Talk:Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

message: I think it would be good if all episodes had a consistent intro and currently I see two versions as the most common ones: 
Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures on Deep Space Nine, a space station located adjacent to a stable wormhole between the Alpha and Gamma quadrants of the Milky Way Galaxy, near the planet Bajor.
 
and
 
Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures on Deep Space Nine, a space station located near the planet Bajor, as the Bajorans recover from a brutal, decades-long occupation by the imperialistic Cardassians.
Wouldn't it be better to combine both and make it the standard intro for all DS9 episodes?
Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures on Deep Space Nine, a space station located near a stable wormhole between the Alpha and Gamma quadrants of the Milky Way Galaxy, near the planet Bajor, as the Bajorans recover from a brutal decades-long occupation by the imperialistic Cardassians. --- castorbailey (talk) 23:44, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Eh, I disagree; I think the article ledes are long enough already and don't need any extraneous information in them. What I do is I include the information about the background that's relevant to understanding the episode: "a space station located near the planet Bajor, as the Bajorans recover from a brutal, decades-long occupation by the imperialistic Cardassians" for episodes that are about Bajor and the Cardassians; "a space station located adjacent to a stable wormhole between the Alpha and Gamma quadrants of the galaxy" for episodes that involve the wormhole and the Gamma Quadrant, and so on. I just use "Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures on the space station Deep Space Nine" for episodes like, I dunno, Chrysalis where neither Bajor nor the wormhole are relevant to the plot. So... I guess I don't particularly see the need for consistency in terms of what kind of background information is included in the article lede. AJD (talk) 01:09, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

text: I think its better to have customized introductions. For one, many episodes are on planets or the other spacecraft. Starspotter (talk) 16:12, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think a customized intro would be reasonable because it's about the series as a whole not about a specific episode. So which version do you think is the better one? castorbailey (talk) 14:05, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Huh? I don't want to speak for Starspotter, but I think "customized" means 'not standardized; tweaked to be appropriate to each article'; the answer to "which is the better one" will be different for different articles. The sentence is about the series as a whole, but the article is about the episode, and so we should use the lede to give background information about the series that's relevant to the episode. AJD (talk) 15:31, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sorry you are right, LOL. I don't know why I confused standardized and customized. So there seems to be agreement that the intro should fit the given episode. castorbailey (talk) 13:06, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

text: I guess my question is whether there's any harm caused by having different leads for the episode articles as long as they're still hitting all of the major relevant points (which we can enumerate if needed). Much as "Previously on..." segments would by necessity evolve over time, I think there's room for the leads to do the same. DonIago (talk) 01:04, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about episode intro in the leads 

message: This show is commonly called "DS9", both in sources and by viewers.  Sources that do: Variety, Polygon, Trek Movie, Screen Rant, IGN, and many more. 331dot (talk) 11:26, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abbreviation 

message: I've noticed in some episode articles (e.g. Profit_and_Loss_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine)), recent edits have italicized the name of the station as Deep Space Nine or DS9. But on this page, it is not italicized. I looked at the MOS and perhaps the italics is correct based on MOS:NAT. But I noticed it creates confusion; currently Deep Space Nine means the show and Deep Space Nine is the station. Should the station name remain as is or be italicized? Harveydrone (talk) 23:28, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Style of the station name