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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pennywiz" data-source="post: 2374564" data-attributes="member: 1488"><p>DS9 seemed a little pretentious and never really followed through on the promise of ST.  It shoehorned the pseudo-religious material about the Emissary into the ST universe, but not in a credible way.  When DS9 tried to embrace the typical melodrama of ST in its plots and character relationships, it either went for over-dramatic displays (different from melodrama) or it couldn't help allowing the director and actors to virtually wink at the camera/audience.  It fell flat in a lot of ways that the DS9 fanatical fan-base tend to gloss over or ignore.  That's a shame because a lot of them are very vocal about the short-comings of other ST series but such arguments from fans who see no wrong in their own favorite make it hard to listen to them at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>