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When Star Trek: Deep Space Nine For the first time, it took a little time for the show escape from shadow The next generation. That shadow had flipped particularly long thanks to the first season of DS9 on having Cameos of TNG characters as Captain Picard, Lwaxana turned, and even Q. However, the end of the season 1 of a murder not Turning his finale into a large cliff event.
In the hands of the prophets
After his first two seasons ended with independent rinales, The next generation Season 3 began a tradition of cliff endings that led directly to next season. For fans, this could be exciting and annoying. After watching the Borg assimilating Captain Picard, we had to remain intact summer To find out if it would be saved or blown away simply by Riker’s bold design to destroy Borg’s cube. However, as future DS9 shower IRA Steven Behr explained, the show avoided doing “deliberately in the hands of the prophets” as a cliff because producers were hoping to save money.
“I know people want to have the big cliff and I love cliffers, but they tend to be a gimmick,” said Behr. “And unless you can find a gimmick that is going to work for you, why do it?” This, together with the fact that “we did not have a way to make it successful because of budget suspensions,” is why “in the hands of the prophets” is a standalone chapter.
How expensive would it have been to make this a two -part chapter, though? According to the show then Michael Piller, and Trek Star Cliffhanger traditionally “costs at least $ 100,000 more” because of the need for things like additional action scenes. In this case, Deep space nineThe first season had already gone over the budget, and because he was a “responsible producer,” he did not want the show to make a cliff to make a cliff.
Although financial considerations behind making “in the hands of the prophets” are a one-and-making chapter, this was also a creative decision. As Behr noted, the best cliffs are built around solid gimmicks, and because they could not think of a crowd gimmick, he did not feel the need to make this chapter two parts. Accordingly, Behr noted that such a new tradition needs to be arbitrarily followed in the franchise: “Saying you have to get a cliff is ridiculous,” he said.
Michael Piller seems to have agreed with this … Despite the show already gone over on the budget for the season, he would have given the green light to any outstanding cliff ideas. “If we had a wonderful cliff we wanted to do, I would have been behind it,” he said. But eventually he felt “we already had a (…) episode that could be the end of a season who gave the season an abundance.”
We have already seen “in the hands of the prophets” as one of the best chapters Deep space nine. As Behr and Piller noted, he did not need a second part to make compelling TV. But hearing about how the two deliberately closed the idea that the season must end in a cliffist just because Tng It always brought warmth to our cold, cold Vulcan hearts. This spinoff always violated the rules, and this early Maverick spirit is one of many reasons Deep space nine remains the Trek Star Best A show ever made.
