Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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STAR TREK: Deep Space Nine premiered in January 1993, with another new crew many fans had never heard of; Avery Brooks, Nana Visitor, Terry Farrell, Rene Auberjonois, Armin Shimerman, and Cirroc Lofton. The series is set at the same time as Star Trek: The Next Generation (allowing guest appearances by its characters) on a derelict space station in orbit around Bajor, a planet in ruins after sixty years of brutal occupation by the Cardassians. The station, Terok Nor, was abandoned by the Cardassians when they left Bajor. The Bajoran provisional government invited the federation to establish a presence on the station to protect Bajor from Cardassian return. The federation accepted, renamed the station Deep Space Nine, and sent a Starfleet Commander to run it. The Commander asked for a Bajoran First Officer to act as liaison with the Bajoran government and represent Bajoran interests on the station. The federation's ultimate goal is to prepare Bajor for federation membership. A stable wormhole was discovered by the Commander in the Denorius Belt near Bajor in the pilot episode. The Commander met a group of non-corporeal aliens in the wormhole; aliens known and worshipped as Prophets by the Bajorans. He became known as "The Emissary of the Prophets", and is revered by Bajorans.

The station's crew consists of Avery Brooks as Commander (now Captain) Benjamin Sisko; Nana Visitor as Major (now Colonel) Kira Nerys, Bajoran liaison to the station and First Officer; Terry Farrell as Lieutenant (promoted to Lieutenant Commander) Jadzia Dax, the Science Officer killed at the end of the sixth season; Alexander Siddig (formerly Siddig el Fadil) as Doctor (Lieutenant) Julian Bashir, Chief Medical Officer; Rene Auberjonois as Odo, the shapeshifting Security Chief; Colm Meaney as Chief Miles Edward O'Brien, Chief of Operations, who received a promotion and a transfer from the USS Enterprise NCC 1701-D (Star Trek: The Next Generation); and Armin Shimerman as Quark, the Ferengi bartender who is into every scheme on the station. Michael Dorn joined the series in the fourth season as Lieutenant Commander Worf, who transferred from the USS Enterprise NCC 1701-D to become Tactical Operations Officer. Terry Farrell declined to return for the seventh season and Jadzia Dax was killed at the end of the sixth season. Nicole deBoer joined the crew at the beginning of the seventh season as Ensign Ezri Dax (promoted to Leiutenant almost immediately), the new host of the Dax symbiont (formerly hosted by Jadzia).