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RE: You're so wrong Mr Moore
By DixonHill

Actually, I don't know why people keep repeating this argument again and again. DS9 might have been a great series but it was never the Star Trek I wanted to see. Apart from some occasional TOS and NG references it had nothing to do with Star Trek's original premise, a starship-based show bodly going where no man has gone before and thus doesn't really count in my book. I like it as a series but it never comes to my mind when thinking about great Star Trek.

B5 for a change was a great show because it was created as a station-based show from scratch. The B5 universe failed when they tried to become more like Star Trek, introducing a starship-based show. That couldn't work because B5 always was a station-based concept.

Star Trek is about the starship Enterprise (or Voyager) exploring space! You can modify its execution but if you change the premise it ceases to be Star Trek.
DS9 may have its own hardcore fanbase but there is a reason they call themselves Niners in order to distinguish themselves from general Trekkers. It's a different thing!

Those people believing DS9 to be the best Trek ever just don't like the original Star Trek idea. They may like the universe and some ideas of it but not the premise. There is nothing wrong with that but you have to admit it.

There are people bored by that "to bodly go"-premise who prefer DS9's stationary premise but says everything about their expectations: they wanted a different Trek because of their dislike for GR's original premise (exploration, utopian society etc)...

VOY and ENT didn't fail because of their Trekish premise but their lame execution and their blatant waste of potential.

Let me put it that way: DS9 did the wrong things right. VOY and ENT did the right things wrong! DS9 is a good TV show but VOY and ENT are mediocre Trek shows. I personally prefer VOY's mediocrity over DS9's departure from Trek's core.

But I'm still waiting for a Trek show to finally do the right things right again...based on the original premise but elaborating on it and elevating it onto a new creative level...



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