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there's almost no chance of Avery Brooks returning to the role
I was just speculating on this the other day (not realizing WGTC was speculating about it too, but no surprise there)... While Brooks hasn't really been acting for some time and didn't even contribute to the DS9 documentary, there is one reason why I think there's potential for him to come back.

One of the things Brooks most values about DS9 is that it portrayed (in his words) "the relationship of a brown man and his son." It was a show that showcased an African-American man being a responsible father (a single father, no less!) with a good, strong relationship with his son at a time when that wasn't commonly portrayed on TV. But it ended with Sisko leaving his newly-pregnant second wife to care for responsibilities elsewhere. If memory serves, the "I will be back" was added at least in part at Avery's insistence so he wouldn't be abandoning his wife and child, at least not entirely. (Remember reading that in the DS9 Companion, but I don't think I have a copy anymore, so can't confirm.)

I have a hard time imagining coaxing Brooks back as a series regular. But a TV movie or a guest appearance that establishes him being reunited with his family and acting as a father to his sons regardless of his responsibilities to the Prophets? Especially if they set it up in a way so he hasn't been gone for 20 years? That I could see him going for.
 
I think the only way someone from DS9 is going to show up is if they are a guest star on PIC. I totally don’t see CBS producing a follow up show for DS9, or even VOY for that matter, despite 7of9 being in the show.
Or maybe on Short Treks. Remember Picard originated in a Short Treks that was meant to feature Uhura and Picard together (source), so they've at least discussed episodes tied more to the older shows than the newer ones.

EDIT: Or Lower Decks. I mean, we've already seen Deep Space 9 itself, at least in a visual cameo.
 
Another option is to have the lead be the other child of Sisko. He or she was probably born in 2376, making them 23 at the time of Picard. Just the right age for a newly-minted ensign.

One of the things I like about the current iteration of Star Trek is that you have different avenues of the future to explore.... outside of the nearly 750 adventures you've had exploring life in Starfleet. While we revisited the 23rd century with seasons 1 and 2 of Disco and will be returning to that with Strange New Worlds, we have the non-Starfleet, privateer, almost Firefly/Serenity-verse of Picard, you have the reverent superfans of our heroes in Lower Decks, and potentially the intelligence world of Section 31, now Disco season 3 will take us into the far future. I have no issue of the idea of "Baby" Sisko having his/her story. But there are other areas to explore other than just making him/her a Starfleet officer. Its a big galaxy.
 
One of the things I like about the current iteration of Star Trek is that you have different avenues of the future to explore.... outside of the nearly 750 adventures you've had exploring life in Starfleet. While we revisited the 23rd century with seasons 1 and 2 of Disco and will be returning to that with Strange New Worlds, we have the non-Starfleet, privateer, almost Firefly/Serenity-verse of Picard, you have the reverent superfans of our heroes in Lower Decks, and potentially the intelligence world of Section 31, now Disco season 3 will take us into the far future. I have no issue of the idea of "Baby" Sisko having his/her story. But there are other areas to explore other than just making him/her a Starfleet officer. Its a big galaxy.

I get your point. But from a story standpoint, we've already seen one Sisko child decide Starfleet is not for him. It would be kinda redundant if the younger Sisko also turned his or her back on Starfleet. More interesting to think the one who (potentially) never got to see their father wants to follow in his footsteps. Or, if SIsko came back and led a normal life, that a pastoral wonderland on Bajpr didn't suit him or her.
 
I get your point. But from a story standpoint, we've already seen one Sisko child decide Starfleet is not for him. It would be kinda redundant if the younger Sisko also turned his or her back on Starfleet. More interesting to think the one who (potentially) never got to see their father wants to follow in his footsteps. Or, if SIsko came back and led a normal life, that a pastoral wonderland on Bajpr didn't suit him or her.

Sure, a definite possibility if they were going to do a story about Sisko's progeny. I just was stating my preference. Its a nice thought exercise but I don't think its going to happen one way or another.
 
TNG is an outlier. Its presentation of a perfect world does not align well with the rest of Star Trek, in which a perfect world is the goal and not the setting, and I wish fans would stop using it as the platonic ideal of everything Star Trek.

Nicely put. You took the words right out of my mouth.

Don't get me wrong. I quite enjoyed TNG, but it did get carried away with the utopian thing sometimes and I do get weary of it being treated as the gold standard for STAR TREK instead of, as you say, something of an outlier.
 
I for one, unless its a cameo, or a short trek, don't really care what happens with the children, or kind of the crews of past shows. Tng, Ds9, Voyager, are done, they done there journeys. Yes there still out there living etc. but I don't really care.
 
It is all really comical.

