Question above. My only experience is with a handful of episodes from the original series. They were OK, but I'm not sure I want to watch the whole thing. It's a little too low budget for me. Can I just jump into the movies or one of the later series?
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Yeah, I agree with nearly 100% of this. (didn't think the Nog was an AA hire because he was shown to be competent) I watched it for the first time recently and I expected something great and found it completely meh.
The Dominion arc I just found to be nonsense. There was this gigantic war going on, but the context of what's going on is really unclear, and conditions seem to fluctuate in ways that are convenient to whatever the plot for the story of the week needed. Also the Federation's ships are completely outmatched all the time -- their galaxy class flagships can't even take on the Dominion's fighters -- and they lose most of their fleet in tactical blunders (repeatedly IIRC?) but still somehow don't lose.
Quark, my favorite character, spends the entire series being emasculated. His mom, somehow, single handedly transforms the entire Ferengi empire from "patriarchal" structure with strict gender roles into a feminist utopia in the matter of a few years.
Sisko "sails" a solar ship in space ... which is physically impossible because there are no counteracting forces to steer the ship with, all so that they can show that the Bajorans were the real explorers and that the Cardassians didn't actually discover anything.
They turned Gul Dukat into a cartoon by the end of the series.
There's an "America was racist" episode. There's a "you need to accept your mixed-race offspring" episode.
Maybe I would have liked it more when it originally aired and am just too soured by the social justice nonsense, but even without that I thought most of the story wasn't that great.
To be fair, power isn't an unlimited resource in their setting. They need unobtainium and can't synthesize it. The shields always taking a strong hit could be the defenses are calibrated for a non-combat scenario, meant to deflect micro-meteors and whatnot, and they only divert more power to shields in a combat setting, so of the 10% of full power they have on the shields at the point of counterattack, they lose 30% of that, and don't even go all-in on the shields in combat unless the situation calls for it, to save fuel.
But that's headcanon territory.