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fandomsecrets2012-12-18 06:35 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-12-18 06:35 pm
[ SECRET POST #2177 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2177 ⌋
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DS9 S7 BIG SPOILERS. It ended 13 years ago, you should know this shit. Also seriously TL;DR!
Season 7 is bad because it disregards a lot of the character development built by the first 6. Basically I would make sure the character writing stayed a LOT more consistent.
Surprisingly, I'd keep most of Ezri Dax's arc- she has a lot of potential. She gets more character-focused episodes than average (mostly at the expense of Miles episodes), so that as a new character that season she gets a complete mini-arc from when we meet her. As a station on the front lines, DS9 really could use a counselor and it's a career that was never really used to best effect with Deanna Troi's storylines. Instead of the plots of Ezri revisiting Jadzia's attraction to Worf, give her more stories of her actually COUNSELING people (and herself). Drop the episode with her family and Miles undercover altogether. Tweak the one with her exploring Dax's murderous host to catch a killer, but it's not bad and keeps her stories psychologically based.
Sisko's Emissary plotlines were always my least favorite part of DS9. It's pretty clear that the first 6 were building to his ascension, so I won't change that. I would jettison the stuff with Sisko's mother being one of the prophets, and the conspiracy theory stuff that the whole Star Trek mythos is just taking place in Benny Russell's mind. *eyeroll* Give Kassidy more to do, especially more ass-kickery.
Drop the Dukat as Pah Wraith emissary subplot, and especially drop the Dukat-as-a-Bajoran nonsense and Dukat/Winn. Basically this:
Dukat and Winn are both at their best at their most ambiguous. If we HAVE to remove him from leading the Cardassian faction of the Dominion, do something else with him. Maybe link Kai Winn to Section 31 in some way. Winn hates Sisko-the-Emissary and the Federation has always been uncomfortable with it. Perhaps there's something they could have tried to do something to stop him ascending to a higher plane of existence?
On the subject of Section 31, it's unfortunate that Garak was always off involved with Odo, Kira, and Damar and the Cardassian Resistance and was never in any of Bashir's Section 31 episodes. Maybe they elaborate on that in the DS9 relaunch novels?
Less holosuite episodes (although DS9 has mercifully few of them in comparison to TNG and Voyager; and some of DS9's are quite good- "His Way" and "Our Man Bashir" come to mind). I like Vic Fontaine in season 6's "His Way" and his cameo in the Mirror Universe is hilarious. But god he gets overused in season 7. I'd keep "It's Only a Paper Moon" because Aron Eisenberg's acting is great in it, and it shows some consequences of the war beyond the physical. And it has Ezri actually doing counseling stuff. Maybe trim the baseball episode into a funny B-plot to an episode with more serious A-plot?
Keep everything about Weyoun because Weyoun is awesome, especially the cool Weyoun 6 story. Keep Damar's involvement in the Cardassian resistance. Keep the ending of Kira/Odo's relationship and the end of the Dominion War with regards to the Founders. The virus plot isn't my favorite, but it works ok and the series should end with Odo rejoining his people.
I don't hate season 7, but its flaws are all the more noticeable because the rest of DS9 is so strong. As you can see, there's a lot of things I'd keep. But after the heights of Seasons 4 and 5, 7 is just FRUSTRATING.