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I’m sure everyone’s got their favorite season of a given show, but for me, Deep Space Nine never got better than its second season. In a lot of ways, this is the last season of the show that I enjoyed from premiere to finale. Everything in the second year was rock solid, damn good storytelling, excellent empire building, and compelling characterization. With later seasons’ introduction of such elements as the Defiant and Worf, it just seems to me like DS9 got too far away from its roots. This was the show at its absolute greatest potential. (more…)

It had to wind down sooner or later, didn’t it? After breaking just about every possible mold of the Star Trek franchise, Deep Space Nine reached its final year, and still managed to pack quite a few surprises. Quite a few fans were incensed by Terry Farrell’s somewhat surprising exodus the previous year - unable to negotiate a raise for herself with Paramount, the actress left Deep Space Nine for greener pastures and joined the cast of a new CBS sitcom called Becker - but it’s hard to argue that the almost Time Lord-ian replacement of Jadzia Dax didn’t offer plenty of new opportunities for stories and relationship shake-ups. At the risk of angering Ms. Farrell’s legion of fans, the change probably should’ve happened a year earlier. (more…)

It waits at the edge of the final frontier. It waits for an untested captain and an uncertain crew. But most of all, it waits for you.

Thus went the first ever on-air promos for Stsr Trek: Deep Space Nine, as seen in December 1992, a month before the January ‘93 premiere. And me? I was excited as could be. I was a loyal Next Generation devotee, and this new series was an intriguing new concept being put together by the writers and producers who had turned Next Generation around in the show’s third season. How could it fail? (more…)