Star Trek: Deep Space Nine documentary will boldly move forward with filming

[Roofus]

Last month, we brought you news that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine writer and showrunner Ira Steven Behr was raising money for a documentary that would explore “the changing legacy” of the series. Behr was inspired to reunite with fellow DS9 writers Ronald D. Moore, Rene Echevarria, and Hans Beimler to imagine what an eighth season would have brought, as well as write a whole new episode. Well, fans will soon learn exactly What We Left Behind, as Indiewire reports the documentary has just surpassed its fundraising goal.

Behr & Co. were initially seeking $150,000 to film their documentary, but DS9 fans showed up en masse and boosted donations to well over $600,000. Those extra funds mean What We Left Behind will have a 90-minute runtime instead of the planned 60 minutes. There will be cast interviews with the likes of Terry Farrell, Michael Dorn, Nana Visitor, Colm Meaney, Alexander Siddig, and more (still no word on Avery Brooks). Adam Nimoy will direct, and has been binge-watching DS9 accordingly. There’s currently no word on when we can expect to beam up the documentary.

Source: The AV Club

[Bandit]

I'm glad to see DS9 fans come out that big for it. It's my favorite Star Trek because the shows were smarter and more complex than other series. I never understood why it's not more popular. It aged better than NG and Voyager IMO. I remember when it was new I only had one friend that liked it as much as I did. The others just watched NG reruns.

[Roofus]

I'm glad to see DS9 fans come out that big for it. It's my favorite Star Trek because the shows were smarter and more complex than other series. I never understood why it's not more popular. It aged better than NG and Voyager IMO. I remember when it was new I only had one friend that liked it as much as I did. The others just watched NG reruns.

I think it was just too different from the other shows. Star Trek was a show about exploration and "boldly going." DS9 did boldly go to the Gamma Quadrant, but the Dominion was unlike anything else in the franchise and it may have turned people off. Also, the serialization put it a good 5-10 years ahead of its time. In the end, it was a really good straight drama series that happened to be set in the Star Trek universe, which I'm absolutely fine with. But I can see how it wasn't what people were expecting.

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My problem with DS9? It was two different shows.

It started off slow when it was just a drama set on a space station. But I liked that more than the action-packed episodes in the later seasons.