Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Summary
Star Trek : Deep Space Ninewas set up to be the"Star Wars of Star Trek",according to Jadzia Dax role player Terry Farrell , mouth toStar Trek : Voyager ’s Garrett Wang and Robert Duncan McNeill onThe Delta Flyerspodcast . After a three - class - long serial publication of podcast instalment discussing plot points and behind - the - prospect output write up fromStar Trek : Voyager , Wang and McNeill welcome Farrell and Quark actor Armin Shimerman to continue the discussion withThe Delta Flyers : Journey Through the Wormhole , a rebranded interlingual rendition of the original show , now focused onDS9 .
The Modern chapter ofThe Delta Flyersopens with an in - depth look atStar Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s premiere sequence , " Emissary . " Terry Farrell and Armin Shimerman offer personal on - set anecdotes and info about output item that they were mindful of before the television camera ever started wander . DS9is remembered asa darker and grittier take onStar Trek ’s affirmative future , more kindred toStar Wars , with its attractively imperfect theatrical role and powerful late - season arcs about the horrors of the Dominion War . Farrell reveals this was always the plan , with her quote below .
Garrett Wang : " The opening shot is basically a … Star Wars - same coil of words mouth about Borg Picard leading the Borg attack . "
Terry Farrell : " When I audition , they enounce that [ DS9 ] would be the glum Star Trek , and we would be the Star Wars of Star Trek . Because the Promenade and Quark ’s [ were ] like the bar in the first Star Wars … because you pick up the aliens , and how they exist their life . "
Quark’s Bar On DS9’s Promenade Pays Homage to Mos Eisley from Star Wars
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InStar Wars , Mos Eisley is a bustling haven on the desert satellite of Tatooine , andStar Trek ’s Deep Space Nine post is a similarly removed outpost at the boundary of Federation space . Like Mos Eisley ’s famous cantina catering to a kind of smugglers and rogues , Quark ’s Bar , Grill , Gaming House , and Holosuite Arcade is a hub of body process on DS9 ’s Promenade that facilitates drunkenness , Dabo games , and mess of backroom deals foranyone with enough latinum to make it deserving Quark ’s while , no matter their species or alignment . It ’s a far cry fromTNG ’s Ten Forward waiting area , signify thatDS9is signify to be a passing from earlierStar Trek .
Star Trek : Lower Decks adds Star Wars references to its usual Star Trek Easter eggs in Lower Decks season 4 ’s next-to-last episode .
It ’s not just the gap creeping of text edition and Quark ’s Bar that giveStar Trek : Deep Space NineitsStar Warsvibes . DS9 ’s backstory centers on the Bajoran reserves rising up against the Cardassian Union , echoing the victory ofStar warfare ' Rebellion over the Empire . DS9 ’s premiere episode , " Emissary " , depicts a post in shuffle after theCardassian occupation of Bajor , rife with glitching system . Itlacks the glimmer perfection of the USS Enterprise , and feels a fiddling more like the panel - rig Millennium Falcon . Star Trek : Deep Space Ninewas always say to be likeStar Wars , combine lived - in realism and multiple alien cultures as a backdrop for great storytelling .
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Source : The Delta Flyers
