Editing Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (section)

===Former cast members and staff===
In a 2007 interview with ''[[If Magazine]]'', [[George Takei]], who had played the character [[Hikaru Sulu]] in ''The Original Series'', criticized ''DS9'' for being the polar opposite of Gene Roddenberry's philosophy and vision of the future.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=2478 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071123012040/http://ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=2478 |archive-date=November 23, 2007 |publisher=iF Magazine |first=Sean |last=Elliot |title=Exclusive: George Takei Thanks Fans For 40 Years of 'Star Trek' |date=November 20, 2007 |access-date=November 20, 2007 }}</ref> Writer [[D. C. Fontana]] thought that as a World War II veteran Roddenberry would have appreciated the show and its dark themes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://trekmovie.com/2007/08/16/dorothy-fontana-on-new-comics-new-novel-canon-ds9-ent-new-movie/ |title=Interview – Dorothy Fontana On New Comics, New Novel + Canon, DS9, ENT & New Movie |publisher=TrekMovie.com |last=Pascale |first=Anthony |date=August 16, 2007 |access-date=December 28, 2014 }}</ref> [[Bjo Trimble]], one of the major forces behind the letter-writing campaign that helped renew ''The Original Series'' for its third season, commented that she thought Roddenberry would have "come to like ''DS9'', had he lived to see it", and that "the only reason there were not full battles in early ''Star Trek'' is lack of funds to pull it off, and lack of technology to show it. Otherwise, GR would certainly have added it; he knew what audiences liked".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trekplace.com/bjotrimble.html |title=Bjo Trimble email interview |first=Greg |last=Tyler |publisher=TrekPlace.com |date=August 1999|access-date=December 28, 2014}}</ref>

Roddenberry is quoted in ''The Making of Star Trek DS9'' as having doubts that a non-exploration show could work, and being displeased with early concepts presented to him in 1991. However, Rick Berman stated in the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion]]'' that Roddenberry had given him his blessing for developing it close to his death.

At the Shore Leave 14 convention in July 1992, Majel Barrett commented on Roddenberry's involvement: "He knew about it, but he was not about to become involved. He had done what he wanted to do and that was it. He just wished them Godspeed and go ahead. And as long as the name ''Star Trek'' is on it, yes, the estate will have a part of the action."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://twguild.com/resources/development1.html |title=Star Trek Deep Space Nine Pre-Premiere Bible |first=Greg |last=Tyler |publisher=Trek Writer's Guild |date=July 1992 |access-date=December 28, 2014}}</ref>

[[Ronald D. Moore]], one of the series' main writers (who previously wrote for ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' and went on to create the [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|re-imagined ''Battlestar Galactica'']]), praised the show as the "ultimate achievement for the [''Star Trek''] franchise" in 2002:
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I think ''Deep Space [Nine]'' was the show that really took ''Star Trek'' as far as you could take it. You have ''The Original Series'' which is a sort of a landmark, it changes everything about the way science fiction is presented on television, at least space-based science fiction. Then you have ''Next Generation'', which for all of its legitimate achievements, is still a riff on the original. It's still sort of like, ok, it's another star ship and it's another captain – it's different, but it's still a riff on the original. Here comes ''Deep Space [Nine]'' and it just runs the table in a different way. It just says ok, you think you know what ''Star Trek'' is, let's put it on a space station, and let's make it darker. Let's make it a continuing story, and let's continually challenge your assumptions about what this American icon means. And I think it was the ultimate achievement for the franchise. Personally, I think it's the best of all of them; I think it's an amazing piece of work.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00008KA57 |title=Star Trek Deep Space Nine – The Complete Seventh Season: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Cirroc Lofton, Alexander Siddig, Colm Meaney, Nana Visitor, Armin Shimerman, Terry Farrell, Michael Dorn, Mark Allen Shepherd, Randy James, Robert Ford, Allan Kroeker, Anson Williams, Chip Chalmers, David Livingston, John T. Kretchmer, Jonathan West, LeVar Burton: Movies & TV |website=Amazon |access-date=June 29, 2017}}</ref>
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