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10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

6) The show could have had a musical episode

Ronald D. Moore says he kept pitching a musical episode, over and over. His idea was that: “There’s just some tech virus that infects the crew and they can only communicate in song, you know? And just do it! And have a ball.” Moore pushed for this idea over and over, and “they fought against it and fought against it and fought against it.”

That might have been genuinely amazing — if any show (pre-Buffy’s musical episode) could’ve pulled it off I think it would’ve been DS9. They did get Brooks to sing though.

And damn, I’ve read embarassingly copious amounts of Memory Alpha entries, but I didn’t know most of this stuff.