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DS9 was good, but was it Star Trek?
By Stilgar

Star Trek was about the Federation holding to some standards. In DS9 these standards had been done away with one by one. The Federation was presented as an increasingly flawed society:

1. Started with the unreasonable treatment of the Maqui colinists.

2. We saw get back to nature disident groups turning their back on the Federation.

3. The whole land of plenty was turned into one using currency and of economic shortages.

4. The Federation was shown as corrupt and on the verge of turning into a dictatorship under the slightest pressure.

5. Then the war came and more principles went out the window... all with their own justifications, but it was not in the spirit of Star Trek as established before.

6. The novels, which I stopped reading a LONG time ago (when John Ordover was the editor), seem to continue this trend. We have some large Borg invasion causing vast devastation on top of the Dominioin War destruction, and reducing the Federation into more problems.

These plot themes are based on destroying what has been built up as what Star Trek is about. They have the shock value at least initially, but quickly become boring because they are used so often. The shock value only works because of the background built up by previous shows... it is not set up by the shows and novles using these devices.

I am rewatching DS9 right now, all episodes from the beginning, and while I like it for the most part, the show went to far in tearing down what has been established about Star Trek prior to it. Just about the thing I enjoy most are the Ferengi episodes and the Quark substories.

I think DS9 should be restarted with Quark in it as the lead telling the story of how he got his moon. Other carracters can appear for some side stories.

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