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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 624988" data-attributes="member: 4779">On Trek series themes/arcs/stories:DS9 definitely had the whole "Emissary" thing going for it.  I never really liked it and was much more interested in the Dominion Wars.  But they didn't do a bad job with it.  And I wouldn't say that it was the show's focus.  It was the focus of the Sisko character, but not the entire series.  Keep in mind that DS9 broke the Trek mold with it's focus not completely on the captain.  While the captain was the overall centerpiece, the rest of the cast was used significantly more than any of the 2 series before it.TNG was bookended by Q-centric episodes.  And most of the episodes involving that character were quality, however Picard's relationship with Q was not the main arc of TNG.  One could argue that because of what was learned in the final episode that the series was based off their relationship because Picard essentially "saved" humanity by proving the continuum that he could think on a higher level.  I disagree with that.  Just because an "adversary" is recurring doesn't make the series revolve around it.  To agree with an above poster, I honestly don't think TNG had an overall storyarc.As for Voyager, I didn't watch enough of it to really see an overall arc besides the Borg being involved a lot.  Feh.  I'll just have to take a pass on this one I guess...TOS was simply about exploration so there was certainly not an overall story arc there.And as for Enterprise, just because we have had about a half dozen eps about the Temporal Cold War and just because the producers have made mention that it is one of the stories going on doesn't have to mean the series revolves around it completely.  There will be many more episodes devoted to it, I'm sure but I'm thinking that it's still all about exploration, survival, adaptation and humanity's first venture into deep space.And I think most of us can agree that in all of Trek, the most entertaining episodes and storylines have dealt with aforementioned character story arcs not the overall series story.  Personal battles are always the most interesting.  It's one of the reasons why soap operas are so popular.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />So I don't really care if the producers have a series story planned.  As long as the characters go through changes, overcome/lose personal challenges and evolve naturall over the run of the show, I'm a happy camper.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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