Been rewatching Deep Space Nine here and there.
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If you want to see just how bad some of the actors truly are on Deep Space Nine, you should definitely check this one out. Not only is it an absolutely horrible Sisko episode about civil rights (what else) but everyone goes without make-up and they do (laughable) New York accents.
Another one is S06E23 'Profit and lace'. It's where they turn Quark into a tranny in order to salvage what's left of the Grand Nagus' authority after he gave females the right to wear clothes. Yes, that's right. Trannies & feminism. :')
(Not to mention parroting all the talking points about getting females into the workforce and doubling the economy, but for some reason they omitted the part where the birth rates would plummet as a consequence. rofl)
S06E24 is also hilariously bad. It's where they decide to send an eighteen-year-old Molly back into the time where she was left stranded for ten years and grew up all alone on an abandoned planet 300 years ago. Apparently, she would be better off there, instead of a Federation clinic, specifically designed to rehabilitate cases like hers. :') :')
Edit:
Season 6 was also the season where they decided to turn Dukat into a cartoon villain and make him the 'nemesis' of Sisko. It resulted in that ridiculous episode where Sisko and Dukat were stranded on a planet and Dukat was talking to himself the whole time. It ended with Sisko ignoring Dukat's mental status and declaring him an 'evil man', after his pride got wounded (once again).
This theme was further explored in S06E17. Where Dukat called up Kira out of nowhere and revealed that he was banging her mother during the occupation, rofl. And then to make it even more preposterous, Kira used the Orb of Time to travel back in time to confirm that her mother was really banging Dukat.
I have heard so many conflicting opinions on DS9. As someone who has only watched TNG, I think I’ll stay away from it.
It's pretty good- although the first 1 or 2 seasons kind of drag. When they start the Dominion War storyline it gets really good for the most part. In some ways it's even better than TNG.
Is it not all about the Dominion War? My impression is that it was entirely about it.
The Dominion isn't even mentioned until season 2 and aren't actually encountered until the s2 finale. Open war doesn't really start until the end of the 5th season.
Depends what kind of Trek you like. If your favorite stuff is interpersonal drama and relationships among the crew, epic space battles, and ongoing plot threads, DS9 has all that in spades and does the serial stories better. If you prefer seeing first contact with new life, exploring the mysteries of the universe, and random alien of the week anthology episodes that pose excellent philosophical questions with potential for massive repercussions to humanity and are never revisited again, nothing in DS9 comes close to TNG.
I think DS9 is many people's favorites because it was one of the first TV shows to introduce a continuous story arc (although many of the episodes were still disconnected "alien of the week" style). That's commonplace today, to the point that you won't have any clue what's going on in many shows if you haven't been watching from the beginning of miss an episode, but it was innovative at the time.