10 Tiny Star Trek Details You Might Have Missed The First Time

6. Holiday On Stratos - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek Deep Space Nine
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To be completely fair on the viewers' eyes here, this one is extremely difficult to spot in standard definition. Please, CBS, give us that HD DS9 that we all want! In various episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, including Meridian, The Muse, and What You Leave Behind, there are several screens in the Replimat, Promenade, and Quark's bar advertising holidays on various worlds.

One such world is Ardana, home to the cloud city of Stratos. Stratos first appeared in the Original Series, in the episode The Cloud Minders. The image shown in Deep Space Nine reflects Stratos as it appeared in the sixties, designed by Matt Jefferies. When the Original Series was remastered, the city received a beautiful redesign, with the shots in Deep Space Nine remaining unchanged as of yet.

The screens are quite blurred, so it takes a sharp eye to spot them, but they are there. It was a nice little callback to the Original Series, along with being a cheeky way of further connecting the two shows. This, along with the inclusion of Kang, Koloth, and Kor, not to mention the entire episode of Trials and Tribble-ations, serve to make Deep Space Nine one of the most Original Series-friendly spin-offs in the canon.

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