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I've been catching up on some Star Trek since I was a teen when a lot of these aired. And holy cannoli the first episode of DS9 has to be the heaviest ever.
Sisko is assigned to DS9 and is meeting with Picard about it. Sisko expresses this assignment isn't to his preference and Picard starts giving him the "Starfleet duty" lecture and Sisko erupts in his face saying to cut him some fucking slack, he is raising a kid by himself because his mother died on a ship that he helped the Borg destroy when he was Locutus. 🤯
Despite also popping Picard's bubble he makes it clear that he's not some career obsessed owned-Starfleet loser who uses it as an excuse to never start a family.
In addition to rebuking Picard, he's also a sensitive enough black man that he can cry on camera (while the wormhole entities ask him why he dwells on the memory of his wife's death) but he is still hard ass enough to blackmail a ferengi into keeping his shop open in exchange for not putting his nephew in prison.
A very different Trek.
DS9 really was lightning in a bottle that'll probably never be topped(in Star Trek).
I attribute this to two reasons; one, alot of the actors were classically theater trained, yes, Avery Brooks amoung them.
Two, the initial show producers who's names I have forgotten later switched thier full attention over to Voyager, which gave DS9 alot of slack for the kind of stories they could tell, which is why the later seasons are so much better, even excusing the typical 'finding thier groove' thing so many TV shows have.
Plus, it's the only time we get to see Robert House and Andrew Ryan go at one another.
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