I believe DS9 was greenlit somewhere around 1990 or 1991. Origins for the ideas of it go as far back as late 80s when TNG started to be successful. The Maquis/Cardassian/Bajoran stuff was written around that time(90 or 91) to lead up to DS9. I think Ensign Ro was going to be introduced to be Kira's role of the 2nd officer of DS9 but she declined so they changed it to Kira/Nina. DS9 was the last thing Gene Roddenberry gave the go ahead on.
I think we remember BOBW so fondly because it was the first. It was something that Trek had not done prior to that--it picked up from a previous story line and it showed that episodic television was changing. There were better two parters later on, but emotionally BOTW probably holds a special place in our Trek memories for those of us who watched it when it aired.
Wouldn’t have got New Frontier if that was so.
You wonder say that if you read them.
Who knows? Maybe the Titan will guest star.
That's a possibility I guess.
I agree. But I think the ultimate determination as to how "good" this episode was is going to be what consequences it has on the future of the series. Isaac, in particular, cannot go back to being a member of the crew without every one else being wary of him. Even if it is just the "B" plot, he needs to spend some on screen time redeeming himself.
Good is good. If they never made another episode, this was great.
There's actually evidence of a stationed based show as far back as the late 80s or 1990 on an asteroid before JMS pitched it. He pitched the idea to paramount when it was under a different leader than the one that headed DS9s development. Don't believe everything JMS says. I respect Babylon 5 and it was really good at being the arc based show almost from season 1-4. 5 it went off the rails a lot. DS9 wasn't near as focused till the Dominion War arc came in about 3 years into the show. In fact a lot of the first 2 seasons were just thrown away TNG scripts.
