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Need Trekkie help.

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....I can't even tell you who the Deep Space 9 captain's name.
Because there isn't one. Sisko is a Commander. Captains fly ships, they dont get assigned to space stations. The best things about DS9 acting were Sisko, Odo, and the expatriated Cardassian tailor Garak. Everybody raves about how cute Dax is, but the real tongue waggers are any time you get to feast your eyes on Major Kira's heavenly dimensions. I could have lived forever without having to watch Cakehole or some of those Bajoran rituals. Sometimes the best actors get suited up as aliens. Tosk was good. A good twist was learning that Dax is best friends with three famous Klingons, who were played by the same actors who played them in TOS. One of the best hostile aliens ever on any Star Trek was the Jem'Hadar. Never cared for the strange metaphysical undercurrents behind the so-called Founders.
 
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Commander Trip Tucker was one of my favorite characters, and overall, I really liked the series.
Season 1 is rough (as others have pointed out), but there are a few gems in there...
I got used to him, but I think I liked Malcolm better, and Hoshi the cunning linguist.
 
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I can see Picard's Enterprise being pimped out, but come on. This is the Model T of Federation vessels.
No it's not. It's like any car, it's fine cruising downhill on the open highway. But hit it with some city folk and some hostile road ragers and things can fall apart quickly. Their ship was like that, ok when cruising along but it couldn't take much of a beating. It's amazing they survived, as fragile as that ship turned out to be. The thing I dont care for is how perfeclty spotless and shiny everything is all the time, even the people. Contrast to Battlestar Galactica where things are dirty and always being worked on, and the people are sloppy and messy and rowdy.
 
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I think season 1 and 2 were great frankly. I didn't care for the xindi, and REALLY hated it when they went from that to the 4th season.

The Suliban and the "temperal cold war" were my favorite part of the series. Not really within the timeline of "trek" but I really liked it.
 
I think you'll enjoy DS9 but I gotta warn you, the first season is rough in spots. It has what's arguably the worst episode of Star trek, or any tv show really.

Sorry, I can't agree. DS9 imo was the headiest of them all. The first 4 to maybe 5 seasons was fantastic. Then it became "Klingons in space" and went a bit sideways. I hated the ending :(
 
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Just started watching Voyager hard, it's beginning to grow on me pretty good. The station that airs em doesn't stay in order. I'm gonna have to get back on Netflix.
Saw the Enterprise pilot the other day. They made T'pol seem almost like a robot I thought, though I like her with the longer lighter hair. Instead of her 3 stooges Moe haircut.
I'm slowly slipping down the Trekie worm hole, even Googling stuff to get the back story on things.
Ok now my mister obvious question, what's TOS?
 
Just started watching Voyager hard, it's beginning to grow on me pretty good. The station that airs em doesn't stay in order. I'm gonna have to get back on Netflix.
Saw the Enterprise pilot the other day. They made T'pol seem almost like a robot I thought, though I like her with the longer lighter hair. Instead of her 3 stooges Moe haircut.
I'm slowly slipping down the Trekie worm hole, even Googling stuff to get the back story on things.
Ok now my mister obvious question, what's TOS?
The Original Series.