They didn't want Sisko (at the time a Commander) playing second fiddle to a series new Captain?
Did the writers/producers/executives etc not want Janeway to meet Sisko because...
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He already played second fiddle to Picard. I don't think the producers even considered it. They wanted a new show set apart from other shows.
I don't think it's fair to say Brooks wouldn't have liked it when, AFAWK, he was never approached about it.
There's no way they didn't meet off camera.
Holy shit.
Eddington was in on that meeting.
Janeway laid out her plans to rescue Tuvok, to the leader of the Maquis.
A plan that involved nuking Chakotay twice with two tricolbolt devices, as she was leaving orbit.
Maquis women and children, their skin all boiled off.
Eddington's response to Janeway's attempt at mass murder of his friends and family had to have been "No mercy".
If Caretaker hadn't taken Janeway off the board, Michael was going to take her ship and maroon the woman some where without cofee.
I've read that it bothered him that he started off as a Commander, and Sisko was still a Commander at time of Caretaker.....
Weirdly they retired the Commodore rank from use in TMP all the way until Star Trek Beyond and then Picard brought it back. For years it was fanon that the position itself was removed in the TMP era but Picard has kinda trashed that.
Commanders are well respected CO's like Captains, when it came to the series pilot "Caretaker" writers and producers focused on time and availability for talent. The story could've involved Sisko but with a big character like him it needed to be more personal; like, lets say Janeway was picking up Cal Hudson's Son instead of Tom "Wannabe Riker" Paris this element would've been more compelling to have Sisko in the story. I thought the producers did it right by having the smaller characters involved to let the viewer know it is a spinoff and connects with DS9 and of course TNG.
I would've loved it to be more Sisko involved in that pilot, it sure would've been interesting instead of the boring two episodes presented. I wouldn't had minded some conflict between Sisko and Janeway and how she overcame some issue in the past... maybe even a sub-plot during the events of Wolf 359. Playing second fiddle. Sisko??? No way those words fit with such a strong, black man.
I think that what they did worked better. They showed Harry's naivete, Tom's general decency, and laid the groundwork for one of the best bromances in the series (ranking up there with Kirk/Spock, Data/Geordi, and Bashir/O'Brien). And we saw Quark, one of DS9's most popular characters.
And let's not forget Morn appeared, too. He and Quark, who also appeared in a TNG one, are the only two DS9 characters to appear on VOYAGER. And other than Bashir in a TNG episode, the only DS9 ones to appear in any spinoff.
Well, the tradition has been that a cast member of the preceding series meets someone of the current cast in the first episode. It needn't be captain-to-captain, it wasn't in TOS vs. TNG either (there it was McCoy meeting Data. Picard only meets Kirk in the movies). So it wasn't necessary for Janeway to meet Sisko, and yes, it would have set a paradoxical and possibly uneasy dynamic, because while to Sisko would have fallen the part of the 'established' figure transferring the torch to the new character, she still outranked him.
So I think how it was done was fairly appropriate.
So I think how it was done was fairly appropriate.
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