DS9 deserving of a movie?
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Yeah! And then, I'm gonna point out how when they finally had a female captain, they gave her the ship named after a minivan!
That is pretty interesting... Janeway, the soccer mom captain...
The thing about the way TOS ended so abruptly is that it wasn't meant to end that way. From what I've read of the backstage goings-on of the time, they were expecting to be picked up for a fourth season, so they didn't make the final episode a grand finale.
As I recall, the first female captain we see was in command of the Saratoga, in TWOK.
To answer the OP: No, I do not think DS9 deserves its own movie. I watched the series, liked most of it up until Worf and the Dominion War basically hijacked the whole thing. Unpopular opinion though it may be, that stuff bored me to tears for the most part.
I really wish they had given us a Captain Sulu and the Excelsior movie (Christian Slater optional
). Now that is a movie I would have gone to see in the theatre (I don't go to theatres very often).
Not only did you ruin the punchline with your facts, but you got the movie wrong.As I recall, the first female captain we see was in command of the Saratoga, in TWOK.
I like George Takei, but he is not a strong enough actor to carry his own movie or TV series.I really wish they had given us a Captain Sulu and the Excelsior movie (Christian Slater optional
I've never heard this. Everyone seemed so down on the direction the show had turned in the third season that I'd be surprised if they seriously thought they'd get picked up, especially after being assigned the "death slot".
Shows as a rule didn't do finales in those days; just as most didn't do introductory stories. Shows like "The Fugitive" aside, most started and stopped without distinct beginnings and endings. How many 60s or 70s shows can you recall that had send-off episodes? M*A*S*H, Mary Tyler Moore, and...?
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Sorry! I know the captain was female and the ship was the Saratoga. I wasn't 100% sure which movie -- was it TMP? I do know she was shown sending a distress call to Starfleet.Not only did you ruin the punchline with your facts, but you got the movie wrong.As I recall, the first female captain we see was in command of the Saratoga, in TWOK.
I read this in Star Trek Lives! (in one of Joan Winston's chapters). But keep in mind that there was a lag between the time a script was pitched to the final viewing on TV, and that timeframe could be anywhere from weeks to months. I have no idea what the usual timeframe was in TOS' third season. Network decisions, on the other hand, can be made at the proverbial drop of a hat.
Strictly speaking, M*A*S*H's grand finale didn't happen until the '80s.
I was working backstage on a theatre production of The King and I at the time, and the director allowed everybody to have the night off of rehearsals so we could stay home and watch M*A*S*H. 
Still wrong.Sorry! I know the captain was female and the ship was the Saratoga. I wasn't 100% sure which movie -- was it TMP?Not only did you ruin the punchline with your facts, but you got the movie wrong.As I recall, the first female captain we see was in command of the Saratoga, in TWOK.
There were definitely plans in place in the slim chance Season Four was a goer. Alan Dean Foster had a two-parter script about Kumara the Klingon, Kirk's old roommate from an Academy exchange program) ready to resubmit (he used it in "Star Trek Log Seven", to pad out a TAS adaptation to novel length. Several other pitches ended up in TAS, including David Gerrold's "More Tribbles, More Troubles" and "Bem".
In a way, TOS's farewell episode was "The Counter-clock Incident". Kirk meets Robert April, original captain of the Enterprise. Almost that same crossover flavour as Colonel Worf in ST VI, Kirk meeting Picard in "Generations" and Riker and Troi in "These Are the Voyages".
I don't know if further DS9 stories, were they to ever concevably be produced, would work as movies. two hours just wouldn't be enough!
a mini-series... mmm, I like that thought.
never going to happen though. my dream of half-season anthology series' will likely always remain unfulfilled.
a mini-series... mmm, I like that thought.
never going to happen though. my dream of half-season anthology series' will likely always remain unfulfilled.
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Deep Slow Nine couldn't be a movie. Seriously, there's only 1 or 2 main draws to that cast, and one has huge ass ears.
if you're talking about Leeta, then I'm afraid I just learned something new about Bajoran physiology.
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Nah, Leeta was not a draw to that show. Terrible actress. Isn't she opening car shows now?
They won't. We can wish, but they won't make it.
Well some of them didn't have previouslies.
I've never understood this either, but my mother cannot grasp the entire Sisko plot to "Emissary", which is a fairly major component of the entire series. Although, to be fair, she can't get her mind around Terminator either. Some people are very linear-minded, and you can't tell them anything out of order.
That sounds all too familiar. Ever tried explaining where the Dominion fleet in the wormhole went to someone who doesn't understand the Prophets? :'(
By the way, while I'd love to see a DS9 movie, telemovie, miniseres, direct-to-dvd, whatever, it is almost a decade now since the show finished... There's very little they can do to bring it back in a realistic way...
Two reasons why I'm fine with no DS9 movie:
1. The show wrapped up in such a way that really did not require a revisit to the series.
2. TNG, the "popular crew", had one decent movie and three lousy ones. Those odds don't favor success for either DS9 or VOY at the box office.
1. The show wrapped up in such a way that really did not require a revisit to the series.
2. TNG, the "popular crew", had one decent movie and three lousy ones. Those odds don't favor success for either DS9 or VOY at the box office.
Series don't get movies because they "deserve" them. They get movies because the studio has some reason to think that they'd draw enough of an audience to make some money. So no, DS9 doesn't "deserve a movie."
The use of the word "deserve" has always puzzled me, because it implies a lot of things that aren't true.
Trekkies don't "deserve" a Trek series on the air at all times.
Enterprise didn't "deserve" a fifth, sixth, or seventh season.
The TNG cast don't "deserve" another film in which they can wrap up their storyline.
DS9, VOY, and ENT don't "deserve" their own shot at a feature film.
Shatner doesn't "deserve" a cameo appearance in Trek XI so as to blot out the alleged stain of Kirk's death in Generations.
Every time a Trekkie throws that word around, you can practically smell the misplaced sense of entitlement.Enterprise didn't "deserve" a fifth, sixth, or seventh season.
The TNG cast don't "deserve" another film in which they can wrap up their storyline.
DS9, VOY, and ENT don't "deserve" their own shot at a feature film.
Shatner doesn't "deserve" a cameo appearance in Trek XI so as to blot out the alleged stain of Kirk's death in Generations.
And it's been what...a decade? It's be like giving The X Files another movie now.
Oh...wait. But I've heard it's awful.
Anywho, people should understand that 24th Century Trek as we know it is dead and it isn't coming back.
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