Jesus, we have our DS9 sequel at last!
Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x10 - "The Red Angel"
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With in the fiction of DISCO, Airiam was well known and well liked by many people. Those are the people she has to prove her worth too. That would happen through action and dialog in new episodes and would not be dependant on how much screentime or dialog Airiam had in previous episodes.
Yeah, with Tyler. Sisko was part Klingon all along.
That's fine within the reality of the show, but does nothing for the audience. A fictional character trying to live up to the memory of a fictional character the audience barely knows is often times dramatically a dead end.
That's why Star Wars was changed from Luke trying to live up to a guy mentioned in 1 line of dialogue to trying to live up to the enemy he knows (and the audience knows) and has been fighting all along.
If it's good enough for Dave Lister and Phillip J. Fry...
So the sequel is a prequel? Temporal paradoxes give me a headache.
Remember, Prophets don´t believe in "first" or "later".
Sisko: Hi everyone, I'm back!
Discovery crew: Where did you come from? Who are you?
Sisko: Oops, miscalculated my return time by a century or so. Never mind (suddenly disappears)
(Discovery crew shrug their shoulders and return to what they were doing)
Sisko later shows up out of nowhere in the Picard show.
That makes it sound like Sisko has become a baby Q or something.
I guess I will remain the outlier on this one because I find these things both emotionally moving and dramatically engaging.
The season 1 episode Despite Yourself was simultaneously a prequel and a sequel to The Tholian Web as well as a sequel to In a Mirror, Darkly which was an interquel between The Tholian Web and Mirror, Mirror.
Why do I picture Duck Dodgers' insane star map to find Planet X while reading this?
Only if the acting and writing don't support the idea. The audience learns to love, hate and sympathize with a character in anywhere from a half hour or more all the time on TV and in film. It's kind of what fiction does.
Or it was an accident.
I guess i am to.
Edith Keeler. Lal. Amin Maritza. Tuvix. Sim. Airiam.
There are numerous Flims and TV series which deal with the fall out of the death a character the audience never knows except through the people who are mourning them and the fictional characters trying to life up to them, and this is often very dramatically effective.
And as a matter of fact, now that we know who Michael Burnham's mother is, even though we no very little about her and just meet her at the end of this ep, we also now know a whole lot more about Michael herself and can surmise a lot of the reasons she is who she is even if she died right there on the spot that tiny bit of insight would have left us miles along the road to understanding Michael more fully.
The Big Chill is a rather famous example.
Well, maybe not Tuvix.
(Someone had to say it.).
Yeah, Tuvix did nothing for me. I had vastly more sympathy for Evil Kirk from The Enemy Within losing his individuality and life. Man did Shatner sell that.
Fair enough, although I'm not really feeling much of anything regarding Burnham's mother right now.
Well, maybe not Tuvix.
(Someone had to say it.
Well, I wanted an example from every show.
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