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"The challenge of putting together a television show for the first time was especially intimidating because of the traditions and the expectations for Star Trek®."
-- Michael Piller, co-creator, Star Trek: Deep Space Ni

Introduction

ix

First Season

2

(68)

Second Season

70

(86)

Third Season

156

(98)

Fourth Season

254

(104)

Fifth Season

358

(116)

Sixth Season

474

(116)

Seventh Season

590

(128)

Appendix

718

(5)

Acknowledgments

723

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Chapter One: First Season Overview Putting It All Together What are the most important elements required in the development of a television series? A concept, certainly. A look. A tone. A personality, if you will. But in actuality, it's the people involved with the series, both on-screen and off, that form the skeleton upon which the entire production takes shape. And if the skeleton of the newborn television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine were to resemble the space station itself, there is no doubt that Ops, the station's nerve center, could be represented in those first critical days only by co-creators Rick Berman and Michael Piller. It was late 1991 when Berman, executive producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation, received the clarion call from Brandon Tartikoff, then head of Paramount Pictures, to create a new science fiction television series for the studio. "I was asked to create and develop a series that would serve as a companion piece to The Next Generation for about a year and a half, and then TNG would go off the air and this new show would continue," recalls Berman. "So I asked Michael Piller to get involved, and we put our heads together. I really never had the opportunity to discuss any ideas with Gene [Roddenberry]. This was very close to the end of Gene's life, and he was quite ill at the time. But he knew that we were working on something, and I definitely had his blessing to develop it."Tartikoff had mentioned the possibility of the new show being a kind of Rifleman in space -- the concept being that if Star Trek was originally conceived of as a Wagon Train to the stars, then the new show would be The Rifleman, a man and his son living together in a frontier town. And the station itself, of course, would be a high-tech version of Fort Laramie, or Dodge City, or any of a variety of classic American Western towns located at the edge of the new frontier.Sounds simple enough -- but remember, this wasn't to be just any science fiction series."The challenge of putting together a television show for the first time was especially intimidating because of the traditions and the expections for Star Trek," admits Piller. "And yet, coming with the wind at our backs [from The Next Generation, where Piller also held the title of executive producer], it really felt as if we had figured out what made Star Trek work, and that we could bring all of the vision that Gene Roddenberry had about space and the future to a different kind of franchise. We didn't want to do the same thing again. We didn't want to have another series of shows about space travel. We felt that there was an opportunity to really look deeper, more closely at the working of the Federation and the Star Trek universe by standing still. And by putting people on a space station where they would be forced to confront the kinds of issues that people in space ships are not forced to confront."In a series that focuses on a starship like the Enterprise, Piller explains, you live week by week. "You never have to stay and deal with the issues that you've raised," he says. But by focusing on a space station, you create a show about commitment"...about the Federation's commitment to Bajor and DS9," he notes. "About the commitment that people have to make when they go to live in a new environment, and have to coexist with other species who have different agendas than they have. It's like the difference between a one-night stand and a marriage. On Deep Space Nine, whatever you decide has consequences the following week. So it's about taking responsibility for your decisions, the consequences of your acts."As they developed the bible for the show, Berman and Piller decided that the "town" -- or rather the space station -- would be a darker and grittier environment than fans of both the origin

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion

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