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Warning: Spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4, Episode 6 - "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place"

Grand Nagus Rom's love for baseball is not a ruse - he genuinely loves the game and it holds a special place in his heart. Baseball brought Rom closer to his Starfleet friends and allowed him to form a bond with his son, Nog, outside of Quark's bar. Rom's return to Star Trek: Lower Decks signifies a historic step forward for the Ferengi Alliance, as he plays a key role in their formal intent to join the Federation.

Grand Nagus Rom's (Max Grodénchik) love of baseball on Star Trek: Lower Decks began with one of the funniest episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In Lower Decks season 4, episode 6, Rom and his wife, First Clerk Leeta (Chase Masterson), negotiate the Ferengi Alliance joining the United Federation of Planets with the USS Cerritos' Captain Carol Freeman...

Grand Nagus Rom and Leeta return in Star Trek: Lower Decks, brokering Ferengi's joining the United Federation of Planets, while Rom talks about baseball during negotiations. Artist Chris Fenoglio shares amazing fan art of Star Trek: Lower Decks and Deep Space Nine characters playing baseball together in the holodeck, recreating a classic DS9 episode. Star Trek: Lower Decks ingeniously portrays Rom's long-lasting love for baseball, referencing his role in DS9's "Take Me Out To The Holosuite" episode as the hero who brought the team together.

The casts of Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine play baseball together in amazing fan art. Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, episode 6 features the returns of Grand Nagus Rom (Max Grodénchik) and Leeta (Chase Masterson), his wife who is now First Clerk of the Ferengi. Rom and Leeta last appeared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's series finale, but in Lower Decks,...

Star Trek's best Vulcan vs, human rivalry wasn't Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley) but was actually found in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Bones and Spock are, of course, the prototype for a human Star Trek character butting heads with a cold, logical Vulcan. Spock and McCoy have exasperated each other in two timelines: the Star Trek: The Original Series TV show and movies and J.J. Abrams' Kelvin timeline where Spock and Bones were played by Zachary Quinto and Karl Urban.

Vulcans and humans not getting along is a vintage Star Trek trope pioneered by Spock and Dr. McCoy. The often amused Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) was usually caught in the middle as his Vulcan Science Officer argued for a logical approach to problems while his Chief Medical Officer countered with emotional pleas for humanity. The early episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise attempted to replicate Bones vs.

As Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) was one of Star Trek's most complex Captains, he has numerous best DS9 episodes to choose from. Sisko was a single father to Jake (Cirroc Lofton), a widower, a Starfleet officer, and a religious figure and many of his episodes centered around the clash between these aspects of his character. As DS9's Dominion War arc gathered steam, Sisko demonstrated the ways in which he was a very different Star Trek Captain from his predecessors.

Like Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Sisko was a maverick who would bend the rules to save lives. On occasion, Sisko would go much further than merely bending the rules, but he was always able to justify his actions in the context of the greater good. Sisko's flexible approach to Star Trek's Prime Directive emphasized his differences from Captain Jean-Luc...

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With over 170 episodes across seven seasons, "DS9" had a memorable ensemble cast that pushed the final frontier into new directions that its successors thematically furthered, including "Star Trek: Voyager." From standalone character studies to emotionally searing tales of battle and sacrifice, "DS9" ran a wide gamut of themes and tones that redefined what "Star Trek" could and can be while earning a considerable amount of widespread acclaim.