Star Trek has always been a franchise built on big ideas. It pushed boundaries from the start and it kept raising the bar with every series and film. But not every bold idea made it to the screen.

Ronald D. Moore (For All Mankind, Battlestar Galactica) discussed burning out on "Star Trek" after ten years and the ...

but he also wanted to avoid having the Galactica visit a new planet each week a la Star Trek. The solution was to introduce Cloud 9, a civilian ship whose interior conveniently looks like the ...