DS9 films: your vision?

[Trekker09]

Good point, Michelle Forbes would have fit right in…they certainly tried to get her on board.
Can't imagine an animated film - or any DS9 film, really, but just a few thoughts off the top of my head...

I loved Vic every time, except in the mirror episode.

Garak - gotta find a way to bring him in.

Jeffrey Combs - somehow!!

Quark, for sure. Maybe Rom & Leeta, Nog. I could do without Zek. (That voice!)

One-off women characters I’d enjoy revisiting --Lenara Kahn, the wife Jadzia Dax met again; Arissa, Odo’s brief affair; Fenna, Sisko’s mystery woman. Kimara Cretak, as played by Adrienne Barbeau.

Maybe Jake marries Leanne - he and Lark Voorhies both had dazzling smiles.

 

[DonIago]

I don't know that I'd be very comfortable with Odo and/or Nog being recast.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

You could probably make better movies with subsets of the characters from DS9 and possible TNG/Voy cameos than you could make finding excuses to bring in the entire DS9 cast.

I still think an anthology series in the 240Xs would be a great idea for similar reasons.

If I produced a Sisko's return episode, I would have it start out with Garak and Kira participating in a celebration of the peace between Bajor and Cardassia, revealing that Bajor actually provided medical relief and such to Cardassia when they were rebuilding from the war, which was controversial from both sides for obvious reasons, but the two pushed to make it happen.

Somebody from Cardassia releases a fallen Prophet from ancient history, somebody who was sealed away in the past for disagree with the way the Prophets would become Gods to corporeals in the future. This fallen Prophet has the ability to possess people by touch and possess many people at the same time. He possesses Garak who goes off to assassinate Kira to destroy the peace, but then Sisko comes back at the right moment (Defying the other Prophets) to prevent this with the power to free people by touch, freeing Garak.

The fallen one is possessing people on both sides, stoking conflict between them and Sisko, Kira and Garak set out to stop them.

 

[Trekker09]

I still think an anthology series in the 240Xs would be a great idea for similar reasons.

Sorry I don't know what that refers to -- could you explain?

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Sorry I don't know what that refers to -- could you explain?

The decade starting in 2400. The time Picard takes place in.

 

[Ragitsu]

What is Bashir busying himself with these days?

 

[dupersuper]

Without Odo and Nog it's just sad to consider...

 

[Oddish]

DS9 was problematic as a movie to begin with. Sisko, O'Brien, Garak, Worf, and Odo were gone. And the only romance still going on was the painfully uninteresting Ezri/Bashir pairing.

 

[Ragitsu]

Odo can always return in another form, yes?

 

[kkt]

Yes, Odo could reappear in a different form, and Sisko, O'Brien, Garak, and Worf are scattered but could gather together again for a good enough reason.

 

[Oddish]

I think that if they were going to do a DS9 movie, it should have happened long ago. Maybe instead of "Nemesis", aside from the Riker/Troi wedding, that movie had nothing we needed.

 

[Qonundrum]

If they hadn't done "Paradise" in season 2, I'd vie for some adaptation of it in movie format, with enough added material to handle the time allotment.

Granted, TNG onward often had brought aspects of the big screen to the small one, so how do you make it big again? (By not doing what was done with the TNG movies, which tried to be whiz-bang action flicks with some concepts that weren't explored nearly as well as any given TV episode, often either because of big pew pew fights without the underlying depth that keeps them engaging, or by using self-aware humor. The dumb pee joke from "First Contact" is one of many that exemplified the return of the movies losing it...)

It also helped having just rewatched "Guyana Tragedy - The Story of Jim Jones" and "Jonestown: Paradise Lost" as they're something of coincidences (if not actual inspiration of a topic not told as frequently after the 1970s), given DS9's story being similar - just without any major corruption from "the sympathetic villain" in its story. Forget the ADHD toddlerizing of the Borg. DS9 could easily handle meatier material in a 2-hour format. Sci-fi movies needn't always be wham bam thank you audience. Movies do need a wider and more epic scale, but TOS' 80s movies did it while having some thematic depth.

Oh, I really do recommend you check out "Guyana Tragedy" (1980) - over three hours long and clearly has enough plot material, is as mesmerizing and compelling as it is well-handled (especially for bio-pics), there's also a few notable actors who'd go on to do Trek movies and spinoffs in it, as well as James Earl Jones (and is playing a role that's nothing like Darth Vader, a role that Jim would end up becoming an analogue of. It's great to see actors who are more than their most famous/typecast roles.)

 

[Ragitsu]

If they hadn't done "Paradise" in season 2, I'd vie for some adaptation of it in movie format, with enough added material to handle the time allotment.

Is that the episode with Luddite Jim Jones IN SPACE? Man...it always manages to get me quietly incensed.

 

[Ragitsu]

I think that if they were going to do a DS9 movie, it should have happened long ago. Maybe instead of "Nemesis", aside from the Riker/Troi wedding, that movie had nothing we needed.

Excuse me, the (deleted) Wesley Crusher scene was well worth the price of admission.

 

[Trekker09]

I don’t have the imagination to think up a film plot, but there needs to be some follow up on the Siskos’ child. IIRC, in the hypothetical Season 8 pilot from WWLB, there was no mention of Kasidy and the baby. That seems like one glaring omission. Avery Brooks made a huge contribution to the whole DS9 legacy by insisting the finale included a scene with Kasidy, some hope for reunion with his family.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

there was no mention of Kasidy and the baby.

Joseph Sisko is Jake's brother and, presumably, Sisko's son.

 

[ichab]

I'm just glad there never was one. There's a pretty good chance they'd have muffed it.

This. Unless Behr and the DS9 writing staff were in control of the movie, I'm fine with it being T.V only.

 

[Laughing Dragon]

I would love one but an all CGI (they have perfected likenesses) film with the cast doing voices. But some of the cast is getting old. Maybe get voice actors good at doing impressions. Thats one who they looked for in an biographical film. Why not?

 

[Trekker09]

Maybe a DS9 film could include a visit from the Nexus…. Generations came out in 1994, during DS9’s air time. The Nexus traveled through the galaxy in 2371, a couple years after Sisko took command of the station. What if it passed through the station, or Bajor, or a ship…what if there was a connection between the wormhole aliens existing outside linear time, and the Nexus taking people to any time they wished…

DS9 had an episode of imagination becoming reality in “If wishes were horses” with non-corporeal aliens observing the crew, but it was more scary than pleasant. The Nexus was like ‘wrapping yourself up in joy” to use Guinan’s words.

 

[Elias Vaughn]

Just give me a movie (trilogy?) that adapts Millennium. Time travel into an apocalyptic future caused by some evil red Pah-Wraith orbs is like the perfect DS9 movie idea.