Emissary (DS9)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 1, Episodes 1–2. First broadcast on Sunday 3 January 1993. Stardate: 46379.1. – Every time I throw this ball, a hundred different things can happen in a game. He might swing and miss, he might hit it. The point is, you never know. You try to anticipate, set a strategy for all the possibilities as best you can, but in the end it comes down to throwing one pitch after another and seeing what happens. With each new consequence, the game begins to take shape. – And you have no idea what that shape is until it is completed. – That’s right. In fact, the game wouldn’t be worth playing if we knew what was going to happen. It’s the first pitch of the game, and something groundbreaking and historic is about to happen. Which is why we’re still here, thirty-three years later.