Did the writers/producers/executives etc not want Janeway to meet Sisko because...

[Farscape One]

And honestly, who better than Quark to pass the DS9 torch? He has been on the station longer than anyone, and in a lot of ways, he's the glue that keeps the station together. Just as Picard was the perfect representative of TNG passing the torch to DS9, and McCoy for TOS to TNG.

(He was the good old country doctor, probably the closest character in spirit to the pitch premise of STAR TREK being "WAGON TRAIN TO THE STARS". Plus, DeForest Kelley did a LOT of westerns, so it fits exactly right in my opinion.)

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

We've already been introduced to Janeway and know what she's about, a meeting with Sisko wouldn't really do much for either character or propel the story forward. Kim in Quark's lets us know who the rookie is, how unprepared and naïve he is, as well as how the street smart Paris compares and contrasts to him and announcing the start of their relationship.

 

[DarKush]

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.

One of the best things I liked about ST: Picard. I'm glad they brought it back.

To the OP, though I would've liked to have seen how Sisko and Janeway got along with each other, I am inclined to agree with those who don't feel there would've been much gained. The Picard-Sisko meetings provided bookends for Sisko's character growth. Unless Sisko and Janeway had been friends or lovers already, I don't see the potential for character growth, at least, on Sisko's end. Though perhaps the potential was there to glean some insight about Janeway from her interaction with Sisko.

As for him being second fiddle to Janeway personally I wouldn't have wanted to see that. I wasn't a fan of Sisko starting off as a commander, though I do understand how it helped make DS9 stand out from TNG, but also works from a character perspective. I still wasn't a fan of it. Seeing Sisko take orders from Janeway, a brand new character who is leading the brand new spin off might feel like the suits were establishing a pecking order. In a way, I guess they did that anyway.

 

[STEPhon IT]

We've already been introduced to Janeway and know what she's about, a meeting with Sisko wouldn't really do much for either character or propel the story forward. Kim in Quark's lets us know who the rookie is, how unprepared and naïve he is, as well as how the street smart Paris compares and contrasts to him and announcing the start of their relationship.

Yeah, establishing Kim as the second banana to Paris which to some extend Kim never developed to be anything different during Voyager's run, back on topic I would've have minded a "meeting of the minds" between Sisko and Janeway in the pilot. Just to watch them analyze the Maquis situation and discuss strategy would lead to the dangers to come, but the writing wasn't interested in making the Maquis dangerous or a threat. If this was Janeway's first command, which it never felt that way throughout the entire run because she's better than any Captain that ever lived, she should be a little uneasy with an experience CO like Sisko. It's not something I would like to see around her crew but from another colleague I wouldn't mind. Again, Sisko was well respected and his rank is not demeaning to anyone in TNG universe, Janeway could get advice from him, but maybe the producers didn't want her getting advice from a man.

 

[Kor]

Barring a Q incident or flashback or such, how would Sisko and Janeway have met?

In the very first episode of VOY when the ship disembarked from the DS9 station.

TNG got a sendoff from McCoy.
DS9 got a sendoff from Picard.
TNG movies got a sendoff from Kirk.
VOY got a sendoff from... Quark.

Kor

 

[DonIago]

In the very first episode of VOY when the ship disembarked from the DS9 station.

TNG got a sendoff from McCoy.
DS9 got a sendoff from Picard.
TNG movies got a sendoff from Kirk.
VOY got a sendoff from... Quark.

Kor

Sorry, I meant outside of the first episode.

 

[fireproof78]

In the very first episode of VOY when the ship disembarked from the DS9 station.

TNG got a sendoff from McCoy.
DS9 got a sendoff from Picard.
TNG movies got a sendoff from Kirk.
VOY got a sendoff from... Quark.

Kor

Nobody likes Sisko...

 

[Oddish]

Nobody likes Sisko...

Sisko is arguably the best Trek captain of all time. He's certainly the most well-rounded.

 

[fireproof78]

Sisko is arguably the best Trek captain of all time. He's certainly the most well-rounded.

*whispers* That's the joke...

