Avery Brooks & Rene Auberjonois on Good Morning America, 1/1993

Here is an interview from the first week of January 1993 chronicling the start of the then new Star Trek series. Both Brooks and Auberjonois are on the Ops set and discuss their characters and the differences between DS9 and the other series with Joan Lunden.

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[YemachshemotoIslam]

Which network was this on?

[Houstontvnews]

@YemachshemotoIslam ABC/KTRK

[FadeToBlack181]

@jastvo actually he really is a jazz musician among other things

[ignorantpom]

Why is he wearing that outlandish garb?

[Rayvyn007]

@thatsthewayitgoes09 I haven't seen much of "ST: Enterprise", I saw the first five or six episodes. It didn't last long probably because it was a prequel to the TOS. People want to see what happened after the Dominion War and when I heard it was about they guy before Kirk, I was disappointed.  I'll probably watch it in reruns someday.

[thatsthewayitgoes09]

@Rayvyn007 I think you're completely right Ray. I always feel they hit the peak of writing and acting with DS9 and Sisko became an almost anti Captain.

Brooks was such a fresh choice of actor and being black was brave. Even now they don't seem to want to cast black a main star in a high level show.

The war element was based on what was going on at the time so it was Trek reflecting reality in our world. The previous series are classics but DS9 was pushing of the boundaries.

[joey199202]

I love his hatred for Picard at first lol

[Rayvyn007]

Out of all the Star Trek Captains, Captain Sisko was the best. He had a lot more to do than just be gung ho starship captain. Sisko was a father, then husband and a religious icon. He did all that while fighting off hordes of hostile aliens. I remember they had an online poll years ago and they asked to choose your favorite captain of all. The choices were Kirk, Picard and Janeway. They totally left out Sisko. I didn't even fathom why. DS9 was the best series save TOS.

[TheDisneylover23]

@YemachshemotoIslam it was on Fox. I missed it so much I bought the series!

[Malikarcanum]

@YesWeCantaloupe Nope, he can actually make his voice sound extremely badass when he wants to, like with Odo, or Janos from Soul Reaver.

[flutey28]

Captain Sisko is AWESOME and Avery played it so well. He was such a different captain than we saw previously. He was a romantic and a father, great addition to Star Trek, not "too much of a good thing" no, in fact, I want another Series now ;)

[SWFleshman]

Wait what teh fuck thatis ODO? What the fuck happened to his voice? Did they redub it for the show he sounds like a hardcore FAGIIT HERE!

[christytina81]

@mikeylikesit100 True! Oh dear, he got arrested? Hrm....

[Lordjester13]

I thought Avery Brooks was black? Had no idea he is brown.