Husband and I are both hard-core scifi book addicts. Though I still tend toward the funny.
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I didn’t like what JJ did to Star Wars. I LOVED what he did to Star Trek. Agree on Quark, Garak and Jadzea, though I’m beginning to warm to Odo. Loved Garak trying to destroy the founders planet; loved Julian shooting Garak. Just can’t stand Kira or Sisko or Miles. Husband just went bonkers watching Farscape when they carefully made the distinction between hypothesis and theory.
DS9 definitely had some unique characters. I also liked the Odo character, but I also developed a liking to the O’Brien one; don’t know why exactly. Ah, and Gul Dukat as the complex, strangely likable bad guy. And while I’m at it, I might as well admit that my favorite sci-fi series was Battlestar Galactica, the new one. The Empire Strikes back was the only Star Wars movie I really liked (and I really liked it). Although the 1st wasn’t bad—but do you really need to build a 100 kilometer wide ship capable of blowing a planet to smitherines? Seems a bit overkill, when all you need to do is just wipe out all life. A really big nuke would do that, and could easily fit into a Corellian corvette. I would have a hard time deciding my favorite sci-fi movie overall, however. I might make a list of the potential candidates some day.