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DS9: Best New Race?

DS9: Best new race?


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Terra_Inc

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Hello there, community members!

While some claim DS9 to be a partial ripoff of Babylon 5, it nonetheless had a huge impact on Trek. One reason for this are the numerous new races that were introduced. In this poll, we ask you: Which one was the best?

(No DS9 vs B5 here, please. If you want to express your opinion, post in the respective thread. Thx!)

Did we miss one? Please post and tell us.

Okay, that's it for this time. See you again in two weeks, for the next poll. Take care and stay tuned for your Regular MSFC poll!

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Well I'd say it really has to be (unfortunately for once I have to go for a blantant obvious one, as opposed to my usual obscure answers) the Jem'Hadar. We saw so many aspects of them, of their physiology, their culture, strengths and weaknesses, so much more in depth than any other race (including the Founders and Vorta).

(The Cardassians, Breen, Trill and Bajorans were also shown in varying levels of detail, of course, but don't count, being seen/introduced first in TNG.)

To be fair, I haven't seen enough DS9 to know many of the other races, though I did like Tosk, even if he was a bit [read: totally] one-dimensional.
 

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As a totally new race: The Breen. The Jem'Hadar seem like the Borg without the fancy laser-eyes for me.
The Vorta have nothing special, only one more humanoid race. The changelings... I just don't know. It was cool until Odo was the only one, but once everyone became a changeling sooner or later, it wasn't that much fun any more.
The only time I really liked the Prophets was in the pilot, when Sisko tries to explain them what linear existence means. That's one of my favorite parts of DS9 :D
 

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Technically the Breen are TNG They were referenced in (TNG :"Hero Worship") as well as in the move Generations :) long before they show up in DS9

But that's nitpicking

I like the Vorta most because of Weyoun :)
 

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The actor that played Weyoun and Brunt from DS9 and Shran in ENT was great. I think his name is Jeffrey Combs or the like, he was also in the movie frighteners with Michael J Fox.

He was actually my favourite actor in the whole DS9 series, next to Michael Dorn whom played Worf, the guy who played Martok (whom also played Sisko's Vulcan commanding officer in the Battle of Wolf 359 in the episode Emissary), and the actor whom played O'Brien. However out of those four two were either main or recurring actors/characters from TNG.

However to the topic, my favourite race from the list is the Jem'Hadar. It was about time the Klingons found a adversary just as bloodthirsty as themselves. While I am not much of a fan of DS9, I must admit I really liked the Dominion and it's philosophy.
 

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Jeffrey Combs is awesome. He also was Herbert West (but that has nothing to do with Trek).

I voted for the Vorta. I kind of liked those guys. :)
 

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I voted Jem'Hadar. Simply because I like their premise. They are a slave race forced through genetically introduced drug dependency to do battle for the Founders.

Plus the Jem'Hadar destroyer is one of the coolest new ship designs for ages (DS9 had a lot of them, the Defiant being another..)
 

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I voted for the Prophets, if only because the concept of non-linear time is really interesting to me. The various Dominion races all seemed a little more two-dimensional than the other major powers in Trek to me.
 

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I always thought the Jemhadar where a rip off of the Jafa from stargate. They are a slave race forced through introduced dependency to do battle for there masters. I picked the founders. Because Odo was a main character they saw more and better development then all the other choices like how the Klingon as a group benefited from Worfs precence on the Enterprise.
 

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The Jem'Hadar first show up in 12 July 1994 and the Stargate sg1 pilot was in July 27, 1997 First showing of the Jafa

Note: there were no Jafa in the Stargate "Release date October 28, 1994" move RA guards were all human

But if you want to talk about rip offs look at Sg1's Kull warriors
creature genetically engineered by Anubis, likely intended to eventually replace the Jaffa as foot soldiers in the Goa'uld's army. These nearly unstoppable soldiers are given life and enhanced by Ancient technology, and kept alive by Goa'uld symbiotes -- "blank slates" created deliberately by the Goa'uld queen without their species' genetic knowledge, in order to make them subservient. The creatures are fused into their black armored suits, and are aided by a breathing filtration apparatus. The super-soldiers are enhanced with plasma-absorption armor, so that nearly all energy weapons directed against them have no effect.

Can we say Jem'Hadar :p

So careful who we call rip offs :naughty: Starfox1701


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Back to topic

I like how the Vorta came it to being

The Vorta believe, perhaps apocryphally, that they previously existed as small, timid, ape-like forest dwellers living in hollowed-out trees to avoid the many predators on their homeworld. Legend has it that one day, a family of Vorta hid a Changeling from an angry mob of "solids" that were pursuing it. In return, the Changeling promised that one day they would be transformed into powerful beings and placed at the head of a vast interstellar empire that would stretch across the galaxy. The Founders fulfilled this promise by genetically changing the Vorta into humanoids and employing them at the highest level of the Dominion as their tools of conquest. (DS9: "Treachery, Faith and the Great River")
 

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...who played Martok (whom also played Sisko's Vulcan commanding officer in the Battle of Wolf 359 in the episode Emissary), and the actor whom played O'Brien.

They were J. G. Hertzler and Colm Meaney ;)
 

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I would have to say that Ra's guards in the movie were jaffa. They used their look for the jaffa in the series after all, and the movie never explored them in detail. They were meant as cannon fodder, nothing more.

Back on topic though, I'd have to say the jem hadar. A lot of reasons covered above for why. Same with the founders. The breen weren't really there as anything other than warriors, they weren't really developed beyond that. And were technically a tng race to begin with. The vorta were too one dimensional for me.
 

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It would be the Jem'hadar for me but the Breen come in a close second and only lose out since they never really get fleshed out much.
 
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