I was going to rewatch DS9 from start to finish...

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I was going to rewatch DS9 from start to finish...

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...but I'm already wondering if it'd be cheating if I skipped most of the first season. I'll go on record saying there are shows where I genuinely enjoyed what most people considered to be 'bad' first seasons (Babylon 5 comes to mind), but yeah. I was going with the fact that I probably haven't watched some of these episodes in nearly 20 years (which makes me feel old), and I was curious to see how my perspective had changed. Move Along Home is exactly as bad as it was in 1993.

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Not sure which season, but my all time favourite DS9 was a 3 part episode Homecoming.

I think watching that is what eventually convinced me to get into DS9.

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Yes! That's the start of the second season, or right about exactly where I want to skip to. Or the first season finale. But the episode before the finale is good. So then I start feeling bad about skipping around. I've just had a couple of 'that can't be as bad as I remember' episodes that were indeed as bad as I remembered.

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I'm watching season 1 right now. I watched some of it back in the 90s, but not straight through the whole thing; now I'm working through TNG and into DS9 in tandem. Everyone keeps saying DS9 is the best one, but it is so, so bad. Alexander Siddig cannot act, at all (I know he gets better, but). It doesn't help that the second half of season 6 of TNG, which I'm alternating this with, is almost back-to-back rock solid character episodes.
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I would be up for re watching DS9 in its entirety.

Nothing really wrong with skipping season one but I wouldn't.

It just wouldn't be right.

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Second season is where it starts getting good. Third season has some of my favorite stand-alone episodes. But the whole story arc in the final couple of seasons was very strong overall.

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It's a great series, DS9, but I agree that it really didn't start to find its footing until season 3.
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The first season was so bad I never watched another episode. I think I made it about halfway through before I gave up. I stuck with Voyager longer, but never finished that series either.
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I stuck with Voyager until somewhere in the second-to-last season. I really wanted to like Voyager. I just never felt the connection with it that I did with TOS and TNG and DS9.
I'm Murrin wrote:Alexander Siddig cannot act, at all (I know he gets better, but).
Having more difficulty with Nana Visitor. Kira ends up being one of my favorite characters, but some of the early episodes... Holy overacting, Batman.

That said, I am looking forward to second season.

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Have you reached the episode where Bashir gets possessed? Because good god he's bad in that one.
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DS9 is my favorite ST.

I agree that the early seasons are weak, but it got better when Worf came on the show.
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I'm Murrin wrote:Have you reached the episode where Bashir gets possessed? Because good god he's bad in that one.

I think I skipped that one. In season two now, and I think I made the right choice.

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Yeah not a fan of the earlier seasons either. I loved Next Gen and well it wasnt Next Gen lol 😂 but really enjoyed it as it grew into itself.
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"Our Man Bashir" was good. (I have no idea what season any given episode is from. :D )

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That's from season four. I'm not usually a huge fan of the holodeck episodes, but that one was good. I like almost everything that Ronald D. Moore writes. Plus it was a Garak episode, and he's one of my favorite characters.

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Haha, yeah, mine too. :D

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