That show had a great first season. It also lasted five seasons.
Oh, man, did they fuck it up. The final season is partially about taking down space vampires, and partially about watching clips from previous seasons.
Yeah, iirc Majel (Gene Roddenberry’s wife) died midway through the making of the show, once saying about it:
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry contended that Earth: Final Conflict was the biggest disappointment for her, saying the show was “pretty bad.”
That said, getting past the “punch the aliens in the nose” aspects, it also has an interesting message (imho) about “purity” having its downsides, ultimately dooming the Talons to a long demise. And then whatever the fuck happened in that last season - presumably it had a point as well but it got so hard to keep making allowances for it after the space Jesus holy-trinity-in-one triple-helix-having Chimera savior of mankind plotline.
But I don’t hold any of that against either Gene Roddenberry, who had been dead for awhile by then, or his wife who didn’t survive long enough to see the show’s end herself. The premise of the show was FANTASTIC! Probably that’s what Gene had wanted from DS9 as well: they sit there and the action comes to them, to contrast from the more exploration-minded Enterprise shows (TOS and TNG). And… truth isn’t always apparent right from the start.:-)
That show had a great first season. It also lasted five seasons.
Oh, man, did they fuck it up. The final season is partially about taking down space vampires, and partially about watching clips from previous seasons.
Yeah, iirc Majel (Gene Roddenberry’s wife) died midway through the making of the show, once saying about it:
That said, getting past the “punch the aliens in the nose” aspects, it also has an interesting message (imho) about “purity” having its downsides, ultimately dooming the Talons to a long demise. And then whatever the fuck happened in that last season - presumably it had a point as well but it got so hard to keep making allowances for it after the space Jesus holy-trinity-in-one triple-helix-having Chimera savior of mankind plotline.
But I don’t hold any of that against either Gene Roddenberry, who had been dead for awhile by then, or his wife who didn’t survive long enough to see the show’s end herself. The premise of the show was FANTASTIC! Probably that’s what Gene had wanted from DS9 as well: they sit there and the action comes to them, to contrast from the more exploration-minded Enterprise shows (TOS and TNG). And… truth isn’t always apparent right from the start.:-)
Majel lived until 2008, long after the show was over, but yeah, it was such a disappointment.