Beyond and Back - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Roundtable

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is celebrating its 30th anniversary in a few months, and to celebrate, IGN's Scott Collura is moderating a cast reunion with Nana Visitor, Colm Meaney, and Terry Farrell to discuss the legacy of the show; its themes of morality, war, diversity; and its impact on new audiences thanks to streaming services.
Nana Visitor played Kira Nerys, a Bajoran freedom fighter turned second-in-command of the space station. Colm Meaney portrayed Chief O'Briend, who transferred from the Starship Enterprise for a promotion on Deep Space Nine where he'd be guaranteed to roll up his sleeves and fix something. And of course, Terry Farrell played Jadzia Dax, a brilliant young science officer with seven lifetimes worth of memories and experiences courtesy the alien symbiote inside her.
Presented by Star Trek Fleet Command.
#IGN #StarTrek #DS9

[@DarthLee8472]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is still my all-time favorite Star Trek series.

[@BassByTheBay]

You are not alone, though for me it's a tie with the original ST. As a child of the '70s, seeing ST sparked my imagination in ways that gave me a lifetime love of space, and while the show is obviously dated in some ways, it holds up surprisingly well as dramatic sci-fi storytelling.

[@forCatharsis]

DS9 is definitely the best Star Trek!

[@isharsingh8048]

100%

[@MarcelSM01]

Same here

[@Elidrys]

Same 110% DS9 was the best

[@grimdeath999]

Just finished DS9 for the first time and what a rollercoaster, a truly legendary series. All the actors were phenomenal

[@user-jv7ig6ie5b]

That's so cool to know that people are still discovering and enjoying it for the first time even now.

[@powerbad696]

Back when TNG,DS9 & Voyager were on,was the GOLDEN-AGE of Trek. Just my opinion.The Trek shows on now can't hold a candle to these older shows.

[@colinleat8309]

Welcome to DS9 ! 😁🖖

[@Sephiroth144]

@@bradanderson7105 Do they have to make it to the end of the game...? Either way, you misspelled Garak ;-)

[@XalenMaru]

Never get tired of seeing the cast of DS9. Don't see them enough!

[@ablanuza76]

One of my dearest wish is that a DS9 movie would be made. The Sisko must return.

[@motionpablo]

Deep Space Nine is the best of all Star Trek!! Most layered, most complex, pure gold

[@alexbeebe9905]

“I’m just happy being O’Brien” is such an O’Brien answer 😂

[@apollomacgregor6534]

"Duet" was brutal. Very emotional.

[@odesseus]

One of the best explorations of preconceived bigotries. Nana describes it perfectly surrounding the ultimate confusion about what is an enemy.

[@2kanchoo]

The actors were great but so was the writing. Kudos to the writers too.

[@maidros85]

This show NEEDS an HD makeover!

[@James-bn6lj]

it has a 1080p version but no widescreen version

[@Dmviewing]

@@James-bn6lj It doesn't. Not a real 1080p transfer. It will likely never be in 16:9 widescreen either for the same reasons as TNG.

[@SiBanstead89]

the tng restoration was such a mammoth and time consuming effort that its deemed too hard to replicate for ds9 and voyager

[@mog398]

@@SiBanstead89 It also can't really be replicated in the same way, because of how the final cuts were produced. A guy on youtube is doing it with AI, and getting great results, though!

[@Sephiroth144]

@@mog398 And there is a 1080p AI upgrade version floating around the dark corners of the web; "Project Defiant" isn't the best, (probably best to think of it as AI Upgrade 1.0), but it is several steps up from the DVDs...

[@ImranChaudhry]

33:08 Love Terri Farrell's honest story about being the "old man" and Avery Brooks helping her.

[@lcflngn]

That was lovely. So much Terri we’ve missed since her ending in the show was so fraught. Truly truly ❤️ her and very happy to see her here.

[@lowket]

Nothing but love and respect for the DS9 cast.

