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Originally posted by Greg B@Jun 12 2004, 08:59 AM
I admit DS9 is an awesome series. It took me a lonnnnnnnnnng time to warm up to that show. There were wayyyy too many characters for me to get familiar with when it first ran. It never ended with new characters showing up.
Now after watching the DVDs over and over I get more of a grip on what the heck it is about.
Gotta love that 'Nagus'!
What about DS9 really hooked you Enforcer?
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It's by far the "darkest" of all the Trek series and thus was the most real to me. The main characters were allowed to be in conflict with each other and everybody had a "dark" side that was explored. Not everything was black and white in the DS9 series as compared to TNG and such. It explored the beauty of grey areas of morality that none of the other series did. The characters of Garak and Dukat are two of the best characters written for tv ever.
Garak was someone who's actions you could never quite predict. If it suited him he would help Sisko/the Fedration and if it didn't he wouldn't hesitate to workj against their interests and he allowed the writers to explore the grey area of morality.
Dukat was the ego maniac extrordinare. It didn't matter what happened, he was ALWAYS able to rationalize his actions to make himself look like the hero. Something didn't go his way and he was made to look foolish his ego was big enough to ignore or and go right on. he was the series main villian but also wasn't always portrayed as a totally evil man. There were times he did do good things even if they were generally done so for a selfish self serving purpose.
THAT kind of complexity to characters makes DAMN good television.