Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Series 1

Starring: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois Original UK Premiere: 1995 Dvd Release: 24th March, 2003 Number Of Discs: 6 Format: Box set, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture is the first feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series & is released on Friday, December 7. TMP or TMP. It is widely regarded as a disappointing film due to its plodding pace & emphasis on special effects over story & characterization & is considered by many as one of the lesser films in the series. However, there are also many fans who consider this film to be the best of the series & the one film that most accurately reflected Trek creator Gene Roddenberry s vision of the future. Circa stardate 7412,6, a powerful alien force - in the shape of a massive energy cloud - is detected in Klingon space & is believed to be heading for Earth. The cloud destroys starships & other objects it encounters en route. Starfleet decides to dispatch the starship Enterprise to intercept the thing, requiring that its lengthy refit process be quickly finished & it tested while in transit. Posters Of Star Trek

Deep Space Nine is a fictional space station in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Originally a Cardassian mining & refinery station named Terok Nor in orbit around Bajor, it was abandoned & wrecked towards the end of the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. The station was originally commanded by Gul Dukat, the last Cardassian prefect of Bajor, until 2369 when the Federation & Bajorans assumed command of the station. It was then renamed Deep Space Nine & commanded by Captain Benjamin Sisko until the end of the Dominion War, when Colonel Kira Nerys assumed command. After the discovery of the Bajoran wormhole circa stardate 46379,1, the station was moved to the mouth of the wormhole to consolidate Bajors claim to it. Physically, the station is composed of a broad outer Docking Ring, an inner Habitat Ring & a central core containing the fusion reactors, the Promenade public area & Ops, the command centre. Sweeping up & down from the Docking Ring & defining a spherical shape are three sets of docking pylons. In all, the station is over a kilometer in diameter.

DVD Extras: Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Series 1's hour of special features is split between seven featurettes that really would have worked better edited together. Covering the show's origins & most aspects of Year One's production design, they all crib from interviews with actors & crew from the 1992 shoot.

Other interviews conducted in 1999 & 2002 tend to be more revealing, although the solo section on Major Kira is curiously lacking in recent input. While the designers describe their work with passion, creators Michael Piller & Rick Berman come off as stiff & lacking in knowledge. Hopefully this is something that will improve through the next six box sets. The interactive CD-ROM to build a DS9 database on your PC is something that will become more involving, too. Obviously the most important thing is the episodes themselves, & despite the lack of a commentary to enhance the best of them, sound in 5.1 & the crisp full-frame picture do them ample justice. --Paul Tonks END

Of all the spin-off TV incarnations of Star Trek, Deep Space Nine had the hardest job persuading an audience to watch. By all accounts, Gene Roddenberry had concerns about the idea before his death in 1991. It took two more years to develop, & when it finally aired in 1993 reasons for that concern were evident right away. The show was dark , characters argued a lot, no one went anywhere & the neighbouring natives were hardly ever friendly. Yet for all that the show went against the grain of The Great Birds original vision of the future, it undeniably caught the mood of the time, incorporating a complex political backdrop that mirrored our own.

In the casting, there was a clear intent to differentiate the show from its predecessors. Genre stalwarts Tony Todd & James Earl Jones were considered for Commander Sisko before Avery Brooks. The one let down at the time was that Michelle Forbes did not carry Ensign Ro across from TNG, but when the explosive Nana Visitor defiantly slapped her hand on a console in the pilot episode, viewers knew they were in for a different crew dynamic. In fact, the two-part pilot show is largely responsible for DS9s early success. Mysterious, spiritual, claustrophobic, funny & feisty, it remains the most attention-grabbing series opener the franchise has had. The first year may have relied on a few too many familiar faces, like Picard, Q & Lwaxana Troi, but these were more than outweighed by refreshingly detailed explorations of cultures old & new . As it turned out, Deep Space Nine was the boldest venture into Roddenberrys galaxy that had been seen.

René Murat Auberjonois is an American actor best known for his early 1980s role as Clayton Endicott III on the television show Benson & his role as Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Some of the other roles he had played over the years include Father John Patrick Dago Red Mulcahy in the movie version of M*A*S*H, Chef Louis in Disneys The Little Mermaid, Col. Assignment Miami Beach & Reverend Oliver in The Patriot. Most recently, he plays the role of attorney Paul Lewiston on the David E Kelley -created Boston Legal. René Auberjonoiss mother was Princess Laure of Murat. On his mothers side, René is descended from Joachim Murat, King of Naples & his wife Caroline Bonaparte, sister of the Emperor Napoléon. His father, Fernand Auberjonois, was a Cold War era foreign correspondent & his grandfather, also named René Auberjonois, was a Swiss post-Impressionist painter. Auberjonois family moved to Paris after World War II, where at an early age he decided to become an actor. Posters Of Star Trek

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