A chance to rewrite S6/S7

[Temis the Vorta]

I'd definitely want to continue the series. I'd rather have ended the show with the Federation losing the war (Dukat's scheme with the paghwraiths actually works - but he ends up dead), Starfleet on the run, half the DS9 cast killed and the other half moving on to the next series. Star Trek: Resistance.

I'd keep Kira, Bashir, Garak and Rom on the Starfleet side. Worf would join the beleaguered Klingons - I don't want to kill him off, but I don't think I'd want him as a regular character. Odo would be brainwashed and with the Founders. Sisko would have joined the Prophets and be out of the picture. I'd kill off O'Brien and Dax (shocker!) and I guess Jake too. I dunno what the heck to do with Jake.

 

[Anwar]

Meh, a better continuation to that would've been for VOY to pick up the story: They return to the Alpha Quadrant via a stable wormhole in S6 or so and get the 8472 aliens to ally with them in exchange for not giving the nano-weapons to everybody. Then with their help they easily annihilate the Dominion and force the Founders into complete surrender since the "fight to the death" order for the Jem'Hadar means nothing against the 8472.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Ah right, "VOY wins the Dominion War." I remember that well, aka, the Nightmare Scenario.

All true Niners would rather have the Federation lose.

 

[Rush Limborg]

^Hey! I consider myself a true Niner....

 

[Joe Washington]

What about this as an alternate scenario for the last two seasons of DS9?

In the battle for Deep Space Nine in Sacrifice of Angels, the Defiant isn't able to stop the Dominion fleet from coming through the wormhole. The Prophets don't intervene, feeling that it isn't their place. When this happens, we leap forward five years in the future. The Federation has lost the war aganist Dominion. The Dominion has established themselves as a power in the Alpha Quadrant as well as the Gamma Quadrant. Odo is working with the Founders, trying to make things better for the solids from the inside. DS9 is still operational but under Dominion and Cardassian control. Sisko and what's left of the DS9 crew are members of a ragtag rebel movement aganist Dominion oppression. The rest of Season 6 and Season 7 would focus on the long, bloody fight to overthrow the Dominion.

This scenario would fundmentally alter the status quo of the series and give it a powerful dramatic thrust in terms of storytelling.

 

[MrBorg]

I liked Dukat, so I wouldn't have him become some insane satanist. Instead, he would remain the leader of the Cardassians throughout Season 6, and Ziyal would not have been killed. In the final episode of S6, the Dominion would ally with the Breen (Who would be far more powerful than they were).

Then, the Female Changeling would tell Dukat that he is no longer needed. The Jem'Hadar and Breen in the room would open fire, killing Dukat. After the Cardassians learn of this, they will try to rebel, only to be crushed by the Dominion and Breen. Very few ships will make it out, and the season would end with a small fleet of Galor-class ships heading for DS9.

The remaining Cardassians would help the Federation, Klingons, and Romulans in the war.

And then... plot twist! The remaining Cardassians turn out to be brainwashed slaves of the Dominion, their minds screwed with by advanced Breen Psychic Technology. The Cardassians would then fire a beam of chroniton radiation or whatever it is that kills the Prophets into the wormhole. Why, you ask?

As it turns out, Kai Winn was possessed by the Pah-Wraiths a few episodes ago. Before the Cardassians were betrayed, she would have experienced some kind of false visions like she did in that one episode where the PW's send her false visions. Eventually she would give herself to the Pah-Wraiths, and tell the Dominion how to kill the Prophets, saying that if they killed the Prophets they'd be able to use the wormhole again.

With the Prophets dead, the Pah-Wraiths would move into the wormhole, and start trying to take over the universe. Seeing as she is no longer needed, the Pah-Wraiths kill Winn. The Dominion and the Federation briefly join forces to stop the Pah-Wraiths. They eventually succeed, but then everything falls to pieces and the war continues, with the final battle over DS9, where most of the fleets were at the time.

The Federation succeeds, but the Dominion flees back into the wormhole.

With the Prophets dead, the Bajorans are thrown into chaos. They end up joining the Federation. Odo stays with the DS9 cast, and the virus that killed the Founders never existed. Sisko also stays because, well, the Prophets are dead.

That'd make everything a little more tragic.

 

[Hound of UIster]

No Dax Death

No Dukat character derailment.

Less Prophet related stuff.

 

[Anwar]

Ah right, "VOY wins the Dominion War." I remember that well, aka, the Nightmare Scenario.

All true Nihilists would rather have the Federation lose.

Fixed.

