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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6890265" data-attributes="member: 22779">Funnily enough, I binge watched STNG and a good chunk of DS9 recently.  And I realised something.  STNG is boring.  The first three or four seasons are just snooze fests of people sitting in lounge chairs talking.  It's brutally boring.  I remember watchign these episodes religiously as a kid, but, good grief, without the nostalgia glasses?  They really, really don't hold up.DS9 OTOH, holds up very well.  The themes are very relevant today - the raprochement between the Cardassians and the Bajorans with the Federation playing UN Peacekeeper in the middle just rings so true in today's political landscape.  Never minding how often they dealt with the fact that both sides of the conflict had lots of blood on their hands and how do you come to some sort of lasting peace between these factions that really just want to keep hitting each other?  Fantastic stuff.  Even the kids stuff with Nog and Jake rings so true - different cultures trying to come together to find common ground.Yeah, I'm going to go on record as saying DS9 is very much my favourite Trek.The new movies?  Well, I know why they're going in that direction - money.  The Trek movies have never actually made a whole lot of money and if you're going to go the route of big tent pole movies, well, you gotta go where the money is.  And that means action scenes and light comedy without a great deal of serious thought provoking stuff.  Nature of the beast.  Hopefully the new TV series picks the mantle up well.</blockquote>

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