Do any of you watch Star Trek?

[Sunstroke]

Pudgier and less "big ol' hoss" looking...

[Dave Gray]

So, I marathoned a lot this weekend, skipping nothing.  My next episode is the Marquis.  Stroke, I can't believe you got so far ahead of me.  Are you watching 6 episodes a day or something?

[Sunstroke]

Two Saturdays ago, I actually watched 10 episodes during my marathon... Most nights, after I am done working, I'll watch at least 2-3 episodes. I take an hour lunch each day, and have gotten into the habit of eating my lunch while watching a DS9 episode. They are only 42 minutes once the commercials are stripped, so it fits into my lunch schedule just fine.

I have skipped at least 7-8 episodes so far though, just because I started watching them and realized I had seen those episodes before.

It started getting crazy interesting at the point you're at now (The Maquis), and season 3 was just flat out awesome all the way through. I am at season 4, episode 3 right now.

[Dave Gray]

I just saw The Maquis part 1 and 2 and I thought it was great.  I didn't get fooled by the "twist" in terms of who was involved, but the morality of the whole thing is pretty fascinating.  I also like that they're starting to include Vulcans...I really am liking Quark.  It's really coming together.

Even Sisko is getting to have a place.

[Sunstroke]

^^^ Have to admit that something Spidey said is turning out to be 100% accurate...I am liking Captain Sisko much more than Commander Sisko.

Woke up this morning around 4 AM...couldn't get back to sleep. Ended up watching two more episodes before my morning alarm clock went off.

I really am liking Quark. 

There are a few really awesome Quark-featured episodes in seasons 3-4... I really like how they've developing his character without compromising his profit-mongering Ferengi roots.

[Buddhagirl]

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[Sunstroke]

Halfway through season 5 now, and I have forced myself to impose a 2-episode limit per day, otherwise I would just watch DS9 all freakin' day.

One area that DS9 smokes TNG...the believability and the depth of the female characters. After Jadzeera Dax, Major Kira, even Lita the Dabo girl, the TNG femme fatales of Deanna Troi and Dr Beverly Crusher seem bland and two dimensional.

Also...I have come to appreciate the silent cameos of Morn, and find myself hoping that the writers will give him at least one line at some point in the show.

I have something to say, dammit!

[Spider-Dan]

Sunstroke, I feel almost silly saying this, but DS9 just gets better, going forward from where you are now.

[Sunstroke]

I have no doubt about it, as the intensity of the show has been picking up steam for the last season or so.

- SPOILER ALERT - (Dave, don't read) Now that the Dominion and the Kardashians (Freudian slip) have banded together against the Federation and the Klingons, I suspect that full-scale war is just around the corner.

I am also Soooooo glad that Odo got his shapeshifting mojo back. He also just got laid, which I was glad to see happen.

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[Sunstroke]

One of my favorite episodes of DS9 is during the Dominion War; it is not going well for the Klingon-Federation alliance and Starfleet is hoping that the Romulans will join the "Alpha Quadrant" alliance...

I have to admit, this is one of my favorite episodes as well.

That episode is titled "In the Pale Moonlight," and sign me up with both of you...that was one of the most incredible sci-fi episodes I've ever seen from any franchise, and ranks right at or near the top of the greatest Star Trek stories ever.

Holy shit...

Season six has had more than its share of insanely good episodes. The one immediately before Pale Moonlight, where Dr. Bashir is accused of being a Dominion spy by "Section 31" was also pretty awesome, and one of the early season 6 episodes, the one with Sisko having the vision of himself as an early 20th Century science fiction writer, was fairly damned impressive as well.

Feeling so much like a crack junkie right now... "I'll go back to work, I swear, I will. Just let me hit that pipe one...more...time."

[Sunstroke]

OK, now that I have finished the final season of DS9, I can say, without reservation, that I enjoyed it even more than Next Generation. The last two seasons of DS9 were absolutely incredible, and I found myself wishing that the war with the Dominion could go on for at least another full season.

Random shots:

Yes, I now understand why you said that Dr. Bashir would grow on me. Once his "condition" came out, the writers really put some juice in his part of the Grand Design.

I feel sad for Quark, as he never truly got any of the love interests he wanted.

Morn never spoke on camera, but evidence that he did actually speak was presented when Odo claimed that Morn ran through the promenade screaming "We're doomed!" Odo's report aside, Morn now officially gets my award for favorite non-speaking character of all time.

Hotter Dax... Jadzeera or Ezri?

I still feel like they could have expanded the Prophets back story a little bit. The whole series came and went without ever really learning that much about them.

[Spider-Dan]

The running gag with Morn is that he is a blabbermouth who will talk your ear off (even though he never speaks on camera).  There are several references made in the vein of, "I tried to leave, but Morn just wouldn't shut up."

Ezri looks like a little boy to me.  Comparing her to Jadzia (a womanly woman) would be like comparing Kes to Seven of Nine.

I'm not sure how I feel about the deterministic nature of the Prophets; since they are outside of linear time, from their perspective, everything that happens in the show is somewhat-predetermined.

DS9 is certainly my favorite show, but I'll wait for Dave to finish before I go into too much detail.

[Fau Teixeira]

ezri > jadzeera hands down

[Sunstroke]

Ezri looks like a little boy to me.  Comparing her to Jadzia (a womanly woman) would be like comparing Kes to Seven of Nine.

ezri > jadzeera hands down

So many beholders, so many eyes, so much beauty... I thought they were both proper residents of Yummyville, for entirely different reasons. Jadzia (not sure where I got the other spelling) was long and elegant, while Ezri was elfish and ultimately perky. Both enjoyed having a good-sized worm inside of them. Neither would get booted from my bunk for cold feet or cracker crumbs.

btw... I had to look up the "Kes" reference, having avoided the Voyager series on general principle. On the Star Trek Women Rating Scale, she's near the bottom. I'll stop short of calling her "butt-ugly," but that's the term that keeps coming to mind. I never watched much of Seven of Nine either, but she graced so many posters and other Trekkie memes that I at least knew her. I honestly never thought she was that great either, though I'd put her well above Kes.

[Spider-Dan]

I was going to say "like comparing Kira to Leeta," but I think that's unfair.  Kira, while also kind of boyish, has a certain fire to her.  She's the kind of woman who would definitely stab you, but would also stab someone else for you... which gives off the whole "demon in the sack" vibe.  I'd put Kira miles ahead of Ezri.

And Leeta pretty much destroys every other Star Trek female ever (for me), so Kira vs. Leeta and Jadzia vs. Leeta isn't much different.