One for the DS9 fans

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I was poking around youtube (as you do), and found this trailer introducing Deep Space 9 to an unsuspecting world. It's interesting to see, in retrospect, how they sell it (though I do wonder why they picked chunks of the TOS-crew film sound tracks to accompany it). The narration is deeply cheesy (though occasionally subverted, as when we cut from a promise of "exotic pleasures" and a massage or something in a holosuite, to Kira telling Quark "If you don't take your hand off my hip you'll never raise it again." I'd forgotten Quark was quite that sleazy early on), but the selection of clips does give a decent feel for the first season, I think. Though of course it dwells rather on the links with TNG.

Four minutes long. It's rather a shame we don't get that much detail in trailers for new series now - though admittedly they'd probably get very dull if you didn't like the look of things!

So: good intro to DS9, or not?