the opening is VERY good and the cast is EXTREMELY good

this is not your grandpa's star trek!!!

listen up, quark. this space village needs someone to be the stinky little bastard, and that someone is you. that's an order.

yo episode one is very good. i like the vibe of inheriting a shitty situation and starting to work out how to rebuild it, and i liked both of sisko's character arcs in this episode.

the cast has also got that ideal TNG thing of: everyone looks like what they are like.

oh you thought that was a chair? in fact it's Odo

oh you theought that that was simply a normal table? in fact that was Odo the whole time

a nice picture on the wall? ohoho think again! it's my friend, Odo

first contact with aliens... and the aliens are gamers????

there's uh there's a lot of quark episodes in the first season huh. it's basically the quark show.

oh you thought that was a refreshing glass of pineapple juice? in fact the glass was none other than Odo, in cunning disguise!

(pouring pineapple juice into a glass)
(the glass is Odo in disguise)
Odo: nyam nyam nyam
me: where's the juice going

watched the one that they wrote with o'brien encountering a leprechaun until the actor told them that was really offensive so they "changed" it at the last minute to rumpelstiltskin. jfc americans.

the recurring star trek plot "everyone gets a psychic virus that makes them act differently" reminds me of SCP articles where the hook is "the object makes you write the article differently". kind of cheating? idk.

i really empathise with o'brien because i have also worked a tech position and had to deal with colleagues being like "i appear to have turned my computer off!!!!"

DS9 season one finished. i liked it!

DS9 series 2 START

this was made in 1993!? it is such a 1999-2000 -looking TV show

@alex saw it coming

@alex I bet they're all complaining bitterly about how Fleep Nirple 5 was released on Origin and not Steam and that there are too many girl boy girls in gaming.

@danielcassidy they're already being *absolutely terrible*

@alex waste of perfectly good juice odo :(

@alex TIL

@alex simply tell them to reroute the odn conduit into the processor sub-station and realign the on off button.

@alex (I am pretty sure this is the technobabble equivalent of. plug it in and turn it back on).

@alex reading this I heard in my head the sound effect that plays at the start of a stage in Vib Ribbon

@alex Glad you’re enjoying it! I watched it over a decade ago and recently started a rewatch. I’m half way through S3 and yeah it’s getting better and better. I’m really looking forward to S4!

@alex quark is the harry kim of ds9, it's great

@alex move along home! Allamaraine!

@FiXato you know i had that nursery rhyme stuck in my head for like a week after watching that episode

@alex hahaha, I think everyone who's seen that episode has had to suffer through that (and occasionally, out of the blue, will suffer it again).

Have you watched all of TNG too? If so, I'd like to share a related headcanon thing with you. ;)

@FiXato i have! i started DS9 after finishing TNG last month.

@alex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB9fnpaTaRw
Headcanon: The other people inside that game are actually the Calamarain, put there by Q after he got his powers back.

@FiXato @alex this is unironically my favourite episode of ds9 and this is an excellent headcannon to go with it.

@alex I'm glad they eventually toned that down :)

@alex YOU THOUGHT IT WAS A LAMP, BUT IT WAS I, ODO!

@alex the show itself is phenomenal, only watched it recently myself and I was riveted, especially around season 3 onwards