STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE 🌟 THEN AND NOW 2020

star trek deep space nine ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 1999. despite initial fan and media grumblings about the concept of a static space station being the center of the series the show managed to win everyone over with its flawed characters new ideas for a star trek series and deep story arcs but the show was not without its secrets and controversies both behind the scenes and in real life there have been arguments petty jealousies and strange behavior off-screen there have been occurrences of backstabbing and intense conflicting ideas about what to do in a series or episode both fans and those who work on the show are passionate about the ideas of the franchise's mythology and what makes star trek great sometimes you can't avoid an impending scandal making everyone happy is one of the hardest things to do in television and movies and often what makes fans unhappy is when their favorite character or actor or actress is treated badly or elements of an episode offend them you're watching how they changed and here is some dark secrets behind star trek deep space nine garage orientation andrew robinson who played garage wrote a stitch in time a memoir about the life of the cardassian garrek is the tailor who previously worked in a covered group of kurdistan secret agents he's killed stolen secrets and betrayed his own people but there was more to garrak that fans often speculated about garat has never been obvious about his sexuality according to robinson it's not defined he's not gay he's not straight it's a non-issue for him originally robinson portrayed garag as omnisexual during the first season even flirting with bashir in the pilot episode the producer told robinson that was okay but soon someone higher ups got nervous the shoe had to stay on the straight and narrow so robinson backed off from it the writers supported the character beautifully but for that part of garrock's life they just made a choice they didn't want to go there alexander zedek could have played cisco avery brooks was not rick berman's first choice to play benjamin cisco in fact it was alexander siddik when berman saw siddiq's performance in the tv show a dangerous man lawrence after arabia he cast siddiq however berman realized that siddik was too young for the role of cisco siddique was in his mid-20s and the showrunner changed his mind berman wants to keep siddiq so he gave the actor the role of dr bashir this was a detested choice by the network for the first two seasons the network continuously told berman to fire siddiq bashir was not a popular character but the plan was to change the character over time so the producers remained steadfast about siddiq another reason the network wanted him fired was because siddik and cole minnie who played milo o'brien clashed in real life often arguing about england and ireland avery brooks had to have hair sometimes actors must often induce strange or sensible contract stipulations to take on new roles from 1985 to 1988 avery brooks played hawk and spencer for hire the sidekick to robert urex's sponsor in the show brooks had a bald head which made him as cool as kojak when avery brooks was hired for deep space nine part of his contract included a provision that he must have hair in this case the request was reasonable the reason was the network and showrunners didn't want viewers to be confused with his hawk character in the early seasons brooks had short cropped hair and no goatee unlike his spencer for hyrule as the series went on and as the character benjamin cisco became respected and more popular brooks was allowed to shave his head and grow a goatee wharf was added because ratings were dropping any television shows succumbs to a drop in viewership and low ratings after a season or two deep space nine was no different while consistently popular the show experienced a slow downturn in viewer numbers that seemed difficult to bring back up but producers and the network had a few ideas one idea the network had was to blow up planet major but that wouldn't make sense to the show because the planet was vital to deep space nine and hadn't they endured enough from the cardassians ultimately it was agreed to bring on a popular character from the next generation to help with ratings so beginning in season four worth became a permanent part of the space station however this made it hard for writers because an entire new role had to be added to current and future story arcs including the dominion war but star trek writers are always up for a challenge and they made war function and eventually got married jdx forced out by season seven terry farrell was burnt out she wanted to do other projects at least when ds9 wasn't filming at one point she had obtained an audition for something with jerry seinfeld but ds9 executive producer rick berman said she couldn't do it when her contract was up at the end of season six farrell had a few ideas that would help her feel less frustrated one suggestion she made was that she could be a recurring character in season seven but berman didn't allow feral to make any demands telling her to take it or live it farrell chose to live it in the wake of that news her character was killed off leaving it closed for any type of return in the final season interestingly enough when farrell saw producer ira burr at a convention and sat down to talk with him about what happened she thought poor ira was gonna projectile vomit when i told him he was just so shocked he's like we could have done that fans hated as redax at first when jj dax died and a new symbion was needed for dax the actress nicole de boer was brought in as esri dax she played a counselor on the space station and when the uss defined was fully operational the communications officer some fans didn't appreciate terry farrell being forced to leave the show and the episodes that focused on esri helped the criticism of her character as an ill-conceived idea and not a good replacement dax tv guide nicknamed her ally mctrail after kalista flockhart's character in l.a mark bill ezra's neurotic behavior resembled mcbeals fans and viewers either took it as a compliment or an insult the bower herself took it as a compliment initially the bowery felt star trek fans disliked her character because she hadn't received any fan mail however she had begun getting fan mail since her first day on set the production team held sex of mail and the actress didn't get to see the mail until three-fourths of the way through season seven roddenberry would have hated ds9 gene roddenberry's vision of star trek is well known he foresee a universe of diversity on a utopia-like level in the federation medical and technological advances improved the lives of so many that a dedication for further improvement propelled the peaceful domination of starfleet but with deep space nine the tide turned darker the show was announced after roddenberry's death in 1991 and many felt deep space nine wouldn't have happened if roddenberry had lived majel barrett jean's widow never gave definitive answers if your husband would have liked or hated she has said both specifically stating the original star trek would have had more battles but budget and technology at that time became the biggest obstacle gene knew what the fans liked rick berman said to ew it's going to be darker and greedier these characters won't be squeak or clean whether you feel ds9 is against roddenberry's vision or not it's hard to argue the show wasn't very popular costly pilot episode issues and changes with the pilot episode emissary caused the initial cost of it to go up the deep space nine pilot was inspired by the next generations pilot encounter at farpoint meaning main characters were not really introduced until later in the episode's story michael piller one of star trek's most influential writers took their human must convince aliens that humanity isn't bad trope and gave benjamin cisco a god-like existence with the alliance however preliminary scripts had too much dialogue and a weak idea for working but run down spaceship with technology far behind starfleet the concept was changed in favor of having the space station looted by the cardassians before they left that meant costly sets would have to be built pillar had to rewrite script and the mystery cost 12 million dollars of that two million dollars were used to build stationary sets for deep space nine and that's all for now don't forget to leave a like subscribe and share this video with friends take care

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Length: 10min 22sec (622 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 08 2020