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Re: Shamless Fan-Boy thread (Star Trek)
Posted By: Spider-Boy, on host 207.10.37.2
Date: Tuesday, November 2, 1999, at 18:07:10
In Reply To: Re: Shamless Fan-Boy thread (Star Trek) posted by Morris Cecil Glalet, Th.D. on Tuesday, November 2, 1999, at 17:36:15:

> > Here are mine ordered from most favorite to least
> > Sisco
> > Kirk
> > Picard
> > Janway
> >
> > Spider-onlysiscogottobechristforanalienrace-Boy
>
> Oh, my list is much different.
> (best to worst)
> Kirk/Picard (tie)
> Janeway
> (4897421 idfferent captains of various ships that were only in one episode)
> Sisco
>
> See, I never liked DS9. It isn't "real" Star Trek. They aren't on a ship! It isn't Star Trek if they don't Trek through the stars. The first Enterprise did. The Enterprise-D did. Voyager does. Deep Space Nine doesn't.
>
> Morris Cecil "There are many other reasons why DS9 bites the cheesy fish, but I don't have the time or energy to go through them all" Glalet, Th.D.
> Tue 2 Nov A.D. 1999

DS9 was more epic than the other ships, since they were tied to one spot the continuing story lines wern't just the sopeoprea stuff. We had galactic politice, near-Biblical religious stuff, and really cool war aginst a nigh-unbeatable foe. My favortie episode though, the one that deffined Sisco didn't even take place on the station. It was the one where Sisco experienced life as a science fiction author for a pulp magazien in the fourties, were he wrote the DS9 story and wasn't allowed to publish it becasue the captain was black. No trek episode on any of the serises ever got close to writing that well. The other neat thing is that in the two prior shows (TOS, and TNG) we saw star basses and I always wondered what they did. If the starships had all the fun who would want to be on a star base? But DS9 showed that there are all kinds of adverntures to be had in the trek universe. The darker tone of the series also made the rest of the trek shows more believable. There will always be a dark side to life but we seldom saw it in the other shows, knowing that it is there now lends credeince to the whole of that fictional universe. Man, I think to much about this stuff. And DS9 did have a ship, the Defieant kicks rump!

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