I watched this show and was surprised that no one seemed to notice that Avery Brooks and Nana Visitor had a great chemistry, like Kirk and Spock, Lucy and Ricky or any other great team.
Something about these two where when they had scenes, something clicked. The writers and directors should have taken advantage of this.
I think all the actors had great chemistry, it made the show work in the end, and they had plenty of great scenes together. My favourite pairing is Bashir and O Brien.
shareRight. I don't mean to take away anything from the others. But sometimes a pairing stands out , makes history. Like when someone teamed up one comedian named Stan Laurel from England with a Oliver Hardy from the American South.
shareYeah Kira and and Sisko are great. He's the commander, she's his first officer, and there's a great dynamic, and not only that, but she's a Bajoran and he's maybe the Emissary. There are many great scenes between them, even early on in the series they have some great quarrels and debates, you're right they go great together.
shareMy favourite pairing is Bashir and O Brien.
Miles and Keiko...ugh..
Just the sound of her voice makes me shudder.
The character of O'Brien is established pretty quickly. He's an everyman, no-nonsense, down-and-dirty mechanic. Many of the characters change through the series and Bashir is one of the best examples. At first he's annoying, then there are turning point episodes for him, like The Quickening that show you how dedicated a doctor he is. I'm glad they gave him a serious edge later on, then in the last few seasons he's one of my favourite characters. Rivals is one of my favourite season 2 episodes.
As for TNG, I love the crew, but in nearly every episode you get them congratulating each other on how wonderful they all are in various ways, there's very little conflict or difficulty. It's sort of like an "oh you!" kind of thing going over and over again.
I agree it was a good idea to pair off the characters, and usually episodes centred around pairings. I notice too that in season 3 they toned down a lot of the characters, thankfully. Bashir is less boyish and more deadpan, Kira is less of a complete bitch, Sisko starts to finally loosen up.
You can really see that chemistry especially well when Sisko and the Defiant return to DS9 in the episode "You are Cordially invited":
Sisko: Morning, Major.
Kira: Good morning, Captain.
Sisko: Do you know how much I missed hearing you say that?
Kira: Do you know how much I hated saying "Good Morning, Dukat"?
Sisko: I can imagine.
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It will never be considered great Trek to the TNG and (ugh) Voyager fans...
The starship shows were drivel... and pedantic... as Q put it best when speaking about Troi.
The characters on TNG and VOY were bland (save for Picard and Data, and Janeway and the Doctor).
But you have a show like DS9 with a very diverse main cast, and an array of memorable supporting characters. I LOVE Sisko and Kira... Odo and Quark, Dax and Worf... I'm meh with O'Brien and Bashir, but they're even better than the Data Laforge pairing.
But the fact that there is a character like Garak in the DS9 realm... it's mind blowing. He is amazing in every scene.
I would never re-watch TNG from start to finish... but Netflix has given me the chance to do it with DS9 :)
I love DS9, but I beg to differ. They're different shows, and they do their own thing well. They all have filler episodes, as any long running series does. In TNG the good episodes outweigh the bad, and all the characters are great.
Episodes like The Best of Both Worlds, Chain of Command and the brilliant All Good Things are great. DS9 was different in that it took at least two seasons for the characters to simply trust one another, let alone like each other, whereas in TNG everyone is automatically friends from the start, which suits a show like that, as conflict doesn't suit an episodic show (everything has to be resolved by the end of the episode).
I haven't seen all of Voyager, but it has plenty of great episodes.
As for Garak, he's great, but in small doses. DS9 had the best action and characterisation, but it's just a different iteration of Trek, there's no need to compare and rank IMO.
I find them all great in many different ways. I have rewatched ever episode of every series more than once (more than twice). I can take the side of any of the shows and argue it's the best.
I give a short reason why each is the best on my List.
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Sisko and Dax also had a great -- and unique -- relationship. Sisko calling her "Old Man" was a strange, but effective, twist on what one would normally expect from a buddy relationship between a middle-aged African American male and a young Caucasian female. Not sexual but a very deep relationship, extending past one lifetime.
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