Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is, in many ways, a midway point between the sincerity and procedural nature of Star Trek: The Next Generation and the messier, more ambitious Battlestar Galactica.
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Season 7: Episode 25, "What You Leave Behind" Everything from the past seven years comes to a head in a series finale that brings the show to a satisfying close, if not necessarily a happy ending. Deep Space Nine didn't always take the obvious route, as you might be realizing by now. Season 7: Episode 10, "It's Only a Paper Moon" In a series that centers around a man coming to terms with losing his wife as the result of an alien attack, it's surprising that its most clear commentary on post-traumatic stress comes in relation to another character altogether, but no less surprising than the fact that said commentary includes the presence of a faux Rat Pack-er in a virtual Las Vegas from the middle of the 20th century. That he and his colleagues all look like the crew of Deep Space Nine isn't a coincidence. Season 6: Episode 13, "Far Beyond the Stars" Probably the best episode of Deep Space Nine, and definitely the best example of the "What if all of the series is a hallucination and this is the truth?" trope that's popped up on countless series throughout the years, the audience is introduced to Benny Russell, a sci-fi writer in 1950s New York who has to deal with racism, censorship, and police brutality. Even more fun than the retro-parody is watching Bashir slowly realize that his friend Garak (Andrew Robinson) is a far better spy than he ever imagined.
Season 4: Episode 9, "Our Man Bashir" The Next Generation had Sherlock Holmes and Dixon Hill as regular Holodeck fantasies, but Deep Space Nine was more interested in the Swinging Sixties, leading to this James Bond parody in which the station's doctor, Julian Bashir (Alexander Siddig), gets to live out his secret agent fantasies. Sentimental in all the best ways, and more than a little touching as a result. Season 4: Episode 3, "The Visitor" An accident sends Sisko out of phase with his regular timeline, but instead of following him as he leaps into the future without any control, the episode sticks with his son as he comes to terms with becoming an orphan even though his father is still, technically, alive. Season 2: Episode 23, "Crossover" The choice to bring back the Mirror Universe of the original Trek was one that could easily have backfired, but thanks to a quick-moving story-and the decision to turn one of the show's regular characters into a semi-dominatrix villainess in the alternate timeline-"Crossover" turned out to be successful enough to turn Mirror Universe episodes into a regular occurrence for the rest of the show's run. Tense and unwilling to take the easy route, "Duet" was an early hint at the future direction of the series. Season 1: Episode 19, "Duet" Kira becomes convinced that one of the visitors to the station is actually a war criminal responsible for an infamous slaughter of prisoners at a labor camp, and sets out to break him in order to find the truth.
If you're one of those people, cancel all your evening plans for the next few months.
It remained true to the ideals behind the franchise while breaking new ground, and in the process, setting the stage for the great sci-fi that followed (looking at you, Battlestar Galactica remake).ĭespite that, it remains a show that a lot of people haven't managed to discover just yet. The answer turned out to be "pretty good, actually." Deep Space Nine (or DS9 for short) wasn't the same kind of Star Trek that audiences had enjoyed before, but instead something that took the ideas behind the earlier series in different directions. How good could a Star Trek be if the characters weren't boldly going anywhere? After all, Star Trek: The Next Generation was still going strong, so the idea of a second series set in the same time period seemed superfluous, and the revelation that it wouldn't be set on a starship, but instead a space station, felt ludicrous. When it debuted in 1993, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine seemed like an odd proposition.
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