Las Vegas Con: Deep Space Nine and What We Left Behind panels

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Ira Steven Behr Reveals How He Really Wanted ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ To End + More DS9 At STLV 2018
https://trekmovie.com/2018/08/21/ira-steven-behr-reveals-how-he-really-wanted-star-trek-deep-space-nine-to-end-more-ds9-at-stlv-2018/

The final panel of Star Trek Las Vegas was dedicated to one of the more interesting episodes of Deep Space Nine, “Far Beyond The Stars.” The sixth season episode was framed as a vision given to Benjamin Sisko by the Wormhole Alien Prophets, where he was a 1950s science fiction writer named Benny Russell, who comes up with a story about an African American commander of a futuristic space station. At the panel DS9 showrunner, Ira Steven Behr said he was attracted to the story pitch from writer Marc Scott Zicree because of how it dealt directly with racism, as well as how it was “about the dreamer and the dream and who is dreaming and what they are dreaming about.”

Behr was so drawn to this story within a story that he wanted to use it again for the series finale, telling the Vegas crowd of his radical idea on how to end the series:

¶ I did pitch to Rick Berman that the final episode would end up with Benny Russell on Stage 17 at Paramount, wandering around the soundstages, realizing that this whole construct, this whole series, that we had done for seven years, was just in Benny’s head. That is how I wanted to end the series. And Rick said “Does this mean The Original Series was in Benny’s head? Does this mean Voyager was in Benny’s head?” I said “Hey man, I don’t care who is dreaming those shows, I only care about Deep Space Nine and yes, Benny Russell is dreaming Deep Space Nine.” He didn’t go for it.

Here's a sample of restored HD DS9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztEgRsTD0KQ&t=20s