I’m nearly done with voyager, having watched ds9, tng, and tos. Gotta say ds9 is my favorite out of all of them. Every show had rough first seasons, and all have the occasional bad, and stand out fantastic episodes.
But DS9 has a depth and moral complexity that the others lack. In TNG there are some moral conundrums, but for the most part good and evil clearly defined, and its an easy choice.
DS9 forced its characters to deal with realpolitik, moral conundrums in war, loss, suffering, in a way that makes us get emotionally involved with the characters and the tough decisions they have to make.
Also ds9 characters feel like family, faults and all. O’brien, Garak, jadzia, quark, kira, sisko, are all wonderful characters who grow with the show.
Personally I think Voyager had my favorite overarching plot. Also it was like, the first Star Trek I watched as a kid so I think I’m probably a little biased. Janeway was a great sociopath.
What I like about both DS9 and Voy over TNG is the “out there seemingly on your own” bit. The difference is DS9 could have repeat characters that weren’t a part of the crew. Dedicated villains that were there for most of the show right? Voyager couldn’t do too much of that because there were constantly moving. Aside from the Borg that is.
I do think the characters in DS9 are overall deeper exactly because they are more often put in much darker moral conundrums. Living on a station with a great deal of day to day conflicts of different social groups with opposing ethics and politics vs TNG and Voyager where it was all star fleet upholding star fleet rules.
One of the things panned about voyagers early seasons was the repeated use of the Kazon. The writers wanted an easy repeat villain, but it didn’t make sense in context of voyager traveling at high warp in a straight line for months on end.
I’m nearly done with voyager, having watched ds9, tng, and tos. Gotta say ds9 is my favorite out of all of them. Every show had rough first seasons, and all have the occasional bad, and stand out fantastic episodes.
But DS9 has a depth and moral complexity that the others lack. In TNG there are some moral conundrums, but for the most part good and evil clearly defined, and its an easy choice.
DS9 forced its characters to deal with realpolitik, moral conundrums in war, loss, suffering, in a way that makes us get emotionally involved with the characters and the tough decisions they have to make.
Also ds9 characters feel like family, faults and all. O’brien, Garak, jadzia, quark, kira, sisko, are all wonderful characters who grow with the show.
Personally I think Voyager had my favorite overarching plot. Also it was like, the first Star Trek I watched as a kid so I think I’m probably a little biased. Janeway was a great sociopath.
What I like about both DS9 and Voy over TNG is the “out there seemingly on your own” bit. The difference is DS9 could have repeat characters that weren’t a part of the crew. Dedicated villains that were there for most of the show right? Voyager couldn’t do too much of that because there were constantly moving. Aside from the Borg that is.
I do think the characters in DS9 are overall deeper exactly because they are more often put in much darker moral conundrums. Living on a station with a great deal of day to day conflicts of different social groups with opposing ethics and politics vs TNG and Voyager where it was all star fleet upholding star fleet rules.
One of the things panned about voyagers early seasons was the repeated use of the Kazon. The writers wanted an easy repeat villain, but it didn’t make sense in context of voyager traveling at high warp in a straight line for months on end.