisted on breaking up the season with bits of fluff pieces… which wasted lots and lots of time which could have been spent bringing most of the major plot points to a more satisfying end. That said, I kinda liked seeing Dukat pose as a Bajoran farmer. He and Winn deserved each other 😉 But the last episode destroyed it all for the special-effects-glowy-eyed-monster routine. Ezri was cute, and I liked seeing her deal with Worf, as mentioned above. It’s just that it seemed like they were trying to cram 6 years of character development into 1 year for her. Enough already with the Ezri shows! Oh, and Sisko never got the chance to finish his main mission on DS9: get the Bajorans ready for Federation membership. Just a… minor detail. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ds9-the-last-year/47552/23 "2000-12-29T01:25:39Z")
yes drewbert! I forgot completely about that. The entire premise of DS9 from the begining was Sisko working with the Bajorans. Well…we can only hope the prophet Sisko can do better. Though considering he now lives in all time at once I’m thinking that if he had wanted it done, it would have been done already. FTR, I didn’t dislike Jake. He was a far cry from what one would call a good actor, but he wasn’t terrible either. If you believe he was, please write a 500 word essay comparing and contrasting him to Wil Wheaton. There were a lot of good side episodes too. I thought the episode where Molly goes back in time and lives by herself for 12 years was great. The science fiction writing episode, and Hawk’s character altogether were great. Unfortunately, we also had to deal with Ezri’s sherlock Holmes episode. That couldn’t have gotten worse in plot, writing, or acting. Vic is forced out of the casino? Cry me a river! There’s a war going on. ---
**Author:** ![mde427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@mde427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mde427)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ds9-the-last-year/47552/24 "2016-06-06T15:21:32Z")
> [@Ceejaytee](#): > > Oh, and couldn’t Terry Farrell stick it out for one more year? She and Worf were priceless. And no, andyman, he never got near Dukat. He had a lame episode where he gets to send Jadzia to Stovokor (sp) the place where warriors go when they die. Sigh. She left for the TV show Becker and job security after a salary dispute with producers. 1 more season at an unacceptable salary, or a new show, with several years security hopefully … had they paid her what she wanted or compromised, she would have been there for season 7. ---
**Author:** ![mde427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@mde427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mde427)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ds9-the-last-year/47552/25 "2016-06-06T15:23:47Z")
Just realized this is a SIXTEEN YEAR OLD message board I replied to … holy shit! Well, if you didn’t learn your answers over the past 16 years - there you go! ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ds9-the-last-year/47552/26 "2016-06-06T23:40:17Z")
> [@mde427](#): > > She left for the TV show Becker and job security after a salary dispute with producers. 1 more season at an unacceptable salary, or a new show, with several years security hopefully … had they paid her what she wanted or compromised, she would have been there for season 7. The funny thing is she left Becker early too. Makes it seem like maybe she’s got some issues. Shannen Doherty type issues. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ds9-the-last-year/47552/27 "2016-06-07T01:10:21Z")
I know this is a zombie thread, but I always thought it was a waste to make Ezri Dax a female. It would’ve been much more interesting if the next host had been male. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ds9-the-last-year/47552/28 "2016-06-07T01:15:54Z")
It’s sad somehow it took me 1/2 way down to learn this was old. I was ready to post about it. Yeah, ds9’s last season kind of blew. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ds9-the-last-year/47552/29 "2016-06-07T01:48:31Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > The funny thing is she left Becker early too. Makes it seem like maybe she’s got some issues. Shannen Doherty type issues. Its hard to say. Did she have issues? She was a star on DS9; she was eye-candy on Becker; just a nice straight-man for Danson’s lines. (But she worked solidly for several more years & several years pay on a network TV show will pay the bills. Also, I think I remember Becker failing badly at the end and maybe she wanted off of the train before it crashed.) I never saw her work after that, although I heard some rumor that she married ‘Westchester Money’ and raised a family. One night while driving and changing radio stations, some call-in show changed its format to play a set of music saying that Terry Farrell had called in & had requested a special set. I remembered listening to the set and thinking, “Damn, you’ve got good taste in music too. Just not fair…” ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ds9-the-last-year/47552/30 "2016-06-07T06:21:34Z")
Seriously? There are people who didn’t like the last season of DS9? It’s my favorite season of my favorite Star Trek incarnation. The whole Dominion War and how they wrapped it up was epic. Oh well, YMMV. And, for the record, I \*loved" Ezri Dax. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ds9-the-last-year/47552.md?page=1)