Spoilers Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

[Ryujin]

Feels like a good time to remind you that the only Star Trek show currently airing is a prequel to the 1966 series TOS. What's in the past or future, what's done and what's not is really an incredibly mutable thing in fiction. Especially in a franchise with time travel that also botches and rewrites its own canon regularly.

And in which we are currently finding out a fair bit about the Gorn, that we probably shouldn't even have met at this point.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

DS9 really not only let us know the charactesr, but also the people and the place(s). Every other world is usually just a planet-of-the-week with aliens-with-bumps-on-their-forheads.

Andor managed to give two previously practically or actually unknown Star Wars planet a real authentic feel of a place where people live - Ferrix in Season 1, Gorman in Season 2 (and I guess you could also make a case that the first season also gave us at least some insight into Aldhani and the second into Chandrila).

So maybe a new take on a Star Trek show might be to have a "planet-of-the-season". Maybe a group of Starfleet officers that are tasked with some form of "second contact" where they visit some planets that might wish to join the Federation or have just joined and things need to be setup, or worlds that are recovering from somethnig like the Dominion War or the Burn or something.

 

[BookTenTiger]

DS9 really not only let us know the charactesr, but also the people and the place(s). Every other world is usually just a planet-of-the-week with aliens-with-bumps-on-their-forheads.

Andor managed to give two previously practically or actually unknown Star Wars planet a real authentic feel of a place where people live - Ferrix in Season 1, Gorman in Season 2 (and I guess you could also make a case that the first season also gave us at least some insight into Aldhani and the second into Chandrila).

So maybe a new take on a Star Trek show might be to have a "planet-of-the-season". Maybe a group of Starfleet officers that are tasked with some form of "second contact" where they visit some planets that might wish to join the Federation or have just joined and things need to be setup, or worlds that are recovering from somethnig like the Dominion War or the Burn or something.

A Star Trek show focusing on second contact would be really, really interesting!

 

[MarkB]

A neat approach would be assessing worlds for Federation membership and finding that, while in some respects the prospective members need to do some work in order to measure up, in others it's the Federation that needs to work to measure up to being worth joining.

 

[pukunui]

“The Wire” was good, but this Mirror Universe “Crossover” is kinda weird. Like what’s with Mirror Kira being in love with our Kira? Like WTF?! That’s pretty messed up.

And how convenient that, despite the historical circumstances being so different, so many of the regular cast members still happen to be here on Mirror DS9.

 

[trappedslider]

“The Wire” was good, but this Mirror Universe “Crossover” is kinda weird. Like what’s with Mirror Kira being in love with our Kira? Like WTF?! That’s pretty messed up.

according to Nana Visitor, this was an expression of her narcissism.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

And how convenient that, despite the historical circumstances being so different, so many of the regular cast members still happen to be here on Mirror DS9.

Quantum entanglement.

 

[payn]

“The Wire” was good, but this Mirror Universe “Crossover” is kinda weird. Like what’s with Mirror Kira being in love with our Kira? Like WTF?! That’s pretty messed up.

And how convenient that, despite the historical circumstances being so different, so many of the regular cast members still happen to be here on Mirror DS9.

Oh yeah you got at least one of these a season to look forward to. If half or more of DS9 crew were dead in mirror it wouldn’t be half as fun!

 

[MarkB]

And how convenient that, despite the historical circumstances being so different, so many of the regular cast members still happen to be here on Mirror DS9.

That's a perennial problem with both alternate universe and alternate timeline stories. Realistically, something as complex as DNA combinations, not to mention relationships and timing of 'encounters', would be so subject to the butterfly effect that nobody conceived after the diverging event would be the same person as anyone in the original timeline.

But the whole point of stories like this is to explore and have fun with different versions of well-established characters, so it's something that just has to be let slide for the sake of the story.

 

[pukunui]

according to Nana Visitor, this was an expression of her narcissism.

Yeah, that makes sense.

That's a perennial problem with both alternate universe and alternate timeline stories. Realistically, something as complex as DNA combinations, not to mention relationships and timing of 'encounters', would be so subject to the butterfly effect that nobody conceived after the diverging event would be the same person as anyone in the original timeline.

But the whole point of stories like this is to explore and have fun with different versions of well-established characters, so it's something that just has to be let slide for the sake of the story.

Of course.