Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Difference between revisions

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: The Federation. Unlike the other entries in the franchise where the message where they are portrayed as [[Humans Are Diplomats|diplomatic]], ''Deep Space Nine'' routinely shows that just because they favour peace, this doesn't mean that in a crunch [[Humans Are Warriors|they can't knock seven bells out of anyone in their path]].

* [[Big Ego, Hidden Depths]]

{{quote|'''[[SF Debris]]''': "Its a set of guns, strapped to an engine'''." "Mr. Worf, prepare a high yield torpedo and write on it; don't fuck with the Sisko."}}

** When the threat of a Dominion invasion becomes imminent, Starfleet upgrades Deep Space Nine, which couldn't defend itself from three Cardassian warships in the pilot, into a station handily capable of holding off a Klingon fleet of more than fifty ships.

'''Garak''': You do have a point. }}

* [[If You Can Read This...]]: The Promenade Directory is full of in-jokes.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: DS9 is not a Federation station... it's a Bajoran station under Federation administration. This is repeated several times by Sisko and ''especially'' Kira in the early seasons.

* [[I Say What I Say]]: O'Brien in "Visionary" hates temporal mechanics. Both of him.

* [[Significant Anagram]]: Lucsly and Dulmur, the DTI field agents from "Trials and Tribble-ations", are (near-)anagrams for [[The X-Files|Scully and Muld<s>u</s>er]].

* [[Silent Offer]]: In "Past Prologue", Garak negotiates the price for a terrorist with two Klingons in this way, using an electronic tablet instead of paper.

* [[Slave Collar]]: In one alternate universe episode, the captured Garak is restrained this way by Worf.

* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Started out as optimistic -- but still not so cheery, considering the themes of Sisko's bereavement and Bajor's Holocaust-like recent history -- as the other series, only to head straight into the Dominion War arc by the third season, and slamming straight into the very end of the Cynical side of the scale in the second to last season with the episode "In The Pale Moonlight".

{{quote|"I've got more important things to do than play Choose the Changeling."}}

* [[Staff of Authority]] - The Grand Nagus's staff, which Ferengi are supposed to kiss as a sign of respect.

* [[State Sec]] - The Cardassian Obsidian Order, which Odo says records even what Cardassian citizens eat for dinner. The Ferengi Commerce Authority also comes across as this at times.

* [[Stealth Pun]]: In "A Time To Stand" they have to perform a mission piloting a captured Jem'Hadar ship. One of the first things they notice about the ship is that there are no chairs...

* [[Ted Baxter]]: Quark.

* [[Teens Are Short]]: Jake and Nog. Both cases ended up subverted by [[Real Life Writes the Plot]], as detailed on the trope page.

* [[Theme Naming]]: All the runabouts assigned to DS9 are named after Earth rivers. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Kira in "Family Business".

{{quote|'''Kira:''' You know, the rate we go through runabouts, it's a good thing the Earth has so many rivers.}}

** While Worf drinking prune juice is a [[Continuity Nod]], it's amusing that he's one of the few who don't drink raktajino, since it's described several times in the show as "Klingon coffee."

* [[Treasure Chest Cavity]]: Morn hid liquid latinum in one of his stomachs.<!-- trivia? -->

* [[Trickster Mentor]]: Garak was one to Bashir.

* [[Trust Me, I'm an X|Trust Me, I'm a Gambler]]: Quark says this in a speech to Odo in "Move Along Home", explaining why he should take the shortcut in the ''chula'' game. Hilariously subverted when it backfires.<!-- trivia? -->

* [[Unique Pilot Title Sequence]]: The pilot credit sequence does not feature the wormhole opening as it hadn't been discovered yet in story.

* [[Unobtainium]]: Latinum

** 2 words: tetrion particles <!--one word:-->{{context}}

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Name]]: The incredibly innocent sounding "Section 31".

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Winn Adami, so '''very''' badly.

* [[Uptight Loves Wild]]: Worf and Jadzia. To a 't'.

** Played with in 'Duet', where the notorious war criminal Gul Dar'heel's breakdown confirms that {{spoiler|he isn't Gul Dumar, or even a villain}}.

* [[Visions of Another Self]]: Sisko has a vision of being a '50s sci-fi writer, and his associates were versions of people he knew.

*** Kira was a feared terrorist/freedom fighter and being a badass in battle should be a lot more expected of her than of Jadzia Dax. Nevertheless, she is a lot more waif-ish than Dax in some ways - Terry Farrell is 6 feet tall.

* [[War Is Hell]]: existing from the middle of the series and forward but especially in the episode The Siege of AR-558

* [[Wartime Wedding]]: Worf and Dax; Rom and Leeta.

* [[Warts and All]]: Kor's last appearance.

** The series was completely changed after "The Way of the Warrior", with [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Worf]] joining the crew, the [[Space Nazi|Cardassians]] rebelling and forming for the first time a democratic government, and the decades-long allied [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Klingons]] declaring war on previously mentioned Cardassians, antagonising the Federation and breaking the alliance, turning them into active recurring antagonists. Finally, the eponymous Space Station had a [[Gun Porn|slight tactical upgrade]]. This episode set the theme for the rest of the series.

** Let's not even start to talk about "Inferno's Light", where the writers decided to just throw everything in the air and decide to keep the status quo about whatever they could catch. The rest, [[Nothing Is the Same Anymore|not so much]].

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: "In The Pale Moonlight", in which Sisko does it to ''himself''. Also, "For The Uniform".

{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Sisko:''' Commander, launch torpedoes.}}

* [[White Void Room]]: Often when communicating with the Prophets.

* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Odo and Kira. {{spoiler|[[They Do]] after nearly a ''decade'' of tension.}}

* [[The Worf Effect]]: In order to show how dangerous the Jem'Hadar are, in their debut episode they blow up the USS ''Odyssey'', a Galaxy-class starship like the ''Enterprise-D'' from the [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|at the time recently cancelled]] ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''. Using such a familiar ship helped make this moment genuinely shocking.

* [[World of Cardboard Speech]]: Inverted for "In the Pale Moonlight".<!-- trivia? -->

 

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