From: roy@watson.ibm.com
Subject: Re: DS9 was very very BAD :(
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 13:14:13 GMT
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In <1ij1h0INNqju@cae.cad.gatech.edu> noah@cad.gatech.edu (Noah White) writes:
>    I saw the DS9 premier yesterday and to make a long story short, it sucked. It
>was riddled with incosistancies and contardiction. For instance when Commander Sisko
>is captured by the aliens they threaten to kill him, yet later on the aliens say they
>have no comprension of death.

I don't remember them threatening his life.  They may have banished him and all 
humans from the worm hole (thus removing his existance from theirs) but I don't 
remember a threat of death?  I will watch this again.  

>Also if these aliens are in a non-linear dimension (in
>terms of time) it would be impossible for them to coexist with a creature from a linear
>time dimension. It would be sort of like us being able to see a _true_ 2 dimentional
>object. There are no such things as all matter as we know it exists in 3 dimensions.
>The only part I did like was the beginning battle scenes, the rest was trash and so was
>the acting.

Maybe there was no true existance between the two forms of life?  Maybe it was 
some sort of mind prob?  I dunno.  There is LOTS to be explained about this 
race.  Where are the other orbs?  What are the intentions of this race?  Can we 
learn their worm hole technology?  

I thought the episode was great.  The spfx were awesome.  The first 10 minutes 
were outstanding.  The acting was as good as one can expect for a pilot that by
its very definition will have limited character development (watch the Cage or
the Menagerie sometime.  Note Spock shouting commands and info on the bridge.).
The scenes with Sisco in the wormhole moved me.  That was writing, acting,
and production qualities that haven't been seen on TV since "Inner Light".
I dunno about the rest of you, but there is something about scifi with that
surreal twist that seems to be very entertaining.

All in all, I am looking forward to an added extra hour of ST per week.  DSN
is a tribute to the Roddenbury tradition.

My single complaint - The ending wrapped up too quickly.  I still don't fully 
understand why the 'bad-boy' Cardassians didn't blow the tar out of DSN when 
they had the chance.  The fact that Sisco's ship pulled the warship out of the 
wormhole doesn't sound like a convincing arguement to me.  Sure, the opening of 
the wormhole was evidence that whatsherface (I hate new shows, I can never 
remember all the names) was not lying and that the Cardassian attack was 
unwarranted.  However, these are bad dudes on the edge of one of the most 
lucrative natural resources in the universe.  Why wouldn't they want to claim 
it?  Only reason I can think is that they are wimps, fearing Federation
retaliation for an unwarranted attack; not to mention the fact that if DSN
was destroyed it would have been a short season.  :-)

Rating DSN pilot (scale 1 to 10) - 8.5
Rating TNG pilot                 - 7

Regards,
Tom Rogers
roy@trigger.watson.ibm.com
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