Star Trek – Deep Space Nine
released 1993 – 1999
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“Star Trek – Deep Space Nine” is an American, Scifi, action, TV series produced by Rick Berman, Ira Steven Behr, Hans Beimler and many others. There are equally so many directors, writers and actors. Among some of the actors are Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Cirroc Lofton, Alexander Siddig, Colm Meaney, Nana Visitor, Armin Shimmerman, Terry Farrell, Michael Dorn, Randy James, Judi M. Durand, Aron Eisenberg, David B. Levinson, Andrew Robinson, Max Grodenchik, Marc Alaimo, Tom Morga, Majel Barrett, Penny Johnson Jerald, Niocole de Boer, and so many more.

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“Star Trek – Deep Space Nine” is a space station built near the planet Bajor by a humanoid race called the Cardassians in the days when they brutally occupied the planet. The United Federation of Planets was invited to run the station after the Bajorens ousted the Cardassians. The station was renamed Deep Space Nine and run by a Federation crew with Captain Benjamin Sisko, played by Brooks Avery, as the commander. When a wormhole turns up that permits passage between the Alpha and Gamma Quadrants the space station is moved closer to them and that is where the fun begins. As in all cases where a city, town or station is at a crossroads for travel and trade all kinds of people and situations stumble in. The station is not only threatened by the Klingons, Romulans and Cardassians but other intelligences from even further away. What shows up in the story is truly strange and makes for good television. This series has the feel of a colony town from history books with the instability and cast of dangerous people you´d likely find in the stories of the American Wild West where Commander Sisko is a kind of sheriff maintaining law and order.

One of the great elements of this story is the character of commander Sisko, played by Brooks Avery. He is level headed, very good at managing people and difficult situations and we also get to see him as a father which he is also good at. His personality is very different from say a Captain Kirk from the classic Star Trek series, who had his qualities but seemed to always gravitate toward extreme situations and seemed to kind of like trouble, and we loved that about him. I have to add that watching this series made me understand the importance of good casting because so many of the people here are great at their characters. Most notably, Brooks Avery, who seems to have thespian experience on top of his acting acting experience and it shows. I could not imagine anyone doing a better as Commander Sisko. A good casting really brings the characters in the story to life. It´s like Humphrey Bogart in `The Maltese Falcon´ or Peter Dinklage in `Game of Thrones´. They were a perfect.

DS9 is an old series but good and deserves to be watched and enjoyed by the audience of today. Stories of border towns or chaotic cities are always a fun watch because you never really know what to expect. One minute it could by an enemy invasion the next could be the meeting of a whole new kind of people, or in the case inteliigent life. I think that that kind of freedom in the story creation is a wonderful thing for us viewers and that is why that kind of story will never go out of style. They will always be a fun watch.

So, check it out and be inspired for your next story.

John Ink2Quill

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