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{{quote|''"If the Dominion comes through the Wormhole, the first battle will be fought here. [[You Shall Not Pass|And I intend to be ready for them]]."'' |'''Commander Benjamin Sisko'''}}
The second of the "next generation" of ''[[Star Trek]]'' shows, following on from ''[[Star Trek: The
In the setting of the show, the native Bajoran people recently drove out the oppressive Cardassian Occupation through a war of attrition and a fair amount of terrorism (both Cardassians and the Bajoran Occupation were previously established on ''[[Star Trek: The
The storylines were split among several different areas: the first explored was the rebuilding of Bajoran civilization and the Bajorans' worship of the non-corporeal beings that resided in (and had built) the wormhole, known as the Prophets. Other major [[Story Arc]]s included the never stable relationship with the Cardassians and the dramatic discovery of The Dominion, a powerful counterpart to [[The Federation]] found on the other side of the wormhole. Both allies and enemies of the Federation had to deal with the impact of the Dominion War, which covered the last two seasons.
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As a result of this kind of thing, the show tends to divide Trekkies a bit - most people who like [[Star Trek]] for the [[Techno Babble|science fiction setting]] and the [[An Aesop|moral commentary]] dislike it because it tends to focus on drama and character conflict, treats [[Trek Verse|the universe]] as a political backdrop, and dispenses with many of the utopian themes. On the other hand, those who ''do'' like DS9 tend to like it a lot more than they like the other Trek series, forming a little subculture of their own in Trek fandom known as "Niners".
In spite of the general divide within fandom itself, ''DS9'' earned more critical accolades than even ''[[Star Trek: The
The show ran on British and Japanese TV, and all seven seasons are available on region 1 DVD. It used to run in syndication on [[Spike TV]] in the United States, but due to low ratings has not been seen in repeats in the United States for over a year. As of October 2011 the complete series is available on Netflix streaming in the United States.
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*** YMMV, one of his examples is that they never had anything like slavery. But ALL Ferengi females are considered property and forbidden to own anything or earn profit. At least until Quark's feminist mother turns out to be the most brilliant business mind of her generation.
* [[Holodeck Malfunction]]: "Our Man Bashir", sort of. Actually, it was more an example of something going wrong with the ''transporter,'' and the holodeck worked to keep the physical patterns of the crewmembers intact. (On the other hand, the holodeck's safety routines ''did'' malfunction, so...)
** The frequency of this sort of occurrence in ''[[Star Trek: The
{{quote|'''Worf:''' We were like warriors from the ancient sagas. There was nothing we couldn't do.
'''O'Brien:''' Except keep the holodecks working right. }}
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'''Quark:''' So then, the Andorian says, "That's ''not'' my antenna." }}
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Two different people played Quark's mother Ishka, and Tora Ziyal was played by ''three'' different people.
** The actor who plays Alexander is a different one from any of the actors who played him in ''[[Star Trek: The
* [[Password Slot Machine]]: Used in "In the Hands of the Prophets."
* [[Patrick Stewart Speech]]: The baseball scene in "Emissary."
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** Actually, they are more like the [[Path of Inspiration]]. Though mainstream Bajoran religion portrays the Pah-Wraiths as [[Exclusively Evil]] [[Omnicidal Maniac|Omnicidal Maniacs]], members of the Cult of the Pah-Wraiths (who don't call it a "cult", obviously) believe that the Pah-Wraiths have been [[Mis Blamed]] and the ''Prophets'' are the villains, even before Bajor's [[Arch Enemy]] Dukat showed up and took over claiming to be receiving visions and commandments from them. The problem, of course, is simply that the Pah-Wraiths really ''are'' [[Exclusively Evil]] [[Omnicidal Maniac|Omnicidal Maniacs]], and rather worse than that really ''are'' giving Dukat visions and commandments, possibly up to and including [[Kill'Em All]] in order to conceal the fact that Dukat is still a womanising murdering [[Manipulative Bastard]]. That it really was ''their'' idea, and not Dukat just covering his tracks via mass-murder, is pretty damn sinister, but that their followers don't believe them to be evil (one even goes through with the suicide because he believes that, despite Dukat's treachery, they really did order it, and kills himself out of "faith") and in fact believe them to be ''good'', stops this being a [[Religion of Evil]].
* [[Remember the New Guy?|Remember The New Species]]: In "The Adversary", we're told of a species named the Tzenkethi, who fought at least one war against the Federation in the past 20 years; the ''TNG'' era is in its seventh season and this is the first we've heard of them. (And we never ''do'' actually ''see'' them on-screen).
* [[Renaissance Man]]: Sisko does have quite a wide range of talents and interests. But then, being [[Renaissance Man|Renaissance Men]] is more or less the Federation's [[Planet of Hats|hat]] (at least since ''[[Star Trek: The
* [[The Renfield]]: Weyoun and every other Vorta are this whenever a Founder, in fact they are genetically programmed to be as such and it seems that any cunning bastardry in the Vorta's characterisation gets diverted from nefarious plotting into finding the best way to suck up.
* [[Religious Stereotype]]: The Bajorans often fall under this, being a people who's religion dominates their culture.
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* [[You Look Familiar]]: [[Jeffrey Combs]] as Brunt and Weyoun, among others.
* [[You Never Did That for Me]]: [[Played for Laughs]]:
{{quote|'''Q''': "You hit me! ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Picard]]'' never hit me!"
'''Sisko''': "I'm not Picard." }}
* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: Garak's bloody nose while in Odo's "dream" manifests itself in the real world as he lies unconscious in the infirmary.
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