Not convinced? Here are ten classic episodes to change your mind: That struggle, it must also be said, makes for more dramatically interesting TV, and it’s at the heart of what makes Deep Space Nine the best Star Trek show ever made. We’re not perfect beings, the show reminds us (as if we needed it), and the road to paradise is rougher than we imagined - but we’re still trudging along, and the struggle towards perfection is no less noble than its assumption. In fact, Deep Space Nine broadened Star Trek’s central conceit by consciously turning away from it, and thereby making it more relatable. The rosy vision of the future at the core of Star Trek - with its improbably well-adjusted human race and largely harmonious universe – was long overdue for reassessment, and Deep Space Nine did just that, lingering in the morally opaque margins of Gene Roddenberry’s utopian fantasy, but doing so without losing the essence of what made Star Trek so beloved. This was terrain that its progenitors, Star Trek: The Original Series, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, had only glimpsed. Premiering in 1993, Deep Space Nine quickly charted a course unique to the franchise, from the way it told its stories – in Season (and series) long story arcs – to what those stories were about - the politically tangled, emotionally complex territory of war and occupation. If there is such a thing as a “pessimistic” version of Star Trek, that radically hopeful cornerstone of 20th century science fiction, then Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is as close as it gets.
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