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When the DS9 opening was redone, Rick Berman said that the original conception was that the series was set at a lonely frontier outpost, but by the fourth season it was appropriate to add more ships and redo Dennis McCarthy’s theme because “we’re not lonely any more.” At the very end of the series, with the outstanding shot of the now-orphaned Jake Sisko staring out at the wormhole pulling out to the sight of the station alone in space, we’re lonely again. And so we return to a solo trumpet carrying the main Deep Space Nine theme, calling out into the void.

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