When "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" debuted in 1993, show creators Rick Berman and Michael Piller gave themselves a little too much material to work with. The series was set on the titular space station, which was located next to the distant planet of Bajor. Bajor has recently (and barely) survived a decades-long military occupation by the evil Cardassians, and Starfleet was called in to oversee the station as Bajor struggled through a period of reconstruction. Starfleet officers were very out of place on the Bajor-owned station, and lots of interpersonal conflict arose.

But wait, there's more! Right next to DS9, Starfleet discovered a stable wormhole that provided a "shortcut" to the very distant Gamma Quadrant, unexplored by Federation ships. A whole new frontier was open to Bajor and to

See Full Page