I have decided 32 years later to try watching #DS9

Hooooo boy episode 1 of Deep Space Nine is horrible.

The acting is like bad community theater, which I'm not sure if I blame the actors or the director or the writers... it's just painfully bad all around.

I hear at some point it gets much better, but this is possibly the worst/stiffest acting I've seen on Star Trek... and that's saying something.

Also what the fuck were the writers thinking by introducing "characters" who don't understand linear time? It is literally impossible to write for such a character without completely defeating how language or storylines work with every statement. If they exist outside of linear time, then they already know all events past/present/future and would never ask questions about them... and yet they're portrayed as being quite inquisitive and concerned about consequences, implying that they are NOT outside of linear time and they've somehow just failed to notice that some events lead to other events, so they're dumb as hell.

I get that the whole purpose of the outside-of-time characters is to just act as a macguffin for exposition, but UGHHHHHHHhhhhhhh. I feel like I'm watching a stilted Waiting For Godot. Or maybe that bit towards the end of Zardoz.