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