deep space nine
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Lower Decks’ Mike McMahan on How Information Is the Human Heart of Star Trek
We remember the original Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Lower Decks” for the unique novelty of its unlikely ensign stars. While that idea (and name) might have provided the framework for the animated Star Trek: Lower Decks, for its showrunner the series, like the episode itself, is more fascinated with a much grander idea.
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Why Don’t We Have A Star Trek Show From The Aliens’ Point Of View?
Very few Star Trek fans believe that the first seasons of Deep Space Nine — focusing on the unstable relationship between the Bajoran government, its spiritual leaders, and the only-sort-of welcome Federation — are its strongest. But it’s gotten me thinking lately that it could form the basis of a fascinating Trek show in its…
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This List Of The Most Re-Watched Star Trek Episodes Is Baffling
Image: Me reading this damn list of episodes. via TrekCore I will be the first person to declare my love of the wildly uneven Star Trek: Voyager above the rest of Star Trek (actually that’s a lie, because my colleague Katharine has beaten me to the punch on this several times). But friends: collectively, we…
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A New Deep Space Nine Documentary Reveals What Would Have Happened In Season Eight
Deep Space Nine has been both praised and derided as the “Black Sheep” of the Star Trek universe. Now, almost 25 years after the series debuted, some of the shows stars and writers are coming together to make a documentary all about where DS9 took us, as well as where it would have gone if…