YOUR Season 8 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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While I would still maintain focus on the main characters and on the station, I would expand it with scenes on Earth (O'Brien at Starfleet Academy) Qo'noS (Martok and Worf making a new Klingon Empire), Ferenginar (Rom doing the same for the Ferengi Alliance) and, as the previous poster mentioned, have Bajor enter the Federation and the issues this raises.
^This.
For the characters...have a few eps of the further adventures of the O'Briens--perhaps Julian and Ezri go visit them on Earth.
Garak's adventures as he becomes the new head of the Obsidian Order, reconstructing and re-vamping the organization to make it consistant with the New Cardassia.
Odo and Laas in the Dominion, as they cope with their new lives as Founders.
By the end of the season--Julian proposes to Ezri at Vic's, and she accepts with smiling tears. (No, I don't have her transfer to command yet--but she does become a Lt. Commander by the end of the season, and Bashir becomes full commander. Think Deanna's achievement in "Thine Own Self" [TNG]. They both have command authority.)
Have Jake put the finishing touches on Anslem--and publish it. In the finale, Sisko appears to Jake, and the son finally gets a chance to say goodbye to his father.
For the characters...have a few eps of the further adventures of the O'Briens--perhaps Julian and Ezri go visit them on Earth.
Garak's adventures as he becomes the new head of the Obsidian Order, reconstructing and re-vamping the organization to make it consistant with the New Cardassia.
Odo and Laas in the Dominion, as they cope with their new lives as Founders.
By the end of the season--Julian proposes to Ezri at Vic's, and she accepts with smiling tears. (No, I don't have her transfer to command yet--but she does become a Lt. Commander by the end of the season, and Bashir becomes full commander. Think Deanna's achievement in "Thine Own Self" [TNG]. They both have command authority.)
Have Jake put the finishing touches on Anslem--and publish it. In the finale, Sisko appears to Jake, and the son finally gets a chance to say goodbye to his father.
I would re-assemble the staff of Deep Space Nine. A cheap ploy, but I have more stories to tell and it will be worth it. Odo returns to the station to be with Kira because his mission has been a success with the Founders. I would bring back Sisko because he has learned that the Wormhole Aliens are suffering from a disease and need corporal help to heal it. This is the story of the first episode. O'Brien finds his talents are wasted on earth. Big speech at the end of my 2-hour movie reassembling the staff that they feel they this is where they are meant to be. Our history book is not yet written. I leave Worf and the Klingons out of it. Good for the war, bad for the peace.
With the Alpha Quadrant powers at peace and the destruction of the Dominion threat, my major story arc would be the exploration of the Gamma Quadrant. I would make this the priority of the Bajoran Government after their membership into the Federation. Deep Space Nine plays a large role in this. Big discoveries, debates over whether they should do it or not, new bad guys, a two-part episode about establishing the first colony on the other side since the War. I would want to explore some of the ravages of this war in a similar way that the Bajorans immediately after the occupation was explored. Officers having a hard time fitting in because they signed up for a war and a lack of Starfleet officers because they went back to civilian life, a character study about post-traumatic stress, a Vorta that wishes to live on the space station and Nog's reaction to it. Stuff like that.
The end of my season cliffhanger would be with Sisko lost on a mission into the Gamma Quadrant. The last time he was seen the Jem'Hadar were attacking his ship. It is the Jem'Hadar, but it is a group independent from the Dominion. We don't know that until season 9, however. Thoughts that of a new war fill everyone's minds, I "told you so"s from the xenophobes in the audience, but Sisko is actually rescued, in the beginning of the 9th season, by the Dominion. Everyone lets out a collective sigh of relief. All they have worked to establish in the Gamma Quadrant will not be lost again. A new threat, however. The Jem'Hadar have learned how to be independent of the Ketrecel White and are forming their own resistance to the Dominion. The purpose of this attack was to plunge the Federation and the weakened Dominion into a war that they would not be able to fight. They feel Jem'Hadar is a slave name and they choose something else (although I don't know what). They breed their own kind now. Sisko finds all this out and reports back that the Federation may be in danger once again. Season 9 starts thinking about which side of this fight the Federation should take since the Dominion are oppressing the Jem'Hadar.
