Angry Sisko--at Picard weird aliens in human form--awfully cerebral and a bit like Farpoint wormhole discovered dead wife
Up until Commander Sisko enters the wormhole, this is a pretty good initial episode for "Star Trek: Deep Space 9". However, when Sisko meets up with aliens living within this passageway, things get pretty dumb.
When the show begins, you see the battle between the Borg (commanded by Locutus) and the Federation. In the battle, Sisko is nearly killed and his wife is killed by these intergalactic jerks. As a result, Sisko is really ticked...and it doesn't help that Captain Picard is the one who assigns Sisko to command the space station since Picard WAS Locutus when he was absorbed into the Borg two seasons earlier. Oops. In addition, Sisko runs about the space station and the planet Bajor meeting folks and pretty much introducing them to the audience.
When a stable wormhole opens up near Bajor, however, the show changes moods very quickly. Now he meets aliens who instead of sitting down and talking with him, they occupy the essence of people Sisko has known and they interact VERY quickly--with one fast intercut scene after another after another. It's very artsy and cerebral...and incredibly boring and dumb. It also is chocked full of too much information being thrown at the audience through the aliens. It came very unnaturally and should have been handled more deliberately. As a result, 2/3 of the way into the show, I felt like turning it off! My family begged me to do so but I was able to persevere until the very end. A rather awful introduction as a result of all this silliness.
Up until Commander Sisko enters the wormhole, this is a pretty good initial episode for "Star Trek: Deep Space 9". However, when Sisko meets up with aliens living within this passageway, things get pretty dumb.
When the show begins, you see the battle between the Borg (commanded by Locutus) and the Federation. In the battle, Sisko is nearly killed and his wife is killed by these intergalactic jerks. As a result, Sisko is really ticked...and it doesn't help that Captain Picard is the one who assigns Sisko to command the space station since Picard WAS Locutus when he was absorbed into the Borg two seasons earlier. Oops. In addition, Sisko runs about the space station and the planet Bajor meeting folks and pretty much introducing them to the audience.
When a stable wormhole opens up near Bajor, however, the show changes moods very quickly. Now he meets aliens who instead of sitting down and talking with him, they occupy the essence of people Sisko has known and they interact VERY quickly--with one fast intercut scene after another after another. It's very artsy and cerebral...and incredibly boring and dumb. It also is chocked full of too much information being thrown at the audience through the aliens. It came very unnaturally and should have been handled more deliberately. As a result, 2/3 of the way into the show, I felt like turning it off! My family begged me to do so but I was able to persevere until the very end. A rather awful introduction as a result of all this silliness.