h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

All the series can't be about exploring space. You'll run out of interesting stories that way, and Voyager did. Deep Space Nine just took a different angle on the ST universe, and while on paper it looks like the most boring of the series, in actuallity it was the best, IMO. It had the best characters, the best dialog, the best action, the best stories, the best humour. Esentially, the best writers. It was a more mature show. You could tune into any episode of TNG and just watch, but DS9 needed the viewer to follow the series to understand what is going on.

Now I liked TNG, and I like Enterprise to a certain degree. I watched Voyager. (I haven't seen much TOS as they never show it so I'll reserve judgement) But none of those series engaged me, or entertained me, on the level of DS9.

yeah i agree that it's a totally different angle on the universe. stuff still happens, but they don't have to go out and look for it.

the DS9 crew still meet new species as they come through the wormhole, and they still get into battles and all the rest too. and it gives us more insight into the bajorans and cardassians and the dominion. always got a bit ticked off when the other crews met all these new species and then never saw them again.

And in the other shows, if they did revisit species they had met before they were usually bad episodes.

sometimes yeah. aslways bugged me the way they met these people and then they disappeared. and then they talked about people we don't know as well.

Well DS9 did that too. The Tzenki in the season 3 finale were protrayed as this powerful empire on th brink of war with the Federation yet we haden't heard of them before, or since.

yeah. why?

I don't know. It would have been better if it was the Romulans, or the Breen.

hi all

hi excelsior!

so what do you think bout they way they introduce a species that we never see again?

becus its the polite thing to do

If you have a ship visiting the series, and they're going where no-one has gone before, then if we saw them again, we'd be going to where we'd been before and it'd be confusing.

thats right but wee have bin to the clinon home world a few times

Sorry, I misread that as the "Clinton home world".

woah, there's a planet of them? quick, go get one to stand in the next US election

what a terribley scary thought - a planet full of Bill Clintons.

Clintron IV ... Home of the Bill'Klin'Ton race.

remind me not to go there.

I don't know. It sounds like a fun place.

sepends if you're monica lewinski or not (if i've spelt her name right)

Well it's social policies are better than the Bush homeplanet, and it's more fun than Goreworld.