Deep Space Nine Runthrough

TheIrishGrover

JayRoc wrote: »

Friends. You found Friends offensive.



Friends.




Jesus wept.

Well, what I meant was I found it extremely strange that there was nobody of colour on the show in any capacity at all really until about the last series....... Anyway,..... You want a controversial opinion? I liked Esri...

JayRoc

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

Well, what I meant was I found it extremely strange that there was nobody of colour on the show in any capacity at all really until about the last series....... Anyway,..... You want a controversial opinion? I liked Esri...

Ah , well now we definitely can't be friends!

(I actually quite liked her really. Just not worthy of being Dax but wasn't her call)

pixelburp

pixelburp wrote: »

True.

So what's everyones favourite morn quote?

There were far too many, couldn't shut that guy up

AMKC

bluewolf wrote: »

i was excited when the doctor showed up in the tng movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIslsp2WjDs

That was actually Rebert Picardo's idea. He said said that since the Enterprise E is a new state of the art ship that surely it should have an EMH as well as all new Starfleet ships would now have them and so got his small part in First Contact.

pixelburp

That was the perfect kind of cameo; to fans it was obviously a great little moment (even if technically it wasn't Voyagers doctor), while the casual viewer wasn't left confused or left out by what essentially boiled down to a diversion by Crusher.

odyssey06

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

Actually I know you posted the Morn thing to change the subject but again, it shows how great the characters in DS9 were. Even Morn had more character than anyone in Enterprise and anyone apart from the doctor in Voyager. (I'm so glad he didn't speak in the last episode as rumours said he would)

The supporting cast of characters was one of DS9's strengths... Garak, Gul Dukat, the Kais, Martok, Weyoun, Enabran Tain, Tora Ziyal, Grand Nagus, Luther Sloan, Michael Eddington.

Vedek Bareil & Shakaar made a strong initial impression and then were under used I think.

In once off roles Harris Yulin as a Cardassian in season 1's Duet would be my top pick.

I read an interview with David Warner and they were trying to get him to play the returned emissary in Accession but it fell through

And whenever I see Brian George on Big Bang Theory as Koothrappali's Dad I think to myself but that's Bashir's dad!

Rawr

pixelburp wrote: »

That was the perfect kind of cameo; to fans it was obviously a great little moment (even if technically it wasn't Voyagers doctor), while the casual viewer wasn't left confused or left out by what essentially boiled down to a diversion by Crusher.

Crusher: "I sweared I'd never use one of these!!" :P

I think they had actually used a redressed Voyager Sickbay for that scene. It looked very similar. I reminded me of the redressed TNG sets on the later TOS movies

Evade

Rawr wrote: »

Crusher: "I sweared I'd never use one of these!!" :P

I think they had actually used a redressed Voyager Sickbay for that scene. It looked very similar. I reminded me of the redressed TNG sets on the later TOS movies

I think they just made the Voyager sickbay set darker for first contact. It goes full circle since some of the TNG sets were originally TMP sets.

PetKing

Evade wrote:

I think they just made the Voyager sickbay set darker for first contact. It goes full circle since some of the TNG sets were originally TMP sets.

Shoving the Eiffel Tower outside the windows of 10 Forward for the president's office on Earth was a personal favourite

PetKing

Also, fun fact! Morn was so named as it's an anagram of Norm, the barfly from Cheers!

pixelburp

Evade wrote: »

I think they just made the Voyager sickbay set darker for first contact. It goes full circle since some of the TNG sets were originally TMP sets.

Then there was that single cave set they used over, and over, and over again.

I have few complaints about DS9's physical production - the FX stand up really well all things considered - but when watching the show in a relatively short span the sheer volume of cave-based episodes got just a little tedious

Evade

pixelburp wrote: »

Then there was that single cave set they used over, and over, and over again.

I have few complaints about DS9's physical production - the FX stand up really well all things considered - but when watching the show in a relatively short span the sheer volume of cave-based episodes got just a little tedious

If you have a two storey cave set you'll get as much use out of it as possible. It's like that one matte painting they used as establishing shots for every other planet just with a different colour filter over it on TNG.

odyssey06

If you have the unsuitably named Horror Channel on your EPG (it's on Virgin Media for example), just bumping a mention that they are showing DS9 repeats.

Tonight's episode is Season 1 Episode 8 "Passengers".

Rawr

Evade wrote: »

If you have a two storey cave set you'll get as much use out of it as possible. It's like that one matte painting they used as establishing shots for every other planet just with a different colour filter over it on TNG.

