Bralia wrote:I think I'll break down everything into bullet points, my mind will work better that way:
1. Kira Nerys is probably my most disliked character in the history of my television watching. She wasn't a bad character nor was she poorly written, I just hated the ever living shit out of her.
2. The Ferengi sucked and they were only ever on the screen so we could laugh at them (I made this opinion clear enough already, I don't think I need to go into this any further).
3. Garak was a disappointment, too. He was one of the series' best written characters and yet, in the end, I felt like it didn't amount to anything. I feel like out of what little role he did play in the war, he didn't get anything out of it. I feel like he deserved a more satisfying end, be it positive or negative. I think they may have gone a little overboard with his grey character at the end, it just felt like he was even more out of place than ever before.
4. I was also upset over the lack of the exploration in the series, but I think this part is mostly down to my own expectations and also not actually a flaw with the series. Just a difference of opinion on what I want out of Star Trek. Like . . . there was a whole Gamma Quadrant and the writers basically wrote it out really quickly. No room for new and fun stuff, really. But then if it were different and more in line with what I wanted, it really wouldn't be the DS9 that I know a ton of people love for what it actually is.
5. I don't think Odo got enough love. He was the new, cool alien on the regular cast and I felt like they didn't do enough with him. He should have been more involved in the politics of the show, imo. I felt like he was too much of just a cop most of the time.
6. Speaking of Odo, the specific Odo-Quark relationship was horrible. "I'm watching you Quark!" "You'll never catch me, hehehe!". This sort of bheaviour happened throughout the show. Never amounted to a damn thing. NOT EVEN ONCE. Except for that one time Quark got locked up for a week. One. Fucking. Week.
7. Don't even get me started on the whole religion in general being in Star Trek. Literally do not get me started. Because I can't form a coherent thought here. My brain cannot handle any more Bajoran bullshit. I've had my share.
Now here's the opinion that's surely the most offensive and I didn't want to get into back in the day:
8. Gul Dukat was all talk and I never once felt the threat from him beyond his late seasons lunacy. He was a ruler during a period of occupation. But never once did I feel that the character lived up to his accused mass murdering ways. And yes . . . I actually say accused. Yeah, the Bajorans were conquered in a war of Cardassian imperialism. Yeah, the Bajorans were pissed. They committed "acts of terror/freedom fight" in retaliation. And the Cardassians counter-reacted to THAT. That's how occupations HAPPEN. At this point there are bad people on both sides . . . *cough* . . . and it's entirely based on perspective on who's actually the most bad when viewed from a third party's lens. And I do NOT trust the Bajorans. I have no reason to trust them more than the Cardassians and Dukat. Maybe the writers did a little too well in "humanizing" Dukat during that one period of the show because I just don't get the whole "as bad as a Nazi vibe" from him.
1. She was pretty adversarial and abrasive in the early season, but after the she really mellowed out.
2. Quark, Rom, and Nog are great and I will hear nothing to the contrary
3. Yeah, that happens sometimes. Life doesn't always have a super happy of sad ending for people, sometimes their part in an event just ends.
4. They did explore though, but I do admit that the problems with The Dominion made that difficult towards the end.
5. He was an outcast and test subject who was able to create an entire family of friends, got the women of his dreams, and ended up being the person responsible for saving the entire Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Quadrants. Um... ok, sure, he did nothing.
6A. That's because it was a joke, B. There's a method to his madness, he admits that he's really just using Quark to get to the bigger fish (Quite a few times actually, with the most notable example being in Hippocratic Oath)
7. Why?
8. Uh, Bra. That's exactly what Dukat wants you to think...
