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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 2366648" data-attributes="member: 4779">DS9 was a wonderful show.  Seasons 4-7 were excellent.  Everything that came before that was a mixed bag that ranged from boring to really interesting.TNG had some very special moments and the best series finale I've ever seen until Angel tied it.  TOS was TOS.  Voyager was terrible with moments of good entertainment.  Enterprise suffered from Voyager-lash and really didn't hit stride until season 4 when it was doomed to cancellation.While DS9 was the least Trek-ish of all Treks, it had the best characters since Kirk, Spock and Bones. While Picard and Data were great characters, TNG didn't have the villains it needed to hit home time after time, with the exception of Q and he wasn't really a villain - more like an antagonist.  Garrak (probably one of my all time favorite screen characters), Dukat, Weyoun, Kai Winn and Eddington were all great supporting characters and those are just the major ones.The Dominion War, the Klingon and Romulan machinations and the station's capable crew, all with their own interesting backstories and conflicts, made the show entertaining at every turn.  The turning point was, oddly enough, when Worf came on board at the start of season one.  The writing became bolder and the plots and characters became just a tad darker.I never liked the Emissary plots with Sisko but they weren't terrible so I lived through them and concentrated on the rest of the show.  All the different conflicts, be they wars, politics or espionage were well done and tied into the main story.  There was misdirection, betrayal and flawed characters that we hadn't seen since TOS.  That's what made the show what it was.And just so it's not all flattery - I hated the second hour of the season finale.  It was weak and felt rushed.  I had a feeling that they had enough material for another season and later found out that they did but Paramount wanted to have Voyager on the air by itself and told the writers to wrap things up.  The result was a weak ending to a very entertaining TV series.</blockquote>

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