The characters in DS9 went on lots of Treks. Like the time Miles lived out decades in an alien prison only for it to really happen in his head. Or the time Miles was replaced by an alien who didn't realize he was the impostor. Or that time Miles was kidnapped and put on trial by the Cardassians. Or that time...
DS9 has better character chemistry than the other shows. It also has a solid mix of both serious and humorous episodes.
Plus they also got that polycule thing going on at that space station
DS9 is probably the best-written Star Trek show, but what worries me is how many of its fans think that Sisko's war crimes are "badass" and that his worldview should be emulated. Many DS9 fans seem to think that the show's shades of grey renders the Roddenberry vision on display in TOS and TNG invalid - dismissing it with "it's easy to be a saint in paradise".
There are a lot of things to criticize with Discovery, but what it absolutely nailed was the Lorca twist. Lorca arguing about how rules are made to be broken, sometimes you gotta commit a war crime or two, and "context is for kings", was a perfect summation of the mindset of these kinds of Trek fans. So when it was revealed that he was actually from the universe where humanity had given in to this mentality and thus failed to create the Federation, that was the perfect "sci-fi twist" that Star Trek excels in.
I enjoy DS9, but not uncritically.
Well, if your biggest point of criticism is that they are not travelling around enough...
Deep Space 9 was peak Star Trek in so many other ways, who cares they're not on trek? By that measure, ENT would probably rank highest. Or even worse, Voyager.
DS9 had Garak.
I like ds9 cause Sisko ain't afraid to punch a mother fucker in the face on occasion.
There’s more to that universe’s structure than exploration vessels.
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Both points can be right. DS9 WAS a divergence from the existing formula. Yes it mostly worked but they did push more exploration episodes in later seasons specifically to address this point, so the criticism was heard and acknowledged.
Setting the story on a station allowed the "trekking" to be more psychological and philosophical. Has trekking the stars changed us as much as we'd like to imagine? We're more open-minded as a result, but where are the limits of tolerance? Where are there still blind-spots? An excellent inversion of the Star Trek formula that builds out the whole "Western, but set-in-space" by playing off of something like Gunsmoke more than Wagon Train or whatever.
It's the only Star Trek where most of the trekking is done around the main characters rather than by them. But it's still relevant to the stories!
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