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Deep Space 9

Star Trek is amazing, the way it's evolved since in lifetime is a fascinating indicator of how America and the world has changed. 

I love the Space Opera genera. Battle Star Galactica, Star Wars, Farscape, Firefly, The Expanse, Dark Matter, The 100, Orphan Black, Resident Alien, Orville, Altered Carbon.

I watched reruns of the original series as a kid. I loved Next Generation as an adolescent. I missed DS9 when it came out and really got into Voyager. I enjoyed Enterprise. I'm enjoying this next generation of shows: Discovery, Picard, Strange Worlds. I like the cartoon Lower Decks. The one I keep rewatching despite it's clunky start is DS9.

DS9 ran from 1993-1999, 176 episodes over seven seasons. Deep Space Nine was the first Star Trek series to be created without the direct involvement of creator Gene Roddenberry. It was the first set on a space station rather than a traveling starship. It was the first to have an African American as its central character: Starfleet Commander Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks).

From Quark's greed, to the doctor's grandiosity, to Nerys's momma bear loyalty, to Garak's spy persona and subterfuge, the spy with heart, to Odo's search for self, Dax's star cheerleader trying to be professional, to Miles O'Brian's workman caring to Nog and Rom's development and evolution, to Vedek Winn's unspiritual spirituality contrasted with genuine spirituality, to Leeta and the Dabo girls. The well wrought characters develop relationships. The doctor and Garak, Winn and Dukat, Sisko and Jake, Jake and Nog, Nerys and Odo, Dax and Warf, Sisko and Cassidy. 

I love stories of reluctant prophets, and people who get religious experiences not from their tradition. Sisko's journey is all reluctance, to command DS9, to being a prophet for the Bajorans. 

Kai Winn coming to DS9 and getting the Bajoran children out of the Starfleet school really strikes me hard.

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