Thinking about additional DS9 productons...
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I'm not. I'm just trying to delineate between how writers may approach different types of characters.
Irrelevant to who is the main characters.
Agreed. Star Trek, by and large, is a Starfleet focused show. DS9 doubles down on this with characters like Eddington, who, despite being wrong, trumpet the values of Starfleet emphasizing captains over other positions.
DS9 had a great, if varied, ensemble cast of characters, but the outsider voices for the main characters were far more with Quark and Odo and Kira, and even Kira ended up in a Starfleet uniform by the end.
On several sites I suggested a new series where a conference between the Dominion and the Federation is held at DS9. Rebels in the Mirror Universe develop technology to bring entire ships over. They hijack 4 ships and 3 are brought over successfully but a fight with the crew causes the 4th ship to explode, possibly because of their technology. This creates an energy barrier between the universes trapping 3 ships with most of their crews for at least 80 years.
Kind of like Voyager but no way home in an alternate universe. Same planets and stars but totally different politics. Found a new Federation?
Kind of like Voyager but no way home in an alternate universe. Same planets and stars but totally different politics. Found a new Federation?
He told them he was going to be loaded as soon as the statute of limitations on the Bank of Bolias heist ran out.
There’s no need for it, but I could certainly see DS9 spinoffs, even unrelated to the previous cast. Of course you could do Bajor 2400 or whatever, but you also do other things. A show about some independent spacer who maintains a home/quarters/storage on DS9 (and/or Bajor)? A new Starfleet crew dealing with raiders out of the Badlands? And/or going back to the old idea of exploring into the Gamma Quadrant, now that the Dominion isn’t stopping it? (Actually, I guess you could just combine all of those in Bajor 2400.)
They could cover what Kasidy does next. Does she keep her freighter run? Does she take the baby with her on runs, or arrange a nanny or other relative for child care? Does she keep quarters on the station, allowing her to keep a friendship with Jake, Kira, and Bashir?
Kira, Quark, Leeta, Rom, and Morn all appeared in Lower Decks. Odo and Martok have appeared as holograms as well. The skeletons of Dukat and Martok appeared in Picard.What I wonder about is that with the exception of Worf no DS9 characters show up in other Star Trek series or movies. Because it's quite common these days.
Something I really would like to see is a movie (I think a whole series is too much) just about the Ferengi.
Star Trek, even DS9, didn't exactly have a stellar track record when it focused on the Ferengi. I'm amenable to having them play a part in the plot, but I'd have reservations about making them the focus.What I wonder about is that with the exception of Worf no DS9 characters show up in other Star Trek series or movies. Because it's quite common these days.
Something I really would like to see is a movie (I think a whole series is too much) just about the Ferengi.
I would absolutely love a (mostly) lighthearted Jake spin off. A no reservations type show but in the trek universe.
But still the best one!
Garak, Weyoun and Dukat are excellent characters.
At the time, in 1999, I wished there was an eighth season of DS9. Voyager lost me around this point. Ron Moore's falling out with B&B only added to it.
I wouldn't have been opposed to a DS9 Movie in 1999 or 2000. But after Nemesis finished what Insurrection started, killing off the TNG Movies, I was all set. I didn't need to see a DS9 Movie. I figured DS9 would be just as mangled as TNG. As time went on, I also began to realize that way too much would have to be introduced to an audience who didn't watch DS9. So, it wouldn't have been worth it.
All of this was before Avery Brooks stepped away from acting and Rene Auberjonious and Aaron Eisenberg died. No Sisko, no Odo, and no Nog, that's too much missing for a DS9 Reunion.
I would've liked some follow-up to the Dominion War, but I basically got that with Picard Season 3. I don't want to argue about PIC S3, I'm just saying it checked off one of the items on the list I'd have.
So, other than the state of Cardassia, there's not much to go back to, as far as I'm concerned. Cardassia is at a point where, even at 25 years, it's still not enough time for them to have rebuilt. There could be a story there.
I wouldn't have been opposed to a DS9 Movie in 1999 or 2000. But after Nemesis finished what Insurrection started, killing off the TNG Movies, I was all set. I didn't need to see a DS9 Movie. I figured DS9 would be just as mangled as TNG. As time went on, I also began to realize that way too much would have to be introduced to an audience who didn't watch DS9. So, it wouldn't have been worth it.
All of this was before Avery Brooks stepped away from acting and Rene Auberjonious and Aaron Eisenberg died. No Sisko, no Odo, and no Nog, that's too much missing for a DS9 Reunion.
I would've liked some follow-up to the Dominion War, but I basically got that with Picard Season 3. I don't want to argue about PIC S3, I'm just saying it checked off one of the items on the list I'd have.
So, other than the state of Cardassia, there's not much to go back to, as far as I'm concerned. Cardassia is at a point where, even at 25 years, it's still not enough time for them to have rebuilt. There could be a story there.
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Well, stories can be written...
I don't so much think that's a maybe as a definitely.
PIC has definitely scared me of from every possible reunion project of TNG, DS9 and VOY.
And as you state, it would never work without Sisko, Odo and Nog. It wouldn't be the same, just some tired reactivating of something which once was so good.
But I wish that we could have more books from that era and I mean books in which the old favorites from TNG, DS9 and VOY aren't killed off or ruined in some way.
