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Additionally, a number of the episodes and main storylines focused entirely on characters who weren't members of Starfleet: for example, those revolving around Kira, Odo, Jake Sisko, and Quark.

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The show also broke with tradition вЂ“ and with the two Star Trek series that followed it вЂ“ by featuring a commanding officer as the star of the show at the rank of commander, rather than captain, for a significant portion of its run, until Sisko was eventually promoted to captain in ' The Adversary'.

The show broke the 'standard format' for Star Trek shows a number of times as well, with a direct, first-person narrative providing the commentary for the episode ' In the Pale Moonlight', a retelling of a classic TOS episode from a different angle in ' Trials and Tribble-ations', life in the racially segregated 1950s in ' Far Beyond the Stars', and a reintroduction of the concept of 'black ops' to the Star Trek universe with Section 31: ' Inquisition'. Unlike its predecessors Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine tended to avoid an episodic format for most of its run and instead featured multiple-episode story arcs. The show is known for its complex characters and storylines, engaging battle scenes and darker (less Utopian) atmosphere.

Deep Space Nine goes where no Star Trek series had gone before вЂ“ DS9 was the first Star Trek production not based on a starship, but instead, a starbase, known as Deep Space 9 (the starship USS Defiant was introduced in season 3, but the station remained the primary setting of the series).