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Originally Posted by Locke
Okay, I dont know who said 'No' but 'No' was said.
Besides Star Trek has a long and illustrious history of being free from the meddling of Producers and Studio Executives, they have historically had a very free hand with how they run their show. This is all a bald faced lie.
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That was all Rick Berman's idea. The guy was responsible for first couple of seasons of DS9 before jumping ship to Voyager. He wanted to implement his vision of what he thought Gene Roddenberry Trek was, which was flawed in itself since Roddenberry wanted zero inter-crew conflicts of any kind and that every episode should "reset".
After tanking Voyager with Kazons and Chakotay, his idea to boost rating was to bring on seven of nine "a borg babe" and nerfing the Borg. Guess who came up with seven's outfit and the Enterprise decontamination room? Helps with some fan, but really not with wider audiences and doesn't add to story telling. Although, he's still better than Kurtzman and STD, at least Voyager still had the occasional brilliant episode.
You could see how much DS9 improved immediately when Ron Moore and Ira Steven Behr took over from Berman for season 3.