How do you feel about the fates of the captains after their glory days skippering a starship?
Kirk ends up in an old man desperately trying to get back that action and passion he felt when he was a young man making a difference. Going back to Starfleet after retiring, leaving Antonia and his empty house in the mountains. Kirk left behind no children to further his family or name. Add in the anti-climatic death against Sorin, in the defense of a pre-industrial civilization; that we the audience and the crew of the ENT-D and Kirk never saw. It truly was a bitter end for Jim Kirk.
From the future events in "All Good Things", we see Picard retires to his family vineyard in France. We learn that Picard and Beverly married and divorced (Bev kept his last name though), and that Picard is in the early stages of developing dementia. Like Kirk, Picard also fathered no children to further his family or his name. While not as illustrious or heroic a retirement one would expect for a hero like Picard. He's done alright for himself. Just seeing your heroes get old and frail (mentality in Picard's case) is tough to watch.
Just look at that vineyard! He's certainly not hurting for money. Wait... does Earth even use money
The Sisko joined his mother and the other wormhole aliens inside the wormhole. In a place outside time and space. Leaving his son Jake, his new wife Cassidy and the unborn son they were to have together. Sisko would return when his work with the Prophets was finished but no exact length of time was given. Triumphant war hero, celebrated religious figure, model Starfleet officer and a family man. None of which Sisko will be able to experience or enjoy, from where he is.
Now we know why the episode is titled "What You Leave Behind". Hahaha, I kid, I kid.
From the future events in "A̶l̶l̶ ̶G̶o̶o̶d̶ ̶T̶h̶i̶n̶g̶s̶" Endgame, we see and aged Admiral Janeway who is cynical, miserable and apathetic to the rules and principles she's sworn to uphold. She steals a chrno deflector from the Klingons, breaks the temporal Prime Directive by deliberately traveling to the past and pollutes the time stream by bringing weapons and information into the past, to change a future she didn't like.
22 anonymous crewmen die.
Seven of Nine dies on an away mission.
Chakotay dies of a broken heart, presumably.
Tuvok's mental faculties degrade to irrepairable levels.
Worst sin of all is Harry Kim gains the rank of captain! Unacceptable!
Janeway made the journey home, but the journey broke her. The herculean task she set up for herself back in "Caretaker" was too much for her to keep all of herself in tact. She spares her younger self the grief and anguish she (Adm Janeway) would endure in the decades after making it home to Earth. The aged Admiral Janeway, like Kirk and Picard, also had no children to further her line and family name.
We don't know where Archer ended up after the Federation was formed and Earth Starfleet became Federation Starfleet. We do know he atttained the rank of Admiral and that he still kept beagles as pets. One of which, Scotty lost by attempting to transport it from one planet to another.
Kirk ends up in an old man desperately trying to get back that action and passion he felt when he was a young man making a difference. Going back to Starfleet after retiring, leaving Antonia and his empty house in the mountains. Kirk left behind no children to further his family or name. Add in the anti-climatic death against Sorin, in the defense of a pre-industrial civilization; that we the audience and the crew of the ENT-D and Kirk never saw. It truly was a bitter end for Jim Kirk.
From the future events in "All Good Things", we see Picard retires to his family vineyard in France. We learn that Picard and Beverly married and divorced (Bev kept his last name though), and that Picard is in the early stages of developing dementia. Like Kirk, Picard also fathered no children to further his family or his name. While not as illustrious or heroic a retirement one would expect for a hero like Picard. He's done alright for himself. Just seeing your heroes get old and frail (mentality in Picard's case) is tough to watch.
Just look at that vineyard! He's certainly not hurting for money. Wait... does Earth even use money
The Sisko joined his mother and the other wormhole aliens inside the wormhole. In a place outside time and space. Leaving his son Jake, his new wife Cassidy and the unborn son they were to have together. Sisko would return when his work with the Prophets was finished but no exact length of time was given. Triumphant war hero, celebrated religious figure, model Starfleet officer and a family man. None of which Sisko will be able to experience or enjoy, from where he is.
Now we know why the episode is titled "What You Leave Behind". Hahaha, I kid, I kid.
From the future events in "A̶l̶l̶ ̶G̶o̶o̶d̶ ̶T̶h̶i̶n̶g̶s̶" Endgame, we see and aged Admiral Janeway who is cynical, miserable and apathetic to the rules and principles she's sworn to uphold. She steals a chrno deflector from the Klingons, breaks the temporal Prime Directive by deliberately traveling to the past and pollutes the time stream by bringing weapons and information into the past, to change a future she didn't like.
22 anonymous crewmen die.
Seven of Nine dies on an away mission.
Chakotay dies of a broken heart, presumably.
Tuvok's mental faculties degrade to irrepairable levels.
Worst sin of all is Harry Kim gains the rank of captain! Unacceptable!
Janeway made the journey home, but the journey broke her. The herculean task she set up for herself back in "Caretaker" was too much for her to keep all of herself in tact. She spares her younger self the grief and anguish she (Adm Janeway) would endure in the decades after making it home to Earth. The aged Admiral Janeway, like Kirk and Picard, also had no children to further her line and family name.
We don't know where Archer ended up after the Federation was formed and Earth Starfleet became Federation Starfleet. We do know he atttained the rank of Admiral and that he still kept beagles as pets. One of which, Scotty lost by attempting to transport it from one planet to another.
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No worries though. If you follow the comics, the dog reappears there.
No worries though. If you follow the comics, the dog reappears there.
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