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<blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6159213" data-attributes="member: 17106"><p>DS9's "Golden Age" was really the fourth, fifth, and early sixth seasons.</p><p></p><p>The pilot for DS9 was actually quite good, but the rest of the first season was largely lousy knockoffs and crossovers that tried and failed to leverage the popularity of the existing canon. The second and third seasons were more original, but still uneven and sometimes lacking in direction and initiative. The show really got good when it embraced serialization and delved in to the politics of its world (and when the main creative staff stopped paying attention to it and let the DS9 writers and producers do their own thing). The result was a story that did leverage the existing Trek universe, but took it to new intellectual ground (which the other Trek spinoffs have largely failed to do). A lot of the better episodes are really astonishing at <em>predicting</em> post-9/11 social issues, even though they were written in the 1990's. The journeys of all the dozens of side characters were involving. The war was thrilling; something I don't think any television show has ever duplicated.</p><p></p><p>However, to get DS9, you have to be steeped in Trek and watch a lot of mediocre episodes before you get there. Certainly, only the Star Trek name would allow a show years to find its footing. Because of this, it could only ever be a cult/niche show. But it is good.</p><p></p><p>As for B5, it may have been well written but the episodes I've seen just bored me. I imagine you'd have to watch it from the beginning, but even then their characters/actors just lacked charisma. I never saw the attraction.</p><p></p><p>The original rendering of The Motion Picture theme is still the best. That's why that score has been rereleased repeatedly in increasingly special editions. And I am inclined to agree that, counterintuitively, James Horner's best work was on these early scores, rather than his famous ones later on. There is also plenty of excellent work done for the other Trek series. Goldsmith won an Emmy for the Voyager theme, and I still think DS9's is better. The score for the Next Generation episode Best of Both Worlds was released as its own album. The later Trek movies have plenty of gems (except for the reboots; their music sucks).</p><p></p><p>We would not still be talking about Star Trek if it weren't for those Goldsmith and Horner scores reaching out for and grabbing the hearts of those audiences.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ahnehnois, post: 6159213, member: 17106"] DS9's "Golden Age" was really the fourth, fifth, and early sixth seasons. The pilot for DS9 was actually quite good, but the rest of the first season was largely lousy knockoffs and crossovers that tried and failed to leverage the popularity of the existing canon. The second and third seasons were more original, but still uneven and sometimes lacking in direction and initiative. The show really got good when it embraced serialization and delved in to the politics of its world (and when the main creative staff stopped paying attention to it and let the DS9 writers and producers do their own thing). The result was a story that did leverage the existing Trek universe, but took it to new intellectual ground (which the other Trek spinoffs have largely failed to do). A lot of the better episodes are really astonishing at [I]predicting[/I] post-9/11 social issues, even though they were written in the 1990's. The journeys of all the dozens of side characters were involving. The war was thrilling; something I don't think any television show has ever duplicated. However, to get DS9, you have to be steeped in Trek and watch a lot of mediocre episodes before you get there. Certainly, only the Star Trek name would allow a show years to find its footing. Because of this, it could only ever be a cult/niche show. But it is good. As for B5, it may have been well written but the episodes I've seen just bored me. I imagine you'd have to watch it from the beginning, but even then their characters/actors just lacked charisma. I never saw the attraction. The original rendering of The Motion Picture theme is still the best. That's why that score has been rereleased repeatedly in increasingly special editions. And I am inclined to agree that, counterintuitively, James Horner's best work was on these early scores, rather than his famous ones later on. There is also plenty of excellent work done for the other Trek series. Goldsmith won an Emmy for the Voyager theme, and I still think DS9's is better. The score for the Next Generation episode Best of Both Worlds was released as its own album. The later Trek movies have plenty of gems (except for the reboots; their music sucks). We would not still be talking about Star Trek if it weren't for those Goldsmith and Horner scores reaching out for and grabbing the hearts of those audiences. [/QUOTE]
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