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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ended in 1999 after 7 seasons but didn't jump into feature films like The Next Generation. Here's why.

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[–] UESPA_Sputnik@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, DS9 wasn't as popular as TNG back then – both in terms of ratings and fan reception. Many considered it the black sheep of the Trek family. Berman focused on Voyager. So it was chrystal clear to every fan with even half a brain that DS9 would never get a movie. Perhaps Voyager had a tiny chance but by the time it concluded its run viewership had been in steady decline, and then Nemesis tanked.

[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Voyager had consistently mediocre writing. I, somewhat cynically, always thought the reason moore did Battlestar was to show everyone what Voyager could have been.

[–] Melco@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
[–] UESPA_Sputnik@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you're not too far off.

Here is an excerpt from The Fifty Year Mission (book 2) by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross. I highly recommend those books. They are super insightful about the behind-the-scenes stuff from the first 50 years of Star Trek.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God damn. I'm almost done watching DS9 for the first time right now and was planning on diving into Voyager right after. But this makes me not want to.

[–] UESPA_Sputnik@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Voyager is alright. It's just very uneven. What drags it down is that the producers only very rarely took big swings that had a lasting impact on the characters or the show. Voyager excels at being episodic television. There are a bunch of stinkers (as there are on any TV show) but when it's good, it's really good. It has some of the best Trek episodes.

Maybe use an episode guide with ratings (for example Jammer's Reviews, Ex Astris Scientia or IMDb) and skip the episodes with low ratings.