Is there a Behind the Scenes Story about the Comet

[tomalak301]

One of the things I do love about the series was the opening sequence with the comet and the camera panning towards the station. However considering what we know about DS9, I've always wondered why one of the first things we see is that comet, especially since it has nothing to do with the series. Was there ever a behind the scenes explanation for why it was included or its significance to the series?

 

[Bagofmostlywatr]

Sort of. There's a voyager episode that starts with a similar comet on a similar erratic path, because someone is inside, trying to get out (I'm avoiding the spoiler).

Someone will be in with the episode title. I'm not a huge voyager fan, but it was worth watching.

Edit: 2x18 "death wish"

 

[tomalak301]

Sort of. There's a voyager episode that starts with a similar comet on a similar erratic path, because someone is inside, trying to get out (I'm avoiding the spoiler).

Someone will be in with the episode title. I'm not a huge voyager fan, but it was worth watching.

Edit: 2x18 "death wish"

So the comet we see as the opening credits could be Quinn's prison, floating past DS9 showing the face of Spock? Was Quinn Spock?

 

[Tosk]

I've always wondered why one of the first things we see is that comet, especially since it has nothing to do with the series.

That doesn't seem weird to me. The solar flare from Voyager and nebula from TNG didn't have anything to do with their series' either.

 

[tomalak301]

That doesn't seem weird to me. The solar flare from Voyager and nebula from TNG didn't have anything to do with their series' either.

But they're traveling through space. I took it to mean things they might encounter. Because DS9 is still they only ever encountered one comet and it was on the other side of the wormhole.

 

[Tosk]

I took it to mean things they might encounter.

But didn't do so on screen. Just like DS9's comet. You don't have to agree, just pointing it out.

 

[tomalak301]

But didn't do so on screen. Just like DS9's comet. You don't have to agree, just pointing it out.

Oh I agree. I've just always wondered if the comet was supposed to mean anything. That and Voyager always had the best opening sequence

 

[jaime]

One of the things I do love about the series was the opening sequence with the comet and the camera panning towards the station. However considering what we know about DS9, I've always wondered why one of the first things we see is that comet, especially since it has nothing to do with the series. Was there ever a behind the scenes explanation for why it was included or its significance to the series?

The behind the scenes reason, as far as I know, was to tie it in with the TNG opening sequence, even suggesting that audiences might see it as the same comet. I think it's mentioned in The Making Of Deep Space Nine

 

[Bagofmostlywatr]

So the comet we see as the opening credits could be Quinn's prison, floating past DS9 showing the face of Spock? Was Quinn Spock?

I didn't see the face of spock in it myself, but the voyager episode is the closest to an explanation I think we ever saw. Maybe the comet ended up in the badlands and got scooped up with a ship by the caretaker?

 

[Finn]

That doesn't seem weird to me. The solar flare from Voyager and nebula from TNG didn't have anything to do with their series' either.

Wasn't there a comet in the opening credits season 3 and on, the one where we see one approaching the galaxy.

I'm kinda surprised there hasn't been a thread in the Voyager forum discussing whether each of the world/nebula/place we saw in their opening credits actually represents something pertaining to the series?

 

[tomalak301]

I'm kinda surprised there hasn't been a thread in the Voyager forum discussing whether each of the world/nebula/place we saw in their opening credits actually represents something pertaining to the series?

The thing is though, even if the pictures we see in the themes don't actually appear in the show, I can understand why they are there because it represents traveling through space. When I see the comet in the opening of DS9's title sequence, I'm not sure why it's there but it's a gorgeous opening. I was just trying to see if there was something "DS9" that the comet represented. It's probably nothing but it's placement has always struck me as a little odd, even if I still like it there.

 

[Tosk]

When I see the comet in the opening of DS9's title sequence, I'm not sure why it's there

It represents being in space.

 

[retroenzo]

So the comet we see as the opening credits could be Quinn's prison, floating past DS9 showing the face of Spock? Was Quinn Spock?

I've seen people talking about the comet containing the face of Spock before. I've looked. And I've looked. And I've looked. And I can't see it.

Where the frell is it?

 

[Paul Weaver]

We know that comets pass through the denorios belt (Times Orphan), there's not much episode-worthy about comets, at least post Enterprise. There is a comet in the opening credits of DS9 and Enterprise though. The thing shown in TNG isn't a comet - at least not one plausibly encountered in any episode - it's not even in the galaxy.

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

Sort of. There's a voyager episode that starts with a similar comet on a similar erratic path, because someone is inside, trying to get out (I'm avoiding the spoiler).

Someone will be in with the episode title. I'm not a huge voyager fan, but it was worth watching.

Edit: 2x18 "death wish"

That was just a reused effect from TNG's "Masks", the alien library was in that comet.

 

[Finn]

The thing shown in TNG isn't a comet - at least not one plausibly encountered in any episode - it's not even in the galaxy.

What is it?

 

[Paul Weaver]

What is it?

Kelvin spaceship?

 

[Finn]

Allright, that's part of your "in your head" canon

 

[tomalak301]

The thing in TNG never struck me as a comet. It looked more like a Meteor, but maybe I just didn't notice such things.

 

[MacLeod]

The thing is though, even if the pictures we see in the themes don't actually appear in the show, I can understand why they are there because it represents traveling through space. When I see the comet in the opening of DS9's title sequence, I'm not sure why it's there but it's a gorgeous opening. I was just trying to see if there was something "DS9" that the comet represented. It's probably nothing but it's placement has always struck me as a little odd, even if I still like it there.

If things we saw in openings like VOY represent traveling through space why can't a comet represent being in a stationary location? After all don't need a star to have a comet?