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Hey y’all, Drew Diets here for a huge freakin robot and we’re talking about Star Trek again.
But not just any Trek star. We’re going to look at the Star Trek series that broke all the rules, which were controversial with fans, having been halfway left by the studio, which had behind -the -scenes tensions with his leading actor, and eventually he was the pinnacle of Star Trek’s storytelling.
Yes it is time to explore why Trek Star: Deep space nine Failed.
Before we can even step a foot on the promenade, we have to recognize and talk about Star Trek: The next generation.
It is difficult to understand how much success Star Trek: Next Generation was if you weren’t around during its initial run.
Yes, most Trek fans were on the top of my Digon when she came to the new series, but I’m sorry, Trekkies alone didn’t turn that show into a world success.
Star Trek: Next Generation Take a big deal with mainstream audiences as he continues his television run.
The show became a focal point in pop culture by the time the two -part “The Best of Thath Worlds” chapter came around in a season three, and the quality and influence of the show would continue to grow from there.
With the franchise now at its peak during the ’90s, Of the weighting Want to keep the ball to roll and introduce yet another new series towards the end The next generationRunning.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine For the first time on January 3, 1993, in the middle of The next generationSixth season, with a pilot episode that even included Patrick Stewart as Picard Jean-Luc.
And this is where we get our first obstacle that stopped some The next generation Viewers even want to give the show a chance.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Starting her story with the character of Benjamin Sisko, Starfleet Officer, losing his wife at the battle of Wolf 359, a disgraceful conflict led by Picard while he was assimilated by the Borg and came Hear.
The first episode of the show has met Sisko with Picard and has immediately established that Sisko is a resentment harbor for Picard’s time like Locutus.
Sisko even mentions that he is considering resigning from Starfleet in the first episode, setting up the first Star Trek character he might not actually agree with the federation.
Now, I’m always saying a version of this as a safety net for anything else we’re about to explore in the video, so here’s: I love Deep space nine. I love the character of Benjamin Sisko. You will hear nothing bad about the man from me.
However, there is no question that fans have struggled to the character of Jean-Luc Picard and what he represented for Star Trek: Next Generation as a whole.
And here a angry black man challenged that status quo out of the gate in a New Trek Star Series, and use the popular show’s fan captain to do.
We will focus on Avery Brooks himself in a while, but it is important to understand that Sisko’s character has accumulated a lot of Deep space nineNarrative Mission Statement: It’s time to see how much this Star Trek idealism holds against harder and complex ideas and stories.
And while I’m sure fans are willing to give Deep space nineAn opposing tone of a shot early, a vocal cohort who made their negative views were known.
Undoubtedly there was silence from mainstream fans and spectators in terms of embracing Deep space nine.
This is a Star Trek show that wasn’t about being in a spaceship and going out to explore the galaxy.
Installed on a restored cardassian space station, Deep space nine Made many similar deliberate creative choices that rubbed against Star Trek’s familiarity.
Instead of a captain, Benjamin Sisko starts the series as a commander.
Instead of a cast of likeable crews at once, we get the surly changeling oto and the righteous Kira Nerys.
And though Deep space nine He certainly has his warm and silly side, it’s not like the show deviated from her desire to dig into a darker subject as she goes on.
There’s no question that Deep space nineTone and mood turned into a substantial contingent of viewers.
And as the show became more focused on multi-part chapters, circular characters, and a general serial story line, it ended up turning more viewers who felt out of the link with the show’s stories.
Because Deep space nine Running in syndicate, it meant that the show could play at different times across the country or even in a different order than the intention.
Needless to say, to people who knew Star Trek as an episodic franchise you could pop to, Deep space nine Without inviting a fresh audience as he continues his run.
But other factors blocked potential Deep space nine to break out.
Gargantuan’s success Star Trek: Next Generation In the end hurt Deep space nine in the long term.
The studio compared a score The next generation to Deep space nine and they were not enthusiastic.
Although the show started strongly coming off back The next generationSoon he started losing spectators and would gradually drop them throughout the seven seasons of the show.
To highlight this, the pilot episode of Deep space nine More than 18 million viewers clocked while the end of the series had 5 million viewers, less than a third of the initial audience.
