Last night I started watching the Deep Space Nine season 1 set on DVD. As the show’s not actually on television anywhere anymore (at least, not according to my TiVo anyway, and that covers hundreds of channels!) so I’ve been looking forward to doing this for some time, and it was absolutely worth the wait.


DS9 is the show even a lot of trekkies can’t stand, but in my mind it’s the best of the lot. It’s the dark one…the one where characters don’t necessarily want to be where they are, and the one that shifted its focus to a war they were losing for over two seasons. It also happens to be the most overtly spiritual Star Trek, and naturally that appeals to me quite a bit.


I didn’t care for Voyager at all…coming off of DS9, Voyager seemed like a step in a bland direction, and even though I was told it got better towards the end, I found Seven of Nine to be a really stupid character when I last tried to watch it. I don’t hate Enterprise, but it hasn’t been able to hold my interest at all. I still TiVo them, and Heather seems to like it more than I do, but it just isn’t very exciting. And I find the long-term storyline in Enterprise to be more than a bit silly. I wish they’d drop it entirely, although obviously it’s too far along to just do that.


But who cares. I’ve got my DS9 set, so I’m happy. I can’t wait until I have the entire runs of this and Babylon 5, just so I can alternate between watching each from start to finish. Yes, it’s possible to love both shows. It’s a shame the two came out at the same time, since they really are wildly different from one another.


On a completely different note, I’m nearing the end of Coldheart Canyon, and it’s been a fun read. I suppose it’s a testament to Clive Barker’s skills as a novelist that this nearly 700 page book flew by, but all the same I find myself scratching my head and thinking about how little actually happened in those pages. This is due largely to the fact that most of the book’s events take place during a very short period of time, but it is strange nonetheless. Still, it’s a good book from a master of the genre, and it may be enough to get me to look into a couple of his other recent books, which I stayed away from after hearing negative things about.