“Watch us for the performances,” he says.
I ask Shimerman why people should give the show a shot. In a franchise which presents humans as post-capitalist idealists, the Ferengi are a truly complex, hilarious and disturbing portrait of a society built solely around money. And there’s Odo’s nemesis, Quark (Armin Shimerman), the Ferengi bartender. There’s Odo (the late, great Rene Auberjonois), the station’s chief of security and a shapeshifter whose origins become a major plot point later on. We meet Dax (Terry Farrell), who is a Trill, a species that gives Doctor Who a run for its money. (He’s a union man, dammit.) Julian Bashir (Alexander Siddig) is the arrogant, effete medical officer whose unfolding friendship with a mysterious Cardassian tailor, Garak (Andrew Robinson) takes viewers to some truly incredible places. Miles O’Brien (Colm Meaney), the friendly Irish transporter guy from Next Gen, shows up and becomes one of Trek’s best characters, hands down. Kira is one of a truly stellar cast of characters who jettison the profound but sometimes flattened ethos of Starfleet in favour of unprecedented moral messiness. People watch, and go … holy shit! This is what we’re going through right now! Nothing has changed!” “And it stands up! And I think that’s why there’s a resurgence. “The show looked forward,” says Nana Visitor, who plays Kira Nerys, the brilliant and fiery Bajoran liaison officer assigned to Deep Space Nine. But wait! The Bajoran’s gods, the Prophets, live in the wormhole, and Sisko is made their emissary – and that’s just the first episode! When he arrives, a wormhole opens between Bajor and the far-flung Gamma quadrant, making the planet suddenly strategically vital. Starfleet commander Benjamin Sisko (played by Avery Brooks) is assigned to manage the station. Many pooh-poohed Trek because they thought it was all about the phasers … our show is really about social issues Armin Shimerman Bajor wants to avoid being invaded again, so they ask the Federation for membership. Terok Nor, a Cardassian space station floating above the planet, is renamed Deep Space Nine.
Here’s the turbolift pitch: Cardassia – a militaristic race with bumpy heads and few scruples – have ceded occupation of Bajor, a highly spiritual and scrappy planet.
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