Star Trek: Deep Space Nine began twenty-five years ago today, a new series for a new year.
The third live-action Trek show, and the first to come on while another was running, DS9 also moved away from the planet-of-the-week, literally, with the titular station sitting in orbit of one planet - while having a handy wormhole nearby to make it a waystation for aliens to come and go. This helped to mainstream heavily serialised genre TV, alongside the even-more-serialised other space station show Babylon 5.
It also went pretty dark pretty quickly, certainly by Trek standards and sometimes by regular TV standards. This started as early as Duet in season one, but really got going with the Dominion war and key episodes like In The Pale Moonlight. But it also delivered Far Beyond The Stars, about the power of hope for the future.
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