Why A Star Trek: TOS Legend Preferred DS9 Over Roddenberry’s TNG

A legendary figure behind Star Trek: The Original Series picked Star Trek: Deep Space Nine over Gene Roddenberry’s The Next Generation as their preferred spinoff show for several reasons. DS9 was the last Star Trek series that Gene Roddenberry was involved in before his death in 1991. However, given the writer’s ailing health, he only had an awareness of the project and its frontier town-style setting. DS9 hit screens two years after Roddenberry passed away, and the show’s stationary location and moral gray areas led fans to criticize Deep Space Nine for not embodying the Star Trek ethos.