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ED:StarTrek Deep Space Nine The Complete 1-7 Seasons DVD9

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In the first episode, Starfleet Commander Benjamin Sisko takes charge of Deep Space Nine. He and Jadzia Dax stumble upon the first stable wormhole ever found and discover that it is inhabited by beings who are not bound by normal space and time. To the strongly religious people of Bajor, the wormhole aliens are their gods (the Prophets) and the wormhole itself is the long-prophesied Celestial Temple, where they reside. Sisko himself is hailed as the Emissary of the Prophets, through whom the Prophets primarily act. This provides the basis for a long-lasting story arc. Sisko initially considers his role as a religious icon with open discomfort and skepticism, referring to the Prophets simply as "wormhole aliens" and striving to keep his role as commander of the station distinct from any obligations that the Bajorans try to place on him. Later, he becomes more accepting of his role and, by the end of the series, he openly embraces it. The station crew early on has to contend with a human resistance group known as the Maquis. Rooted in the events of The Next Generation episode, "Journey's End", in which Native American settlers refuse to leave when their colony world is given to Cardassia as part of a treaty, the Maquis is an example for the show’s exploration of darker themes: its members are Federation citizens who take up arms against Cardassia in defense of their homes, and some—such as Calvin Hudson, a long-time friend of Sisko's, and Michael Eddington, who defects while serving aboard the station—are Starfleet officers. The show’s sharp departure from traditional Star Trek themes can be seen in episodes such as "For the Cause", in which Eddington tells Sisko, "Everybody should want to be in the Federation. Nobody leaves paradise. In some ways you’re even worse than the Borg. At least they tell you about their plans for assimilation. You assimilate people and they don’t even know it." The second-season episode, "Rules of Acquisition" marks the first mention of the Dominion, a ruthless empire in the Gamma Quadrant. They are not fully introduced until the second-season finale, "The Jem'Hadar". It is led by "the Founders", a race of shape-shifting Changelings, the same race as station security chief Odo. They were once persecuted by non-shape-shifters (whom they call "Solids") and they seek to impose "order" upon any who could potentially harm them, which includes nearly all Solids. The Founders have created or genetically modified two races to serve them: the Vorta, sly and subversive diplomats, and the Jem’Hadar, their fearless shock troops. These races worship the Founders as gods. At the start of DS9’s third season ("The Search"), with the threat of a Dominion attack looming from the other side of the wormhole, Commander Sisko returns from a trip to Starfleet Headquarters on Earth with the USS Defiant, a prototype starship that was originally built to fight the Borg. It remains stationed at Deep Space Nine until its destruction in season seven, providing an avenue for plot lines away from the station. The Dominion forms an uneasy alliance with the Cardassians in the fifth-season episodes "In Purgatory's Shadow" and "By Inferno's Light" and goes to war with the other major powers of the Alpha Quadrant. Throughout the series, loyalties and alliances change repeatedly: pacts with the Cardassians are made, broken, and remade; a short war with the Klingons flares up and is settled, and (through Sisko's secret machinations) the formerly neutral Romulans ally with the Federation. An example of DS9’s darker nature is Section 31, a secret organization dedicated to preserving the Federation way of life at any cost. This shadow group, introduced in "Inquisition", justifies its unlawful, unilateral tactics by claiming that it is essential to the continued existence of the Federation. Section 31 features prominently in several episodes of the Dominion War arc; such plot elements, as well as DS9’s relative lack of exposure compared to its predecessor, garnered the show a reputation as the "black sheep" of the Trek family.[7] In DS9, the Ferengi are no longer an enemy of the Federation, but rather an economic power whose political neutrality is, for the most part, respected. A number of episodes explore their capitalistic nature, while others delved into the race’s sexist social norms. Unlike their depiction in The Next Generation, where they were generally portrayed simply as sexist buffoons for comedic purposes, in DS9 they received a more complex depiction, with the female partner (Ishka) of the Grand Negus leading a women's rights rebellion on the Ferengi homeworld, and Rom, Quark's brother, leading a strike against unfair working conditions in Quark's bar. Also, Jake's best friend, Nog, has to deal with Starfleet's more liberal attitudes towards women as a Starfleet cadet while Jake learns to deal with his friend's more backward ideas in a respectful manner rather than risk the loss of their friendship. 深空九号》擺脫了之前《星际旅行》电视剧裡面蘊含的一些烏托邦主題。它更專注於探討戰爭、宗教、政治妥協、以及其他現代議題等等。 电视剧裡最為突出的主題是極為篤信宗教的貝久人，在受到卡达西人壓迫的年代過去後，試圖重建他們的世界與經濟。貝久人和卡达西人之間的關係刻意地被強力描寫成暗諷猶太人大屠殺；卡达西人把貝久人關在生活條件很差的奴隸勞動集中營裡，殺害貝久人並不犯法，並對於他們的行動不被認為是為了貝久人好而感到遺憾。深空九号太空站上的大副，奇拉·尼瑞斯（Kira Nerys），原本是地下反抗組織領導人，曾經發動過許多破壞與顛覆活動。不過現在她必須適應她的新角色，學習善用外交手段與耐心。 卡达西人和貝久人之間的關係，本質上可以看成一種殖民關係。就像鲁德亚德·吉卜林（Rudyard Kipling）的《白人的重擔》（The White Man's Burden）這首詩裡所提到的一樣，卡达西人認為他們自己在科技上與文化上都比較優越。根據一位卡达西指揮官杜卡特（Dukat）的記載，在第一次接觸的那個時候，卡达西人在各方面至少比貝久人先進四百年。卡达西人假借開化貝久人（文明）的名義，強迫設立勞動營，意圖掏空貝久星的各種資源。貝久戰士所採取的游擊戰術終於解除了加諸在他們身上的殖民枷鎖，就像1960年代與1970年代許多殖民地爭取獨立所採取的方法一樣。 《深空九号》裡所刻畫的星艦時空是一個介於銀河裡各個大國之間的強權政治（power politics）時代。在這齣电视剧之前，星際聯邦被描寫成一個受人權主義所指引的接近乌托邦的社會。相反地，《深空九号》裡的星際聯邦試圖在它的高度理想性與銀河的政治現實裡取得平衡。這個主題跟現在的國際情勢相符——混合了國與國之間的強權政治，以及全球化所帶來的讓國際合作迅速成長的途徑。