‘Explorers’ – Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
@article{Pounds2009ExplorersS, title={‘Explorers’ – Star Trek: Deep Space Nine}, author={Micheal Charles Pounds}, journal={African Identities}, year={2009}, volume={7}, pages={209 - 235} }
This article examines race in a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode entitled ‘Explorers’. This Star Trek™ spin-off's lead character, named Benjamin Sisko, is of African descent. Sisko must safeguard a fragile peace between Bajorans and Cardassians and secure the commercial and strategic rights to the galaxy's only known stable wormhole, a gateway beyond the Alpha quadrant. In ‘Explorers’ Sisko tests an 800-year-old legend that Bajorans travelled to Cardassia light years away before either…
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