But yeah, VOY had too much stuff built up to just ignore if the Alpha Quadrant is lost, too much that could easily win the war. I mean heck, they already did more than Sisko ever did when they saved the Galaxy from destruction at the hands of the 8472 aliens, they just didn't bother making it a 100-parter mess.

 

[sonak]

I still don't see how the Dominion War could have been "lost" after the Romulan entry. At that point, you had the three biggest powers in one Quadrant united against one major power in another Quadrant and a lesser one in the AQ.(After the Breen entry, a second lesser-rate power)


We never get numbers of ships or population of the Dominion obviously, but this is why a lot of the season 6/7 war felt unrealistic to me.


It seemed the "war" just went however the writers needed it to, rather than consideration given to how it would have gone if storytelling logic was a factor. Like the destruction of that Dominion shipyards in early season 7 which was supposed to be so important. But it wasn't, because there was no sense in making this like an actual war, in which populations, tactics, logistics, strategy, resources, etc. would actually matter. The war just went from event to event.

 

[HaventGotALife]

I would kill of Dax in the episode Change of Heart and that would be the only change in season six. Season seven would be without Dax. I would've ended the war sooner and not allowed the scenes with the Female Changeling and Weyoun to degrade into a Bullwinkle cartoon. "We must get moose and squirrel." Section 31 wouldn't exist, at least not since the founding of the Federation. The more consequences specific to the Dominion threat the better. I wouldn't go into Sloan's mind. And did I mention no Ezri Dax?

 

[Captain Verata]

Damn, I thought DS9 had some fucked up stuff already in relation to what the other Star Treks are like. I am glad many of you guys didn't write for Star Trek.

If I was super powerful and can make S6&7 whatever I wanted then I would have Jadzia stay, less prophets/pah wraiths, no Sarah/Prophet, no insane Dukat, cool Dukat, no Vic Fontaine, have the Enterprise-E show up to fight the Dominion,..... some more cool stuff...., more later......

 

[Arpy]

A rewrite I'd make to earlier seasons is have greater repercussions for the emissary being a non-Bajoran, and telling them that their gods are actually aliens who've been manipulating them for countless thousands of years. There should have been riots and racism and war and reformation.

I don't know about the Female Changeling brainwashing Odo since it's against her nature to hurt a fellow Changeling. She'd said that the Founders would give up the entire Quadrant if it got them Odo, and I think that's really cool. But, I do like the idea that a serialized show like DS9 not have a pat ending where everything just ends just so. At the same time, the show isn't about the Dominion. The war can't go on until the end of time, especially since Bajor is promised a thousand year golden age after the Emissary fulfills his prophesy. The Dominion storyline slowly picked up steam from early on before coming to a boil. Maybe the series ends with the first teases of another 7-year arc that we just never get to see. Maybe with the return of something/one we met earlier in the series…Vreenak's second coming to the station looking for information that could lead to Sloane's predicted war with the Romulans?

Also, I think I'd break up the band in installments. Jadzia's death a year earlier sort of did that, even though Dax came back. But I like the idea of the crew not all being together until the last scene of the last episode - it's only on television that that happens. I'd maybe disperse them throughout the last season, or if we're really ambitious, in the last two. Maybe have some set to leave after the finale - say Bashir accepts reassignment to a starship leaving 5 months after the camera pulls away from him, Kira, and Jake staring out the Promenade.

 

[Saquist]

You just been given the chance to rewrite the last two seasons of DS9. What do you do?

For ONE...Resign Terry Ferrel.
2. Avoid Ezri Dax at all cost...
3. More than half of Seasons 6 & 7's plots were not based on the War. I would have re tooled more of these episodes to direct our attention to events surrounding the war and developing the end of the story.

4. Along those lines the Bajoran story would become more of a center as well concerning the Pah wraiths and Gul Dukat

5. While more battles cost money I would have found a way for the Dominion to get past the wormhole

6. Season 7 should have been a simultaneous epic battle between the Pah Wraiths and Prophets and the Dominion pouring through their own anomaly forcing every one of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants races....Klingons Romulans, Cardassians, Ferengi (which DS9 abandoned as a major power) Gorn, Tholians...everyone in the final battle...

And much of the cheesy crap they introduced through out the series I would have abandoned for a seriously dark story. Sisko sacrifice at the end would have been more like an awakening of a prophet, We would have learned MORE about Kosst Amogan giving him life as almost a litteral Devil of the Bajoran lore, real and alive and terrorizing the planet.

I would have enjoyed seeing star fleet deal with super natural events that Kirk had always reported but were so over the top to believe...that would have been the third seige of DS9, just as soon as they were back in the station the Pah-wraiths gather at "the gate to temple" to make war with the prophets.

I just tingle at the thought....