Thanks and a question

[altariel]

Many thanks for the Doctor Who fic recs in the comments of my last post.

Question: I can't find my Firefly DVDs, nor my copy of the f/f Blake's 7 zine Sleer as Folk. If you're reading this and you've borrowed one or both of them, could you let me know? I'm in no particular hurry to get them back, I just couldn't lay my hands on them when I went looking the other week, and I'd be sad to think they'd gone missing. Ta muchly!

Comments

[altariel.livejournal.com]

TNG was my first Trek love, I watched tons of it while I was doing my A-levels.

Reasons to watch DS9. Let us draw a veil over the Ferengi-Pop episode. Also the ones about baseball. DS9 is the business, and the one that all the cool kids like best. The starting point of the story is that a bunch of terrorists have finally driven their Cardassian oppressors off their homeworld, Bajor. There's lots of stuff about being in the Resistance, right up my street. Political shenanigans on Bajor as various religious and political groups vie for control.

In season 4, the show starts to develop a running narrative, so for best effect you need to watch a continuous run from then on. DS9 is the front line of a MASSIVE WAR. So it really gathers pace, and the ongoing narrative means that the writers are able to give space to all these secondary characters, some of whom end up having some of the best stories in the show. Like Garak, of course, but others too.

Also, Kira (see icon, with Garak) is the best female character in the whole of Trek.