SF soap opera (Star Trek - Deep Space Nine)

Member Name: Asylum

Product:	Star Trek - Deep Space Nine
Date:	05/11/00 (30 review reads)
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Advantages: interesting technology

Disadvantages: soap opera syndrome

As a strong fan of the original Star Trek series, I naturally took a great interest in each of the successive offerings. In the case of Voyager and The Next Generation I gradually became accustomed to their specific values and learned to appreciate what they had to offer. However, Deep Space 9 is a totally different story.
The early episodes were nothing to go wild about, but the situation and the good cross section of alien culture was very promising, so I expected things to improve.
Sadly, things did anything but improve. In an attempt to generate interesting background stories for the characters it gradually fell to the level of a soap opera set in a space station. If the format had remained as a series, this could well have been an excellent program, but now has very little to offer.
I understand that soap operas have a huge support and also that viewing figures are important, but I expect SF to be advertised as such and soaps to be advertised as soaps. This series is a great disappointment and should not carry the title of Star Trek.

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