OK, were a couple of seasons of DS9 *actually* written originally as fanfic?
Personally I've only seen six or eight episodes, but reading other people's reviews has given me the impression that, yes, that is pretty much what happened. What made you ask the question, though?
My roommates have been watching it, and...yeah. It's like they took fanfic of "I want Quark and that one Klingon chick to ACTUALLY fuck!" or "I wanna see Worf dom'ing Garak" or "The crew winds up in the era of TOS, complete with beehive hairstyles" and then filmed them...
(Possibly that was during the Writers' Strike, although I thought that happened later.)
I mean, I guess it's not unlike what happened with all the OTHER series (and not a few other shows): the premise is good, but then the writers just completely fall down on the job at some point. (And my impression is that with Voyager, that point was immediately after they wrote the pilot!)
"I want Quark and that one Klingon chick to ACTUALLY fuck!" or "I wanna see Worf dom'ing Garak"
Those were not among the episodes I watched!
"The crew winds up in the era of TOS, complete with beehive hairstyles"
I remember that one! And it got some kind of award, because everybody loves tribbles.
(And my impression is that with Voyager, that point was immediately after they wrote the pilot!)
Frustratingly, Voyager contained some really good episodes—I was shown three or four of them last year by a friend who had watched the entire series and could pick them out for me, as opposed to my experience which was watching the pilot, not being impressed, coming back two or three seasons later, seeing a random season finale and being less impressed, not bothering again. Apparently the deal is just that week to week, watching for the first time, there was never any way to tell whether you were going to get a good episode, an all right episode, or an episode where you wanted your brain back afterward, and very few viewers stuck out the Russian roulette. Which is fair. I didn't!
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choco_frosh) wrote2017-03-18 07:03 pm
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Personally I've only seen six or eight episodes, but reading other people's reviews has given me the impression that, yes, that is pretty much what happened. What made you ask the question, though?
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(Possibly that was during the Writers' Strike, although I thought that happened later.)
I mean, I guess it's not unlike what happened with all the OTHER series (and not a few other shows): the premise is good, but then the writers just completely fall down on the job at some point. (And my impression is that with Voyager, that point was immediately after they wrote the pilot!)
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Those were not among the episodes I watched!
"The crew winds up in the era of TOS, complete with beehive hairstyles"
I remember that one! And it got some kind of award, because everybody loves tribbles.
(And my impression is that with Voyager, that point was immediately after they wrote the pilot!)
Frustratingly, Voyager contained some really good episodes—I was shown three or four of them last year by a friend who had watched the entire series and could pick them out for me, as opposed to my experience which was watching the pilot, not being impressed, coming back two or three seasons later, seeing a random season finale and being less impressed, not bothering again. Apparently the deal is just that week to week, watching for the first time, there was never any way to tell whether you were going to get a good episode, an all right episode, or an episode where you wanted your brain back afterward, and very few viewers stuck out the Russian roulette. Which is fair. I didn't!