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Oh, about those big battles I forgot to mention earlier. Check out some of the DS 9 episodes about the Dominion war. Kick ass battles.
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yeah I do want to check those out since you mentioned them. My brother has been staying over my place and he watches DS9. I'll try to catch them.Comment
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And Kirstie Alley.Originally posted by Kirnwaffen
What about Jeri Ryan? Terry Farrel?(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."Comment
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I don't know if you can catch the ones you'll want to see. DS9 only shows repeats on late night anymore. How unfortunate."Beauty is not in the face...Beauty is a light in the heart." - Kahlil Gibran
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves" - Victor Hugo
"It is noble to be good; it is still nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble." - Mark TwainComment
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not where I live they are shown at 7:00 PM on one of the UHF stations (although I have cable so its not really UHF). Anyways I'm up late, I'm up late right nowComment
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Yeah, where I live they show them at about 10 or 11 pm weeknights. Kind of hard to catch, and kinda hard to figure out when the good episodes are on."Beauty is not in the face...Beauty is a light in the heart." - Kahlil Gibran
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves" - Victor Hugo
"It is noble to be good; it is still nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble." - Mark TwainComment
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But ST:TNG degenerated into endless character examinations - that's not Sci-Fi! TNG when it was good, or dealt with wars/weird space phenomena/time travel, was VERY good. But it fizzled.
I never used to like DS9, but the eps we're seeing here actually have an ongoing story to them (something about the Prophets/another war brewing etc.) and aren't just standalone episodes. And they're sucking me in!Comment
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Yes, the DS9 episodes do tie in nicely to the last episode. That was probably the best part of the series (well, at least the last couple of seasons): Almost every episode contributed to the overall plot, rather than just a bunch of loosely tied events."Beauty is not in the face...Beauty is a light in the heart." - Kahlil Gibran
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves" - Victor Hugo
"It is noble to be good; it is still nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble." - Mark TwainComment
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Anybody for Babylon 5?
If you look around and think everyone else is an *******, you're the *******.Comment
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I catch it every now and then on Sci-Fi, but not very often. The acting was so terrible in some episodes that I simply couldn't watch anymore."Beauty is not in the face...Beauty is a light in the heart." - Kahlil Gibran
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves" - Victor Hugo
"It is noble to be good; it is still nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble." - Mark TwainComment
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Star Wars, it kicks Star Trek's ass on so many levels.Comment
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Star Trek, excluding Voyager and Enterprise. TOS, TNG and DS9 kicked ass though.
Star Wars? Loads of action, great special fx, rather simplistic storylines, rather predictable. Same goes for Star Trek mostly, but at least they have an occasional pearl in between the pebbles.Quod Me Nutrit Me DestruitComment
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Star Wars is a kid's fairy tale dressed up in sci-fi veneer, nothing more.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."Comment
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certainly true.
it lacks depth. very simple good vs evil. in star trek, things are all a "shade of grey" (Ben Sisko).Quod Me Nutrit Me DestruitComment
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And this is a good thing? If the only way they can come up with quality episodes like 'Yesterdays Enterprise' is churn out rubbish with subspace anomalies and dressed up contemporary issues like euthanasia, then that is surely a failing.but at least they have an occasional pearl in between the pebbles.
The whole series is absolutley bursting with cliches. They can never ever scan the planet, the main cause of death is exploding consoles and the holodeck malfunctions on a weekly basis.
And I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that the space battles at the end of DS9 were dreadful for a number of reasons.
1. Only the Defiant had shields, all the other ships blew up like firecrackers.
2. Since when did the Federation use fighters?
3. Every single Federation ship was different; no wonder they're losing if they have a different design for every ship. This is especially silly when the enemy ships have consistent designs.
4. The battles were fought at ridiculously close quarters, like Braveheart in space.Comment
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