And part of the blame for running off viewers’ lands directly on paramount shoulders.
Only two years after the premiere of Deep space nineParamount launched their own network station, the United Paramount Network or UPN, and his Delecast was for the first time at a new Star Trek show that would operate as the flagship network program, Star Trek: Travel.
Because Paramount has a larger privileged interest in UPN success and therefore Voyageit meant that Deep space nine He took back to marketing and awareness for the company.
Voyage Also promised to audiences something much more traditional Star Trek with a spacecraft crew out in the galaxy, making it much more accessible and episodic for newer viewers.
In many ways, Star Trek: Travel Have come off as a response to Deep space nine in the eyes of supporters and not a positive one.
And all during this time, paramount also funded and promoted The next generation Feature movies.
While it appeared as Deep space nine Just another active part of this Mega-Commerce, the studio’s focus on success optimization Voyage and the Tng The creators and filmmakers made the movie behind Deep space nine Feels like a “Middle Child” Star Trek.
And then, Avery Brooks.
Let me repeat: I love Deep space nine. I love Benjamin Sisko. And I love the performance of Avery Brooks across the series and as the director of several chapters, especially “far beyond the stars” that I made a whole video on that you should watch. This is the best thing that Star Trek has ever done.
But there is no doubt that Avery Brooks as the series leader played in why the show was not exactly dear in her time.
Brooks is a completely unique actor. At the time he was best known as the character hawk of Spenser: To Hire and was sufficiently celebrated on that show to have its own effect, A man called Hawk.
Brooks felt very strongly about his appearance on television as a black man and wanted to maintain his bare head and goatee.
However, producers put a veto on this as their last Star Trek actor was a bare man and they were worried that people would see Brooks as his pre -error, Hawk.
So it took several seasons before Brooks got to customize his favorite look into Sisko’s character.
Why do we bring it all up? Because Brooks had in the past noted that he wanted to leave the show early in his run due to his many conflict feelings during his employment.
Look, Star Trek fans like to think of themselves as extremely progressive and open -minded, but toxic, idiotic fans have always been in every following and Star Trek is no different.
Brooks undoubtedly dealt with racism from fans as the first black leader of the franchise, and there is a very good chance for him to experience behind the scenes as well.
And I’m sorry if your rose toned glasses tell you otherwise, but a black leader in a mainstream TV show in the ’90s is something white audiences were not going to receive.
Deep space nine Displaying many black characters and actors, and often included views with no -one on screen but black actors.
You can be riding as big as you like in the comments on this, but it’s absolutely true that part of the mainstream audience didn’t want to watch a black man leading the accusation every week on their space show.
Thank goodness, Deep space nine A positive critical response was held during its initial run, with simultaneous reviewers finding a refreshing change of franchise.
But, as Voyage He kept finding his way through the delta quadrant and Picard was off rocking around like Tarzan on the big screen, Deep space nine Play out his story and finish his seven seasons run on June 2, 1999.
And frankly, it was a kind of fading out of conversation in many journey circles since Voyage Continue on and there was more The next generation Movies take place.
For a while he felt like Deep space nine It was supposed to remain a specialist favorite for franchise fans.
Tan, a new generation found the series through stream.
Here we will begin to see a real revaluation Deep space nineFor Star Trek fans and modern TV viewers.
Thanks to the binge drinking model of streaming shows and larger cultural willingness for darker material from shows such as Game of Thronesnew viewers were much more willing and able to settle with Deep space nineLonger stories and harder tone.
These days you can find Star Trek fans like me saying proudly Deep space nine Be the Trek Star Best Series.
Trusted to me, that wasn’t the case when I was growing up during the peak of Star Trek’s popularity.
Star Trek: Next Generation Could be a general favorite, but in terms of mature storytelling, complex characters, and waiting power, Deep space nine takes the cake.
It’s like the Acor From his day, except that show exists in a market where the audience wants a darker, more exciting exploration of his franchise already and waits for these kinds of stories.
Deep space nine Truly ahead of his time which is a big reason that he is still finding new fans.
It may have been considered a failure at the time, but today it is proof that they have not been able to make any Star Trek as well as Deep space nine before or since.