[@andirogynys1926]

Excellent to see these actors talking about the show. As someone who fell in love with the show while it was on Netflix it has informed so much of my self, both my taste in sci-fi and in my personal life.

[@dutchgijoe]

So happy to have met Nana Visitor and Terry Farrell at the photoshoots @ Star Trek Destination UK back in 2018! In 9 days Armin Shimerman and other Star Trek legends are @Star Trek Destination Germany!

[@hairzilla]

Colm talks like his character from the Episode where Sisko hallucinates as a sci-if writer

[@Mystery_Biscuits]

Probably just that he basically played himself in that episode xD

[@Metallian81]

WTF?!? 30 years?!? Damn I'm getting old! 😭😭 This was awesome!

[@powerbad696]

Me Too. LOL.But,it beats laying in a coffin with dirt poured all over you.

[@sungleong]

Feels like yesterday

[@gohawks3571]

Shhh, just a few years ago.😂 Don't tell me the numbers!

[@digitalcurrents]

Nana Visitor looks like a hot grandma.

[@odesseus]

Same here!

[@xMRxZEROx]

DS9 is easily one of my favorite Star Trek iterations, next to TNG. Next Generation is what made me fall in love with ST. But DS9 was just, amazing. It was something new. Different. Fun. I've been rewatching the entire series and it still holds up.

[@harvey1965]

There exists a historic prejudice toward DS9 which is still at play today. With the current Kurtzman era showrunners, many of which truly do not 'get' or understand Trek, Deep Space Nine is something truly beyond their comprehension. Of all the legacy series requiring a serious continuation; DS9 is that show. Such a rich universe enfolds this series and so very many stories can still yet be told in that universe. When do we get a Star Trek; Sisko or a continuation limited series set in the DS9 section of the Trek universe??

[@iamdmc]

Bring back DS9! I'd watch a DS9 film in theatres any day of the week!

[@katrose5179]

I’m still pissed they didn’t make them back then.

[@TheABElia]

No, please don’t. It’s fine just as is. New Trek is terrible.

[@andromidius]

@@TheABElia You could always... not watch. Also, people always hate on new things. People hated on DS9 thirty years ago too. And TNG. Its what reactionaries always do. Its tiresome.

[@ronbarton7799]

​@@TheABEliaTrue most of new Trek is terrible but they should have had callbacks to Deep Space Nine at least. And a miniseries Showing where all the characters wind up 30 years later.

[@joelww2501]

@@ronbarton7799Terry Matalas wants to revisit DS9

[@weedsprouts]

SKIP to 00:29:20 if you don't want to sit through a "Starting Soon" vid 🙄

[@Tyrni88]

Thank you

[@kylebrennan3327]

Nana was amazing, she wasn't an actress playing a part, she was Kiera, strong, fierce, and relatable. Love that girl!

[@GenKrug-bl8mq]

Couldn't agree more!!!👌

[@ixlimacixl]

Nana aged well.

[@paulstuart132]

Stunningly so

[@lcflngn]

My goals…

[@Reggie1408]

Plastic surgery sure helps

[@iangreenhalgh9280]

A lot of Botox - note how her top lip is rigid and doesn't move, classic symptom of Botox. Probably a facelift and some other surgeries too.

[@Gaeilgeoir]

Terry did, too.

[@Alcyeragraeth]

"Star Wars entertains. Star Trek inspires."

[@PulsechainHex]

Bring DS9 and stargate back whoooooooo

[@Kallan007]

Great to see these folks again. They created a wonderful legacy with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

[@MonkeyspankO]

Other Trek series might have more iconic/ "better" episodes, but DS9 is the best seen in its entirety end to end. The best arc imo. Its the pinnacle what Trek COULD be if they just let it. Every sci fi fan owes it to themselves to watch the entire series at least once.

[@Hibbs4Prez]

other trek shows do not have more better episodes.

