This could never have been an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation or Star Trek: Voyager. In the Pale Moonlight is an episode of Deep Space Nine that simply could not exist in any other Star Trek show. In contrast, In the Pale Moonlight is specifically Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. While Far Beyond the Stars would not work with any other lead character or actor, it is an episode that is arguably quintessentially Star Trek it is a powerful allegory about racism and the power of an optimistic future. Both are spectacular episodes of television, and stand as some of the best entries in the franchise canon. In many ways, In the Pale Moonlight is the flip side of the coin to Far Beyond the Stars. Like The City on the Edge of Forever or The Inner Light, there is just something fundamentally different about In the Pale Moonlight from the establishing shots. In the Pale Moonlight is a fantastic piece of television production, something that immediately distinguishes itself from the episodes around it.
It has a powerful script, a set of brilliant performances, a memorable set-up and pay-off. It works beautifully as a morality play, as a thriller, as a character study. – Captain Benjamin Lafayette Sisko, Stardate 51721.3
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