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In 1993, Star Trek:
The Next Generation had become so successful that the powers that be
decided to produce a spin-off show.
The idea for the spin-off took awhile to coalesce, with the central
concept of a Trek show set on a space station eventually manifesting after the
network passed on a similar premise from J. Michael Straczynski entitled Babylon 5. The resulting show was Star
Trek: Deep Space 9 and it’s widely considered to be the best Star Trek show
of all time. The series was about
the titular station Deep Space 9, a platform set-up over the backwater world of
Bajor near the edge of Alpha Quadrant.
The station was intended to watch over Bajor as it
recovered from centuries of occupation, but in the first episode the station’s
new command Ben Sisko discovers a stable wormhole nearby that leads across the
galaxy. Now, it’s up to Deep Space
9 to facilitate the political, exploratory, and military forces that pour
between two sides of the galaxy. All
of that lead together into a 4 season long mega-arc that stands as the greatest
Star Trek story ever told: the Dominion War.
