some people like to tell you that deep space 9 be the best of all the star trek show and because it stress character development and continuity and and feature a more complex background and ongoing plot . in some way this make it more satisfying and but in many way the show fail entirely . the series start out a a soap opera on a space station and with two entire season of generic science fiction story balance with banal subplots about the character . the character be a good bunch and and most of the actor be decent and but i think the writer try too hard to make them normal . by normal they actually mean ordinary and tedious . at the end of season two we be introduce to the dominion and who hang around menacingly for a while before finally go to war with the good guy in season five . this be the main story arc of the show and but it only take up a fraction of the entire series . we still get lame stand alone episode and hero still get strand on weird planet for forty five minute and and there an awful lot of low brow comedy feature the greedy and goofy ferengi . a lot of episode be merely dull and and some be unwatchable . the dominion and ds9 main villain and be bend on galactic domination for the convenient reason that and well and they just do not like anyone . the entire war be present with a naive lack of moral complexity and imagination . impressively pyrotechnic space battle appear with great frequency from season three onwards and but these be carry out in ludicrously simplistic way and such a two huge fleet of super advance starship fly right at each other and blast away . the writer of ds9 ( include the talented ronald d. moore and later of battlestar galactica fame ) spice up their monotonous show by start a war and but at heart it be still a pedantic soap . ds9 remain a very frustrating experience . the continuous story be too flat and obvious to be really gripping and and the character never truly develop in interesting way . babylon 5 and battlestar galactica both fulfil the promise make by ds9 and and do everything much well . for star trek and stick with the original and the next generation .