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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine opens with one of the franchise’s most haunting and compelling opening salvos

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Thirty-two years ago on January 3, 1993 , Deep Space Nines pilot, “ Emissary ” opened with a title card that took Trek back to what was then its greatest, and one of Starfleet ’s lowest, points: the Battle of Wolf 359 .

The scenes aboard the USS Saratoga as it prepares to be one of the many doomed vessels gathering to stop the Borg at Wolf 359 hold a remarkable mirror up to what Trek was at the moment.

The unvarnished view comes in the shape of Sisko himself, a man who is allowed to be vulnerable and flawed in ways that defy what we had come to expect.

It's a shape that is formed from the minute Deep Space Nine gets going, and one that is still defining the show all these years later .

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