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Posted by Golden Phoenix on :

Well, as many of you have said, this is the end of DS9. I remember fondly the last episode of STNG 7 years ago. Seing Capt. Jean-Luc Picard going back to bed because everything was now all right was strangely comforting. Yes, everything finished with everybody alive and well. A kind of positive farewell picture of a roving company in a starship in which we lived with each week for seven years.

Strangely enough, I don't feel the same about the end of DS9. Sure, Worf is now an Ambassador, Ezri and Bashir are together but Kira and Odo are seperated as well as Capt. Sisko and is wife. O'brien returns to Earth to teach at the Academy (more separations). Even Quark is staying back and is engaging in a relationship with Kira that is strangely like the one he had with Odo. Strange... Melancholy, yes that's how I feel at this moment. At the end of a 7 years era... It's like loosing a friend. I'm in shock. Can't say much more, my mind is not made up ...

But most of all I'm frustrated that Vic Fontaine got about 3 or 4 minutes of this final show. The more I think of it the more it makes me mad. So much could have been said without his signing. I know that it doesn't make sense but there it is.

Sorry about my rambling everyone, but I wanted to share my thoughts with a group who would, I'm sure of it, understand me.

What are your thoughts ?

Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :

The key word here is "change". Everything changed at the end of DS9 but not TNG. TNG should not and could not change at its end because it was going on to the movies for sure, but there is no telling whether or not DS9 will. I thought the end of DS9 was sad that people left, but at least everyone stayed alive and well. It's not "happily ever after" (although I wish it were), but then since when was DS9 anything about that?
As for Vic, I love Vic, so I'm not complaining.

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Posted by bryce (Member # 42) on :

I felt at the last ep of TNG like I wanted more cause I knew it wasn't over. DS9 left me with a since of sadness, but a satifaction that the trials these people have gone through are over. Like Starfleet gave them all an early, with-pay retirement.

I assume everyone will lead a boring life on the station until Sisko comes back, if ever. Everyone else (O'Brien and Worf) could possibly be seen in the next TNG flick, with the exception of Odo.. I think Odo would only return if he was called upon by Kira or Sisko to help fight a battle or something.

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Posted by Epoch (Member # 136) on :

I don't mean to be annoying but first of all TNG ended 5 years ago. Also the last ep ended with Picard playing poker with the rest of the crew.

Anyway I like how the show ended for the most part. I don't agree with Odo and Siskos departers from the station. Other then that I liked it. Just sad to see it end.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

I got a tremendous feeling of...uncompleteness from DS9's finale. There's so much more to do. I greatly enjoyed what we saw, though.

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

I liked it. Can anyone make a midi of the music that played during the flashback scenes, I liked it too.

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Posted by Mikey T (Member # 144) on :

It's so strange to know that next week, instead of seeing DS9, it will be something else. I liked the series finale, but it made me sad. The title was appropriate with what happend in the episode. Things that were left behind would move on, life moves on. But I wonder, if Paramount makes a DS9 movie, will it bring back everyone and let Bajor join the Federation?

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Posted by The Excalibur (Member # 34) on :

The story was incomplete. Not a bad episode, but, well, it left me wishing that they had finished more of what they started.

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

Maybe it was suppose to be incomplete, for a potential movie or something. You never know.

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Posted by Federation Shipmaster (Member # 15) on :

Ummm....wasn't it five years ago?

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Posted by Jedi Weyoun (Member # 110) on :

*nods* I agree with Excalibur. There still seemed to be some things left unresolved. maybe that was intended so they COULD make a movie, i dunno. I think the reason i liked this series more was because they dealt more with characters' lives than missions and such, necessarily. ie, the dominion war was the ongoing plot, so the time normally spent filling us in on what was happening in *this* show, was opened up for us to see into the characters' lives. maybe the next series will do the same thing.

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