[@bluntman5312]

I'd put The Visitor up against most any episode of any other Trek show. Powerful.

[@djangofett4879]

@@bluntman5312 Far Beyond The Stars, In the Pale Moonlight and many other episodes of DS9 stand up as well as the best TNG. TNG and DS9 are just such amazing rewatchable shows.

[@davemiller6055]

DS9 has a ton of fantastic and iconic episodes.

[@petermuchko]

Nana Visitor looks amazing!

[@dgilroy26]

The show should have gotten a movie like TNG did.

[@powerbad696]

The Voyager cast were asked to make movies,they said-Al-Hell Naw !! LOL.

[@harvey2906]

DS9 is a Masterpiece.✌️

[@iangreenhalgh9280]

@@powerbad696 They weren't asked because most of them were so unpopular with the fanbase - Neelix and Janeway being prime examples. Only the doctor and Seven had much popularity.

[@mopes2713]

This is so incredible! Thanks for doing this. Star Treck DS9 will forever hold a place in my heart. I’m overcome with emotion seeing them all again.❤️

[@andreasesser4641]

The crowning achievement of Star Trek. Best characters with the best arcs.

[@joelww2501]

Interesting and cool to see that Nana has become the public leader of the DS9 cast 30 years later

[@Tom-fh6bu]

DS9 my fave too. Thx guys

[@michaelblythe5094]

My favourite Star Trek show.

[@daveagreg]

Love hearing from some of my favorite cast from my favorite series - Nana, Terry, and Colm are great! Much love for @The 7th Rule for keeping the DS9 love alive with Cirroc Lofton and Ryan T. Husk, too! ❤💛💙🤓🖖🏾

[@flinty8121]

Ronald D Moore writing a Voyager show with Nana as the lead would've been incredible. Some parallel universe has a great show that we didn't get.

[@Maazzzo]

Thank you for posting this. Please enable captions for the Deaf/HoH.

[@MyBrainGlows]

Nana Visitor, Colm Meaney, and Terry Farrell are the only ones still on television. Everyone of em is pure gold and a great actor

[@SMacCuUladh]

Colm has done a lot of film work over the years.

[@KellysAdventures305]

"Duet" was a great episode. A traumatized Cardassian that had so much guilt over just being at a concentration camp, he wanted to be executed to make Cardassia face the atrocities they commited and make amends. In the end, blind hatred existed on both sides. A great story doesn't need special affects.

[@TheRealRonMoses]

I'm looking forward to seeing Nana and Terry on the Star Trek cruise in February!

[@seashorerumble1380]

Nana Visitor is a treasure and must be protected at all costs

[@TheJayson8899]

DS9 is easily the best Star Trek show. The cast were excellent.

[@Daniel-zy2ig]

Thank you for this video, so much sweet memories... 😊😊😊

[@TheFtm22]

Enjoyed this very much. Thank you for sharing with us.

[@mnomadvfx]

Great now gimme HD DS9 remaster already!

[@DLZ2000]

My favorite Trek series, and it was lovely to hear Terry Farrell show some love for Sonequa Martin-Green, and given this was before Louise Fletcher’s death, Visitor’s love for Fletcher’s performance.

[@annmarie6985]

I’m SO loving watching DS9 along with Cirroc Lofton on the @The 7th Rule channel

[@daveagreg]

Yes!!!!!!!! ❤💛💙🤓🖖🏾

[@StuartQuinn]

Hello, hello.

[@goddessofwar4955]

Deep Space Nine was the most complex, thoughtful, deep Star Trek, period. It addressed issues that still have never come up elsewhere. It talked about the adventure of who they were and how cultures could recover; going beyond a really surface level that almost all Trek shows do.. and, frankly, there has -NEVER- been a better villain that Kai Winn, who was so damn evil.

[@philosofrenzy]

9:12 "People don't seem to like change." So true haha

[@timsimms65707]

Love DS9, the best of all the Treks in my humble opinion.

