Fun missed opportunities...

[BJ Wagner]

What fun missed opportunities would you have liked DS9 to have taken advantage of during their run?

As I'm rewatching the series on Netflix, I can't help but wish they would have shown us Captain Boday and Doctor Trag'tok.

Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: What about Captain Boday?
Major Kira: Captain Boday? You want me to bring Captain Boday to your quarters for dinner?
Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: It's just a suggestion.
Major Kira: Well, it's a bad suggestion! Number one, you used to go out with Captain Boday, number two, Worf hates him, and number three, and we've discussed this many times, Captain Boday has a transparent skull.
Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: And you don't like to see a man's brains. -... - What about Doctor Trag'tok? He's intelligent, he has a good physique... and he has a very opaque cranium.
Major Kira: True. But his eye bothers me.
Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Which one?
Major Kira: The middle one.

 

[saladdays]

While it would be fun to see those people, I don't think they really had any plan to show them on an episode. I think the audience's imagination makes those characters better than actually seeing them.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I'd have liked to see Sisko confront the Borg. They killed his wife, derailed his life and... nothing. And they even gave him a ship designed specifically to kick the Borg's ass!

 

[BJ Wagner]

I'd have liked to see Sisko confront the Borg. They killed his wife, derailed his life and... nothing. And they even gave him a ship designed specifically to kick the Borg's ass!

Good one. Poor Defiant never did a get chance to sink her teeth into some toasted Borg, and Benjamin may have found some small sense of payback.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Like Vilix'pran, they were intended to be gags, moments of humor and imagination for the audience. Sometimes "show, don't tell" gets flipped upside down. What we could all imagine in our heads might be more interesting to us than anything a makeup artist/costumer might come up with.

 

[BJ Wagner]

Like Vilix'pran, they were intended to be gags, moments of humor and imagination for the audience. Sometimes "show, don't tell" gets flipped upside down. What we could all imagine in our heads might be more interesting to us than anything a makeup artist/costumer might come up with.

I agree, but it's always fun to speculate what might have been. Kind of like have Morn deliver the final, empassioned speach of the series. Morgan Freeman could have provided the voice.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

While we're on the subject of never seen characters, how about Al Lorenzo? They have to rescue him when he picks the wrong chair to sit in. http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Al_Lorenzo

 

[UssGlenn]

Good one. Poor Defiant never did a get chance to sink her teeth into some toasted Borg, and Benjamin may have found some small sense of payback.

The Defiant got to see action against the Borg in "First Contact", just not with Sisco in command. I wonder if Starfleet Command made him sit it out for reasons similar to Picards. Perhaps afraid he wouldn't be objective in the moment. Either that or they didn't want the Emmisary lost in what they considered a suicide mission.

 

[saladdays]

This is kind of off subject, but I wonder how confidant the Federation was in defending Earth from the Borg during First Contact? They seemed to be able to damage the cube, although most of the damage looked to be superficial until Picard came and took command of the fleet.

It wasn't mentioned in detail in DS9, was it?

 

[Six of Twelve]

The Defiant got to see action against the Borg in "First Contact", just not with Sisco in command. I wonder if Starfleet Command made him sit it out for reasons similar to Picards. Perhaps afraid he wouldn't be objective in the moment. Either that or they didn't want the Emmisary lost in what they considered a suicide mission.

The only reason the Defiant was used at all in First Contact was to provide a valid reason to get Worf on the Enterprise for this movie.

 

[BJ Wagner]

This is kind of off subject, but I wonder how confidant the Federation was in defending Earth from the Borg during First Contact? They seemed to be able to damage the cube, although most of the damage looked to be superficial until Picard came and took command of the fleet.

It wasn't mentioned in detail in DS9, was it?

No, they never mentioned the events of First Contact in the show. They didn't like that it was just in the movie to get beat-up, and decided not to discuss the incident. Too bad, I thought it would have been a nice touch to have O'Brien just mention that extensive repairs to the Defiant had been completed at some point.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

The Defiant was meant to be destroyed in First Contact, but the DS9 staff shot that down, hence the line about her being "adrift but salvageable".

I, for one, am glad that Sisko never faced the Borg. The loss of Jennifer and the fallout that had he placed solely at Picard's feet, so after his encounter with the Prophets and finding a little inner peace, he was able to stop blaming Picard for something he had no control over, he unburdened himself of all that so didn't need to seek revenge against the Collective. Besides the Cardassians, Dominion, Kai Winn, et al, all proved to be a far more interesting antagonists/adversaries for him to face off against.

DS9 didn't need the crutches of TNG to support itself, so the Borg and Q only got a single appearance before they were forgotten about by the Producers. Leave rehashing all that to Voyager.

 

[Finn]

Good one. Poor Defiant never did a get chance to sink her teeth into some toasted Borg, and Benjamin may have found some small sense of payback.

The Defiant did...

 

[Leviathan]

...would have like to sees the Dominion invasion of earth instead of the screenshot of the golden gate from Sisko's office.

Other than that they really did cover a lot of cool stuff...

-Ginormous space battles that made Wolf-359 look like a slapfight
-Klingon centred episodes
-Actual arcs
-Starfleet officer manipulating politcal events
-Starfleet black-ops section 31
-Criminal underworld of the orions
-TOS tie-in episode
-Mirror universe
-Character lost a leg

 

[trekshark]

would a transparent skull matter? Or were both his skin and skull transparent?

 

[JoeCabby]

would a transparent skull matter? Or were both his skin and skull transparent?

I assume it looked something like this.

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net...artians.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140120001808