There was the Dominion, the Jem’Hadar, Pah-Wraiths, Jeffrey Combs, and Vic Fontaine crooning in the holodeck. This was long the case with DS9, but the series finale would’ve been particularly impenetrable to a curious first-time viewer tuning in. But it turns out that showrunner Ira Steven Behr pitched a radically different ending.īy the close of its seventh season, Deep Space Nine‘s plotline was bound up in complicated political and religious intrigue and intergalactic war. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the best Star Trek, wrapped up with a pretty epic two-parter that had all the drama and pathos the space opera called for.