The Opening Scene of Deep Space Nine Is the Greatest Introduction to Star Trek

In the first bold move that would be one of many its duration of seven seasons, Deep Space Nine opens with Star TrekA new hero faces the terrifying form of his predecessor: Jean-Luc Picard, corrupted and transformed into Locutus of the Borg. It sets the stage perfectly to meet the protagonist of the latest, and thirty years later, the opening scenes of the USS. Saratoga to be one of Star Trekvery frustrating and compelling opening salvos.

Thirty-two years ago today on January 3, 1993. Deep Space Ninepilot, “Emissary”it wasn’t opened on the space station that would have been Commander Sisko’s home at the time, but it was the rank card that took it. A journey back to what was then the biggest, and one of Starfleet’s lowest, points: and Wolf 359 War in The Next Generation‘s season four opener, ending one big A journey constant cliffhangers in “The Best of Both Worlds.” There, the series kept the killing of Wolf 359 on the screen. Now, Star Trek he was ready to show off, putting his new protagonist at the heart of the horror. It’s an incredible gambit, which immediately tells the audience that the new Star Trek the series did not go where they expected.

The appearance of the same Saratoga is set to be one of the many ships destroyed to stop the Borg in Wolf 359 has a very impressive mirror. A journey he was at that time. Star Trek used to show Starfleet officers succeeding under duress, in the face of impossible odds, but there is a definite story of how DS9 is he shows the battle scenes which TNG he never showed. The Saratoga they have no chance against Locutus, and Starfleet calm and collection is not given time to win before the ship is immediately incapacitated, killing the bridge crew. This is not an attack on them wrapping about the bridge and leaving; most of them are dead, as Sisko and the only Bolian lieutenant realize that the ship is lost.

The pictures outside the bridge are very bad: after years and years of exposure Companies like a ship with civilized civilians, who are always protected when flying to war, war corridors. Saratoga-Miranda’s spaceship, small compared to the size of the Galaxy fleet-is filled with screaming, wounded civilians running for their lives. It all comes to a head, with the crushing price of Starfleet’s hubris for Sisko when he returns to his base to find his wife Jennifer dead in the rubble, and his son Jake alive, as he himself is forcibly dragged away crying with grief. to shuttle like Saratoga explosion, its destructive missiles are shown in the Sisko viewport in return the light outside. Only four and a half minutes, Star Trek fans have just seen their new star’s misfortunes facing challenges unlike anything they’ve seen before, and in a difficult way, they’ve seen it through the eyes of someone who acted like any of us would do more than anyone like Kirk or Picard would.

It’s the sad, vulnerable people that inform the Siskos we meet throughout “Emissary” — creating a scene far removed from what we think of as normal. Star Trek protagonist. He is a little bit, as he treats all the people working with him in Deep Space Nine and Starfleet when he meets Picard (now he has returned to his heroism without expecting criticism in any way. , leaving Sisko’s behavior). He’s still pretty good with Wolf 359’s pains, not fixing them or splitting them – and it takes a real god to start doing that, after encountering the hordes of worms that the Bajorans worship like. Their spiritual deities are almost completely destroyed by the fact that Sisko cannot move from Jennifer’s death.

It’s a classic look at Starfleet in the shadows of what was, until then, one of the most underrated. which is displayed on the screen: a low point that no doubt equates to what Deep Space Nine it will enter later in its time Dominion War. And this unwavering attitude comes in the form of Sisko himself, a man who is allowed to be vulnerable and wrong in ways that go against our expectations (yet, mostly, expectations – just look at the conflict. even all these years later Discovery portrayed by Michael Burnham, who billed as one of the Star Trek mentioned a major artifact of Sisko’s legacy since). It is a form that is created from the minute Deep Space Nine going, and one that still defines the show all these years later.

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