Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Summary
While Leonard Nimoy ’s Spock would later look - via archive footage - in theStar Trek : Deep Space Nineepisode " Trials and Tribble - ations , " the iconicStar Trek : The Original Seriesstar had a surprising connection to one ofDS9season 1 ’s best episodes . By the timeDS9premiered in 1993 , Leonard Nimoy had made what appeared to be his final appearance as Spock inStar Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country . However , Nimoy was eventually coaxed out of retirement to reprise the function of Spock for two of J.J. Abrams’sStar Trekmovies , in 2009 and 2013 .
As well as playing the legendarySpock inStar Trek , Leonard Nimoy was an accomplished stage actor and motion picture director . Nimoy directed two of theStar Trek : The Original Seriesmovies and also worked on the scripts for three out of the sixTOSmovies . However , Leonard Nimoy ’s surprising connection toStar Trek : Deep Space Ninehad nothing to do with Spock , or theTOSmovies . Instead , it was a swordplay that he had perform on - stage in 1971 which would go on to inspire " Duet " , the best episode ofDS9season 1 .
TNG ’s executive manufacturer Michael Piller trust that Spock ’s appearance lacked " cosmic significance " , but it radically impacted Star Trek ’s time to come .
Leonard Nimoy’s Connection To Star Trek: DS9’s “Duet” Explained
The original premiss for " Duet " , slope by writers Lisa Rich and Jeanne Carrigan - Fauci , was the arrival of a surmise Cardassian war criminal aboard Deep Space Nine . However , Star Trek : Deep Space Nineproducer Michael Piller interest that anotherStar Trekcourtroom dramaso before long after time of year 1 ’s " Dax " was a bad idea . Ira Steven Behr suggested establish the sequence on Robert Shaw ’s 1968 playThe Man in the Glass Booth . In the dramatic play , a Jewish businessman , Arthur Goldman is suspected of being the Nazi war felon Adolf Karl Dorf . Leonard Nimoy play the threefold persona of Goldman and Dorf in a 1971 revitalisation , and can be seen address about the drama , and his iconicStar Trekrole in the snip below :
Star Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s Aamin Maritza ( Harris Yulin ) andThe Man in the Glass Booth ’s Arthur Goldman ( Leonard Nimoy ) have clean-cut differences beyond the sci - fi trappings . InDS9 , Martiza is unambiguously pretend to be the warfare condemnable Gul Darhe’el , to answer for Cardassia ’s barbarous discourse of the Bajorans . Leonard Nimoy ’s character inThe Man in the Glass Boothis more equivocal . He ’s pretending to be Dorf and , like Maritza , forges documents to inhabit the historical monster . However , the motif of Arthur Goldman are more opaque than those of Aamin Maritza inDS9 .
“Duet” Flips A Classic Star Trek: TOS Episode
TheStar Trek : The Original Seriesepisode , " The Conscience of the King " is a more melodramatic account of a warfare criminal being hold accountable for his crimes . Both " Duet " andThe Man in the Glass Boothare compelling psychological stage plays , and yet theTOSepisode is more overtly theatrical . Like Aamin Maritza inStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , Anton Karidian ( Arnold Moss ) is an unassuming visitor with a gloomy arcanum . Where Martiza is an innocent man play the role of a warfare malefactor , Karidian is the notorious mass liquidator " Kodos the Executioner " , playing the purpose of an clean-handed doer .
Understandably , generate theStar Trekepisode ’s Shakespeare title , " The Conscience of the King " is a disaster that owes a sullen debt to the Bard . It ’s full of big public presentation and overwrought melodrama , culminate in Kodos ' dying at the hands of his daughter . Maritza perish at the end of " Duet " , too , but it ’s a nitty-gritty - wrenching moment that feels raw , raw , and unlike anything seen before inStar Trek . Where previousTrekshows had take care to the grand disaster of Shakespeare for inspiration , Star Trek : Deep Space Ninewas influenced by present-day field and brought Gene Roddenberry ’s imagination up to engagement for the 1990s .
All episodes ofStar Trek : Deep Space NineandStar Trek : The Original Seriesare streaming now on Paramount+ .
