DS9 Season 1


Episodes

Summary 
The Provisional Government of Bajor invites Starfleet to help them rebuild after the Cardassian Occupation. Commander Benjamin Sisko is selected to take command of their space station, formerly known as Terok Nor that is then designated by Starfleet as Deep Space 9. As part of the agreement between the Federation and Bajor, Starfleet will help them to become a member of the Federation. 

The Federation involvement in the Bajor sector changes galactic history forever, as Starfleet discovers the Bajoran wormhole, the only stable wormhole known to exist, that leads to the largely unexplored Gamma Quadrant of the Galaxy. 

The other crew of Deep Space 9 include Kira Nerys, functioning as the Bajoran liaison officer, Odo as the security chief of the station, Julian Bashir as chief medical officer, Miles O'Brien as the station's chief of operations, and Jadzia Dax, a joined Trill as the station's science officer. 

Residents of the station include Quark, a Ferengi barkeeper, his brother Rom and Rom's son, Nog. Benjamin Sisko's son Jake  and Miles' wife Keiko O'Brien and daughter Molly O'Brien also live aboard the station. The most enigmatic station resident is the station's tailor, Elim Garak, who has a mysterious past.

In their first year together, the crew are infected with an aphasia virus, visited by aliens who make the wishes and fantasies or fears of all station residents come true, meet a hunted species of aliens, known as  and have an encounter with the omnipotent Q. Quark briefly becomes Grand Nagus, Lwaxana Troi visits the station, a Cardassian called Aamin Marritza tries to get his people to admit to the crimes they committed on Bajor, and the disappearance of Kai Opaka thrusts Bareil Antos and Winn Adami into the spotlight.

Background information

Reception
 Production staff have admitted that the first season of DS9 was somewhat lacking in direction. According to co-creator and executive producer Michael Piller, "When you look at the first season of Deep Space Nine, essentially what I think you see is our intention to do stories that bring in fans of The Next Generation. If you create a space station that is at the crossroads of the universe, then you basically have the justification for bringing in old friends from past episodes. Their ships would normally come through this crossroads, and we felt that was a good way to bring viewers to the show. I think by the second season, we were looking more at standing on our own two feet, and we hadn't been entirely satisfied. When we really started doing stories about our space station, and really made it unique to itself, that's when the series, I think, really became special." (New Frontiers: The Story of Deep Space Nine, DS9 Season 2 DVD, Special Features) Ira Steven Behr commented, "There are things I find weak about some of these shows that have nothing to do with the writing. Many of the shows at the beginning of the season lacked pacing." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 42)
 Piller also explained, however, that the first season was something of a training exercise for the writers; "I think that when you have a wonderful group of actors, you learn how to write for them in the first season. Every show has a shake-down period during the first season, and Deep Space Nine was no different. But I can tell you that we learned so many things as we got to know our actors." (New Frontiers: The Story of Deep Space Nine, DS9 Season 2 DVD, Special Features)
 Rick Berman was pleased with the season, particularly compared to the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Berman commented, "I'm very pleased with the way the first season has gone in a lot of respects. First seasons of television shows tend to be potentially very chaotic. The first season of Next Generation certainly was. This season has been very peaceful in terms of the actors, the crew, the writers and the budgets. As far as the episodes, there are things about them that I love and things about them I don't love. That's the way it is, if we were completely satisfied with what we did, we wouldn't be doing what we do. We're always looking to make things better. What I'm most pleased with is the fact that the concept is working and we've managed to create 20 stories that I think all hang pretty well on the armature that we've built, the backstory and the characters." (The Deep Space Log Book: A First Season Companion, p. 7)
Behr commented:"I really liked the pilot. I thought the pilot gave us a great jumping-off point. But part of the frustration was the pilot really worked and now we're doing this scattershot kind of technique in season one, where we seem to be scrambling all over the place, trying to find our identity. And the identity was firmly established in the pilot, so why are we looking to change that, or go in other directions? Let's just follow the path that was laid out in the pilot. Why are we deviating and trying to go back in time or go back to "The Next Generation"? The pilot wasn't "TNG," why are we trying to do episodes that could easily be adapted for "TNG"? It was just finding our mojo, which we found towards the end of season one".

