Star Trek - Series and Films

[eversonpoe]

we finished DS9 last night. some thoughts:

Spoiler: the finale was pretty good. the dominion war was such a looming thing for such a long time, i'm glad it got resolved, and the way it happened made sense, but it was a little anticlimactic, partially because i called that happening as soon as the morphogenic virus became a thing.

all the ezri / bashir stuff was such an eye-roll to me. i never liked ezri and i don't think they should have tried to keep a dax on the show. she and worf had a few funny moments together near the end of the season but otherwise she was just irritating to me. and why the fuck is she a bridge officer on the defiant!? she's a counselor! troi being on the bridge of the enterprise made sense because of her empathic abilites, but ezri was stationed at a console, which makes ZERO SENSE.

i literally cheered when kai winn got devoured by fire. to me, she was the true villain of the series, and i felt disgusted by her every time she was on screen. so satisfying.

sisko leaving his family to be with the prophets pissed me off. family was like the core value that he never let go of throughout the entire run of the show, so i don't understand how they justify that. i get that he didn't really have a choice, but the writers did ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ also, i have nothing against vic fontaine, but why did we need to hear so much of that song?

the very end was a little "meh" for me. i don't understand why odo needs to stay in the great link if everyone is cured as soon as he's there, and simultaneously shares his knowledge. like, job's done, you can go back to DS9 now and be with the person you love and who loves you.

my favorite part about the end of the series was actually rom becoming grand nagus, which happened in the penultimate episode. apparently his "wow" at the very end was an ad-lib, which makes it even better.

i'm disappointed that all of the star trek stuff we've gotten (other than picard) in the last few years has been prequel/alternate-universe material. i feel like it would have been great to have a series that took place in the wake of the dominion war. i want to see the cardassians rebuilding their society as a shining beacon of art & culture, leaving behind their warrior-like past. was there even a single cardassian on picard?

anyway, we're hopefully gonna watch the documentary this week.