Don't see websites that aren't Star Trek-specific write about DS9 often, but here's one from Gizmodo to celebrate the anniversary.
30 Years On, Deep Space Nine's Opening Is Incredible Star Trek
Three decades ago, "Emissary" introduced us to an immediately challenging take on Star Trek's utopia.
When looking back at Deep Space Nine’s challenging legacy, it’s often the later seasons of the show—where the series and Star Trek at large was flung into the dark heart of the Dominion War—that people turn to as the point that the series really showed itself as something different. But 30 years ago today, the show was already proving that from right out the gate.
“Emissary,” the two-part opening of Deep Space Nine’s first season, aired on January 3, 1993, and from its very first scene it was a show with so much to prove. That Star Trek could do it again after The Next Generation revitalized the franchise, that Star Trek could push boundaries in terms of itself as a saga and for sci-fi television at large. But perhaps above all it was eager to prove something else: that Star Trek could be more complex, more challenging, more willing to poke at the holes within its idealized future than it had ever considered to do so before.
COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE:
https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-deep-space-nine-30th-anniversary-emissary-1849945866
30 Years On, Deep Space Nine's Opening Is Incredible Star Trek
Three decades ago, "Emissary" introduced us to an immediately challenging take on Star Trek's utopia.
When looking back at Deep Space Nine’s challenging legacy, it’s often the later seasons of the show—where the series and Star Trek at large was flung into the dark heart of the Dominion War—that people turn to as the point that the series really showed itself as something different. But 30 years ago today, the show was already proving that from right out the gate.
“Emissary,” the two-part opening of Deep Space Nine’s first season, aired on January 3, 1993, and from its very first scene it was a show with so much to prove. That Star Trek could do it again after The Next Generation revitalized the franchise, that Star Trek could push boundaries in terms of itself as a saga and for sci-fi television at large. But perhaps above all it was eager to prove something else: that Star Trek could be more complex, more challenging, more willing to poke at the holes within its idealized future than it had ever considered to do so before.
COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE:
https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-deep-space-nine-30th-anniversary-emissary-1849945866
