All episodes Season 1 S01E17 1993-05-23 60 min 1990s Syndication

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

The Forsaken

TV Flash files “The Forsaken” as hour 17 of 176 in the TV Flash guide — Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999) on Syndication, season 1, episode 17, aired 1993-05-23, 60 min.

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This leaf is S01E17: listed hour 17 of 176 in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine guide, hour 17 of 20 in season 1. It aired 1993-05-23 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “If Wishes Were Horses” (S01E16). Next is “Dramatis Personae” (S01E18).

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — The Forsaken (S01E17)

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A visiting Lwaxana Troi becomes enamoured with Odo after he retrieves a stolen item of hers from a thief. Meanwhile, an alien computer program wreaks havoc with the station's systems.

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Where does The Forsaken sit in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine guide?

S01E17 is listed hour 17 of 176 — hour 17 of 20 in season 1, season 1 episode 17.

When did Star Trek: Deep Space Nine S01E17 air?

The Forsaken aired 1993-05-23 and is listed at 60 minutes.

How is it different from other Trek?

Fixed station instead of a constantly traveling starship; heavier serialization, politics, religion, and the Dominion War as a long novel.

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Why this series still plays

Trek stays put: Avery Brooks's Sisko commands a politically charged station near a wormhole, and the franchise finally lets serialization, war, and religion get messy. Berman and Piller's seven-season novel argues with utopia — Bajor, the Dominion War, moral gray TNG often dodged. The boldest 1990s Star Trek, still fighting the fan civil war.

Flash: January 3, 1993, syndication, a politically charged station near a wormhole, and the franchise finally staying put. Rick Berman and Michael Piller's Deep Space Nine leaned into serialization, war arcs, religion, and moral gray that 1990s Trek had often dodged. Avery Brooks's Sisko anchored diplomacy, prophecy, and combat with commanding gravity. Nana Visitor, Colm Meaney, René Auberjonois, Terry Farrell, Armin Shimerman made station politics into longform novel television. Someone already filed the…

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