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 - A fitting end.Warning: spoilers included. In the final season of DS9, the series cultinates with a deeper understanding of the Prophets (Wormhole Aliens) and their relationship with Captain Benjamin Lafayette Sisko (The Emissary). The final resolution of the Dominion War, Odo's return to the Founders, Garak's bittersweet homecoming, and the end of Doctor Bashir's dangerous association with the enigmatic Section 31, bring so many loose ends to stunning conclusions. The introduction of Nicole DeBoer as Ezri Dax may start out as a disappointment, but she quickly grows over the course of the season to be a worthy addition to this diverse cast, and her awkward relationship with both Worf and Bashir makes for some delightful relationship hijinks. The deification of Sisko just formalizes the opinions of Trekkies everywhere about the rightful place of Starfleet Captains in pop culture. Rating:  - Some problems, but still rates a "don't miss"Many excellent episodes helped give the generally excellent "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" series a classy, memorable send off in this, its final season. A few flies in the ointment bothered me, however: why was such valuable real estate as the next-to-last DS9 episode EVER given over to a marginal "funny Ferengi" story? And the long, drawn-out, wearying Dominion War ends abruptly in the last episode, hinging on a plot point or two that, in previous seasons, would have resulted in, at best, minor ground being gained by the Federation, but certainly not an ultimate victory. While not fatally abrupt, or totally non-sensical, the closing episode smacked of "it's the last show, so we gotta wrap this up!" And I wasn't crazy about the vagueness of Sisko's final fate, especially as there won't be any DS9 movies to give us a little more meat about that fate. Still, prior to the uneven closing shows, there were many great episodes during the course of the season, as good as any the show's ever done (I'm lookin' at you, Vic Fontaine!). So I'm happy. Just count me as someone who thinks that "Star Trek: The Next Generation" is still the best of the post-original series "Treks", with the jury still out on the runner-up spot ("Voyager" is growing on me). But, even so, I'll definitely miss Benjamin, Kira, and the gang. I'm sorry the ride's over. Rating:  - There's Just No ExcuseOK. I'm a huge StarTrek nerd, and DS9 is my favorite StarTrek series. That said, this final season is such a huge disappointment. The ingrates, that's right ingrates, running the Trek franchise just completely nose-dived this series into the ground. Why ingrates? Well, the producers took the expansive loyalty and enthusiastic good-will of StarTrek fans and exploited it in an attempt to gratify their own outsized egos. Where to begin? How about Ezri Dax for starters. one question. WTF were you guys thinking? I realize losing Terry Farrell was a major blow, but come on! They wasted half of the FINAL season introducing and enlarging a character that was little more than a band-aid. Yes, she's a cutie, but there's an inter-stellar war on! They should have just buried Dax and let it be. Next, Vic Fontaine. Need I say more? Well I will anyway. What in the name of all that is holy? Who's idea was this? Got to be Ira Behr's doing. I mean, come on Ira, who is this singer/actor/cheese sandwich, your boyfriend or something? Seriously, there's no other explanation for his presence on this show. Maybe if Behr would take off his Wayfarers when he went to work, he could see when he was making a gigantic mistep. OK, maybe, MAYBE, a one-off episode. But They made him a major character. Were they just bored with writing Sci-Fi? Look, if you'd rather be writing insipid rat-pack rip offs, then please, for all our sakes, just quit Trek. Leave the show with some dignity. And finally, the resolving of the Dominion war is just lame. It doesn't make sense any way you look at it. It comes off like a undergrad creative writing assignment where the student realizes he's already reached the minimum required length, and decides to lazily tie up the story in one final paragraph. Why do you think the DS9 books are so popular? Because fans NEED them just to give some kind of believable closure to characters we'd all grown to love so much. Bad job, Guys. You really dropped the ball here... as well as in other Trek series (Enterprise anyone?). Lets hope the new Trek movie will breathe some life back into Gene Roddenberry's much-loved Universe. Rating: - The last season truly completes the seriesI love this show. I wish I had watched it while it was on, but I didn't, and found it thanks to the wonder that is DVD. Now that I've gotten to the end, so many different stories were completed, and brought to a great closing. The lasy half of the season is basically one long episode. Which I needed, because their were a few episodes I wasn't that thrilled with. All mainly because the new dax was featured so much. Though I wasn't thrilled with her to begin with, she did grow on me. Regardless, this show ended in a way I haven't seen before. Everyone going their seperate ways, and not. The last episode takes all the stories and character build up, and gives us a begining of their new life, as well as an ending to the old. Some of them suprised me, others saddened me, but all were worth waiting for. Obviously this is not the place to start, but certainly worth watching regardless. A great series. Rating: - grand finale'i own seasons 1,2,6,&7. this is definately the best of those. awesome Grand Finale'. don't want to spoil it further for you. GET IT!!
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