What does everyone think is their best hot take about Star Trek? One that you think more people should agree with, I mean.
For me personally, my hot take is that the first few seasons of DS9 were actually pretty good.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the dark and intertwining story lines of the later seasons, and I do think a lot of the characters (e.g, Dr Bashir and Jadzia Dax) we’re not that great of a character and lacked likeable traits and fleshed out personalities, but I mostly say this because of the story lines.
The thing is, I also really like the first 2 seasons on TNG as well. I love a good story line that doesn’t really mean anything, and the characters are just goofing off. Of course, it’s better that DS9 didn’t stay like that, but I deeply enjoy watching them doing useless shenanigans like Odo trying to direct an ostrich off stage, or everyone saying random words for 40 minutes because of some illness, or the fact that almost every episode had a moment between Quark and Odo, I honestly really enjoyed these stories.
There’s also some stuff I miss as well, like I feel that Garak should’ve had more episodes where he was still on the drug, or that were less episodes that were just Odo falling in love Kira but not being able to be with her (because the writers hate him I guess) as I honestly was never interested in the storyline.
Not to say that there isn’t goofy more silly episodes as the show goes on (who doesn’t love a good ferengi episode), but I do appreciate the series where there was no real danger, and you could just sit back and relax until the show started to actually get going. What do you think?