Rather than simply send another Starfleet crew on a mission to go boldly where no one has gone before, creators Rick Berman and Michael Piller decided to take Star Trek back to its roots as a space western.
BLACK ACTORS ON DEEP SPACE NINE CAST SERIES
(This was before Law and Order, CSI, or NCIS found massive success with exactly this model, juggling as many as three series at once with the premise Crime: But Elsewhere.) Spinning out of the smash hit Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine launched in first-run syndication on January 3rd, 1993, and it was immediately apparent that this wouldn’t simply be the same premise with a different cast. The show’s struggle for recognition is detailed in the 2018 documentary What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Deep Space Nine, which is essentially a love letter from the show’s former showrunner Ira Steven Behr to his cast and crew. Deep Space Nine was Star Trek’s problem child from the very beginning, and that’s exactly what made it so ahead of its time. As fans of the series - or its stars and producers - will tell you, it’s always been this way. Paramount’s relative quiet about the anniversary is disappointing, but hardly surprising. There are, after all, five new Star Trek shows to talk about, including a reunion of the beloved Next Generation cast due in February on Star Trek: Picard. An official anniversary logo and merchandise were rolled out, but with relatively little fanfare. Last week, when Star Trek: Deep Space Nine celebrated its 30th birthday, the official Star Trek social media presence marked the occasion with only the barest of acknowledgements: a congratulatory tweet asking fans to name their favorite episodes, a new listicle of great quotes from the series, and not much else.
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