Ultimately, Piller’s imaginative and prescient for the Deep Area 9 episode “A Man Alone” was that the house station would have the identical sorts of intertwining tales because the police station in Hill Road Blues. “I wished to point out that inside the constructing construction of DS9, there have been a lot of completely different tales which are crossing paths,” he stated. “I wished to do an A-B-C story and see if we might preserve all of them going at one time, interacting and intersecting.”
Whereas the Deep Area 9 showrunner’s general aim was creating an ideal story, he additionally noticed this episode as an opportunity to reveal how completely different this present was from Star Trek: The Subsequent Era. He described his spinoff as “a type of shakedown cruise type of exhibits” the place the writers explored what they might and couldn’t make work. On this case, the writers discovered themselves asking “Why can’t you do three tales on the similar time, intercutting between them, with individuals passing within the hallways?”
