Star Trek Deep Space Nine - The Complete Seasons 1-7

Rating:
Summary: Hands Down, The Greatest Ever Trek Series
Review: Star Trek Deep Space Nine will always be the cult within the cult.Although not as popular as the other Star Trek spin-offs(even the anemic Voyager who had the benefit of a network behind it),it has a diehard follwing of Trekker Niners who'll easily attest that DS9 was the best ST show ever.
Unlike the other spin-offs,the show as well as the characters evolved in its seven seasons.Notably The lead character Benjamin Sisko who started as a brooding arbitrator of a rundown space station.In the later seasons, the character was injected with the same passion that fueled Kirk and Picard,becoming a great Captain as well as accepted his role as the Bajoran's Emissary and in the end,joined the Bajoran prophets.
The first season was finding its own footing(althought the brilliant Duet was produced in this season).The second concentrated more on character only to culminate with the introduction of The Dominion.The third season found the characters dealing with an eminate Dominion attack while showing more character growth.But it was fourth season that it really came alive with the introduction of TNGs Worf as a new crew member,as well as classic episodes(Th Way Of The Warrior,The Visitor,Rejoned,Our Man Bashir & Hard Time).Season five not only included the Worf/Dax relationship,the threat of war with the Dominion,but brilliant episodes(The Ship,Looking For Par'mach,Rapture,Dr Bashir I presume)plus the beautiful tribute to The Original Series(Trials and Tribble-ations).Sixth season started with a six part war arc and concluded with the wedding of Worf & Dax.The briliant season(including the episodes The Magnificent Ferengi,Waltz,Far Beyond The Stars,In The Pale Moonlight,His Way,Valient)ended with the death of Jadzia Dax.The seventh finale season was hurt not only by the aformention death(replaced by Ezri Dax),but weak episodes(although Take Me Out To The Holosuite, The Siege At AR-558 and Chimara were classic episodes).The ten part finale arc which ended with What You Leave Behind closed thshow on a fitting yet premature ending.
As Paramount releases the DVD sets throughout 2003(the tenth anniversary of DS9)as well as insatiate the many fans of this brilliant yet Overlooked show(and maybe a series of TV movies)

Ten Favorite Episodes

1.Duet (first season)
2.The Way Of The Warrior (fourth season)
3.In The Pale Moonlight (Sixth Season)
4.The Visitor (Fourth Season)
5.The Seige at AR-558 (Seventh Season)
6.Trials and Tribble-ations (fifth season)
7. ...You Are Cordially Invited(sixth season)
8.Looking For Par'Mach In All The Wrong Places (fith season)
9.Take Me Out To The Holosuite (seventh season)
10.Far Beyond The Stars (sixth season)

Rating:
Summary: Classic television.
Review: This show has something that TOS, and TNG doesn't. Repercussions. I loved how everything affected everyone on this show. How the actions of those on the Enterprise would rattle those behind the lines at DS9. No more was it prevalent than in the pilot episode, depicting the destruction of the federation fleet at wolf 359. WHere Benjamin Sisko losses his wife, and eventually gets stationed on the run down space station DS9. A stark difference to the trekking enterprise, who is equipped with all the best that Starfleet can provide. You are welcomed to a cast of characters who all have darker sides. Something unheard of in the galant trekking crews of the past who mingle never outside their ranks. In the first few seasons the crew and personel at DS9 are hard to work with. A surroundings of different races from all over the galaxy, Where the federation is a small presence. Not in the safety of federation space, but the war torned boundaries of the bajorans. You see the struggle, and the strength, and ultimately the unique friendship that is created later. That uniqueness is key in the last seasons of the show, where war is waged against the Dominion and victory depends not on the fleet, but in the unforeseen bonds that arise from a new friendship. The cost this time for failure is not a ship and crew but all of the races and planets of the federation, and all of the alliances and governments of the quadrant. DS9 will entertain me for the rest of my life, I am happy to own all seven seasons of this one of a kind show.

Rating:
Summary: The Darkest, and Most Underrated of all Treks
Review: With glee I write this review for my favorite show of all time.

If you passed on the Deep Space phenomenon at the time, you were'nt alone. Many who had interest in TNG didn't really take to DS9 at first, myself included. I started watching it again in the second season and it slowly grab held of me. There are a few bad episodes ("Melora" for one), but overall these are the most fascinating, imaginative stories ever collected into a series of any kind. It's a saga no doubt, a soap opera of sci-fiction, but Deep Space went so much further. With great special effects and audio, the production value alone was entertaining. But the episodes were extremely dark at times too, with the greatest characters, a healthy budget and fantastic writing. This combination led "Kira" in an interview to state that she believes this will be one of the most time enduring Television shows ever created. I really agree. It generally becomes a sleeker show over time, but always interesting and asking extremely dark moral questions. My favorite episode of all time "In the Pale Moonlight", I believe is in the sixth season. An episode where the absolute moral boundary of war is questioned and Sisko and Garek do the craziest sh*# to assure security for the federation. It's a Narly episode. Garek actually kills a Romulan Senator by sabotaging his craft and Sisko actually trades biogenic weapons material for information. All to draw the Romulans into the war against the Dominion, I was stunned. There's another episode where the Dominion actually engineers an attack against themselves in order to destroy the military of a planet inwhich they eventually occupy. The way the episodes fold back into one another, is masterful. Don't miss it, treat yourself to extraordinary, well-thought-out sci-fi for a change. I own them all and plan on hermetically-sealing them for future generations. :)