One week is not enough time.

[the_narration]

I'm really having to rush to finish a whole season-long boxed set of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine before it has to go back to the video rental place.

It's worth it, however. Deep Space Nine is awesome and could beat up any other Star Trek and make it cry. Series-long story arcs, consequences for actions, moral quandaries that aren't hand-waved away,

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[drenkrelar]

DS9 had some of the best episodes of any of the Star Trek series.

My personal favorite has to be the "Trouble With Tribbles" cross-over episode.

The episode where the Ferengi crash-land at Roswell is also very good.

I should probably rewatch DS9 myself if I get the chance.

[the_narration]

They were good at doing comedic episodes as well as big dramatic ones. "Trials and Tribble-ations" was especially great, with all the riffs on classic Trek.

It's also interesting the way they took the Ferengi, a laughably-pathetic set of villains from the early days of TNG, and not only made them a great source of comic relief but also subverted the heck out of the "your species determines your personality" idea that Trek uses so much.

They also took a "show, don't tell" attitude with the space battles that other Trek didn't have, and they were big, epic battles of a Battle of Endor scale.