Twenty-five years ago to the day, 3 January 1993, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine debuted with the pilot episode/T.V. movie "Emissary," becoming the first Star Trek show not created by Gene Roddenberry. D.S.9 would run for seven seasons of one hundred seventy-six episode, ending on 2 June 1999 with the T.V. movie "What You Leave Behind."
Deep Space Nine is my favorite of all the Star Trek series, in no small part because I feel not only affinity for but an ownership of D.S.9. I was on board with Deep Space Nine from the opening shot of "Emissary." I'd seen episodes of the original Star Trek when I was a little kid, but didn't come to appreciate it 'til I was a teenager, an older teenager. I loved & followed The Next Generation, but I didn't start watching it 'til the fourth or fifth season & then went back & caught up. Not so with D.S.9. I was there from the beginning & all the way through to the bitter end, which wasn't easy since I was away from home & in college during the sixth & seventh seasons (Fall '97 through Spring '98 & Fall '98 through Spring '99). I eagerly anticipated every new episode D.S.9 & watched each one with my brother & our father. Each new episode was a small but significant event in our family. Deep Space Nine is a brilliant, brilliant television show, but it's also more than that to me—it always has been & it always will be. I'm a Trekkie, but even more than that I'm a Niner.
Eternal thanks to my Beloved Brother for reminding me of the anniversary, which otherwise might have passed by unremarked, tragically. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine debuted on television, 3 January 1993, twenty-five years ago today.
Bonus! Song o' the Day
The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine—Theme" from The Music of Star Trek (The Last Angry Niner)
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