For
Deep Space Nine, Fields’ contributions were myriad, but highlights include “Duet,” the remarkably powerful episode where Major Kira finds her beliefs challenged when she’s confronted with a former Cardassian slave camp worker dying of a terminal disease; “For the Uniform,” which explored the dangerous depths Captain Sisko was willing to go to hunt down terrorist fringe group the Maquis; and “In the Pale Moonlight,” arguably
one of the finest hours of
Star Trek ever written, a compelling, haunting examination of the
true costs behind maintaining Gene Roddenberry’s utopia in a time of debilitating, catastrophic war.
Our thoughts are with Fields’ family and friends in this sad time.
