Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

"I'm working on Buffy: Deep Space Nine. It will be dark and badly received."

"Terry Farrell – Jadzia Dax [Seasons 1–6]"

"Michael Dorn – Lieutenant Commander Worf [Seasons 4–7]"

"Nicole de Boer – Ezri Dax [Season 7]"

"Contrary to a comment from NY Comic Con, Michael Piller and I pitched our ideas for DS9 to Gene, and he gave us his enthusiastic approval."

"We pitched the concept and characters. We didn't lay-out 7 years of story arcs. It was far too early to know where it was going."

"When Gene died, both Michael Piller and I were involved in creating and writing Deep Space Nine, and we never really got a chance to talk to him about it because he was quite ill at that point. But even with Deep Space Nine and later Voyager, and Enterprise I felt it was important that as long as something had the Star Trek name on it that it stayed true to Gene’s belief of what Star Trek was all about."

"I think Deep Space [Nine] was the show that really took Star Trek as far as you could take it. You have the original series which is a sort of a landmark, it changes everything about the way science fiction is presented on television, at least space-based science fiction. Then you have Next Generation which, for all of its legitimate achievements is still a riff on the original. It's still sort of like, ok, it's another star ship and it's another captain – it's different but it's still a riff on the original. Here comes Deep Space [Nine] and it just runs the table in a different way. It just says ok, you think you know what Star Trek is, let's put it on a space station, and let's make it darker. Let's make it a continuing story, and let's continually challenge your assumptions about what this American icon means. And I think it was the ultimate achievement for the franchise. Personally, I think it's the best of all of them, I think it's an amazing piece of work."

"The truth is that if Gene (Roddenberry) was alive -had been alive- DS9 would have never been made, because he absolutely said “no” to it when it was presented to him. He said ‘Star Trek is about exploring space, it’s not about a hotel in space.’ So, it would never have happened."

"Were Piller and Berman aware of B5 at any time? No. Of that I am also confident. The only question in my mind is to what degree did the development people steer them? One scenario is that they did not steer them at ALL…but knowing of B5, and knowing how swell it would be if they could co-opt B5, if Piller and Berman came up with a space station on their own, they would likely say nothing, even though they might be viewed as being under a moral obligation to say something. Another scenario is that they gave direction to the creative folks without telling them the origin of that direction. There are several ways of dealing with this. One is to launch a major suit with full powers of discovery. The result is that DS9 gets tied up for months, maybe even years in litigation, and maybe the show doesn’t go forward. It also means hundreds of thousands of dollars spent by Warners and me and others pursuing this…not to mention the sense of ill will that will fly back and forth."

"The people that really understand and love Star Trek are no longer there. When Gene Roddenbery passed, that really was the end of Star Trek, as we knew it. The series that came on immediately after was Deep Space Nine, which was the polar opposite of Gene’s philosophy and vision of the future, Star Trek lost it’s way then and now the people at Paramount are all new people. Herb Solow who was the executive in charge of Desilu Studios is now a professor in Wales. We became very good friends and we had dinner with him and his wife before they left, and when I was in London last year I saw an article about a Professor Herb Solow! But, basically the people now at the studio have absolutely no connection with Star Trek as we knew it, sadly."

""All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by." - John Masefield"

"Avery Brooks – Benjamin Sisko"

"Nana Visitor – Kira Nerys"

"Alexander Siddig – Doctor Julian Bashir"

"Colm Meaney – Chief Miles O'Brien"

"René Auberjonois – Constable Odo"

"Cirroc Lofton – Jake Sisko"

"Armin Shimerman – Quark"

"Destroying an Empire to win a war is no victory. And ending a battle to save an Empire is no defeat."

"Große Männer streben nicht nach Macht... Ihnen wird die Macht aufgezwungen."

"Seit Generationen schon hat die Menschheit mehr als genug zu essen, und trotzdem sieht es so aus, als würden sie sich auf ihr Essen stürzen, vor lauter Angst, es kommt einer, der ihnen diesen Teller wegschnappt."

"Die Wahrheit ist normalerweise nur eine Entschuldigung für einen Mangel an Phantasie."

"Gut, ich log und ich betrog. Ich habe Männer bestochen, damit sie die Verbrechen von anderen Männern decken. Ich leistete Beihilfe zum Mord. Aber das Verdammungswürdigste von allem ist, dass ich denke, dass ich damit leben kann, und wenn ich vor die Wahl gestellt würde, es wieder zu tun, ich würde es."

"Ein toter Mann kann aus seinen Fehlern nicht lernen."

"Hauptdarsteller:"

"Erschienen: 1993"

"Genre: Sci-Fi"

"Drehbuch: Gene Roddenberry, Rick Berman, Michael Piller"