The Bajoran religious episodes wouldn't be that bad if they didn't almost always hinge upon a crisis of faith experienced by Kira Nerys. She can't even keep her New York accent in check half the time.

Worse than the Bajoran faith episodes are the Ferengi comedy relief ones. It's like watching a bad 70's sitcom where there was no laugh track because there's no funny.

I'm just starting into Season 6. Glad to see there's finally a Dominion War instead of Jem'Hadar popping up every few episodes saying "Next time we meet, it will be on the field of battle!"

 

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The dominion war starts strong and ends weak like most wars in sci-fi.

I kinda figured as much. I don't expect they'll get the satisfaction of killing off Gul Dukat...he's become a vaguely sympathetic character over the seasons. Killing off Weyoun wouldn't do any good, either, since a new Weyoun clone would show up a few episodes later. I expect everyone is just going to stand around and say "The war is over! Yay!" with an episode or two exploring how everything is just like before, except the crew are all so different.

 

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Well, bad stuff does happen, but mainly to the star trek verison of brown people.


Also, they manage to totally ruin gul dukat's character, which is unfortunate since he's the best villain star trek has ever had.


There's also a lame twist and a deus ex machina to render the twist meaningless after a few episodes.

I always liked DS9. Particularly during the war seasons. I also liked how they fleshed out the species and all their traits

 

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Star trek technology is never taken to its logical conclusion.


Teleporters for instance could be used to cure any disease or injury, or even used as a weapon. Have a disease? use the transporter to eliminate it and repair the damage. Want different colour eyes, or even a sex change? scan in your pattern, then program the appropriate alterations to the pattern into the teleporter.


You could even store backup patterns of the crew in the pattern buffer and recreate them if they die. Or even create long term storage of any cargo...who needs live settlers for a new colony when you could select an appropriate colony team, store patterns of the team and the any equipment/livestock, then replicate them from the teleporters at site. No fuss, no muss, minimal crew and start up costs for the colony ships. Everything is stored on solid state databases.


Why not use holographic technology to create instantly reconfigurable ship interiors? You have intruders? "Computer..interior configuration Beta", then holographically created marines and security systems start to defend the ship.


And i still don't get why apparently advanced aliens like the klingons and ferengi can't understand the benefits of dental surgery and good oral hygiene.

 

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I know that and accept that, but this goes beyond hand waving. The hand waving was in the introduction of replicators in the first place. We had to pretend that this was a device that made sense.

The problem I have is that we're supposed to suddenly forget about replicators - even though the show does still mention them from time to time - and believe this trade station based on commerce could even exist. It's just really poorly thought out.

In other news, I googled 'Nana Visitor Topless' yesterday and didn't find anything except really bad photohack jobs.

 

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What's the story on what can and can't be replicated?

I think they can replicate simple things like food or clothing, but they cannot replicate something as complex as a phaser.

Anyone know the details on what can and cannot be replicated?

 

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You can apparently transport a phaser so why not replicate it?

Beats me. It's just something I seem to remember hearing in a TNG ep once.

 

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