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"My new televison line up", Deep Space Nine the Series

I finally received my order, got the big screen TV and settled in to watch the series. I now watch DS9 after work in place of Judge Judy. A good switch, I think. Worth the money!

"Far Beyond The Stars ...",
After I watched this episode again recently, it set me thinking about a lot of things that I not only saw with this particular version of Star Trek, but science fiction as a whole. The episode 'Far Beyond the Stars' is easily the high-water mark for this entire show, despite the fact that it was completely separate from the main and ongoing story-line of the show. This episode actually stands by itself much like 'Inner Light' does with Next Generation and 'City on The Edge of Forever' with the Original Series.

The main thought, and I won't even bother to say premise, is that the ever lingering question that plagued this show and made things abrasive for many of the cast members was openly and very adroitly addressed here.

The question being: Can a show have a black Captain, or a black hero as the driving force?'

Avery Brooks as Captain Benjamin Sisko suffered under this plague the entire time that the show ran. While many think that Hollywood is colorblind, it just isn't the case. Tensions from this show probably derailed much of what was going on with Star Trek in the nineties and quite possibly damaged the franchise for a long time to come, much like a butterfly effect. I'm sure the producers would disagree. Of course they would. I'm not saying that it was the fault of Avery Brooks or because they cast a black Captian and that it was a bad idea. Not at all. On the contrary.

The executives in charge of DS9, as well as the head writers were openly hostile towards Brooks and even through the seven years the show ran, the problems continued and never seemed to fade until finally, the show ended. Star Trek lore is rife with information about the relationships between Avery Brooks, Brannon Braga and Steven Behr. Let's just say it mirrors what Albert R. Broccoli once said about Sean Connery as James Bond when they were originally trying to get Carey Grant: 'He's not exactly what I was looking for'.

This episode speaks to this tension, in my opinion, more than anything. Not being a trekkie without inside knowledge doesn't diminish it either. Benjamin Sisko is 'Benny', stuck as a black science-fiction writer in 1950's America, during Jim Crow, Segregation and probably just before the bulk of the civil rights movement and dreaming of a better future for all of us, not just himself. The episode in this context is bleak and has the same sinister feeling that most of the DS9 episodes had, but deals directly with every day issues. It was a stroke of genius to have a science fiction show set 200 years in the future deal with an issue that is apparently 50 years in our past, but still relevant and eye-opening. Should this episode have won a Hugo Award? Yes. Without any doubt in the world. In 1998, when this episode and aired and would have been a contender, it never even got a mention. The Hugo in 1998 went to the film 'Contact'. Just shameful. I wonder if it had anything to do with 'a Black Captain'?

The struggle Benny is going through in this, shows the pain that all writers must endure on some level, some more than others. Charles Bukowski, suffered much like our good friend Benny and once stated: 'The Gods have really put a shield on me'. I've truncated that quote for reasons that are obvious to anyone that has read Bukowski. I fall apart every time I watch this episode because Avery Brooks depiction of the frustrated writer, caged in like a parakeet, is very true and very well-acted. It's painful to watch, not because of the intensity that he's going through on-screen, but because every word and gesture he emits is more than true. You can feel on some deeper level that you're seeing the events of perhaps thousands of peoples lives. It takes you all the way back to another question: 'Does the caged bird still sing?'

His soliloquy of 'you cannot destroy an idea' is powerful and so in the face of everybody that has never faced a day like this, a moment like this, a life like this.

I don't want to recap the entire episode as many folks have already done that. Watch the episode if you haven't seen it, you're really are missing out if you haven't. If it's been awhile revisit it, it's honestly Star Trek's finest hour, bar none.

This episode 'Far Beyond The Stars' is from Season 6 and is Episode 13. It premiered February 11th, 1998.

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"Great show for a great price", When this show was aired, I loved watching it, and once I had my hands on the DVDs, it took me less than two weeks to devour it all :) An absolutely great cast that gives a new depth to the Star Trek universe by both more dark and conflicting story lines and great recurring characters next to the splendid main cast. A must-have for fans, especially at Amazon's price!

"DS9 review", DS9 is a awesome set of movies and i enjoyed it and highly recommend the set for the price you cant beat it. Thank you.

"Star Trek Deep Space Nine ", Orginal set was missing the first dvd but replacement arrived in good order. Way over priced but an interesting series.

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"First rate show, Second rate DVDs", I believe that DS9 is the best of trek as it was the most consistently good of the Treks. Even the early episodes have alot of intrigue to them, then when the Dominion was brought in, Trek was finally taken out of its sun-shiney spotlight into the reality of war.
The problem I have is with the DVD construction. There's no booklet in the DVDs showing an episode list and a caption on the episode and unless the opening teaser lasts at least 4 minutes, skipping to the second chapter in order to skip the credits will make you miss showtime (these two things I believe should be neccessary for any DVD, I didnt pay all this money to have to fast forward through the credits)...and it would have been nice for there to have been episode commentary or the TV episode previews.
I was debating weather I should buy the series as i watched almost every episode during the original run, but im more than glad that I did.

"Deep Space Nine is the Pinnacle Star Trek Series", For Trekkers and trekkies, this is the series that will keep Star Trek on the map forever. It strikes the chord of what life out in the rest of the universe would be like when and if we are ever able to make the leap, to First Contact and beyond.

The combination of acting talent, just simply great writing, variety of episodes ranging from the serious to the comic, adult to teen subjects, war and peace, heroic to tragic, morality play to satire, and consistently the absolutely highest production values for a Star Trek series make this the Series that Star Trek fans rate as the best ever.

Personally, I think the quality and depth of the escape into the Deep Space Nine universe every time I watch an episode, which I do sequentially starting from Season 1 - Disk 1, is without peer. They've captured that sense of the ambiguous which defines reality and put it on the screen, not unique, but a rare occurrence. Buy it and you'll be pleased with the result.

"Very prompt", The product arrived early and there was little damage to the casing. The DVDs are in perfect order.

"Best of the franchise series", Although TNG is the fan favorite, I always preferred the darker (as dark as Trek can get) version of the ST universe as depicted in DS9. Like all the series, there bad episodes mixed in with some truely great ones, and it may not really pick up until after season one, but once it does, it's one heck of a ride. My only complaint is that DVD transfer quality is not quite as consistent from season to season. Ranging from Good for the most part to Fair.

"Brilliant beyond belief!", Many will never give Trek a chance and only think of us as geeks or nerds and that is a shame. Now while Trek in any form is better than no Trek, DS9 stands a notch above with it's stories, acting, and sweeping arcs. While it is hard to pin down single episodes from any great show to point out it's brilliance DS9 has "The Visitor" which in my opinion is the best of any Trek I have yet to see. It even rivals Spock's death in TWOK.

Anyone looking for something new, something fresh, something to open you up and show you the world in a new light, you need look no further than DS9. It will put hair on your chest and get you all grown up in a hurry. With the writers strike on there is no better time to re-visit this show or see it for the first time if you are a newbie.