Maybe the explanation to the Doctor looking older is he reprogrammed himself to look like an older Dr Zimmerman out of respect?
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Unless Avery is coming back to lead a 40th Century show!
Which explains the hair.
It's not real.
You're proving my point - only dyed-in-the-wool Trekkies would find this nonsense - "it's canon" - interesting at all.
Because it's not interesting. At all.
Or maybe, like Data in All Good Things, he felt that an older appearance would add an air of distinction to his appearance, albeit much more successfully than Data's streak of gray of his hair.
Agreed. IMHO, this really feels like a betrayal, both to the actor and the character.
I don't think so at all. I think it's a necessary part of worldbuilding. Kinda like how The Expanse going to the extent of creating Belter Creole made the world feel more lived in.
Just like I'd expect historical dramas (unless set in very specific times and places) to have less diverse casts with fewer interracial characters than the present, I'd expect the future to have more.
The first implications that Sisko never returned were actually made in Lower Decks.
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Huh. Did not know that. I haven't watched all of that series. Duly noted.
If we want to get pedantic, maybe Sisko's promise he'd "come back" for Kasidy and their child meant he brought them to the Celestial Temple. So he didn't abandon them - and they were reunited - it's just that it wasn't recorded by the Trekverse.
Or maybe it's just when he came back, he went to Bejor, lived a life of a recluse with his wife and child, and it was kept a general secret.
Or maybe it's just when he came back, he went to Bejor, lived a life of a recluse with his wife and child, and it was kept a general secret.
Ira and the other writers wanted Sisko to never return - they thought it would make the finale hit harder. However, Brooks pointed out the implications of a black man abandoning his pregnant wife were pretty goddamned awful, so they rewrote the lines at the last minute.
Yes, that BTS conversation was exactly what I was thinking about when I saw that easter egg in the trailer.
Brooks wanted Sisko to return, but he isn't willing to reprise the role, so... 
It wasn't implied so much as outright stated Sisko never returned he's "doing important work in a celestial temple" Boimler says as if there's more than one.
It's pretty safe to say that the ranks next to those names are either wrong, lacking context that will completely change their meaning, or going to be retconned sometime in the future.
Leaving Nog a Lieutenant alone is so extraordinarily disrespectful to both the actor and character that I can't see it being left as is.
Being a certain rank is not disrespectful unless it's ensign.
If Nog died in a heroic deed while a Lieutenant then why should it matter?
I'm sort of wondering if they decided to roll with the possibility that Nog, uh, had something happen to him a la the DS9 documentary's hypothetical eighth-season idea.
Starfleet seems like the kinda place where if you want to chase ranks cool, but you can also just chill wherever and do the job you like if you don't want to be in charge.
Yeah, definitely.
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