Actually, $100 for a 26 episode season of an hour long show is pretty reasonable. Pound for pound, that’s considerably below average.
A bit much of a ‘starter price’ if you’re not sure you’ll like it, though.
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See? I CAN post in a ST thead without bringing up That Other Show. 
Of course - lots of people can’t stand DS9. I just didn’t want to say anything before because the fans tend to be very vocal [ducks and runs].
Since you brought it up, though - it was a huge disappointment for me when the show aired. I was looking forward to a new Star Trek show, and it was just so…boring. There, I said it.
Hey you’re allowed not to like it Just because I like something doesn’t mean I will criticize someone who doesn’t.
DS9 stood out for me because of the humor. It was (IMO) by far the funnies of the Treks. Quark and Garak were fantastic. I was less enthused by the holographic singer guy, but hey nothing is 100% great
IMO, DS9 is the better show, but it’s harder to be a casual viewer. First, while the first 2 seasons were in the aggregate a lot better than a similar time period on TNG, it was also inconsistent with both hits and big whiffs (including most of the first episode). OTOH, once it got good, it was quite self-referential and therefore difficult to appreciate if you didn’t know all the politics which had been developed over the past seasons. (Not unlike Babylon 5 or Twin Peaks, although less so.) For instance, when DS9 first came on I didn’t get a chance to see much of it until late in the fourth season, and I didn’t really enjoy it. But then a local station began a syndie run of the show starting at the beginning and by the time I had watched the bulk of the episodes and understood the relationship between Kira and Dukat, Sisko and Dukat, Sisko and Kira, Bashir and Garak, etc., not to mention the Dominion, the Jem’Hadar, and the Cardassians generally, it became a much better show.
–Cliffy
I generally agree with what Cliffy just said. At the time the first season or two aired, it was a hit-and-miss experience, with some great episodes like “Duet” and some crappy ones like “Move Along Home.” Looking back on them now, after not having seen most of them since they first aired (and some not at all), it looks to me like DS9 hit the ground running. The show’s greatest strengths were the characters and stories it developed over a long time, and that’s just not something you pick without watching a fair number of shows.
Plus, as the series builds through its first couple seasons, it helps to know that they’re working their way towards some serious pan-galactic asskicking. I loved how they just casually dropped in the first reference to the Dominion as somebody Quark might be able to buy wine-producing berries from.
Well, I’m glad I’m not the only one out there. The thing is, most of my trekkie friends love the show, so I was the odd man out.
Maybe someday I’ll give it a fair shake and try a marathon or something.
also on DS9 - wow, more people who like it!
I liked the complicated-ness of the show - and neat characters.
Ah the magic of the internet in discovering like minds! 
Thanks again, Aesiron. I’ll be hitting the library and Barnes and Noble soon.
And great idea about Netflix, friedo. Looks like it’s time for me to get a membership.
No problem.
Incidentally, I didn’t intend to do it that way but quite a few of those books are written by Peter David and the New Frontier series (about a dozen books encompassing a single storyline) is written exclusively by him.
He’s my favorite Trek author.