He ALSO gets to strap a bunch of guns to the place. Can’t forget that.

Starfleet: We aren’t a military, we just want to explore and do science

DS9: no, see, you don’t understand, we NEED the Defiant. And do you expect us to just, what? NOT use it?

Always seemed like more of an airport to me.

Not quite. The low burden job was what he'd already been doing after Wolf 359, starship design at Utopia Planitia (working on the Defiant, which is why he knew about it). Reassigning him to DS9 was his CO's attempt to kick him out of that rut and get his career back on track, and he almost resigned over it.

I want to see the timeline where Sisko declares DS9 an independent state.

And surrogate cathouse, smuggling depot, and Cardassian vole hive.

Intra-galactic also works.

Hey, DS9 was visited by beings from another galaxy on no fewer than five occasions.

Now, was that galaxy just the Milky Way of an alternate universe? Maybe. I dare say irrelevant.

Intra-galactic

And, briefly, weapons outlet

I’m jealous of you. You’re one of the lucky ten thousand today. DS9, especially after the first season working out of the kinks, it great.

i am on episode 9. i have seen all other treks except DS9 until now.

I'm not entirely sure who it was that convinced me to skip it initially all those years ago because it "wasn't a real star trek show..." but I am angry I listened to whoever told me that. I'm currently on a watch-all-of-trek kick and I just finished TOS and TNG. felt like DS9 will fit in nicely before Voyager.

The show is really good and I keep kicking myself for not having seen it for so long. absolutely give it a try.

edit: also happy lemmy cake day =P

Honestly, that’s a big nope.

Their religion seems boring as fuck

it would be introgalatic/or intra. intergalatic, trek never expanded beyond the galaxy. certain species did though.

The wormhole must be worth a Cineplex of screens right? Mean it was on mine and I only got to see the parts they filmed.

A marcher lord was the English equivalent of a margrave (in the Holy Roman Empire) or a marquis (in France)

Oh shit, now you've gone and done it!