Brief look at DS9

posted on December 8th, 2009, 12:55 am

A brief overview of Deep Space 9, courtesy of Cracked.com.

posted on December 8th, 2009, 1:26 am

ahahaha lol, best look at DS9 ever

posted on December 8th, 2009, 1:28 am

Nice find mate 

posted on December 8th, 2009, 1:32 am

I looked at the picture, found the arrow pointing toward Babylon 5; followed it and never looked back.

posted on December 8th, 2009, 1:34 am

Traitor...

posted on December 8th, 2009, 1:37 am

Hey, you're the one who brought up the article that completely expresses my opinion of DS9.

posted on December 8th, 2009, 1:43 am

Bah, a mere technicality.

posted on December 8th, 2009, 1:45 am

Lol-lipop.  I think DS9 got much better once the Dominion war began.  I sure didn't give a rat's ass about it before that.

posted on December 8th, 2009, 1:38 pm

DS9 was the best star trek series, all TNG was about was picard ranting and raving about how were better than that and we should talk about problems rather than low them up...... crazy old fool.

DS9 had an interstellar war in it.

posted on December 8th, 2009, 2:52 pm

TNG had it's share of blowing shit up...

posted on December 8th, 2009, 4:28 pm

TNG had it's share of blowing shit up...

Indeed, I can't recall how many times we heard "Mr. Worf, fire at will" ... and phasers would pop out from every strip, and torps fly from every launcher 

DS9 just had the newest CGI to back it up, not to mention the willingness to make Wolf 359 look like a teeny tiny mosquito bite due to the insatiable appetite for large "cool looking" battles - you know, the ones where torpedoes and beams miss everything in site, and shields are non-existent 

posted on December 8th, 2009, 7:06 pm

Yeah, funny how those things start to happen after "Severed Dreams" shows a large scale battle where weapons miss, and shields are non-existent.   But I digress.

TNG had far more interesting stories than DS9, and I believe the social commentary was much more effective.  Remember "The Drumhead", where that one chick was going to resurrect McCarthyism?  And since none of us grew up in the McCarthy era, we don't know what it was like, but watching that episode gives us a good idea.  The monologue Picard gives was brilliant, and gives us a framework for how we could respond should another situation like it arise when history repeats itself for the people who didn't watch "The Drumhead".

If all we want is drool-inducing action scenes, without a good, complicated story, then we should all just watch Bad Boys 2.  Or nemesis with the dune-buggy chase.  Seriously, that was actually put into a Star Trek movie.

[Tyler]

posted on December 8th, 2009, 7:09 pm

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If all we want is drool-inducing action scenes, without a good, complicated story, then we should all just watch Bad Boys 2.  Or nemesis with the dune-buggy chase.  Seriously, that was actually put into a Star Trek movie.

Since the new film is basicly 'xXx' and 'Bad Boys 2' wearing Starfleet uniforms, I think Nemisis went easy on us there...

posted on December 8th, 2009, 9:02 pm

Indeed, I can't recall how many times we heard "Mr. Worf, fire at will" ... and phasers would pop out from every strip, and torps fly from every launcher 

DS9 just had the newest CGI to back it up, not to mention the willingness to make Wolf 359 look like a teeny tiny mosquito bite due to the insatiable appetite for large "cool looking" battles - you know, the ones where torpedoes and beams miss everything in site, and shields are non-existent 

In DS9 they adopted the view of shields as a skin over the hull rather than a bubble.

posted on December 8th, 2009, 9:06 pm

In DS9 they adopted the view of shields as a skin over the hull rather than a bubble.

That was Nemesis and Insurrection. On the rare occasion DS9 showed shields, they were the bubble-version.