Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

“DS9 took more risks and the characters are more complex and layered.”

“The quality of writing for DS9 was also quite good but, after trying the TNG formula for a season or two”

“the political thoughts and tensions that are much more nuanced and consistent throughout the series”

“the writers and especially DS9 manages to smoothly steer Roddenberry's universe back to something approximating human reality”

“they took what could have been one episode about a culture and conflict and made it 7 seasons”

“it never got the upscale treatment that TOS and TNG got”

“I think the end of the story line ruined it though”

“DS9 got a lot better in season 4 when the writers from TNG got to move over”

“I thought Kira was very much stuck in one note.”

“the Cardassians are all such good characters in ds9”

“The only problem is the acting in DS9.”

“if you liked next gen you will probably like ds9 for all the same reasons”

“I find DS9 much more believable, up to and including Trump as Gul Dukat.”

“DS9 did good in adding a bunch of non star fleet characters who had maybe more realistic motivations.”

“DS9 only had a little soap-opera drama, serving as almost a kind of fanservice sprinkled judiciously into otherwise-thematic B-plots.”

“I actually found DS9 to be the best of all of them.”

“DS9 got the balance right because it's a bit more gritty than TNG, accepts more complexity and ambiguity”

“Then we got a great 10 episode arc to end the series.”

“often with an intelligent underlying message about aspects of our society and culture”

“it was such a blast: Characters developed and had arches, but there were no episodes where nothing happened!”

“the best quality "available" is probably the Vertag 1080p AI upscale release”

“It broke a lot of the optimism and continuum of how Star Trek had worked previously”

“DS9 and B5 are good shows, but I miss the days when Captain Picard would mull over the implications of the prime directive”

“formatted for syndication as opposed to DS9 or B5 which was formatted to support longer story arcs”

“the older trek as aged just as well as DS9 if not even better”

“don't skip s3x22 "Explorers" though, it's a good one despite lower rating”

“They couldn't do the numbers that B5 could do, at least not until the later parts of DS9.”

“The last season was a definite letdown for me though, and I didn't like the ending at all.”

“I actually felt that Sisko became a villian at some point, I wish that DS9 would have explored that.”

“DS9 had amazing actors, character development and story lines.”

“Personally, I find it much more appealing than the rest because of the core premise.”

“DS9 has some wonderful episodes and fantastic characters, but the overall plot was weak.”

“DS9 was a fantastic show but felt a lot like the station featured in it.”

“Probably the best episode in the whole series, "In The Pale Moonlight", is made all the better when you've seen what they're contrasting against.”

“Looks pretty good other than certain scenes.”

“DS9 had greater variance throughout its run, the standout episodes were phenomenal but also lots of weak episodes & filler.”

“together with startrek "deep space nine" which roughly aired during the same time”

“none of the effects are widescreen ready”

“Had one of the most epic story arcs in all sci-fi television”

“the characters and their relationships with each other are in no way as substantial as in DS9”