As DS9 was a show of continuing changing plots, Which is your favorite overtheme of the series:
1. Rebuild Bajor
(Emmisary to the Jem'Hadar)
2. Dominion Scare
(The Search to The Adversary)
3. Klingon War
(Way of the Warrior to In Purgetory's Shadow)
4. Dominion Standoff
(Inferno's Light to the war )
5. The War
6. Final arc
Include Minor Themes too.
I really like the way you've summed up the series in a succession of "movements." Good analysis. Anyway, I'd put them in this order:
5, 4, 1, 3, 2, 6
The War and everything leading up to it was really cool, as was the Bajoran stuff. The Klingon thing could have worked out better if they'd been more committed to the idea, but I don't think the writers ever really liked it. The Founders were a fun source of paranoia, but that aspect was underused. The Finale Arc had some noce moments, but mostly fell flat for me.
I liked very much the arcs-within-arcs, involving the many characters on the station, such as those involving Ishka Zek and Brunt (yes, I begrudgingly include that episode with the words "and" and "Profit" in the title and doesn't involve an old Cardassian flame of Quark's) and of course the Bashir-O'Brien thing, which began pretty much from the beginning right to the end. And of course, Morn.
But wither Jennifer Sisko plotlines?!
From what I heard the Klingon War was not something that the writers wanted to do at all. It was something that one of the studio people told them to do.
Wasn,t it originally supposed to be a confrontation between federation and the vulcans who beleived that starfleet was becoming to millitant in the face of the dominion threat? But TPTB decided against it and replaced the vulcans with the Klingons. I remember reading something like that in a magazine article somewhere
The program I made for the DS9 Plot Generator can be downloaded here.
Peter.
Gotta say, I never thought of DS9 in terms of a symphony before. I guess it makes sense, really. now the light has dawned...
I think the Vulcan plot was originally tied to the two parter with Robert Foxworth and the silent coup of Starfleet.