Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Broke One Major Roddenberry Rule (& That’s Why It Worked)

Paramount Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was notorious for implementing a set of “rules” on the Trek franchise. Banning many genre staples outright, demands for his utopian future included no rocket ships with flaming exhaust trails or Buck Rogers-style ray guns; no religion or superstition; no petty arguments among crew members. Roddenberry even had a list […]