Absolutely agree, the show was on fire for every episode before that then it lapses into this star trek cliche (I'm pretty sure it's the entire plot of The Galileo 7)

Imagine if it had ended during the strike with Revelations being the last episode. The final image of the whole series being everyone looking hopeless at the radioactive ruin of Earth

Which is slightly ironic given that [SPOILERS S4] the whole Klingon thing in season 4 was almost forced on the writers by the powers that be to action-up the show a little. It took them until mid S4/S5 to get back on track RE the Dominion etc

also flagged up something more general that I don't like Trek doing: Sisko/any captain is not a trained lawyer, they're trained to command ships and stations and other military type things. I admit that starfleet is more than just a military and that the Trek captain's role is almost as much about being an…

Yea but The Visitor more than makes up for a lack of decent Sisko-Jake material elsewhere

I'm just gonna come out and say it: I love Grand Nagus Zek, I think he's hilarious and his voice is awesome.

Agreed, didn't notice when I was a kid but watching as an adult it's cringe worthy almost every time she talks. At least until about season 4

In fairness, I remember O'Brian and Picard having a little scene together in the Wounded when they were hunting down his prior boss (the warden from Shawshank)

I always thought that [SPOILERS] the one in The Adversary could have been male or female. I think it was played by a man but looked pretty gender neutral

I don't find the prophets themselves too interesting (a bit deus ex machina for me) but as someone who's studied the influence of religion on politics (particularly the middle east), I find the whole Bajoran thing much more interesting than I did as a kid. Especially the fact that, as you said, the Trek spin is to…

Absolutely, at least there are always people on DS9 unlike the empty corridors of the Ent-D.

I'd say you've lucked out, someone on these boards will no doubt have the time and energy to do exactly that

Whoa, bring on the pain

The background elements (like Mrs O'Brian's school, Jake and Nog becoming friends) were the main reason I didn't skip large parts of the first season. The main plots (particularly A Man Alone which feels like it's been done in every Trek show ever made) aren't as important as establishing the world that it operates in…

Pretty sure Moore wasn't involved at the start of DS9, also I agree with whoever said he gets too much credit at the expense of Ira Stephen Behr who was there from the start.
He's right though about pushing the franchise as far as it could go, it expanded the universe and told us more about the federation than TNG, TOS…

I agree, I think only at the height of franchise popularity would TPTB allowed a prime time show to take such a risk in terms of deviating from the Trek template, I guess that's why there were only about 15 episodes of DS9 (between the end of TNG and start of the V word) when it was the only Trek show on the air.

I was hoping for the whole "the Sisko" thing to have more of a pay off by the end of the series but I think the reluctant religious icon bit did make for some very interesting stories, especially the one (whose name escapes me ATM) where another guy comes out of the wormhole claiming to be the Emissary and Rapture…

I think it's firmly in the Star Trek universe (and probably did more than any other series to expand that universe) but I think the best description comes from Ron Moore:

Also getting into DS9 will help you to hate this movie even more as it completely pisses away everything DS9 painstakingly set up in the last 2 seasons.
I.e. the Romulans returning to pretty much how they were in TNG S3 despite being key allies in the last series of DS9

I once punched a man in the face for saying that. When what I should have done was say "no dad, you're wrong"