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[Christopher]

That's a fair point, I was just thinking of it purely from the point of few of the show's producers teases the fans with the hint at the possibility of resolving an old plot thread.

I doubt it will be anything more than a throwaway allusion. Nor should it be; the show should be about developing its own characters and their era, not tying off dangling threads from decades ago our time and centuries ago their time. Star Trek needs to stop building on its past and return to expanding its future, and Starfleet Academy, as the furthest forward series in the franchise, is the show that should do that.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

If they'd made up a new mystery instead of using Sisko's return, would it be a Chekov's Gun (now someone has to follow up on that someday) or a throwaway line ("Did Einstein, Kazanga, or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule?")

 

[Christopher]

If they'd made up a new mystery instead of using Sisko's return, would it be a Chekov's Gun (now someone has to follow up on that someday) or a throwaway line ("Did Einstein, Kazanga, or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule?")

Look, the Sisko poster is just an on-set graphic. The text was probably written by the art department, not actually scripted. It's unlikely to be any kind of plot point, or to have any relevance beyond the few seconds it's onscreen.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Yep, and people in 1979-82 were writing angry letters to magazines about how the movies weren't "real Trek" and should be ignored.

Before the movies, fans mostly just got angry at how bad season 3 was.

I joined a local Australian fan club in 1980 and became its president in late 1983. I had the chance to read lots of back issues of the newsletter from before I came a member -- and found quite a few pages of fan vitriol about Filmation's TAS, long before it had started airing in the USA.

If they'd made up a new mystery instead of using Sisko's return...

You mean like The Red Angel or The Burn? Lotsa fans hated those. Haters gotta hate, I guess.

 

[Therin of Andor]

And as many of you know, I get really angry when my favorite characters are ruined and/or killed off. I just don't accept that.

So every favourite character (of yours) becomes immortal, or leads a charmed life, wherein they somehow survive every obstacle placed before them, even into old age?

I don't accept that.

@JD , I'm going to assume you replied from the previous page before you saw my reminder on this page, but please note that this is not the place for this discussion, and (for all thread participants) I don't want this particular tangent to continue. Thank you.

@Denise , I also suspect that you replied before seeing my reminder. I would ask please that if people would like to have a discussion about Jack the Ripper, that maybe Miscellaneous would be a better place.

EDIT: Me too, sorry. I am only just working my way through the middle of the thread. Eeek.