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Deep Space Nine (on Spike TV)

15:21 / 21.03.04

Somebody just sent me this. Can anyone confirm it?

Cable television subscribers will be able to get a daily dose of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine from April this year.

Beginning Monday, April 5, Spike TV will be showing Deep Space Nine every weekday night at 7:00 p.m., according to Morty's TV. The series will also air at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday afternoons. To kick-off the new schedule, Spike TV will air a DS9 marathon from 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. on Friday, April 8.

Spike TV (formerly known as TNN) acquired the rerun rights to Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager in 2000. Under the terms of the license agreement, the cable network has been broadcasting reruns of Star Trek: The Next Generation since October 2001, but was not permitted to air Deep Space Nine until this year.

The Next Generation will still remain on the Spike TV schedule, but will be moved to an earlier timeslot. Instead of being screened in prime time, the series is scheduled to be shown at 1:00 p.m. on weekday afternoons, following on from the former UPN series, Seven Days, which will air at 12 midday.

Spike TV is licensed to air reruns of Star Trek: Voyager from 2006.

Mister Six, whom all the girls

15:26 / 21.03.04

I saw a blurb about it on TV, so yeah, I think it's a go.

19:00 / 21.03.04

"following on from the former UPN series, Seven Days, which will air at 12 midday."

Why?

Spike TV is licensed to air reruns of Star Trek: Voyager from 2006."

Good God, WHY???

22:23 / 21.03.04

I don't know why and I don't care. That's why niether of those two shows are mentioned in the topic title...duh.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

22:33 / 21.03.04

Spike TV has loaded up on all the Star Trek series (and will get the original series once the contract is up at SciFi) because they are owned by Viacom, which owns Paramount.

12:20 / 22.03.04

I own it all anyway. But I'm glad someone's repeating it. It deserves it.

12:32 / 22.03.04

So if spike TV is showing Star Trek 24/7 how will casual tv watches be able to tell the diference between them and Fox... just the lack of the Simpsons and X-files i guess...

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

13:13 / 22.03.04

Spike TV will have more wrasslin and the dating shows THEY have late at night will be a couple of years older than the ones on FOX.

But, the other thing is that when Spike buys a Star Trek series, they buy the exclusive rights to it, which is why you don't see Next Generation on broadcast syndication anymore.

18:55 / 22.03.04

This show started out kinda weak but got reeeaaaal good somewhere around the middle of its run, or 3/4 through its run. I think it ran -- 6 seasons, right? And seasons 4, 5 and 6 were really good, as I recall. The whole thing with the war and all that. The writers developed the characters more around seasons 3 and 4 and made us care about them...they had great actors on that show, too.

20:21 / 22.03.04

It ran 7 seasons and you're right it was pretty weak at first, no better than Voyager. It started getting good in season 4. So when you see that goatee on Sisko you know things it's getting good and when he shaves of his hair... watch out!

02:49 / 05.04.04

Just letting anyone whose interested know that this starts up tomorrow (April 5th) at 7:00 pm on, like the title says, Spike TV.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

21:53 / 05.04.04

What is it with facial hair on Star Trak? Next Gen didn't get good until Riker grew his beard as well.

Maybe Janeway should have grown a beard so that Voyager could have been watchable.

02:26 / 06.04.04

Though I did find there was still quite a bit good in the early seasons. I liked Odo's early characteristics better, as he got too soft by then end. His early years as a mean, pick were great. But in general the later stuff was better, though the whole religious fanatic angle with Dukat was a bit odd. About the only complaint I have with DS9 is that it made Kingons too soft. Worf in particular. He became too nice. The Klingons in Next Gen were hard, violent and dangerous. By the end of DS9 they were too human, they lost their alient nature. The whole differing cultures thing was really lost. That said Best Star Trek series after Next Gen and it comes awfully close.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

04:43 / 07.04.04

Worf always got his ass kicked. I know WHY they did it (if the klingon gets beat up, this bad guy must be POWERFUL), but it made him look like a complete loser, unable to win a fight for any reason. Still, he was easily the most interesting character in the Star Trek pantheon, IMHO.

In fact, I found the Klingon culture far more interesting the Starfleet once Next Gen started.

Mister Six, whom all the girls

15:37 / 11.04.04

I really liked the first season, actually.

It had the best series premiere of all the shows combined, the fact that we see time as being connected by emotional moments we call memories was genius and touching.

One episode really stands out in my head, the one where Odo is investigating a crime and we see how inhuman he is, how much the outsider he is... I mean he sleeps in a bucket! The flashback sequences to his first 'case' on the station under Cardassian rule was also sweet.

And I liked the Cardassian dude who I think worked as a seamstress or coffee shop owner or something??? He was very quiet but sinister at once. The first season had this air of depression and restriction that I really was drawn to. But eventually it became very similar to other Trek and I lost interest, I think mid-season even. But that's me.