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January 31, 2003

The main site has posted an article celebrating the tenth anniversary of Deep Space Nine. Below is an excerpt:

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Ten Years After

As 2003 marks the tenth anniversary of the premiere of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, we'd like to declare this year the year of DS9 by providing some tips on the DVD releases, featuring live chats with the cast and crew, and reflecting in general on what some consider the boldest of all the Star Trek shows.

Gene Roddenberry never really knew Deep Space Nine; his passing was over a year before the show premiered in January of 1993. However, the people entrusted with the future of the franchise, and this new show — executive producers Rick Berman and Michael Piller — saw to it that the quality and level of storytelling, as defined in the original Star Trek and refined in Star Trek: The Next Generation, would expand the franchise in a way the Great Bird could certainly be proud of.

Sure, the premise alarmed some long term-Trek fans: A show based on a remote outpost instead of a squeaky-clean starship, led by a non-captain (Commander Benjamin Sisko), and the promise of more conflict within the confines of the station and beyond. If the original series was "Wagon Train to the Stars," this was touted as "The Rifleman in Space."

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The show was a success, but like TNG, took a while to mature. All good things do. The makeup of the main crew, and their development, played a key part in determining the success of the show. For the first time in a Star Trek show, a mixture of Federation and non-Federation officers, not to mention other principal characters as station employees and proprietors, were presented working together.

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