The other week when we started talking about the rumor of the Khan mini-series coming back, a few days later one of the sites did a video about their sources telling them about the Khan mini-series.

I was like, wait, we were just talking about that openly over here a couple of days before apparently your "sources" told you. Who are your sources, Trek BBS? :lol:

Have they ever been right about anything? Even once? Because it seems as though everything they predict is doom and gloom, and cancellation this and fired that, and none of that has happened.

Oh, and I like the one about how CBS and Emma Watts were putting Discovery on CBS to prove how bad the show is to embarrass Kurtzman or something?

And the one about how apparently CBS wants to fire Kurtzman but they can't because they... I guess deliberately drew up a contact that won't allow them to fire someone from Star Trek, even though CBS owns Star Trek.

It's entertaining if nothing else...
 
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Another option is to have the lead be the other child of Sisko. He or she was probably born in 2376, making them 23 at the time of Picard. Just the right age for a newly-minted ensign.
And both Jake and NewBaby are one quarter prophets!
 
With Tarantino supposedly working on cajoling Shatner into his (never gonna happen) movie idea...

...well, I guess that just leaves Bakula in extreme old age make-up to make the full set.
 
Dug around a bit, and the episode titles and writers that @Vullein released back in April were (largely) confirmed by the WGA and are now used in Memory Alpha, though the following points from his Tweets appear to be errors (or at least outdated):
  • He missed "Far From Home", "People of Earth", and "Die Trying".
  • "The Sanctuary" is also now listed as being before "Terra Firma" per the WGA.
  • He credits "Outside" to Michelle Paradise rather than Kenneth Lin & Brandon A. Schultz.
  • Interestingly, his list of who directed the first eight episodes matches the directors currently listed on Memory Alpha... If you ignore the episode titles that they're connected to. E.g., Maja Vrvilo is currently listed as the director for episode 5; episode 5 just isn't "Terra Firma, Part 1". This may indicate that he (or his source) stitched together a list of directors with a separate list of episode titles. (Or it may indicate that Memory Alpha sourced it from him? It's not obvious to me where they got their director list from.)
Cygnus X-1 also published this list but sourced it to Trek Report; Trek Report sourced it back to @Vullein.

A similar list of episode titles was added to Wikipedia on July 29 from an older version of the same WGA page. The only Web Archive version of that page is from 2019, so I can't easily verify how long the information had been available before the Wikipedia edit; this means it's possible the WGA page was his source and hadn't been noted elsewhere, or it's possible he broke the information before they did. The Wikipedia article from July has the same errors noted above. Interestingly, at the time only the directors for eps 3 and 8 were considered confirmed. Memory Alpha only considered the updated WGA page a valid, specific source as of October 4th.

https://twitter.com/Vullein/status/1250533097080336384
#StarTrekDiscovery S3 Details:

1. That Hope Is You
Directed by: Olatunde Osunsanmi
Written by: Michelle Paradise & Jenny Lumet & Alex Kurtzman

2. Forget Me Not
Directed by: Olatunde Osunsanmi
Written by: Alan McElroy & Chris Silvestri & Anthony Maranville

#StarTrek

(1/4)

https://twitter.com/Vullein/status/1250533098888007681
3. Scavengers
Directed by: Jonathan Frakes
Written by: Anne Cofell Saunders

4. Unification III
Directed by: Hanelle Culpepper
Written by: Kirsten Beyer

(2/4)

https://twitter.com/Vullein/status/1250533101849186306
5. Terra Firma, Part 1
Directed by: Maja Vrvilo
Teleplay by: Alan McElroy
Story by: Bo Yeon Kim & Erika Lippoldt & Alan McElroy

6. Terra Firma, Part 2
Directed by: Douglas Aarniokoski
Teleplay by: Kalinda Vazquez
Story by: Bo Yeon Kim & Erika Lippoldt & Alan McElroy

(3/4)

https://twitter.com/Vullein/status/1250533103535357952
7. The Sanctuary
Directed by: Jon Dudkowski
Written by: Kenneth Lin & Brandon A. Schultz

(4/4)

https://twitter.com/Vullein/status/1255294032189829120

More #StarTrekDiscovery S3 Episode Details!

8. Outside
Directed by: Jon Dudkowski
Written by: Michelle Paradise

9. The Citadel
Directed by: Jonathan Frakes
Written by: Anne Cofell Saunders

10. The Good of the People
Directed by: Omar Madha
Written by: Kenneth Lin

https://twitter.com/Vullein/status/1255325350315376641
Ugh I moved everything up by mistake lol.

Jonathan Frakes indeed directed episode 8. Omar Madha directed episode 9 and Chloe Domont directed episode 10.

Thank you for notifying me about this!
 
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