As always, I ask that you please avoid spoilers for later episodes in your comments. I'm watching DS9 for the first time and trying to stay unspoiled. Thanks!
Sorry to be spammy. I haven't been feeling well for the last few days, so I've been staying at home mainlining DS9. And then I get the urge to talk about it.
I just finished "Improbable Cause"/"The Die Is Cast." ( spoilers )
I have a feeling that watching the DS9 two-parter "Past Tense" in 2010 is a very different experience than watching it in 1994 would have been. The details that probably seemed alarmist and preachy then--official ghettos full of the long-term unemployed and the untreated mentally ill--look eerily like prophecy now. I could picture 2024 being
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Enthusiastic promotion by eponymous_rose finally convinced me to give Star Trek: Deep Space 9 a try. I'm almost to the end of S2 (I watched "The Maquis" last night), and I'm enjoying it, although I don't think it's going to become my favorite show ever.