How Star Trek: Deep Space Nine brought baseball back to the future

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Gene Roddenberry didn't like famous sports being part of the Trek's future universe. But Deep Space Nine was able to change that as the first Trek series premiering following his death. "Nothing was less Gene than Deep Space 9 somehow managing to integrate human baseball back into its world of the future," says Corbin Smith. "Futurism as a philosophy necessitates that something new and great replaces something old, and there are few things older than baseball. But the beloved moldy-oldy bat swingin’ game somehow made a perfect companion for a show about animal nature dancing in concert with the world of the future."