tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979809.post-25553248368872843752008-03-26T22:48:00.001-07:002008-03-27T01:00:02.068-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_bQuy4fmip6s/R-tMrg_3N-I/AAAAAAAAAGY/VjJ7qLpcfxE/s1600-h/vlcsnap-2664420.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_bQuy4fmip6s/R-tMrg_3N-I/AAAAAAAAAGY/VjJ7qLpcfxE/s400/vlcsnap-2664420.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182320106695768034" border="0" /></a><br />On the topic of decade-old TV shows, and because I'm a huge nerd, I've been re-watching <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek: Deep Space Nine</span> recently. The first couple of seasons (before the Dominion War) weren't nearly as dull as I remembered them. Less shooting and explody things, sure, but there also wasn't a single "Oh no, the holodeck is malfunctioning!" episode in there, which is quite a virtue for a <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> show. Ignoring the <span style="font-style: italic;">two </span>child actors (which should be illegal) and some irritating Quark-centric comedy relief episodes, there are some complex and dark storylines and characters (like Garak) that set it way apart from the rest of <span style="font-style: italic;">Trek</span> - the other four shows had a nasty habit of cannibalizing everything prior like nerdy vultures. <span style="font-style: italic;">DS9</span> had the same kind of social commentary with a political skew to it, making it at least tied for my favorite series with <span style="font-style: italic;">TNG</span>. I also can't help but think that it was a good thing the show ended before 2003 - a major character who had been a terrorist resisting a brutal occupying army probably wouldn't have gone over very well.<br /><br />As a side note, poking around IMDB in a where-are-they-now sort of way (an alarming number of the cast doesn't seem to have worked since,) I stumbled across this:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_bQuy4fmip6s/R-s2_g_3N9I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/MTGB7WRBI2c/s1600-h/Sid.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_bQuy4fmip6s/R-s2_g_3N9I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/MTGB7WRBI2c/s400/Sid.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182296261037340626" border="0" /></a>My god, he's a Monty Python character. There are some who call me... Tim.Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09910056178363701413noreply@blogger.com