Star Trek: Deep Space Nine First Season
Original air dates: January – June 1993
Executive Producers: Rick Berman & Michael Piller
Station log: For the first time, there was a
Star Trek show that couldn’t be described with those fateful words, “These are the voyages of the starship
Enterprise.” With the debut of “Emissary” in January 1993, the definition of
Star Trek changed forever.
DS9, beyond the obvious fact that this was the first
Trek TV show not set on a ship named
Enterprise, indeed the first to take place in a (somewhat) static location. It was also the first
Trek show with a black commanding officer and a female first officer, and the only
Stardate: 46925.1
Station log: A delegation of Federation ambassadors are on a fact-finding mission to the wormhole. Sisko has fobbed off the duty of taking charge of the diplomats from Arbazan (Taxco, a haughty woman who insists on taking Bashir’s quarters, since the guest quarters aren’t satisfactory), Vulcan (Lojal), Bolarus (Vadosia, who has lots of ideas on how to do other people’s jobs and is oblivious to how unwelcome that advice is), and Betazed (ourdearoldfriendLwaxanaTroi). Bashir, who is obviously under strict orders to keep the ambassadors the hell away from Sisko, tries to say that the commander is busy with a recalibration of all systems. Sadly, Lojal finds that intriguing and would like to observe it.
Stardate: 46379.1
Station log: We start three years in the past, with the Battle of Wolf 359. Locutus of Borg the assimilated Captain Jean-Luc Picard requests Starfleet’s surrender. We see the battle from the POV of the first officer of the
U.S.S. Saratoga, Lt. Commander Benjamin Sisko. The
Saratoga’s shields are drained by the Borg, and the ship is quickly trashed. The captain is dead, and the warp core is going to go in four minutes. Sisko calls for evac, then goes to his quarters to find his young son Jake unconscious and his wife Jennifer dead. The tactical officer has to literally drag him away from Jennifer’s corpse. Sisko watches the