With the Alpha Quadrant powers at peace and the destruction of the Dominion threat, my major story arc would be the exploration of the Gamma Quadrant. I would make this the priority of the Bajoran Government after their membership into the Federation. Deep Space Nine plays a large role in this. Big discoveries, debates over whether they should do it or not, new bad guys, a two-part episode about establishing the first colony on the other side since the War. I would want to explore some of the ravages of this war in a similar way that the Bajorans immediately after the occupation was explored. Officers having a hard time fitting in because they signed up for a war and a lack of Starfleet officers because they went back to civilian life, a character study about post-traumatic stress, a Vorta that wishes to live on the space station and Nog's reaction to it. Stuff like that.
The end of my season cliffhanger would be with Sisko lost on a mission into the Gamma Quadrant. The last time he was seen the Jem'Hadar were attacking his ship. It is the Jem'Hadar, but it is a group independent from the Dominion. We don't know that until season 9, however. Thoughts that of a new war fill everyone's minds, I "told you so"s from the xenophobes in the audience, but Sisko is actually rescued, in the beginning of the 9th season, by the Dominion. Everyone lets out a collective sigh of relief. All they have worked to establish in the Gamma Quadrant will not be lost again. A new threat, however. The Jem'Hadar have learned how to be independent of the Ketrecel White and are forming their own resistance to the Dominion. The purpose of this attack was to plunge the Federation and the weakened Dominion into a war that they would not be able to fight. They feel Jem'Hadar is a slave name and they choose something else (although I don't know what). They breed their own kind now. Sisko finds all this out and reports back that the Federation may be in danger once again. Season 9 starts thinking about which side of this fight the Federation should take since the Dominion are oppressing the Jem'Hadar.
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^This.
For the characters...have a few eps of the further adventures of the O'Briens--perhaps Julian and Ezri go visit them on Earth.
Garak's adventures as he becomes the new head of the Obsidian Order, reconstructing and re-vamping the organization to make it consistant with the New Cardassia.
Odo and Laas in the Dominion, as they cope with their new lives as Founders.
By the end of the season--Julian proposes to Ezri at Vic's, and she accepts with smiling tears. (No, I don't have her transfer to command yet--but she does become a Lt. Commander by the end of the season, and Bashir becomes full commander. Think Deanna's achievement in "Thine Own Self" [TNG]. They both have command authority.)
Have Jake put the finishing touches on Anslem--and publish it. In the finale, Sisko appears to Jake, and the son finally gets a chance to say goodbye to his father.
Rush is full of win...mega dittoes
^This.
For the characters...have a few eps of the further adventures of the O'Briens--perhaps Julian and Ezri go visit them on Earth.
Garak's adventures as he becomes the new head of the Obsidian Order, reconstructing and re-vamping the organization to make it consistant with the New Cardassia.
Odo and Laas in the Dominion, as they cope with their new lives as Founders.
By the end of the season--Julian proposes to Ezri at Vic's, and she accepts with smiling tears. (No, I don't have her transfer to command yet--but she does become a Lt. Commander by the end of the season, and Bashir becomes full commander. Think Deanna's achievement in "Thine Own Self" [TNG]. They both have command authority.)
Have Jake put the finishing touches on Anslem--and publish it. In the finale, Sisko appears to Jake, and the son finally gets a chance to say goodbye to his father.
Rush is full of win...mega dittoes
Thank you!
