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Hello Space community, this is my first post and probably not my last :)

 

I was wondering why Space keeps running reruns of TNG and Voyager but not Deep Space Nine? I've been watching Space for the last couple years and I cant remember ever seeing DSN on here.

They showed it and it apparently did not get the ratings, so they pulled it.  It is too bad too since it was the best of the latter Treks and the true successor to TOS.

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Spike TV is currently airing DS9 weeknights.  It's late at night, but at least they're airing it.  :)

 

 

 

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"Please let me know if there's some other way we can screw up tonight."
- William Shatner, "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"

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They showed it and it apparently did not get the ratings, so they pulled it.  It is too bad too since it was the best of the latter Treks and the true successor to TOS.

Exactly. 

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I concur. They did show it, but at bizarre times of the day, never late aft or early evening like the VERY tired TNG  or the underwhelming Voyager or Enterprise! I guess they figure that everyone interested in scifi today has either a TIVO or time-shifting at hand!

I too wish DS9 was on Space. It doesn't really work on Spike, and the times are odd.  It airs mondays at 11 PM PST, then Tuesday and Wednesday at 11:30 PM PST, and that's it.  Sometimes they don't even show it, like this week it isn't airing at all, then it comes back next week.  If Space were to show it,  we would get it Mon-Fri in a solid time slot not late at night, and that would be truly amazing.

Although thishas nothing to do with DS9, which I think space should air, I'm woindering why they skipped voyager classic tow parter Year of Hell. Is there going to be future plans to re air it in a trek marathon of skipped stories. Although I love space tv, I'm really disappointed they are skipping some of these great stories. For example, they did not air the best of both worlds, luckly I own on the borg fan collective dvd. I hope space shows this episode and brings bakc DS9, which is very underated show.

They skipped those stories because they had already aired them in a marathon.  They can contractually show an episode for a certain number of airings.  If they show an episode in a marathon then it burns up one of the contractual airings and they skip over it in the strip run.  That is why they don't do a lot of episode marathons, unless they are trying to burn up the airings for a show.

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Star Trek Voyager is better than DS9, although it is good. Anyways, now that I have that out of my way, DS9 is on during the mornings.

Yeah, this boggles my mind.  DS9 is more superior in many ways than the other trek series', why not air it?

I think DS9 is probably the best of the 'new Star Trek' iterations. The problem with this show is that it is, by FAR the least watched Star Trek. I have my own theories as to why... why do you think this show does not do well?

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DS9 is closer to the original than the others.  Unfortunately, the Wimp Generation followers look down on the original, even though it had the superior characters and stories.  It was also more serialized so they had a harder time following it.

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Your analysis is close to mine- it's the old 'serial story' problem. This kills re-run audiences.

Babylon 5, BSG, even the X-Files and many other modern shows have this problem.

And yet again, quality does not always translate into ratings.

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Spike TV is currently airing DS9 weeknights.  It's late at night, but at least they're airing it.  :)

 

 

 

Weeknights LOL thats funny its on at 2 or 3 am on spike. and as to the rest it's just a matter of personal option. Now for me DS9 was WAY to far into the religious stuff. Seemed that every episode had some Bajoran problem that only the profits or there emassary could solve and I did give up on it for a bit. Then around the time of the Dominion war I tuned back in. Well that and the whole Jew/Nazi comparsion that I won't go into here I've said it enough on this board.

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I don't think so *ZAAAPPP*

I liked DS9 because it dared to be different (set on a space station, delved deeply into religion and war,) but I think there were a lot of fans that didn't want that; they wanted more of the same—which led to Voyager (watered down from its original concept) and then Enterprise, and then cancellation and no Trek at all.

 

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