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Star Trek: Deep Space 9

As I can no longer watch much live telly, due to the sad lack of reception, I've started renting TV shows on DVD (an entire season for $7 a week; much cheaper than Foxtel!).  As Season 4 of "Bones" wasn't available, I've decided to start watching DS9 from the beginning.  I've seen Voyager, Next Generation and Enterprise from start to finish (oh, except for the last 2 episodes on disk 6 of season 2 of Enterprise, as Dexter fetched it for me and left his mark), and only ever seen a few eps of DS9, although most of the last season.

Having seen the first 3 episodes, I can understand why it's not always the favourite incarnation of the Star Trek universe, as it gets distinctly weird and esoteric, with explanations of linear timelines and lots of vision sequences.  I can see how it ties in, having seen other episodes (it gets similarly weird towards the end, though), and knowing how much the Bajoran religion features throughout.  Perhaps I have less patience with it because it's a religion, or I just like my sci-fi a little more straightforward.

I think it's also due to a lack of attractive male lead!!  I enjoy developing crushes on characters (Chakotay, Commander Tucker, Worf, Jean-Luc Picard (although he almost fails to qualify on height criteria) and so on.  Riker's OK, but I find him a bit of a tart, although that says a lot about the times in which is was made.  None of the men on DS9 do it for me, although I suppose Dr Bashir is cute in a wimpy kind of way....

However, I will persevere, mostly because Jadzia Dax is one of my favourite characters (I do get girl-crushes, too: Seven of Nine and even T'Pol when she wasn't too skinny), as is Worf, although he's not in it yet.  I also quite like the Cardassians, I think because I just like big guys in uniform!!  I'm also interested to see how their storylines progress, and how and if it ties in with any other Next Gen or Voyager stories (I know the Maquis was set up in DS9 in order to feature in Voyager).

Once I get through this, I am going to watch the Original Series, just to complete the set, and will no doubt go on to see all the other TOS movies I've not yet seen.  I'm not a general sci-fi fan, but I do enjoy Star Trek.  I don't mind the impossibilities, the fact that all bipeds are referred to as "humanoid", even in Enterprise when Humans are generally unknown in the universe.  I don't mind any of that; it's what the different kinds of alien represent that interests me, and how we might respond to these different situations, and continuing to wonder if there really could be anyone else out there.

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