Seems to be a lot of people finishing their first watch of this Trek show in particular lately.

Since starting the franchise in January I've now seen TOS, the TOS movies, TNG, the TNG movies and now DS9. I've also watched the NuTrek movies and Discovery. This is the most material I've ever watched of one single franchise.

I have to say that out of all of it so far DS9 is my favorite. I love how you get to see the characters grow and evolve. You really get invested in their journeys. The fact that it really leans into having actual story arcs is just fantastic.

I don't think it was perfect, like everything it had it's flaws. I really didn't care very much for Bajoran politics and religion. Kira always annoyed me. In the beginning she's always shouting and whining, scrunching up her face and shaking her head around. Then she doubles down on her faith as well. Never really bought her relationship with Odo either. The "will they won't they" thing between them was a bit taxing.

Other than that it was little things, a bit too many Ferengi episodes, a little too much Vic Fontaine towards the end. The mirror universe stuff wasn't all that interesting. I like fun one off episodes just fine but I got so into the whole dominion war that you just wanted the one offs to be over so they could continue the main story.

Julian was kind of a creep that wouldn't take no for an answer when it came to women. Didn't really buy Siddigs performances whenever he had to raise his voice and try to be serious and commanding.

It's only a Paper Moon has to the single finest bit of Trek I've ever seen so far. This episode really floored me. I haven't been in a war or lost a limb but when Nog starts talking about how he's afraid to go out in to the real world and live a real life, and he's afraid of the fact that he doesn't know what will happen out there and that he can't control it. He'd rather stay in a fake world knowing that it probably isn't good for him in the long run but at least he knows what the future is going to be like. I really identified with that.