I think this is now implanted in every TNG viewer's memory.

....I wonder if they get Sky on that dish over there.....

Inviere

^^ I loved those matt painting backdrops. Some talent in creating them and getting them right. Sure they look dated now, but I can still appreciate what went into them. CGI has replaced all that, and is all just noise now really.

Sonics2k

I'm up to Season 5 of DS9 after basically binging on it for the last week or two. Such a great show and I'm saddened I didn't enjoy it more when it first came out.

The below video does a great job of summing it up in my opinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OJNBlZ-6UU

Smiles35

Inviere wrote: »

^^ I loved those matt painting backdrops. Some talent in creating them and getting them right. Sure they look dated now, but I can still appreciate what went into them. CGI has replaced all that, and is all just noise now really.

The sets themselves, the designs were brilliant. From my limited vocabulary they had a muted 'art-deco' look for the Cardassians. I'd built a room in my house in that style if I could.

Smiles35

Sonics2k wrote: »

Such a great show and I'm saddened I didn't enjoy it more when it first came out.

I had to laugh a bit reading this. When DS9 was on I was high as a kite I couldn't have been more happy watching back then.

Rawr

Smiles35 wrote: »

The sets themselves, the designs were brilliant. From my limited vocabulary they had a muted 'art-deco' look for the Cardassians. I'd built a room in my house in that style if I could.

But how many lights would you have in that room?

goose2005

pixelburp wrote: »

why people stopped reading "Uncle Tom's Cabin" years ago

pretty bad example, Uncle Tom's Cabin is still considered a classic. Most of the negative stereotypes come from later blackface pastiches - kind of like the way popular views of Frankenstein are from stage and film versions and bear little resemblance to the novel

goose2005

Rawr wrote: »

I think this is now implanted in every TNG viewer's memory.

....I wonder if they get Sky on that dish over there.....

who could forget the entirety of Cardassia:

Rawr

goose2005 wrote: »

who could forget the entirety of Cardassia:

I love those scenes with Weyone's final creepy propaganda message to the Cardassians. (You can see him there on the viewer)

TheValeyard

goose2005 wrote: »

who could forget the entirety of Cardassia:

Well.....it used to look that way.......

Wolverine359

Anyone here following the current DS9 run on the Horror Channel? I am loving the chance to relive those glory days of Trek, with season 1 just finished now. I love every second of the episode The Forsaken with Lwaxana Troi meeting and trying to seduce Odo. And the season finale In the Hands of the Prophets, introducing the excellent Louise Fletcher as Vedek Winn, with a compelling assassination plot to finish the first season and foreshadowing events to come.

odyssey06

Wolverine359 wrote: »

Anyone here following the current DS9 run on the Horror Channel? I am loving the chance to relive those glory days of Trek, with season 1 just finished now. I love every second of the episode The Forsaken with Lwaxana Troi meeting and trying to seduce Odo. And the season finale In the Hands of the Prophets, introducing the excellent Louise Fletcher as Vedek Winn, with a compelling assassination plot to finish the first season and foreshadowing events to come.

That was a great Bajoran focused arc with In the Hands of the Prophets and then into The Circle 3 parter, although after that the focus seemed to drift away from Bajor.

Kiith

I really enjoyed the Bajoran arcs the last time i watched it. Some proper political intrigue going on, and Vedek/Kai Wynn was brilliantly awful.

Kiith

Kiith wrote: »

I really enjoyed the Bajoran arcs the last time i watched it. Some proper political intrigue going on, and Vedek/Kai Wynn was brilliantly awful.

Louise Fletcher was just wonderful. Absolutely loved to hate her.

Then again, that's what you get for casting Nurse Ratched

pixelburp

Bajor & DS9 was one the few times SciFi managed to approach the subject of religion in an even handed light; it certainly tackled the pitfalls & power structures of organised religion, but it also acknowledged that spirituality had its place in cultures or civilisations, and could be a positive force. Now, DS9 split the difference insofar as these gods were real, but still ...

TheValeyard

pixelburp wrote: »

Bajor & DS9 was one the few times SciFi managed to approach the subject of religion in an even handed light; it certainly tackled the pitfalls & power structures of organised religion, but it also acknowledged that spirituality had its place in cultures or civilisations, and could be a positive force. Now, DS9 split the difference insofar as these gods were real, but still ...

But the Gods are real.

Smiles35

Wolverine359 wrote: »

Anyone here following the current DS9 run on the Horror Channel?

I wasn't, I am now!