History Recap / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E01E02Emissary

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* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The episode opens with a flashback to the Battle of Wolf 359 from ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', which was an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome at the time and the ''Enterprise'' just seeing the aftermath. This episode gives it the moment in deserves.

* SpinoffSendOff: The episode starts with The Enterprise-D docked with the eponymous station. Captain Picard appears and the new Commander Sisko promptly tells him how much he hates him. Sisko has some epiphanies, makes peace with Picard, and Picard gives him his blessing. It literally happens to TNG semi-regular Chief O'Brien, when he's sent to DS9 by Picard himself, who wishes him well on his new assignment.

** Bashir stammers awkwardly when inviting Jadzia to dinner. Later he's portrayed as much smoother with women, busily dating many of the single women on the station (though mostly offscreen).

* {{Retcon}}: A minor example; the USS ''Melbourne'' (the ship Riker was meant to command) was a ''Nebula''-class ship in "The Best of Both Worlds" but changed to an ''Excelsior''-class one in this episode, as the model was more detailed for the closeup where the Borg destroy it. The ship was never definitively identified as any particular wreck in the original episode, so it's not a major issue.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Kai Opaka was planned to be male, and to give foot massages rather than

Following a 60 year occupation, the Cardassia Empire has withdrawn from Bajor, leaving behind a planet stripped of many of its natural resources and a population scarred by decades of subjugation and mistreatment. The Federation has agreed to help the planet rebuild, and to this end, it will be sharing command of the abandonded Cardassian space station Terok Nor (now renamed Deep Space Nine) with the Bajorans. Commander Benjamin Sisko will be in charge, but he still has issues from the loss of his wife at the Battle Of Wolf 359, and to make matters worse, he also has to deal with his Bajoran first officer, who is deeply mistrustful of Starfleet and even her own government and the damage done to the station as the Cardassians left.

* WhiteVoidRoom: With an closeup on Sisko's head... then his face... then his eyes... then just one eye.

* [[PutOnABus Put on a Space Station]]: Chief O'Brien and family (at least from [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration the Enterprise Crew's]] point of view).

Following a 60 year occupation, the Cardassia Empire has withdrawn from Bajor, leaving behind a planet stripped of many of its natural resources and a population scarred by decades of subjugation and mistreatment. The Federation has agreed to help the planet rebuild, and to this end, it will be sharing command of the abandonded Cardassian space station Terok Nor (now renamed Deep Space Nine) with the Bajorans. Commander Benjamin Sisko will be in charge, but he still has issues from the loss of his wife at the Battle Of Wolf 359, and to make matter worse, he also has to deal with his Bajoran first officer, who is deeply mistrustful of Starfleet and even her own government and the damage done to the station as the Cardassians left.

* ManlyTears/TearsOfRemorse: Sisko over his wife's death.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Sisko essentially blackmailing Quark into staying on the station really sets him up as the most pragmatic of all the StarTrek captains.

Taking a short trip around the Bajoran system in a Runabout, Sisko and his old friend and science officer Dax discover a stable wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant, but on the return journey, Sisko is captured by the aliens who live inside the Wormhole, who dump Dax back on DS9. While Sisko tries to explain the nature of linear time and corporeal existence to the SufficientlyAdvancedAliens, the crew on the station must race to move it to protect the wormhole from the Cardassians, who are on their way back with a renewed interest in Bajor...

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: The station is in orbit around Bajor at the beginning; its move to the wormhole entrance is reflected in the opening credits of every episode ''except'' this one.

* ContemplateOurNavels: The whole long sequence where Sisko explains the circumstances of existing in linear time to the Prophets, boils down to this.

* HumanityOnTrial: Not just humanity, but all corporeal beings. Sisko's makes the case, and is thus deemed the Emissary.

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: the station's move to the wormhole entrance from Bajor's orbit, which is part of the opening credits; the pilot credits lack this visual.
* PatrickStewartSpeech: The baseball scene with the prophets

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