There are some odd details that you only notice in the first few episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine on a rewatch. Like Star Trek: The Next Generation before it, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine took ...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine shouldn’t have worked. The franchise was founded on ideas of exploration, “Wagon Train to the stars,” as creator Gene Roddenberry put it. It originally focused on ...

Part of what makes Star Trek so rewarding to watch is that it's full of tropes, including episodes where Picard acts like a lawyer or episodes where the holodeck tries to get everyone killed.