Star Trek: EVERY Season Ranked Worst To Best

Deep Space Nine's final year was a very different one for many reasons. First, the show was dealing with the death of Jadzia Dax, leading to the introduction of Ezri. Sisko was in a dark place as the season begins and Starfleet is taking heavy casualties, never more disturbingly presented than in The Siege of AR-558.

Rick Berman gave Behr something of a carte blanche to do what he wanted with the season, within reason. He stipulated one rule: don't destroy the Federation! After that, Behr remembered that they had quite a lot of creative freedom.

One result of this was the final 10 episode arc that comprised the end of the Dominion War. Not only were some of the most shocking scenes in Deep Space Nine occurring here (see photo inset) but a potential to change the nature of the very franchise was mulled over by Behr. His original idea was to have the final shot of the series reveal Benny Russell to have been dreaming the whole thing, all along.

However, that would have relegated the entire franchise of Star Trek to the imagination of this one writer, definitely going against Berman's one rule. Behr satisfied himself with a compromise: perhaps Benny didn't create all of Star Trek so, flipping it around, Ben Sisko simply ascends to God-hood by the end.

The season featured some of the most evocative and poignant stories of the show's run, not least being It's Only A Paper Moon, featuring the late, great Aron Eisenberg.

Deep Space Nine went out with a bang. Please, give us more!