Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Summary
The cast ofStar Trek : Deep Space Ninediffered from the"popular kids"of theStar Trek : The Next Generationcast , sound out Jadzia Dax actress Terry Farrell . BecauseDS9premiered duringTNGseason 6 , and the two show broadcast concurrently , DS9needed to look and experience different fromTNGwhile still shew that it require topographic point in the same universe . To that end , DS9 ’s stamp had more aliens and fewer Starfleet officers thanTNG , and told stories set on a Cardassian , rather than Federation , space place , but also featured crossover character like Chief Miles O’Brien ( Colm Meaney ) and Lt . Commander Worf ( Michael Dorn ) .
Terry Farrell , who played Trill science officerLt . Commander Jadzia DaxinStar Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s first 6 time of year , believe there’sa reasonableness whyDS9 ’s staggeringly varied plaster cast of character still works , and volunteer her explanation inThe Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 Yearsby Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross . Read her quote below :
People are always going on and on about what a phratry the Next Gen cast is and how we were n’t . Here ’s my side : I cerebrate Next Generation are the pop kids in high school . They ’re totally a clique . They ’re all dancing to the same song ; we ’re each dance to our own different songs , but we still come together . I ’m not endeavor to say it ’s thick than what Next Gen has . It ’s just unlike . We ’re all from low homes and we descend together and make ourselves a chemical group . They all fall from the same home . We all came to the space station and we ’re all coming from a different space , and they all came from Starfleet . We ’re the kids from the dysfunctional fellowship , but we survived . We ’re not the f – kups that do together , we ’re the survivors that number together .
Star Trek : Deep Space Nine had the biggest cast of reference of any Trek show , meaning that Captain Sisko had numerous allies in the Dominion War .
DS9’s Space Station Setting Made it a Very Different Kind of Star Trek
As the firstStar Trekseries set on a space station , Star Trek : Deep Space Ninecollected characters from all walks of life story with an experimental but necessary departure from the formula ofStar Trek : The Next Generation . Instead of boldly going into the unknown to discover adventures , DS9 ’s stories needed to come up to the post , run tothe complex format ofDS9 ’s on-going wartime narrative . Problems marinade in growing tension , or else of being forget . DS9 ’s popular resort characters , like Cardassian sartor Garak ( Andrew Robinson ) , deposed egoist Gul Dukat ( Marc Alaimo ) , and Bajoran ghostly leader Kai Winn Adami ( Louise Fletcher ) hung around the station and became rich and intriguing player .
Thecharacters onStar Trek : Deep Space Ninemade it a compelling and favored entry in theStar Trekfranchise . The differences betweenDS9 ’s character , once a source of lessons on how to hand across cultural divide , were thrown in sharper relief as DS9 became the hub of the Dominion War . Political association and motives became more of import , tensions rose , and Captain Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) was thrown into a moral gray area . Star Trek : Deep Space Ninelet itself be messy and complicated , but as Farrell pointed out , still keep the all important subject matter ofStar Trek : that those dance to dissimilar songs can still come together , and in doing so , exist .
Star Trek : Deep Space Nineis useable to stream on Paramount+ .
Source : The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 Years : From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams : The Complete , Uncensored , and Unauthorized unwritten History of Star Trekby Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross
