{"id":25191,"date":"2014-12-03T12:11:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T17:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25191"},"modified":"2014-12-03T12:11:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T17:11:06","slug":"trek-week-deep-space-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25191","title":{"rendered":"Trek Week: Deep Space Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, Deep Space Nine. Reportedly it’s everything I’ve ever wanted from Trek. I’ve really enjoyed the few episodes I’ve seen. I love the cast. I love the idea of a large, ongoing arc. But I never got into it.<\/p>\n

I think part of the problem was timeslot. I don’t remember when the show was on, but I seem to recall it was really inconvenient for me. I couldn’t catch the show, mostly because I was working nights. By the time I had a job where I could watch evening TV, the show was a long way into its run and I had no idea what was going on. (I have this memory that the show kept moving timeslots, making it difficult to watch. But I might be confusing it with another show.) And then I began a family and couldn’t watch television for the next few years. And then we stopped using TV and started relying on DVDs for all our entertainment, since that made a lot more sense with our eclectic schedule. <\/p>\n

I’m going to punch Cardassia out of orbit. With my fists. Hold my calls.<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

Now the show’s run is long over. I could watch it if I wanted, but I have no idea where I’d come up with enough time for 132 hours of television172 episodes, at ~45 mins each.<\/span>. I’m sure the show is good – it’s often cited as the best of the Treks by various fans. I don’t have anything against it, but it just never worked out for us. Maybe one of these years I’ll go nuts and binge-watch the whole thing, but until then I’ll just have to take your word that it’s really good. <\/p>\n

All right. I want to know who’s been photoshopped into this scene. Was it you, guy I’ve never seen on my ship before?<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

While writing this series I looked up DS9 on Netflix and ended up watching Trials and Tribble-ations<\/a>. In that episode, the crew of the Enterprise gets (sigh) pulled back in time and find themselves in the original series. It’s a humorous one-off episode and not really representative of the show as a whole, but I really loved all the attention to detail that went into it. The uniforms. The sets. The sounds. They even went so far as to use the 60’s style lighting, even though it was really unflattering. (Poor Colm Meaney looked ghastly during the turbolift scene.) The whole time I was watching I kept thinking, “This must have cost a fortune.” I didn’t know how right I was. According to Memory Alpha<\/a>, it represented the most expensive one-hour episode of Trek produced to date. (That entire page is filled with interesting stories about the making of Trials and Tribble-ations.)<\/p>\n

Sorry for the lack of meaningful Deep Space 9 commentary, but I don’t have anything to say about the show and I didn’t want to leave it out of the list. So now would be a good time for a discussion of best \/ worst episodes of DS9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, Deep Space Nine. Reportedly it’s everything I’ve ever wanted from Trek. I’ve really enjoyed the few episodes I’ve seen. I love the cast. I love the idea of a large, ongoing arc. But I never got into it. I think part of the problem was timeslot. I don’t remember when the show was on, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}