Emissary
- Episode aired Jan 3, 1993
- TV-PG
- 1h 30m
When the troubled Commander Sisko takes command of a surrendered space station, he learns that it borders a unique stable wormhole.When the troubled Commander Sisko takes command of a surrendered space station, he learns that it borders a unique stable wormhole.When the troubled Commander Sisko takes command of a surrendered space station, he learns that it borders a unique stable wormhole.
- Doctor Julian Bashir
- (as Siddig El Fadil)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe first officer aboard DS9 would have been Ro Laren, but she was replaced by Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor) because Michelle Forbes did not want to commit to a six-year contract working on DS9. Indeed, the reason the producers had decided to set the show on Bajor in the first place was because of Ro.
- GoofsThe "Prophets", when speaking to each other, say "The creature must be destroyed before it destroys us", and "Destroy it now" when referring to Sisko, but the words "before" and "now" describe concepts of linear time, which the "Prophets" do not understand.
- Quotes
Sisko: [on the image of his dead wife on the Saratoga] I don't know if you can understand. I see her like this, every time I close my eyes. In the darkness, in the blink of an eye, I see her... like this.
Jennifer Prophet: None of your past experiences helped prepare you for this consequence.
Sisko: And I have never figured out how to live without her.
Jennifer Prophet: So, you choose to exist here.
[Sisko nods]
Jennifer Prophet: It is not linear.
Sisko: [sobs] No. It's not linear.
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits in the originally aired two-hour television movie format appears per normal for the first three seasons of the series with one change: the Bajoran wormhole is not shown. This is presumably as a way to maintain the secrecy of that revelation.
- Alternate versionsThe two-hour pilot was cut into two parts for re-airing during the DS9 run, and in syndicated reruns.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Star Trek: The Next Generation: Birthright, Part I (1993)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: Deep Space Nine - Main Title
(uncredited)
Written by Dennis McCarthy
Performed by Dennis McCarthy
Brooks is an ideal choice for a Federation officer: dignified, reliable, and possessing an authoritative voice that compels one to listen to him. Here we meet a number of the individuals that will be his companions for his seven-year journey; my favorites already have to be tough-as-nails, shapeshifting security officer Odo (Rene Auberjonois), and the cheerfully sleazy Quark (Armin Shimerman). But these characters are all engaging in their own way, with Major Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor) often taking center stage, as Sisko had requested a Bajoran national to be his First Officer.
The final half hour gets progressively more interesting, with Siskos' encounters with an alien intelligence examining the nature of human existence and the idea of a "linear existence" serving as a counterpoint to the exciting and tense action as the DS9 crew must contend with the Cardassians and are drawn into a potential battle for which it seems they are not really equipped.
Patrick Stewart makes an extremely welcome guest star appearance, while character actor Marc Alaimo does well as Cardassian creep Gul Dukat, one of the best baddies in this entire franchise.
All in all, this pilot TV movie served as a fine starting point for these characters and their adventures to come.
Seven out of 10.
- Hey_Sweden
- Sep 24, 2023
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