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Jun. 17th, 2009

  • 5:59 PM
ROCK


On the last season of DS9, now. What do I do with myself when I run out of episodes? D:

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[info]ezelek wrote:
Jun. 18th, 2009 01:20 am (UTC)
bro I'm watchin' the final season of Voyager. Let's both go into Enterprise next. :3
[info]liviconnor wrote:
Jun. 18th, 2009 04:49 am (UTC)
Have you exhausted all the other Star Trek variations that pique your interest? (Except for the first few seasons of Enterprise, which should be burned)
[info]abunai wrote:
Jun. 18th, 2009 07:13 am (UTC)
(goddamn Nazis, though)
I'm glad you exclude the last few seasons of Enterprise.

The Animated Series is also a kick. But definitely the opposite of DS9.
[info]rmg wrote:
Jun. 18th, 2009 07:15 am (UTC)
I'm sort of nervous about other Star Trek series, since what I love above all about DS9 are the complex, years-long, serialized plot lines and character arcs, and I'd heard that the other series are in a more episodic, standalone format. On the other hand, my only exposure to non-DS9 Trek are a couple of TNGs, which might have been the TNG equivalent of that DS9 where Worf joins a fundamentalist sect on Risa or whatever, Jandrew Edits, the new movie, and an episode of Voyager I saw as a small child (I think it's the one where Earth manages to contact them or something), so my opinions are mostly second-hand and perhaps unfair.
[info]liviconnor wrote:
Jun. 18th, 2009 03:37 pm (UTC)
No, much of TNG was made in the stand-alone episode way. I think the plot arcs begin in the... fifth season? I'm not sure, but it's pretty far in. TNG improves by a lot in the fourth season, and I really don't know much about the other series. The new movie is fun, but kind of light on actual Star Trekkiness. More of an action movie set in the Trek universe than an actual Star Trek movie. But movies being what they are- a self-contained three-hour plot line, I doubt you'd find what you're looking for.
[info]abunai wrote:
Jun. 18th, 2009 11:15 pm (UTC)
I like the complex long-reaching arcs, too, but there's definitely something to some of the episodes in TNG. In one episode, for instance, Picard is captured as a Cardassian prisoner of war and the whole episode is torture and interrogation focused entirely on breaking Picard by any force or temptation possible; in another, Riker switches between a reality where he's a mental patient similar to Sisko's adventures in the early twentieth century (less the religious parts). These are self-contained 40-minute stories, but they're still very interesting. They're less sophisticated in the way that the Twilight Zone is less sophisticated, but that doesn't mean they're bad.

I will agree with liviconnor, though: You can feel free to forget the episodes where Riker doesn't have a beard, though. And, for the most part, though, it sounds like you want Enterprise, which is better about long-reaching arcs, especially the later seasons.
[info]ezelek wrote:
Jun. 20th, 2009 02:33 am (UTC)
THERE

ARE

FOUR

LIGHTS
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