Trivia
 This season was broadcast concurrent with  Season 6.
 Gene Roddenberry was well aware of the concept of DS9 before his death so this was the last Star Trek series with which he was connected. 
 Characters who 'crossover' from TNG include Miles O'Brien (as a main character), Jean-Luc Picard (also as Locutus) in , Lursa and B'Etor in , Keiko O'Brien & Molly O'Brien as recurring characters from , Q and Vash in , and Lwaxana Troi in .
 Many important recurring characters make their first appearances in this season, including Gul Dukat (), Nog (), Rom (, first named in ), Morn (, first named in ), Elim Garak (), Zek (), Maihar'du (), Winn Adami () and Bareil Antos ().

Credits

Guest and co-stars
 DS9 Season 1 performers

Crew 
The following credits are based on the production order of the episodes.
Executive Producers
Rick Berman
Michael Piller
Co-Producer
Peter Allan Fields (credited in all episodes except "Emissary")
Producer
Peter Lauritson
Supervising Producers
David Livingston
Ira Steven Behr (credited in all episodes except "Emissary")
Line Producer
Robert della Santina ("The Nagus", "The Storyteller", "In the Hands of the Prophets")
Associate Producer
Steve Oster
Casting by
Junie Lowry-Johnson, CSA
Ron Surma
Music by
Dennis McCarthy ("Emissary", "Babel"–"Q-Less", "The Passenger"–"Move Along Home", "Vortex"–"The Storyteller", "The Forsaken", "Duet", "In the Hands of the Prophets")
Jay Chattaway ("A Man Alone", "Past Prologue", "Dax", "If Wishes Were Horses", "Dramatis Personae")
John Debney ("The Nagus", "Progress")
Main Title Theme by
Dennis McCarthy (credit appears only in episodes not composed by McCarthy)
Director of Photography
Marvin Rush
Production Designer
Herman Zimmerman
Editors
Robert Lederman ("Emissary", every third episode after "Q-Less")
Tom Benko, ACE (every third episode after "A Man Alone")
Terry Kelley ("Past Prologue")
Richard E. Rabjohn (every third episode after "Babel")
Unit Production Manager
Robert della Santina
First Assistant Director
Venita Ozols-Graham ("Emissary", "Past Prologue", "Captive Pursuit", even-numbered episode from "Move Along Home" through "In the Hands of the Prophets")
Richard Wells (odd-numbered episodes from "A Man Alone" through "Duet") (credited as Richard D. Wells in "A Man Alone")
Gail Fortmuller ("Dax")
Second Assistant Director
Alisa Matlovsky ("Emissary")
Gail Fortmuller ("A Man Alone"–"Q-Less", "The Passenger"–"Progress")
Michael Baxter ("Dax")
B.C. Cameron ("If Wishes Were Horses"–"In the Hands of the Prophets")
Costume Designer
Robert Blackman
Art Director
Randy McIlvain
Visual Effects
Robert Legato
Visual Effects Supervisors
Robert Legato ("Emissary")
Gary Hutzel (odd-numbered episodes from "A Man Alone" through "The Nagus", "Vortex"–"Progress", "The Forsaken", "Duet")
Bob Bailey ("Past Prologue", "Captive Pursuit")
Glenn Neufeld ("The Storyteller", "Dramatis Personae", "In the Hands of the Prophets")
Post Production Supervisor
Terri Martinez
Scenic Art Supervisor / Technical Consultant
Michael Okuda
Senior Illustrator/Technical Consultant
Rick Sternbach
Set Decorator
Mickey S. Michaels
Make-up Designed and Supervised by
Michael Westmore
Set Designers
Joseph Hodges ("Emissary"–"Dax")
Alan S. Kaye ("Emissary")
Nathan Crowley ("Emissary")
Tom Betts ("The Passenger"–"In the Hands of the Prophets")
Illustrator
Ricardo F. Delgado
Visual Effects Coordinators
Michael Backauskas ("Emissary")
Cari Thomas ("Emissary", even-numbered episodes from "Dax" through "In the Hands of the Prophets")
Judy Elkins ("Emissary", odd-numbered episodes from "A Man Alone" through "Duet")
Mari Hotaki ("Emissary")
Sue Jones ("Past Prologue", "Captive Pursuit")
Wardrobe Supervisor
Carol Kunz
Script Supervisor
Judi Brown
Special Effects
Gary Monak
Property Master
Joe Longo
Construction Coordinator
Richard J. Bayard
Scenic Artists
Doug Drexler ("Emissary", odd-numbered episodes from "A Man Alone" through "Q-Less", even-numbered episodes from "Dax" through "In the Hands of the Prophets")
Denise Okuda ("Emissary", "Past Prologue", "Captive Pursuit", every other episode from "The Passenger" through "Duet")
Hair Designer
Candace Neal (credited as Candy Neal from "A Man Alone" through "Dax")
Make-up Artists
Janna Phillips
Craig Reardon
Jill Rockow
Hair Stylists
Richard Sabre ("Emissary")
Gerald Solomon
Ronald W. Smith
Sound Mixer
Bill Gocke
Camera Operator
Joe Chess, SOC
Chief Lighting Technician
William Peets
First Company Grip
Bob Sordal
Key Costumers
Maurice Palinski ("Emissary", even-numbered episodes from "Past Prologue" through "In the Hands of the Prophets")
Phyllis Corcoran-Woods ("Emissary", odd-numbered episodes from "A Man Alone" through "Duet")
Jerry Bono ("Emissary", even-numbered episodes from "Past Prologue" through "In the Hands of the Prophets")
Patty Borggrebe-Taylor ("Emissary", odd-numbered episodes from "A Man Alone" through "Duet")
Music Editor
Stephen M. Rowe
Supervising Sound Editor
Bill Wistrom
Supervising Sound Effects Editor
Jim Wolvington
Sound Editors
Ashley Harvey (all episodes except "Emissary")
Miguel Rivera ("A Man Alone"–"The Storyteller")
Dan Yale ("A Man Alone"–"Babel")
Sean Callery ("Captive Pursuit"–"In the Hands of the Prophets")
Steffan Falesitch ("Vortex"–"In the Hands of the Prophets")
Production Coordinator
Heidi Julian
Post Production Coordinator
Dawn Hernandez
Visual Effects Associate
Laura Lang-Matz ("Emissary", "Dax"–)
Cari Thomas ("A Man Alone"–"Q-Less")
Production Associate
Kim Fitzgerald
Science Consultant
Naren Shankar
Main Title Design
Dan Curry
Stunt Coordinator
Dennis Madalone
Pre Production Associate
Lolita Fatjo
Casting Executive
Helen Mossler, CSA

