Star Trek: Emissary

[Lynx]

I don't want to see a re-boot of DS9 with crap actors playing Sisko and the others.

Nobody could replace Avery Brooks, Nana Visitor, Armin Shimerman, Andrew J Robinson and the others.

By accident I stumbled over a re-boot of Walker Texas Ranger yesterday.

I switched off after 15 minutes. It was horrible!
Downright crap, just like all other re-boots.

 

[at Quark's]

Looks great, and I can imagine this has cost a lot of work, and has required a lot of skill to produce.

Not truly original though in the sense that I feel this is the 'discovery intro approach applied to DS9'.

 

[Dukhat]

Looks great, and I can imagine this has cost a lot of work, and has required a lot of skill to produce.

Not truly original though in the sense that I feel this is the 'discovery intro approach applied to DS9'.

Looked more like the PIC approach to me, but your point is well made.

 

[Tuskin38]

. There's an Excelsior(?) class ship crossing in front of the Moon. What is that in reference to? Everything following that is Sisko's early career.

It's an Excelsior-class refit. Perhaps it's the USS Lakota?

It wouldn't be a Lakota, as it's showing Sisko's career/timeline in chronological order.

It's probably the USS Okinawa as mentioned earlier in the thread. It's referred to as an Excelsior Class in both the Star Trek Encyclopedia and the game Star Trek: Legacy (which uses the registry number from the Encyclopedia)

 

[Continuous Cosmos]

What's of those Sisko ships; Saratoga, Defiant, USS Emmett Till & USS Theseus though? Anyway there's a good premise with potentially intriguing character development along with lots of sensational stories here.

 

[FederationHistorian]

I love this! Brilliant work!

 

[Dukhat]

What's of those Sisko ships; Saratoga, Defiant, USS Emmett Till & USS Theseus though? Anyway there's a good premise with potentially intriguing character development along with lots of sensational stories here.

Well, the Emmett Till is Ezri's ship from a hypothetical eighth season of DS9, and the Theseus is from a comic, both non-canon and won't be the focus of any future on-screen Trek productions.

 

[FederationHistorian]

Well, the Emmett Till is Ezri's ship from a hypothetical eighth season of DS9, and the Theseus is from a comic, both non-canon and won't be the focus of any future on-screen Trek productions.

Says who?

Its entirely possible that Sisko’s already returned and is on an adventure on the Theseus while the events of LD and PIC and maybe even DIS are going on.

And while Ezri and the USS Emmitt Till aren’t the focus for any shows, its be great if they made a cameo in a future production.

 

[Dukhat]

Says who?

Well, says CBS/Paramount, who don’t use non-canon stuff for the basis of their shows.

 

[Continuous Cosmos]

Well, says CBS/Paramount, who don’t use non-canon stuff for the basis of their shows.

Well they've already incorporated "non-canon stuff" several times within past and present shows. Star Trek: Emissary would certainly be a wonderful series. With each of these succinct suggestions being said and done.

 

[Dukhat]

Well they've already incorporated "non-canon stuff" several times within past and present shows. Star Trek: Emissary would certainly be a wonderful series. With each of these succinct suggestions being said and done.

Except for Avery Brooks not wanting to return to Star Trek.

 

[kkt]

Yes, recasting would be inevitable if there's to be a follow-on series.
Given that, would it be better not to make one at all?

 

[Continuous Cosmos]

Would of course wish to see Avery Brooks make, via Star Trek: Emissary etc., a long awaited return to Trek. Such said wouldn't mind a live action or animated recasting in a worst case scenario. A DS9 follow up series, like Emissary and the like, would of course be welcomed by fans of DS9 along with fans of scifi.

 

[fireproof78]

Yes, recasting would be inevitable if there's to be a follow-on series.
Given that, would it be better not to make one at all?

In this case, I would lean towards not recasting and not making it.

A DS9 follow up series, like Emissary and the like, would of course be welcomed by fans of DS9 along with fans of scifi.

It would? As a fan of both I am not on board here with this notion.

 

[kkt]

Even if Brooks wanted to do another Star Trek project, audiences would want to see mature adult Sisko from season 7 again, not 75-year-old "why haven't you retired to your house on Bajor yet?" Sisko. I (and more to the point Brooks) would not want him to do a walk-through just to show his face, if it wasn't important to the plot.

 

[Tosk]

A DS9 follow up series, like Emissary and the like, would of course be welcomed by fans of DS9

Not all of us. I for one would much rather they continue to mostly leave DS9 alone.

 

[Dukhat]

If PIC is any indication of what they’d do with a DS9 sequel, then I’d rather they did nothing at all. Sometimes it’s best to just leave the fates of your favorite characters to the imagination.

 

[DonIago]

I don't think I'm ready to see Sisko recast unless it's not intended as a direct continuation. I'd get it for a prequel, but if it's akin to doing PIC but without Stewart as Picard...that makes my teeth clench.

 

[Char Kais]

Not a fan of the animation style. It has no identity and no soul because it's an imitation of the modern title sequence style (The Expanse, Westworld).

If this is a title sequence only for "Emissary" and not for the entire show, then why are "Michael Dorn", "Nicole de Boer", "Andrew J. Robinson" and "Jeffrey Combs" in the credits?

Then there is a huge factual error (deliberate oversight?):
Rick Berman was the executive producer for all seven DS9 seasons.
Michael Piller was also omitted. He was an executive producer for seasons one and two.
Ira Steven Behr was executive producer from season 5 onwards.

 

[DonIago]

It sounds as though you may have missed that the sequence is for a(n entirely) new hypothetical series, not merely a single episode?

I think it has to be somewhat abstract to avoid running afoul of Paramount. They're probably allowed to go so far but no further.

Their earlier work reflects the same style, which I personally found very effective, but YMMV on that.