I have now finished all of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
7 seasons. 173 episodes. I started watching this back in March 2009, and I am so sad to see it finally end. No more?? I want more! I really enjoyed this show SO MUCH, and will greatly miss all these wonderful characters. (I stopped posting about each episode because I got lazy, and also I didn't want to get accidentally spoiled as I got closer to the end. I don't blame anyone, because with this kind of show it's hard to remember what happened when. But mostly it was because I got lazy.)
My favorite 3 characters have to be Jadzia Dax, Garak, and Kira. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH.
Kira! I loved her entire arc. It was really fantastically poignant. To end up teaching and (more-or-less) leading a Cardassian resistance movement! Wow. Thinking back to where the show began, I just am so in love with how it all came back around like that. There was this scene in one of the final episodes where Damar just learned that his family had been killed as punishment and he starts asking how a government could do that, what kind of people could give those orders...and Kira just looks at him, "Yeah, what kind of people." And there's just this unspoken HISTORY right there starring Damar in the face. Gah! KIRA, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.
When the Cardassians turned against the Dominion, I was all, "Yesssss!!!" I may have flailed in my seat because I'd been hoping it would happen ever since they joined them way back when.
Speaking of Damar, who knew he would turn out to be so interesting in the end?? For so many seasons, he was just Dukat's right-hand bully. I must admit, there were a few moments near the end when I was totally shipping Garak/Damar. What? A great exchange was when they were hiding in the cellar and Garak got all wide-eyed mocking, "You never told me you had a secret mountain hideaway!" and Damar said with this half-smile all amused, "I was going to surprise you." Look, I wanted them to rebuild Cardassia as snarky boyfriends, ok? But alas, then Damar died pretty soon after that.
That's ok, because I still ship Bashir/Garak right up until the end. That final scene between them broke my heart, when Garak was talking about how Cardassia was gone. I LOVE YOU, GARAK. (Speaking of, I've been going through kuwdora's B/G rec list over here.)
While I'm on the subject of shipping. I love Kira and I love Odo, but I actually preferred it when they were just best friends & partners. Don't get me wrong, I didn't hate that they got together romantically, I just preferred their platonic relationship. I don't know if that's an unpopular opinion, but there ya go.
I'm not sure how I feel about Sisko's ending yet. I'm still thinking about it. He said he would/might be back, so I'm going to pretend he'll be back in a couple years. Because the thought of Jake without his dad makes me sad.
I loved Dukat so much...up until he got obsessed with the Pa'Wraiths. Then I didn't find him as interesting, unfortunately. I loved him so much more when all he wanted to do was flirt with Kira & Sisko. Good times! :D
Surprisingly, my favorite bad guy ended up being Weyoun! The Vorta were great in general, but he was just fabulous. Fabulous! There was an episode in season 7 (they all blend together now) when there were 2 Weyouns, and the "defective" one wanted to defect and join Odo on DS9. You have no idea how much I was hoping that then we'd get 2 Weyouns, one on each side. I was so disappointed when the good clone died. How awesome would that have been?? Oh well.
♥ Odo! ♥
♥ Worf! ♥ I loved Worf/Jadzia. They made me smile.
I loved Miles & Bashir's friendship so much. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww! ♥
Kassidy, Jake, Nog, Martok, Rom, Leela, Quark. I'll miss all of them! (Except for Vic Fontaine. Sorry, I was over that a long time ago. I fastforwarded through many of his songs.)
I liked Ezri. I was dubious at first, but she was adorable and grew on me over the last season. I liked her. I'm glad that her & Worf ended up being just good friends at the end there. I thought the next host wasn't supposed to go back to their old life, not just their old romantic relationships. Guess not. Or else they handwaved that so they could still have a Dax on the show. I liked her & Bashir, but at the same time it felt a bit forced. There was a line early in season 7 where she told Bashir that if Worf hadn't come along, then it would have been him. Meaning, if it weren't for Worf, Jadzia would have been with Bashir. Which...is just completely untrue. It's like they were trying to rewrite history there. Jadzia had no interest in him like that and turned him down long before Worf came. They were both just friends long before Worf came. But, eh, whatever. They're cute together I guess.
Which brings me to one of my favorite characters of the whole show, Jadzia Dax! Daaaaaaaaax! She was so awesome and I loved her so much. I lover her with Kira, and with Sisko, and with Worf, and with...everybody. I was so incredibly sad when she died. I had been spoiled for her death, but didn't know when or how. So all of season 6, I was dreading that *this* would be the episode where she dies. So when I finally got to her death scene, it was a bit anti-climactic.
And speaking of death, I must watch lots of depressing shows, because I was expecting some of the main characters to die in the finale. I was so pleasantly surprised that all of them lived (with the exception of Sisko, which is debatable, because I don't think of that as him dying).
I think Odo should come back to the station to visit every now & then.
I loved that it ends with Kira running the station.
Hmm, I'm sure I'm forgetting something here. Overall, I'm content with how things wrapped up. Other than Jadzia dying, which still makes me sad. :(
I loved the stories, the scope of it, the setting, the background, the history, the characters... OH SHOW! I WILL MISS YOU SO MUCH. Wow, I can't believe it's over. I am verklempt.
