Violence sometimes *is* the answer

Eh. I always liked the Q episodes. Not sure why DS9 went that way but whatever. It all worked out in the end.

I guess they didn't want to have to figure out what Q and the wormhole aliens would do with each other.

I just started my DS9 rewatch today, having just completed Voyager, Enterprise and SNW in my "COVID then RSV then ENT infection" couch-misery marathon. I saw the Q episode with Vash just hours ago - loved O'Brien's reaction when he recognized Q.

I think they developed Voyager and DS9 to be two halves of the Star Trek whole. Voyager was flung so far that almost every species was new, so right from the start it highlighted the awkward first handshakes the Federation had to endure. DS9 included (mostly) known species and highlighted the increasingly awkward second handshakes, and third, and on and on: the real work of diplomacy beyond first contact. It's a political drama, The West Wing in space. Q has no patience for such intricacies, though that is what he often says he values so much in humanity.

Violence sometimes is the answer

A likely story, Captain Warcrimes for Coffee

I see you Janeway

And remember: if violence isn’t working, you’re probably just not using enough of it.
Sir Samuel Vimes also isn't disinclined to giving out knuckle sandwiches

I think they need to stop relying on props from former series. Glad they mostly did, though it came back for Voyager. And they need to stop with evil parallel universe.

For sure. I want a standalone series. Of the new shows, Lower Decks or Strange New Worlds got us closest to that. But they both feel like an homage to their counterparts (TNG and TOS respectively). I would appreciate a show like DS9 that takes a sort of "day in the life" appeal towards somewhere simple. They made a star base the entire show. I imagine they could take a newly colonized or colonizing planet and make a show about that. New plants, animals, dangers, phenomena, etc. I'm sure each planet could have plenty of stories to tell and subcultures to explore.
- I’m sure each planet could have plenty of stories to tell and subcultures to explore.
  
  That gives me some ideas:
  
  Rick Steves' Alpha Quadrant
  
  FNN exobiology documentaries narrated by a temporally-displaced David Attenborough
  
  Iron Chef Qo'noS, inexplicably cohosted by Neelix and Joseph Sisko even though both have to be holo-projected in from their homes on New Talax and Earth respectively, with judging by Q
- i really want a Star Trek show that does not play on a Star Fleet vehicle. Something like the Hansens from Voyager could be cool
I liked the episode of voyager where you think it's an evil parallel universe at first but it's just a hearsay simulation of events from poorly informed future historians
My husband and I are on season 5 of ds9. We watched the first mirror universe episode, but it’s not the vibe I want from Star Trek, tbh
- I'm introducing my adult daughter to Trek. We're wrapping up season 6 in a few sessions...
  
  We jumped around alot when first introducing her to Trek via TNG. Skipped a lot just because we hopped all through the seasons. Will have to go back for some.
  
  In DS9... We're skipping almost nothing. That almost nothing? Mirror episodes.
  
  Edit: You miss absolutely nothing in the grand overall plot for doing this. Feel free.

"Indeed not. You're much easier to provoke. How fortunate for me."

As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero.

Vaarsuvius, Order of the Stick

Fair play, Q had had developed expectations from Picard. If Picard had punched Q when he first saw him, humanity would have been snapped to the soup age. The Q didn't have the greatest of attitudes towards humans as it was.