Bringing aliens to us rather than boldly going anywhere, DS9's space station-set antics were a surprisingly dark slice of the Star Trek universe. Holocaust allegories and genocide themes were regular occurrences in early seasons, eventually giving way to a larger story arc about a war with the pernicious Dominion, which ran right up until the show's seventh year finale. DS9 boasted the most no-nonsense Commander (Q: "You hit me! Picard never hit me."), a decidedly cool shape-shifting security chief and the USS Defiant: the most kick-ass ship in the galaxy.
The Search (Season 3, Episodes 1&2), where Sisko leads a team into the gamma quadrant to track down the leaders of The Dominion, equipped with a brand new battleship...
Avery Brooks was contractually required to grow hair for the role of Ben Sisko to distance himself from his character in eighties mystery series Spenser: For Hire. In Season Four producers finally allowed him to re-shave his head and grow back his beard.
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