A review of this week's Starfleet Academy, "Series Acclimation Mil" — with spoilers — coming up just as soon as I'm asked to leave the Bajor Club...
Alan Sepinwall
Every Trekkie has their favorite Star Trek show. Mine is Deep Space Nine.
In the Nineties, it was something of the unloved stepchild of the franchise. At the beginning, there wasn't a starship, or even a captain. Commander Benjamin Sisko wasn't a dyamic hero type like Jim Kirk or Jean-Luc Picard. He was a grief-stricken widower on the verge of quitting Starfleet to raise his teenage son Jake when he was given the assignment to oversee the titular space station, which was in orbit around the planet of Bajor, recently liberated from a long occupation by the Cardassians. It had a static setting, a bigger focus on politics than either previous series — or, for that matter, Voyager, which debuted a few years into DS9's run — and a darker overall tone. It wasn't what many fans thought of when they thought of Star Trek.