 

[Guy Gardener]

If Voyager was going to be detached from Deep Space Nine, then Janeway was going to be living on Deep Space Nine, and she out ranked Sisko.

Although, it could have been one mission and then back to Earth, but that's determined by whether her mission was just to kill Chakotay, or to put down the Maquis entirely.

 

[dupersuper]

Janeway laid out her plans to rescue Tuvok, to the leader of the Maquis.

I never got the impression that Eddington was THE leader of the Maquis.

Although, it could have been one mission and then back to Earth, but that's determined by whether her mission was just to kill Chakotay

What in the world makes you think killing any one was her mission?

 

[Guy Gardener]

What in the world makes you think killing any one was her mission?

Two tricolbot devices.

They went on a mission with high yield explosives that could blow up a moon or a sun, that were mission specific, and they couldn't have started or finished that mission without those two extremely really big bombs.

Maybe they just wanted to blow up the Maquis base, and their stuff, but it takes a lot of wasteful effort to get that terrorist scum to evacuate their home, when really if they can't pack their shit and run in less than 15 minutes, they deserve to burn alive dripping in molten tricolbolt.

Voyager did not have room to take a thousand prisoners, if several ships were attached to the base Janeway was planing on turning into a crater.

No prisoners, just a mass grave.

 

[dupersuper]

Two tricolbot devices.

They went on a mission with high yield explosives that could blow up a moon or a sun, that were mission specific, and they couldn't have started or finished that mission without those two extremely really big bombs.

Maybe they just wanted to blow up the Maquis base, and their stuff, but it takes a lot of wasteful effort to get that terrorist scum to evacuate their home, when really if they can't pack their shit and run in less than 15 minutes, they deserve to burn alive dripping in molten tricolbolt.

Voyager did not have room to take a thousand prisoners, if several ships were attached to the base Janeway was planing on turning into a crater.

No prisoners, just a mass grave.

.......................Wow

 

[Guy Gardener]

.......................Wow

If Chakotay's base is in the Demiliaterized Zone, then Janeway can't leave behind any evidence that she was there, without it being an act of war towards the cardadsians. So she has three choices, leave him be, wait him out, or use a Romulan Weapon to exterminate his base and soldiers so that Starfleets hands are clean.

A tricolbot weapon was used in Generations. It was specified as Romulan and used to blow up stars.

Meanwhile if the badlands are comparable to a star, and that's where Chuckles was holed up, then one of her Contingincies may have been to ignite the entire badlands, leaving the few still uncremated Maquis no place to hide.

Mass murder and ecoterrorism.

 

[dupersuper]

If Chakotay's base is in the Demiliaterized Zone, then Janeway can't leave behind any evidence that she was there, without it being an act of war towards the cardadsians. So she has three choices, leave him be, wait him out, or use a Romulan Weapon to exterminate his base and soldiers so that Starfleets hands are clean.

A tricolbot weapon was used in Generations. It was specified as Romulan and used to blow up stars.

Meanwhile if the badlands are comparable to a star, and that's where Chuckles was holed up, then one of her Contingincies may have been to ignite the entire badlands, leaving the few still uncremated Maquis no place to hide.

Mass murder and ecoterrorism.

Your Federation is terrifying.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Your Federation is terrifying.

Every admiral that arrived on the original Enterprise to give Kirk orders, was quickly revealed to be an evil rat bastard in need of a good smacking.

 

[Farscape One]

Wasn't it trilithium used on the star in GENERATIONS, not tricobalt?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Wasn't it trilithium used on the star in GENERATIONS, not tricobalt?

Yup.

But my rant still covers all the bases.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tricobalt_device

First seen used in a Romulan minefield on Enterprise.

Used to blow up a star in The mirror Universe episodes of Enterprise.

 

[Kor]

.......................Wow

You'll find that Guy has some... interesting ideas on Trek.

Kor

 

[Farscape One]

Every admiral that arrived on the original Enterprise to give Kirk orders, was quickly revealed to be an evil rat bastard in need of a good smacking.

Not Bob Wesley, who was a Commodore.