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Marielle Redclaw's avatar

I think that may be why DS9 was peak Trek (fight me!)

By placing the show at a nexus where many other civilizations passed through, and near a hotly contested planet, they were able to explore stories the haughty Federation would never dirty their hands with. Even the Ferengi (previously just a capitalist punching bag), Cardassians (big bad until the Dominion showed up) and the religious Bajorians were all treated as three dimensional.

And Gul Dukat was best character. 💙

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Alex Gimarc's avatar

Walter Koenig went on to play Alfred Bester, PsyCorp Cop in Babylon 5 a few decades later. Bester was almost as good of a villain in the series as Q was in Next Generations. And Koenig played it like he was enjoying himself. Cheers -

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