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The Sound Of Her Voice
"The Sound of Her Voice" is the 149th episode of the syndicated American science fiction television series ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', the 25th episode of the sixth season. It was first broadcast the week of June 8, 1998. Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures on the Starfleet-run space station ''Deep Space Nine''. In this episode, the ''Deep Space Nine'' crew, aboard the '' Defiant'', answers a call for help from a stranded Starfleet officer; meanwhile, back at the station, the bartender Quark attempts to distract security chief Odo so that he can conduct a smuggling operation. Debra Wilson guest stars. The episode's premiere received Nielsen ratings of 4.1 points, corresponding to about 4.05 million viewers. Plot The crew of the ''Defiant'' receive a distress call from Captain Lisa Cusak, a Starfleet officer stranded on an alien world by herself, after her ship, the ''Olympia'', has been destroyed. After establishing communication with her, they disc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep Space Nine
''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (abbreviated as ''DS9'') is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller. The fourth series in the ''Star Trek'' media franchise, it originally aired in syndication from January 3, 1993, to June 2, 1999, spanning 176 episodes over seven seasons. Set in the 24th century, when Earth is part of a United Federation of Planets, its narrative is centered on the eponymous space station Deep Space Nine, located adjacent to a wormhole connecting Federation territory to the Gamma Quadrant on the far side of the Milky Way galaxy. Following the success of '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', Paramount Pictures commissioned a new series set in the ''Star Trek'' fictional universe. In creating ''Deep Space Nine'', Berman and Piller drew upon plot elements introduced in ''The Next Generation'', namely the conflict between two alien species, the Cardassians and the Bajorans. ''Deep Space Nine'' was the first ''Star Trek' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quark (Star Trek)
Quark is a fictional character in the American television series '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''. He was played by Armin Shimerman and is a member of the extraterrestrial race known as the Ferengi, who are stereotypically capitalist and motivated only by profit. Quark, who often served as the show's comedy relief, may have been named after the 1970s television series ''Quark'', which frequently examined science fiction themes from a humorous or satirical perspective. Depiction Quark was introduced on television in 1993, in the two-part ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' premiere "Emissary". Talking about his depiction of Quark, Shimerman said the character developed significantly during the start of the sixth season of ''Deep Space Nine'', during a story arc in which the Dominion took control of the Deep Space Nine station: Max Grodénchik, who was cast as Rom, also auditioned for the role of Quark and was disappointed he did not get that part, however, he acknowledged Shimerman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nana Visitor
Nana Tucker ( ; born July 26, 1957), known professionally as Nana Visitor, is an American actress, best known for playing Kira Nerys in the television series ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' and Jean Ritter in the television series ''Wildfire''. Early life Nana Tucker was born July 26, 1957, in New York City, the daughter of Nenette Charisse, a ballet teacher, and Robert Tucker, a choreographer; she is a niece of actress/dancer Cyd Charisse. Career Visitor began her acting career in the 1970s on the Broadway stage in such productions as '' My One and Only''. Her film debut (billed by her birth name, Nana Tucker) came in the 1977 horror film '' The Sentinel.'' On television, Visitor co-starred in the short-lived 1976 sitcom ''Ivan the Terrible'' and from 1978 to 1982, had short-lived regular roles on three soap operas: ''Ryan's Hope,'' '' The Doctors,'' and ''One Life to Live.'' She adopted the stage name "Nana Visitor" in the early 1980s. In 1984, she appeared in a season-two ep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kira Nerys
Kira Nerys is a fictional character in the American science fiction television series '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1993–1999). She was played by actress Nana Visitor. The character is from the fictional planet Bajor, a world which has recently emerged from a brutal foreign occupation. She was a member of the resistance, and the decades-long conflict has left her tough and uncompromising, but she is sustained by her strong faith in traditional Bajoran religion. She has been assigned to Deep Space Nine, a space station jointly operated by the United Federation of Planets and the new Bajoran government, where she serves as second in command as the ranking representative of her people. Backstory Per Bajoran custom, her family name, Kira, precedes her given name, Nerys. She has two brothers (Kira Reon and Kira Pohl), and her parents' names are Kira Taban (played by Thomas Kopache throughout the series) and Kira Meru (played by Leslie Hope in " Wrongs Darker than Death or Night" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Auberjonois
René Murat Auberjonois (; June 1, 1940 – December 8, 2019) was an American actor and director. He was best known for portraying Odo on '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1993–1999). He first achieved fame as a stage actor, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1970 for his portrayal of Sebastian Baye opposite Katharine Hepburn in the André Previn-Alan Jay Lerner musical '' Coco''. He went on to earn three more Tony nominations for performances in Neil Simon's '' The Good Doctor'' (1973), Roger Miller's '' Big River'' (1985), and Cy Coleman's '' City of Angels'' (1989); he won a Drama Desk Award for ''Big River''. A screen actor with more than 200 credits, Auberjonois was most famous for portraying characters in the main casts of several long-running television series, including Clayton Endicott III on ''Benson'' (1979–1986), for which he was an Emmy Award nominee, and Paul Lewiston on '' Boston Legal'' (2004–2008). In films, Auberjonois portray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armin Shimerman
Armin Shimerman (born November 5, 1949) is an American actor and author. Early life Shimerman was born into a Jewish family in Lakewood Township, New Jersey, Lakewood, New Jersey, on November 5, 1949, the son of accountant Susan and house painter Herbert Shimerman. When he was 15, he moved with his family to Los Angeles, where his mother enrolled him in a drama group in an effort to expand his social circle. He attended Santa Monica High School and was active in drama. As a senior, he played leading roles in school productions of ''Hamlet'', ''The Crucible'', and ''The Skin of Our Teeth'' before graduating in 1967. After graduating from University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA, he was selected to apprentice at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego. He began pursuing a career in theater and eventually moved to New York City, where he was a member of the Impossible Ragtime Theater. Returning to Los Angeles, he took roles in two CBS series to launch his television acting career. Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominion War