I agree, Rush's idea is great, actually these are all great ideas. I for one, agree with Macleod et al; I always wanted to see Bajor join the Federation, an all that that would entail. Kira being the station commander and an officer in Starfleet, would she even accept, would she have a choice. How would Vedeks and the Kai react? Would the move strengthen or weaken various religious groups within the Bajoran religion. There are a lot of story ideas for that storyline alone.
This I could very much see. O'Brien would be the Maytag man of the future, sitting around waiting for things to break which of course they never do on safe, clean, boring Earth.
I can picture him getting all excited when some minor system breaks down only to find out that it has automatically repaired itself (like Voyager used to do) by the time he got there. At that point he starts breaking stuff himself just so he'll have something to do. Once Starfleet gets wise to this they re-assign him to DS9.
That's a good point. I think religion after the times that the Bajorans have lived through would be a big part of the show. I wish I had thought of it. Feel like I dropped the ball.
The Feds are weak from the major battle with the domies, most of the great Klingon warriors are dead, Romulans are scared from everyone backstabbing them so they seal off borders and hide, the cardies are a broken people and the Domies have had time to think and have realized their mistake but try to mend things (I hope) The Dominion breaks up and results in a Civil war among the different factions basically the Jem'Hadar rape everyone and form their own government.
So what happens next????
Que = The Borg Invasion - result everyone is assimilated
only a handful of feds and all the other nations are alive, so they go hide in some random nebulae - build up their resources to mount an attack to save the alpha quadrant
OR even better they build a time machine, go back in time warn everyone from the Borg and fuck them there
Season 8 done
So what happens next????
Que = The Borg Invasion - result everyone is assimilated
only a handful of feds and all the other nations are alive, so they go hide in some random nebulae - build up their resources to mount an attack to save the alpha quadrant
OR even better they build a time machine, go back in time warn everyone from the Borg and fuck them there
Season 8 done
I would two principal arcs. the first one is the rebuilding of Cardassia, and the second one would be Sisko learning about non-linear time from the Prophets.
I would focus less on Martok in his new role, since we know a lot about Klingon culture as it is. And Rom, well I think the idea of them becoming less free market is a mistake (it's just a ploy to make them more palatable to viewers, but it's an abstract medium it doesn't have to accurately portray reality or even be aligned with what viewers think is right).
I would focus less on Martok in his new role, since we know a lot about Klingon culture as it is. And Rom, well I think the idea of them becoming less free market is a mistake (it's just a ploy to make them more palatable to viewers, but it's an abstract medium it doesn't have to accurately portray reality or even be aligned with what viewers think is right).
I like your outside the box thinking, but Kathy F-up the Borg in Voyager
Lol nah that's just silly writing in my view. One ship, one captain taking on the Borg just forget about it lol this is what would really happen even though I cant exactly brand my self as a writer with that piece of work lol but hay it's better then voyager
(sorry to those Voyager fans)
I think any season 8 of DS9 should feature the following:
* Sisko returning, prepared for the greatest challenge yet, one that the Prophets themselves had to teach him about.
* Bajor entering the Federation
* Worf finally getting along with the DS9 crew, at least more easily than before, and willing to do things for them he wouldn't have done in the past.
And, because it wouldn't be DS9 without O'Brien, and because no S8 would be greenlight out of sudden, I'd just keep O'Brien and Worf on the station and not had them leave in S7, but rather have them leave in S8.
* Sisko returning, prepared for the greatest challenge yet, one that the Prophets themselves had to teach him about.
* Bajor entering the Federation
* Worf finally getting along with the DS9 crew, at least more easily than before, and willing to do things for them he wouldn't have done in the past.
And, because it wouldn't be DS9 without O'Brien, and because no S8 would be greenlight out of sudden, I'd just keep O'Brien and Worf on the station and not had them leave in S7, but rather have them leave in S8.
That's a good point. I think religion after the times that the Bajorans have lived through would be a big part of the show. I wish I had thought of it. Feel like I dropped the ball.
Thanks
If only there was a season eight .One can dream,can they.
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