This was a series that did not know what it was and it took 4 seasons to work out what the main theme of the show would be. The first three seasons are akin to TNG. They have wild and wacky goings on and the weird and wonderful crew solve them. Also in the first three seasons and less so in the later ones is the most boring story line I have ever watched. That story line is Bajoran politics. Why oh why do I have to watch episodes about who the Bajoran first minister is or when "the Cardassians ended the occupation". The show tried to be clever by making parallels with real life politics and the like.
Major Kira is without a doubt the ugliest, most irritating character on any show ever. The way her smile looks like the Joker from Batman bugs the hell out of me. She was annoying from the start with her disobedient attitude and the way she can "fight". She fights the same way every time with that double hammer punch using both hands.
Odo (and Shapeshifters in general) have the most obvious plot hole (one of many) in the series. Odo tells the others he looks like that because he tried to mimic his Bajoran mentor. Why then do all the other shape shifters look like him with that weird face like a burns victim. Why? It makes no sense. Also, he NEVER eats anything. Where does he get his energy? What sustains him? That aside, he is an obnoxious piece of work and it is horrible how he bullies Quark. This was most apparent when he said to Quark "you'll regret the day you met me" in the most vile horrifyingly angry voice I have ever heard. It disturbed me. How he was allowed to keep his job when a Starfleet security officer should have taken his place is beyond me.
Jadzia Dax. Yawn. Everyone thought she was beautiful but I got sick of the sight of her and that annoying voice she has that tries to sound all erotic. Ezri Dax has that stupid misshapen smirk and she can't act either. I don't know what was worse. Her or the first one.
Jake Sisko was in my mind the most pointless character. He should have been like Nog and been a guest star. It made me cringe the way they tried to squeeze him in every episode. By the fifth season when he becomes a writer you know they've run out of ideas. How could he be a writer? He barely went to school!
Captain Sisko I loathed from the start as he didn't pay respect to Captain Picard. You'd think as a Starfleet Officer that he could look past the fact the his wife was killed by him. Even though it wasn't Picard it was the Borg using his body. He's supposed to be professional yet can hardly contain his contempt. gave me a very bad image of Starfleet that did. Avery Brooks cannot act. His lines are given in a precise, wooden manner with little emotion. When he has to act angry he overdoes it. He thinks shouting shows anger so he shouts all the time he's angry. I have seen him in American History X and his acting was the same. He has no diversity.
I initially liked O' Brien but he is such a wimp. He gets punched and kicked and nearly every episode he is doubled over in pain because some alien took a shot at him. It was really bad directing to have his sleeves rolled up all the time giving the impression he's a "hands on" man and loves hard work. It reminded me of something a Drama teacher would do in a cheap school play. Which leads me to my next point: What IS Chief O' Brien? In early TNG episodes he looked like an Ensign, a Lieutenant and was called "Transporter Chief" (presumably where his title comes from) and he gives his rank in a DS9 episode as "Chief of Operations". That's not a rank, that's your job. Data's job is Science officer but his rank is Lieutenant Commander. All the while they gave him the insignia of either an ensign or a lieutenant. Stupid mix up and confusion. Eventually they made him Chief Petty Officer but it was too late, the damage was done.
Doctor Bashir was played by Alexander Siddig or his alias Siddig El Fadil. The opening credits used to give him either name. He now plays Arabs and Muslims in films that require them such as Kingdom of Heaven and Vertical Limit. Even this acting is limited as he plays the same character in those roles which classes him as a novelty actor. Anyway. Doctor Bashir is the medical officer and has a trumped up idea of morality that he thinks he's always right. Unbelievably he's allowed to carry on practising even though he's an illegal genetic mutant. No that would never happen. He'd be discharged immediately.
Last and certainly least was the worst thing that could have happened to DS9. They added Worf. Obviously an attempt at halting falling ratings, Worf was the same wooden character he played that almost ruined TNG. Worf's lines were: "You have no honour" "Honour" "Dishonour" and "Klingon Warrior". That sums up his lines in a nutshell. Of course with Worf came the other Klingons. So the series degenerated into a show about Klingons after Worf showed up. In short he RUINED the show.
Nog going into Starfleet was ludicrous at best. After watching the TNG episode where Wesley tries to get in you realise how difficult and how "best of the best" one has to be to get into "the academy". Nog was a thieving, antisocial, unintelligent misfit who stood no chance of getting in.What's more ridiculous was that he was promoted TWO TIMES! The whole show was poorly planned and stupid
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