Credited in "Emissary" only 
2nd Second Assistant Director
Michael Baxter
Additional Visual Effects Supervision
Gary Hutzel 
Video Playback Operator
Joe Unsinn
Video Consultant
Liz Radley
Re-Recording Mixers
Chris Haire, CAS
Doug Davey
Richard Morrison, CAS
Assistant Editor
Eugene Wood
Visual Effects Assistant Editor
Ed Hoffmeister
Transportation Coordinator
Stewart Satterfield

Uncredited crew 
Make-up Artists Dean Jones, Michael Key, Gil Mosko, Vincent Niebla, Karen WesterfieldNancy J. Hvasta Leonardi - Makeup Artist ("Dramatis Personae", "Duet", "In the Hands of the Prophets")
Hairstylist Susan Maust
Sound Editor Jeff Gersh
On-Line Editor John Carroll
Morphing Designer Dennis Blakey
Wormhole Designer Michael Dallas Gibson
Supervising Visual Effects Compositor Patrick Clancey
Production Associate James Martin
Orchestrator Joseph Smith
Musician Bass: Norman Ludwin
Rigging Gaffer/Lot Best Boy Daniel R. Purinton
Production Accountant: Hala Gabriel
Intern Marc Bernardin
Set Teacher Rhoda Fine

Companies 
Filmed with Panavision cameras and lenses
Video Optical Effects Digital Magic
Special Video Compositing CIS Hollywood
Motion Control Photography Image "G"
Computer Animation
VisionArt Design & Animation
Rhythm & Hues, Inc. ("Emissary")
Editing facilities Unitel Video
Post Production Sound Modern Sound
Miniatures
Brazil-Fabrication & Design ("Emissary")
Gregory Jein, Inc. ("Emissary")
Matte Paintings Illusion Arts ("Emissary")
Major League Baseball Trademarks Licensed by
Major League Baseball Properties, Inc. ("Emissary")

Media releases 
DS9 Season 1 UK VHS
DS9 Season 1 US VHS
DS9 Season 1 DVD

External link

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