• Iced Raktajino@startrek.website
    11·
    2 days ago

    If you need a good read, I highly recommend “Deep Space Nine: Millennium” trilogy. Weyoun is the big bad, naturally, and he’s got all the smarm we know and love with a heaping helping of religious zealotry on top (he’s literally Kai Weyoun in the book and is the combined worst parts of Kai Winn and Weyoun (except Weyoun 6).

  • grue@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 days ago

    Weyoun is way down the list, to be honest. Dukat, Winn, Brunt, the female Changeling — Hell, even Gowron or Eddington, maybe — are all more compelling.

    Weyoun is just an affably-evil punch-clock toady who, at the end of the day, is merely the female Changeling’s “dragon,” not a villain in his own right.

  • Beacon@fedia.io
    7·
    2 days ago

    Winn is definitely NOT my favorite. She is a very unpleasant person to experience

    • anthropomorphized@lemmy.world
      15·
      2 days ago

      Oscar winner Louise Fletcher!? Nurse Ratched herself! She is acting her ass off, a performance we barely deserve. She elevates the entire prophet arc with her venom. When she died I read a lot of fan takes on her and paid more attention to how she made this awful, irredeemable, power starved ghoul, it’s high art, one of the great Star Trek performances.

      • Beacon@fedia.io
        7·
        2 days ago

        Oh for sure, she did a fantastic job of making this unlikable character truly unlikable!

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
    81·
    2 days ago

    I really tried but DS9 never worked for me. Went from TNG straight to Voyager.

    Tell me it gets significantly better halfway through season 2?

    • negativenull@piefed.worldOPMEnglish
      17·
      2 days ago

      It actually does, right about then. Season 1 is indeed rough (like most Trek series). Season 4 is where it really steps up.

      • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org
        8·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, I think I bounced off of DS9 like 3 times before I managed to get past the start. After that it gets great though

        • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          The thing that interfered with my ability to follow DS9 when it was first broadcast was how tightly serial it was. (This is not a complaint as I actually think in hindsight it’s something awesome about DS9, but it bears thinking about in context.)

          In the pre-binge, pre-DVD, pre-online-episode-recaps era TV viewers sometimes had to just miss a couple episodes of something because of real life, busted VCR timers, or whatever. You could hope to catch what you missed months later in rerun season or years later in syndication, but that was it. Missing a stretch of TNG or Voyager was no big deal in the vast scheme of things, you could generally just jump right back in and keep enjoying the plot of the week while any really necessary missed details would be filled in more often than not. Miss more than a couple DS9s in a row and, if you were particularly unlucky, those were huge arc episodes and suddenly the entire plotline was twisted in some other direction and you could really struggle to understand what the hell was going on or get back into it.

          I was a devoted 1980s/1990s Trekkie, but not until the digital era have I been able to actually sit and watch and enjoy DS9 all in a row as intended.

    • Beacon@fedia.io
      61·
      2 days ago

      You thought Voyager was better than ds9? That’s a very uncommon opinion