The Dominion War is an extended plot concept developed in several story arcs of ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', an American science-fiction television series produced by Paramount Pictures. In the fictional ''Star Trek'' universe, the Dominion War is a conflict between the forces of the Dominion (Star Trek), Dominion, the Cardassian Union, and, eventually, the Breen Confederacy against the Alpha Quadrant alliance of the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire and, later, the Romulan Star Empire. The war takes place in the final two seasons of the series, but is gradually built up to over the course of the five preceding seasons. The principal setting of the series is the Starfleet-controlled space station Deep Space Nine (space station), Deep Space Nine, located adjacent to the mouth of a stable wormhole near the planet Bajor. The Bajoran wormhole provides instantaneous travel to the Gamma Quadrant, a region on the other side of the galaxy. During the second season of ''De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colm Meaney
Colm J. Meaney (; ga, Colm Ó Maonaigh; born 30 May 1953) is an Irish actor known for playing Miles O'Brien in '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (1987–1994) and '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1993–1999). He has guest-starred on many TV shows including '' Law & Order'' and ''The Simpsons'', and starred as Thomas Durant on ''Hell on Wheels'' (2011–2016). He has also had a career in films, appearing in '' Layer Cake'', ''The Damned United'', all three film adaptations of Roddy Doyle's ''The Barrytown Trilogy'', and in ''Get Him to the Greek''. He was a principal character in the film ''The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain''. In 2017, Meaney won the Best Actor IFTA for his portrayal of Irish politician Martin McGuinness in the film ''The Journey''. In 2020, he was listed at number 24 on ''The Irish Times'' list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Early life Meaney was born in Finglas, Dublin. He began studying acting at age 14, and he entered the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles O'Brien (Star Trek)
Miles Edward O'Brien is a character in the '' Star Trek'' franchise, portrayed by actor Colm Meaney. O'Brien appears occasionally in all seven seasons of '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' and is a main cast member of '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''. O'Brien was originally the transporter chief of the USS ''Enterprise''-D. He was later promoted to chief of operations of Deep Space Nine. Being portrayed in 225 episodes overall, O'Brien is the Star Trek character with the second most appearances in the Star Trek franchise, second only to Worf (Michael Dorn). O'Brien is the only major Star Trek character described as both ethnically Irish and born in Ireland; Colm Meaney, the actor who portrays him, is also Irish. Early Appearances According to Colm Meaney, at first O'Brien "was just there, not really established as a character, and that went on for a bit." He has a few lines in the pilot ''TNG'' episode, "Encounter at Farpoint". Appearing on and off in subsequent episodes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avery Brooks
Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948) is an American actor, director, singer, narrator and educator. He is best known for his television roles as Captain Benjamin Sisko on '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', as Hawk on '' Spenser: For Hire'' and its spinoff '' A Man Called Hawk'', and as Dr. Bob Sweeney in the Academy Award–nominated film ''American History X''. Brooks has delivered a variety of other performances to a great deal of acclaim. He has been nominated for a Saturn Award and three NAACP Image Awards. Brooks also been inducted in the College of Fellows of the American Theatre and bestowed with the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre by the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Early life Avery Brooks was born in Evansville, Indiana, the son of Eva Lydia (''née'' Crawford), a choral conductor and music instructor, and Samuel Brooks, a union official and tool and die worker. His maternal grandfather, Samuel Travis Crawford, was also a singer who graduated from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Sisko
Benjamin Lafayette Sisko is a fictional character in the ''Star Trek'' franchise portrayed by Avery Brooks. He first appeared in the television series '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (''DS9'') and became prominent on the TV show in the United States between 1993-1999. The character also appeared in other series after ''Star Trek'' and ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' and in various books, comics, and video games of the ''Star Trek'' franchise. Character history Early life and career Born in 2332 in New Orleans, Louisiana, Benjamin is the son of Joseph Sisko, the chef, and owner of the restaurant "Sisko's Creole Kitchen", or "Sisko's" for short. His birth mother was a human woman named Sarah. However, Sarah was possessed by one of the Bajoran Prophets (the entities that exist inside the Bajoran wormhole), and manipulated into marrying Joseph in order to conceive Benjamin. Sarah and Joseph were happily married until Sarah disappeared two days after Ben's first birthday, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Siddig
Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abdurrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi (born 21 November 1965) is a Sudanese-born English actor and director known professionally as Siddig El Fadil and subsequently as Alexander Siddig. Siddig is best known for his roles as Dr. Julian Bashir in the television series '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', former terrorist Hamri Al-Assad in the sixth season of the series '' 24'', Doran Martell in ''Game of Thrones'', and Ra's al Ghul in '' Gotham''. He also starred in the films ''Syriana'' (2005), ''Hannibal'' (2006), '' A Lost Man'' (2007), ''Cairo Time'' (2009) and '' Inescapable'' (2012). Early life Siddig was born in Omdurman, Sudan. His father, Tahir El Mahdi, was Sudanese; his mother, Gloria (née Taylor; d. 2001) was English. She was the older sister of actor Malcolm McDowell. Siddig's parents met in the 1960s when his mother travelled to Sudan with a friend who introduced her to Siddig's father. Siddig's father was a student ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
