BMK BMK The Bitmap Kid Presents... ----------------------------- A Short Review of DEEP SPACE NINE ------------------------------------ For those of you who don't know, Deep Space Nine is a new Star Trek - The Next Generation 'world' series based around a starbase deep in space (surprise, surprise!). Episodes are available on video here in the UK. It has been quite a while since I saw the episodes, but I'll try to remember as best I can! Although I'm a major fan of the Star Trek TNG series, I found Deep Space 9 lacking greatly a lot of the time. The sets, acting, costumes, effects and make-up are second to none, but the plots seemed very slow and very boring indeed. It was nice to see another part of the Star Trek 'world' but for some reason the 'magic' of the main Star Trek doesn't seem to have reached this far into space! I like the basic idea, but the stories I saw made me want to go and do something else rather than find out how/why 'some bloke' was killed (or whatever). I don't have a clue why the episodes I saw weren't too good - perhaps the series needs time to settle or perhaps I'm just too devoted to TNG, but although I enjoyed 'seeing inside a starbase' and although I'd probably catch each episode if it was on the telly, I would be wondering all the while why they couldn't be showing more of TNG instead! I recommend you catch it if you're a major Star Trek fan, if not I wouldn't bother too much. It's a real shame, I know, but there we go. I wish I could write a more praising review, but I just can't .... for the moment anyway! BMK BMK