Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Summary
Star Trek : Deep Space Ninecontained a deep - cutStar Trek : The Original SeriesEaster egg from the episode " The Deadly Years " , but it ended up having a deeper meaning . InTOSseason 2 , episode 12 , an Enterprise away team is queer to calamitous radiation that spark off rapid ripening . With scenes of theStar Trek : TOScastin old man make - up , and the countdown clock tensity , " The Deadly Years " became a belovedTOSepisode . AsStar Trek : DS9was packed full of major and minor references toTOScanon , a nod to a classic sequence like " The Deadly Years " is hardly surprising .
writer like Ronald D. Moore grow up as fans ofStar Trek : The Original Series , and that greatly influenced many of the script they write in the 1990s . Many ofRonald D. Moore’sStar Trekepisodescontained references , crowing and pocket-size , to the continuity ofTOS . As well as facilitate to build connection between nineties shows likeStar Trek : Deep Space NinetoTOScanon , these references were musing of Moore ’s obsessive fandom , as he speculate in theStar Trek : Deep Space Nine Companion :
" There ’s a lot of reference from the original series rattling around in my head , because I watched it fanatically as a kid . Somehow it ’s easier to remember those references than the stuff I worked on a few years ago on TNG . "
Both Voyager and DS9 did tribute installment to Star Trek : TOS for the franchise ’s 30th day of remembrance , but one episode was much safe than the other .
Dr. Bashir Used An Anti-Radiation Drug From Star Trek: TOS’ “Deadly Years” Episode
Bashir’s “Deadly Years” reference foreshadowed his next DS9 episode.
InStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 3 , episode 17 , " Visionary " , Chief O’Brien ( Colm Meaney ) is exposed to fatal radiation that allows him to alternate through clock time . Although"Visionary " was pen by John Shirley from a story by Ethan H. Calk , Ronald D. Moore did have some uncredited input into the last script . One of Moore ’s additions to the script was Doctor Bashir ( Alexander Siddig ) using Hyronalin to treat O’Brien ’s radioactivity poisoning . Hyronalin was first mentioned inStar Trek : The Original Seriesseason 2 , episode 12 , " The Deadly Years " , when Doctor McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ) discussed potential treatments for the effect of rapid - ageing radiation .
InDS9season 3 , sequence 18 , " remote Voices " , Bashir finds himself in a hallucinatory realness where he , like theTOScast , years rapidly during a race against time to save the post and himself .
Ronald D. Moore ’s interpolation of Hyronalin into the " Visionary " book maintained a medical continuity betweenStar Trek : Deep Space NineandStar Trek : The Original Series . However , Doctor Bashir ’s reference to " The Deadly Years " ended up being an unintentional , and purely coincidental , readiness - up for the next sequence ofDS9 , which was Bashir - centrical . InDS9season 3 , episode 18 , " remote voice " , Bashir receive himself in a hallucinatory reality where he , like theTOScast , age quickly during a raceway against time to salvage the station and himself .
The old - age make - up in " Distant Voices " wonStar Trek : Deep Space Ninean Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series , beatingStar Trek : Voyager ’s " expression " .
Other References To TOS' Anti-Radiation Drug In Star Trek
In reference point toStar Trek : The Original Series , Ronald D. Moore told theStar Trek : Deep Space Nine Companionthat " it ’s easy to remember those citation than the stuff I worked on a few long time ago on TNG . " He might have had a stop , as he ’s clearly block thatStar Trek : The Next Generationused Hyronalin twice , first in " Final Mission " , when the crew of the USS Enterprise - D were exposed to radiation from a 300 - twelvemonth - old garbage scow , and again when Doctor Beverly Crusher ( Gates McFadden ) and Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge ( LeVar Burton ) were let on to plasma fervor in " Disaster " .
And it was n’t justStar Trek : The Next GenerationandStar Trek : Deep Space Ninethat maintained continuity with Starfleet Medical ’s anti - radiation discussion . Robert Picardo ’s Doctorused Hyronalin inStar Trek : Voyagerseason 3 , episode 22 , " Real Life " . When Lieutenant Tom Paris ( Robert Duncan McNeill ) was bring out to radiotherapy from an astral eddy , the EMH treated this poisoning with a combination of Hyronalin and Lectrazine , suggesting treatments were begin to move on from what had been prove duringStar Trek : The Original Series ' " Deadly Years " .
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