[@sigil5772]

Great representation of the station at the start. Worth freeze-framing to get the scale, the sense that thousands could be on it.

[@shawmeehan7201]

All time favorite Star Trek hands down and running!!!!

[@Knightfall182]

Sad that Avery Brooks tends to avoid these things now.

[@Funkybassuk]

They have Star Trek: Picard for Captain Picard and Star Trek: Prodigy for Captain Janeway. We need something to complete Sisko’s story - and Benny’s story!

[@djangofett4879]

He has quit acting completely

[@askaniuk]

Someone will need to corroborate this but there was a story that Avery Brooks' retreat from performing was due to speaking out against the Hollywood system and that he was blacklisted

[@georgebullukian1819]

Great video!!!

[@colinmorgan7771]

Is a absolute shock when you see the video cast then and now at how many we have lost what a great cast they were

[@JohnS-il1dr]

Kira ans Dax still got it

[@Elidrys]

Also LOVE that score

[@starclone4]

Thank you all so very much... That was fun !!!! ❤

[@denniscleary7580]

Huge next generation and voyager fan, did not mind deep space nine due to his lore that it added, and let’s face it, the dominion war was great

[@kadosho02]

Watch DS9 again, and it still connects with themes of the present today. It is timeless, but also mature, fun, and deep

[@adrianwu492]

Great video, the host really asked the right questions and is clearly well versed in trek.

[@ravipeiris4388]

Thank you IGN for sharing and uploading for us all ❤

[@Sserxe]

DS9 could have been the hub in a series of multiple trek series where other series overlapped with. Like TNG and Voyager for example.

[@chuckm869]

DS9 was always my favorite star trek series

[@BigCowProductions]

Nana, Colm, and Terry are so beautiful

[@dwerical]

It was great

[@Eddogegr3]

Love to see Colm here. He doesn't do much in the way of Trek in recent years compared to Nana and Terry and a few others of the cast who (besides have less going on no doubt), participate regularly in these type of things.

[@shauncraigparkinson8165]

Loved this so much

[@GenKrug-bl8mq]

Iloved all the ST's but there was something about DS9 that made it my favorite and still watch them--and the others!!!💖👍

[@EvilTheOne]

Before another day passes by, Paramount should green light a DS9 "continuation" movie; not a reboot. Please don't mess with a great thing. They can bring back everyone, with the sad exception of those who have left us much too soon (Aron and Rene). Side stories to the plot . . . have O'Brien return as a much more experienced engineering chief of Star Fleet, coming back after all these years to integrate the newest systems into the station he knows too well. Have Kira's character be the leader of the entire Bajoran militia; of which the military mission of DS9 falls under her jurisdiction. And have Jadzia Dax return as one of the prophets, since her death was defending Bajor, and she was attacked in DS9's Bajoran temple. This will have carried on her friendship with Benjamin Sisko, who was in the celestial temple for all of those years also. DS9 RULES!

[@daviddespain5240]

The DS9 cast has stated they will only return of Ira Steven Behr is the show runner and honestly, without him and Ron Moore and Rene Echeveria it's not really worth it. They made the show great and managed to push their vision forward despite opposition.

[@PixelatedBeing]

The best of all Trek shows 🖖

[@davemiller6055]

Kira had one of the best arcs in the show, and in all of Trek.

[@chrispalmer7893]

First wedding in space was in the Original Series, but Colm probably got to be the first Starfleet Officer married on-screen who survived the episode...

[@DarthSideous63]

It was the first marriage of major characters Worf and Dax. TOS was minor characters and the groom died from a batte.

[@passion_proh-jects]

HOW AND WHY has there never been a DS9 movie?????? It is a crime against hoomaanity

[@markpekrul4393]

DS9 is a wonderful relic from a time when the grown-ups were in charge of Trek - mature in mind if not necessarily in years. At its best, it was the best iteration of Trek. "A message without hitting you over the head with it" - how novel.

