How Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Creators Worked Around Roddenberry's No-Conflict Rule
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Lex Briscuso
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This article explains how the creators of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Rick Berman and Michael Piller, worked around Gene Roddenberry's primary rule that there should be no conflict between human characters. To create compelling drama, they built tension into the station's setting and assembled a diverse cast that could generate conflict naturally, rather than always bringing conflict from external sources.
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TVLineHow Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Creators Worked Around Roddenberry's No-Conflict Ruletvline.comKey quotes
· 2 pulledWe needed this conflict for decent drama, and we didn't want to have to always bring the conflict into the stories from the outside.
So the idea we came up with was, what if we create a cast of characters...
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