A new documentary looks at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in the context of a groundbreaking black TV show

Vulture

Recently released in theaters, what’s most striking about What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is "how it argues for DS9’s place in not only the canon of science fiction, or the history books of groundbreaking ’90s television, but in the archives of black Hollywood itself," says Angelica Jade Bastién. "In doing so, What We Left Behind explores both what it takes to craft a truly groundbreaking series within an unforgiving system and how such a show could have been even bolder...While DS9 skillfully used allegory and metaphor to consider the dynamics of racism, religious fervor, and the devastation of war, its most impactful episodes confronted these issues head-on."