[@XHunter442]

Dam im so happy to see them all!

[@XHunter442]

DAM, Im so loving the Commerical for the game new arc! Dam if they can turn this arc into a movie would be cool with this Commerical graphics!

[@holgol00]

So fantastic!!

[@dannysolid]

I'd ask the question: Do you get recognized for your work in other tv shows or movies, like Colm with his role on Hell on Wheels. Does it feel different being recognized by fans of those shows instead of DS9?

[@user-sq4jz9up6g]

Can't imagine DS9without Kira and Nana's wonderful.performance

[@flinty8121]

Colm is so Miles

[@meredithcolias-pete5421]

why ds9 was so powerful. they were stuck dealing with the consequences of their actions

[@beyondthemultiverse-nj5dj]

No matter how old they get Terri and Nana still love amazing

[@RA10H56]

Duet....beutiful episode

[@DavidRLentz]

Louise Fletcher (Kai Winn), 88, has passed, Saturday, 24 September, 2022.

[@MrCaptainjack1988]

Here's hoping that the way Season 3 of Picard is going, it ends up with a trip to DS9 and some familiar faces!

[@Explorations84]

Terry Farrell 🥰🥰

[@jonathanjollimore4794]

This will piss my sister off she was a Babylon 5 fan so she always had it in for Deep Space Nine😂

[@woodrude78]

Gotta love them both, did DS9 steal its entire premise from B5, who knows but both were distinctive and both were outstanding SciFi shows

[@charlesearle2055]

They’re both fantastic.

[@BassByTheBay]

@@woodrude78 B5 came out _after_ DS9, so the short answer is "no" 😊.

[@gdoubleyou3159]

@@BassByTheBay The creator of Babylon 5 went to the company that ran Star Trek to see if they would pick up Babylon 5. He basically gave them his "bible" for the show. They declined and next thing you know DS9 came out, with a lot of similarities. That said, still love both.

[@herbiecactus6687]

J effin C I love these people.

[@bronzehelm6046]

Can anyone please tell me where to get one of those star projectors?

[@XHunter442]

TY IGN and to the Kira O'Brian and Jadzia Dax! >.< LLAP!

[@seanbirch9663]

The actors have names, you know.

[@barneshomestead1240]

To me Season 4 & beyond rocked & got better and better. Watching the final episodes of season 7 on H&I TV now.

[@MarcoPaints]

GIVE US 4K!!!

[@danbeaudet6718]

O'Brian was in TNG, from the first episode! He was probably the character in DS9 that was tortured the most! Poor O,Brian.

[@joanmilton9986]

There weren't enough scenes between Kira and Jadzia.

[@davemiller6055]

DS9 is the best of Trek. The pinnacle.

[@harvey2906]

The best Star Trek all times. 🖖

[@bigwinie]

New Frames Need Analyzing @ 30:53

[@bipolarminddroppings]

Nana is rocking that grey hair. It's weird, I've always looked forward to going grey...

[@liquid6901]

I'm sure Michael Dorn was much too busy!

[@cosmic4037]

Deep Space Nine the best series in my book.

[@JustusPoetic]

Hmm... because Dax was killed, everybody thinks there's no Dax in future shows but... there is Jadzia in the Mirrorverse and other realities. The Jadzia in the other realm was still alive but maybe open to surprises like Discovery's Phillipa Georgiou...or the novel's edition of Wesley Trek is unveiling as an evil villain.

[@bluerhizome]

Jadzia is dead in the mirror universe too, killed by mirror ezri.

[@JustusPoetic]

@@bluerhizome Wow. Can find that in the novel series...

[@crazypetec-130fe7]

@@bluerhizome We never saw her body onscreen, so the writers can work around that if they put their minds to it.

[@guitaoist]

This one is really growing on me after years of mostly next generation

[@dabluflcn]

DS9 was the best Star Trek and anyone else who disagrees can run along home.