You know, I think it is high time for a new Star Trek series to be on the air. Someone needs to get on that.
My favorite 3 characters have to be Jadzia Dax, Garak, and Kira. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH.
Kira! I loved her entire arc. It was really fantastically poignant. To end up teaching and (more-or-less) leading a Cardassian resistance movement! Wow. Thinking back to where the show began, I just am so in love with how it all came back around like that. There was this scene in one of the final episodes where Damar just learned that his family had been killed as punishment and he starts asking how a government could do that, what kind of people could give those orders...and Kira just looks at him, "Yeah, what kind of people." And there's just this unspoken HISTORY right there starring Damar in the face. Gah! KIRA, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.
When the Cardassians turned against the Dominion, I was all, "Yesssss!!!" I may have flailed in my seat because I'd been hoping it would happen ever since they joined them way back when.
Speaking of Damar, who knew he would turn out to be so interesting in the end?? For so many seasons, he was just Dukat's right-hand bully. I must admit, there were a few moments near the end when I was totally shipping Garak/Damar. What? A great exchange was when they were hiding in the cellar and Garak got all wide-eyed mocking, "You never told me you had a secret mountain hideaway!" and Damar said with this half-smile all amused, "I was going to surprise you." Look, I wanted them to rebuild Cardassia as snarky boyfriends, ok? But alas, then Damar died pretty soon after that.
That's ok, because I still ship Bashir/Garak right up until the end. That final scene between them broke my heart, when Garak was talking about how Cardassia was gone. I LOVE YOU, GARAK. (Speaking of, I've been going through kuwdora's B/G rec list over here.)
While I'm on the subject of shipping. I love Kira and I love Odo, but I actually preferred it when they were just best friends & partners. Don't get me wrong, I didn't hate that they got together romantically, I just preferred their platonic relationship. I don't know if that's an unpopular opinion, but there ya go.
I'm not sure how I feel about Sisko's ending yet. I'm still thinking about it. He said he would/might be back, so I'm going to pretend he'll be back in a couple years. Because the thought of Jake without his dad makes me sad.
I loved Dukat so much...up until he got obsessed with the Pa'Wraiths. Then I didn't find him as interesting, unfortunately. I loved him so much more when all he wanted to do was flirt with Kira & Sisko. Good times! :D
Surprisingly, my favorite bad guy ended up being Weyoun! The Vorta were great in general, but he was just fabulous. Fabulous! There was an episode in season 7 (they all blend together now) when there were 2 Weyouns, and the "defective" one wanted to defect and join Odo on DS9. You have no idea how much I was hoping that then we'd get 2 Weyouns, one on each side. I was so disappointed when the good clone died. How awesome would that have been?? Oh well.
♥ Odo! ♥
♥ Worf! ♥ I loved Worf/Jadzia. They made me smile.
I loved Miles & Bashir's friendship so much. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww! ♥
Kassidy, Jake, Nog, Martok, Rom, Leela, Quark. I'll miss all of them! (Except for Vic Fontaine. Sorry, I was over that a long time ago. I fastforwarded through many of his songs.)
I liked Ezri. I was dubious at first, but she was adorable and grew on me over the last season. I liked her. I'm glad that her & Worf ended up being just good friends at the end there. I thought the next host wasn't supposed to go back to their old life, not just their old romantic relationships. Guess not. Or else they handwaved that so they could still have a Dax on the show. I liked her & Bashir, but at the same time it felt a bit forced. There was a line early in season 7 where she told Bashir that if Worf hadn't come along, then it would have been him. Meaning, if it weren't for Worf, Jadzia would have been with Bashir. Which...is just completely untrue. It's like they were trying to rewrite history there. Jadzia had no interest in him like that and turned him down long before Worf came. They were both just friends long before Worf came. But, eh, whatever. They're cute together I guess.
Which brings me to one of my favorite characters of the whole show, Jadzia Dax! Daaaaaaaaax! She was so awesome and I loved her so much. I lover her with Kira, and with Sisko, and with Worf, and with...everybody. I was so incredibly sad when she died. I had been spoiled for her death, but didn't know when or how. So all of season 6, I was dreading that *this* would be the episode where she dies. So when I finally got to her death scene, it was a bit anti-climactic.
And speaking of death, I must watch lots of depressing shows, because I was expecting some of the main characters to die in the finale. I was so pleasantly surprised that all of them lived (with the exception of Sisko, which is debatable, because I don't think of that as him dying).
I think Odo should come back to the station to visit every now & then.
I loved that it ends with Kira running the station.
Hmm, I'm sure I'm forgetting something here. Overall, I'm content with how things wrapped up. Other than Jadzia dying, which still makes me sad. :(
I loved the stories, the scope of it, the setting, the background, the history, the characters... OH SHOW! I WILL MISS YOU SO MUCH. Wow, I can't believe it's over. I am verklempt.
You know, I think it is high time for a new Star Trek series to be on the air. Someone needs to get on that.