"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" Far Beyond the Stars (1998)

Director:

Avery Brooks

Writers:

Gene Roddenberry (creator: "Star Trek")
Rick Berman (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993)

Original Air Date:

11 February 1998 (Season 6, Episode 13)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Captain Sisko has a full sensory vision of himself as an under-appreciated science fiction magazine writer in 1950s America. |

Plot Keywords:

1950s | Vision | Science Fiction Magazine | Magazine | Dual Role

Cast

Avery Brooks	...	Captain Sisko / Benny Russell
Rene Auberjonois	...	Douglas Pabst
Michael Dorn	...	Lt. Commander Worf / Willie Hawkins
Terry Farrell	...	Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax / Darlene Kursky
Cirroc Lofton	...	Jake Sisko / Jimmy
Colm Meaney	...	Albert Macklin
Armin Shimerman	...	Herbert Rossoff
Alexander Siddig	...	Doctor Bashir / Julius Eaton
Nana Visitor	...	Major Kira / Kay Eaton
Brock Peters	...	Joseph Sisko / Preacher
Jeffrey Combs	...	Officer Mulkahey
Marc Alaimo	...	Officer Ryan
J.G. Hertzler	...	Roy Ritterhouse
Aron Eisenberg	...	Vendor
Penny Johnson	...	Kasidy Yates / Cassie

Runtime:

60 min

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Television

Trivia:

This is the only DS9 episode which shows all the regular cast members in ordinary roles without their makeup and uniforms.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Michael Dorn's character Willie Hawkins enters the bar for the first time, he accidentally calls Penny Johnson's character by the name of Kassidy instead of Cassie. 'Kassidy' is Johnson's role name on Deep Space Nine.

Quotes:

Benny Russell: I am a Human being, dammit! You can deny me all you want but you cannot deny Ben Sisko. He exists. That future, that space station, all those people, they exist in here, in my mind.

10 years later...

Cirroc Lofton's line (you know the one) still takes my breath away.

All by itself "DS9" always showed more progressiveness and more social conscience than the other "Trek"'s combined.

The story is a fanciful conceit, and a breather from the season's arc, but it still stands as "Trek"'s best address of racial issues, and also serves as a reminder that it's a little depressing that "DS9" is the least popular "Trek" in terms of syndication value and DVD sales.

If you don't know the show, this one is a good, arc-independent introduction. And if you do know the show, you will always remember falling off your chair when Cirroc Lofton said "that line."

This episode never places highly in fan polls, but it's one of the best.