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These are 1-minute intros that were taped by several of the regular cast members. 40 episodes were chosen by the producers, and the intros were included in the reruns shown by some TV stations that run DS9 in a strip syndication package (i.e., five days a week). These intros, however, were only made for episodes in the 1st through 4th seasons.

Here are transcripts of the intros, for those of you who may not have a chance to see them. Each one is done with "Okudagram"-style graphics around the actor as he/she speaks, with a rotating image of the station, and the DS9 theme music playing in the background. The paragraphs in italics describe clips that were shown.

Narrated by Avery Brooks

Hello, I'm Terry Farrell for the Deep Space Nine Chronicles. When the original Star Trek series was created, Gene Roddenberry's intent was to take very specific social commentary and slip it past the censors by masking it as science fiction.

Shot of the black/white aliens from TOS' "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"

Perhaps that's why Star Trek has survived all these decades. In the tradition of television's first interracial kiss between Captain Kirk and Lt. Uhura...

The Kirk/Uhura kiss from "Plato's Stepchildren" is shown

...this episode, called "Rejoined", features a same-sex kiss between two characters very much in love.

Shots of Lenara and Jadzia from "Rejoined"; Kira asks, "Do you know her?"; Dax replies, "I know her. She used to be my wife."

Sexual orientation issues had never been explored this frankly on a Star Trek series.

Lenara and Dax on the bridge of the Defiant

Some stations actually wanted to cut out the scene when the episode was originally broadcast, while others put up parental advisory warnings.

Brief shot of Lenara and Dax about to kiss

But if Star Trek didn't challenge the frontiers of human acceptance, what show would? "Rejoined" was sensitively directed by series star Avery Brooks.