10 Times Star Trek Dared To Be Different

7. A Station For A Star Trek

The next series in the pantheon was different by definition. To trek, you have to travel.  Deep Space Nine dared to stay put where no one had stayed put before. Setting up shop — and shops — aboard a space station, it asked the famous wagon train, and the stars, to come to it. The end of the line was the next frontier.

In the beginning especially, 'new life' sought out, or just happened upon, the Station. Tosk was the first alien from the Gamma Quadrant, followed by the Hunters. The first diplomatic delegation — the Wadi — made the trip through the wormhole. Sisko and crew didn't have to move from home in Move Along Home.

Count to three… runabouts, dropped off by the Enterprise in Emissary. In rivers and numbers that followed, the Danube-class was all they had until the start of season three. Star Trek without a starship was then Starfleet with its first unofficial warship.

Different yet still, the Defiant had its own cloaking device on loan from the Romulan Star Empire. "Our people are scientists and explorers — they don't go sneaking around," Gene Roddenberry once said on the topic. To paraphrase from Chula, 'you ain't see nothin' yet!'