If Not Sisko, Then Who?
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Kira?
MeanJoePhaser
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I've narrowed down to five choices.
-Edward Jellico, so strict that he makes Jake and Quark wear uniforms.
-Thutmose Riker, Riker's other duplicate who was sent back to Ancient Egypt via a freak transporter accident.
-Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, "your world of phasers, warp drives and holodecks frightens me, I'm just a caveman!"
-Geordi Laforge, when he became an invisible alien with blue veins. Imagine he got he reinfected but retained human intelligence. How cool would that be?
-Lore, reprogrammed to fight for the human resistance...er...Starfleet.
-Edward Jellico, so strict that he makes Jake and Quark wear uniforms.
-Thutmose Riker, Riker's other duplicate who was sent back to Ancient Egypt via a freak transporter accident.
-Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, "your world of phasers, warp drives and holodecks frightens me, I'm just a caveman!"
-Geordi Laforge, when he became an invisible alien with blue veins. Imagine he got he reinfected but retained human intelligence. How cool would that be?
-Lore, reprogrammed to fight for the human resistance...er...Starfleet.
Barclay. God, that would've been an awesome show.
Gosh, yes! And it would be fun to see him trying to figure out Garak, too.Shelby would be good, no doubt about it, but...
But one of the things that I really like about DS9 - something that I never thought of before this very minute - is its overall theme of redemption. A lot of the characters (not to mention Bajor itself - and even, eventually, Cardassia) have some enormous tragedy that they need to recover from, and many of them do. Shelby never gave me the impression she needed to recover from anything.
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Shelby would be good, no doubt about it, but...
But one of the things that I really like about DS9 - something that I never thought of before this very minute - is its overall theme of redemption. A lot of the characters (not to mention Bajor itself - and even, eventuall, Cardassia) have some enormous tragedy that they need to recover from, and many of them do. Shelby never gave me the impression she needed to recover from anything.
What about almost leaving Picard in the hands of the Borg, thus indirectly threating earth itself with assimilation?
True, I may have subconsciously read too much into your last sentence of your original post.
She may have felt an undeserved sense of guilt for not stopping the Borg attack earlier but I don't know the characters history very well.
The same would apply to Edward Jellico, the only thing that I've got his the familial guilt over his ancestor of some 400 years ago a corrupt US senator called Kinsey
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^ I think I just didn't put it very well. Of course, just because we don't know about some deep tragedy a particular character is recovering from doesn't mean there isn't one. (Something had to make Jellico into such a curmudgeonly crabby-ass, I guess. ) All I meant was that the redemption theme is for me very important to DS9 - it's part of what makes the show special and different. Trek fans, myself included, often talk as though too many of the people in TNG were "too perfect." That's not really accurate - they had flaws like anybody else - but it is accurate to say that most of the people in TNG seemed sane, healthy and well-balanced.
DS9, on the other hand, featured a lot of people who had something big they needed to heal from - that's what I meant by "recover." So I think it was important that whoever was to be in command of the station needed to be in need of some of that healing, some of that redemption, as well. But maybe that's just me.
) All I meant was that the redemption theme is for me very important to DS9 - it's part of what makes the show special and different. Trek fans, myself included, often talk as though too many of the people in TNG were "too perfect." That's not really accurate - they had flaws like anybody else - but it is accurate to say that most of the people in TNG seemed sane, healthy and well-balanced. DS9, on the other hand, featured a lot of people who had something big they needed to heal from - that's what I meant by "recover." So I think it was important that whoever was to be in command of the station needed to be in need of some of that healing, some of that redemption, as well. But maybe that's just me.
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^ I think I just didn't put it very well. Of course, just because we don't know about some deep tragedy a particular character is recovering from doesn't mean there isn't one. (Something had to make Jellico into such a curmudgeonly crabby ass, I guess.
DS9, on the other hand, featured a lot of people who had something big they needed to heal from - that's what I meant by "recover." So I think it was important that whoever is in command of the station needed to be in need of some of that healing, some of that redemption, as well. But maybe that's just me.
It was actually a good point that was well made, I wasn't thinking when I put fingers to keyboard and I aplolgise for that.
I went a lighter shade of grey.
(incidentally, I would have loved to have heard either Dukat or Weyoun say what you've just said.
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Well, eventually they did put Kira in command of the station. Will Riker as DSN commander would've been interesting, I think. Or imagine if Odo were somehow put in command of the station. -- RR
I went a lighter shade of grey.
(incidentally, I would have loved to have heard either Dukat or Weyoun say what you've just said.
Out of curiosity, Cardassians do have red blood, right? I don't want to have to identify another respiratory pigment. It's hard enough squaring green (sulfuric?) blood with copper (and hence blue) hemocyanin.
