The legacy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is multifaceted, from the historic casting of the first Black series lead to its in-depth examination of war and politics. Perhaps its most important legacy from a franchise perspective is its evolved approach to storytelling. Slowly, over the seven-season run of DS9, the show pioneered serialized storytelling in the Star Trek universe. While this is the de facto approach to modern-day television, for a first-run syndicated series, it could be a major problem.During the run of Star Trek: The Original Series, any internal continuity or sense of “canon” existed as guidelines for the writers. Because TOS performed so well in syndication, The Next Generation was the first show of its kind to be a first-run syndicated series. This meant networks could show the episodes in any order they chose to. Producers wanted audiences to tune into each episode and feel like they’d missed nothing. However, as far back as Star Trek: TNG, the writers and directors would slip elements of serialization into episodes anyway. When Deanna Troi donned a Starfleet uniform, it paid off an arc that started in a handful of episodes in prior seasons. This is how Deep Space Nine did it in the beginning, but once the idea of the Dominion War was introduced, elements of serialization became the norm. There were even massive multiple-episode arcs beyond the odd two-parter TNG, or Voyager would do. In the age of binge-watching, the narrative throughlines in DS9 are why the series’ good reputation only grows with time.Tartikoff’s inspiration was the old Western series The Rifleman, but Piller turned to a different classic of the Western genre, according to The Center Seat, 55 Years of Star Trek. Since the station didn’t travel, he told the writers, “the action will come to us,” comparing DS9 to Gunsmoke. Yet instead of some black hat villain riding into town, the action came from a wormhole where the gods of the Bajoran people lived. Bajor, the planet around which the station used to orbit, endured an occupation by the Cardassians for 50 years. From the beginning, there was a lot audiences needed to understand about the world of Deep Space Nine week-to-week.
The legacy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is multifaceted, from the historic casting of the first Black series lead to its in-depth examination of war and politics. Perhaps its most important legacy from a franchise perspective is its evolved approach to storytelling. Slowly, over the seven-season run of DS9, the show pioneered serialized storytelling in the Star Trek universe. While this is the de facto approach to modern-day television, for a first-run syndicated series, it could be a major problem.
During the run of Star Trek: The Original Series, any internal continuity or sense of “canon” existed as guidelines for the writers. Because TOS performed so well in syndication, The Next Generation was the first show of its kind to be a first-run syndicated series. This meant networks could show the episodes in any order they chose to. Producers wanted audiences to tune into each episode and feel like they’d missed nothing. However, as far back as Star Trek: TNG, the writers and directors would slip elements of serialization into episodes anyway. When Deanna Troi donned a Starfleet uniform, it paid off an arc that started in a handful of episodes in prior seasons. This is how Deep Space Nine did it in the beginning, but once the idea of the Dominion War was introduced, elements of serialization became the norm. There were even massive multiple-episode arcs beyond the odd two-parter TNG, or Voyager would do. In the age of binge-watching, the narrative throughlines in DS9 are why the series’ good reputation only grows with time.
Tartikoff’s inspiration was the old Western series The Rifleman, but Piller turned to a different classic of the Western genre, according to The Center Seat, 55 Years of Star Trek. Since the station didn’t travel, he told the writers, “the action will come to us,” comparing DS9 to Gunsmoke. Yet instead of some black hat villain riding into town, the action came from a wormhole where the gods of the Bajoran people lived. Bajor, the planet around which the station used to orbit, endured an occupation by the Cardassians for 50 years. From the beginning, there was a lot audiences needed to understand about the world of Deep Space Nine week-to-week.
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