If there WAS a Season 8
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I'd want it to erase & de-canonize the crap ending to the Dominion War from WYLB, and have the war rage on on an epic scale not yet seen in the series, with more races than ever joining both sides. One neat way to do that would be be having Odo get converted by The Great Link, and coming back to lead the Dominion vs. the Sisko for round II of the Dominion War.
I'd wanna directly see the nitty gritty of Weyoun's diplomatic relations that bring more races onboard to the Dominion, and the Sisko having to learn and use some of those skills on his own and become like Weyoun (even though he hates to) in order to get more races onboard on the Feds' side. At the end of it all I'd wanna see the Dominion win the war as they rightfully should, with the last scene being Odo claiming the DS9 station as Dominion property.
I'd wanna directly see the nitty gritty of Weyoun's diplomatic relations that bring more races onboard to the Dominion, and the Sisko having to learn and use some of those skills on his own and become like Weyoun (even though he hates to) in order to get more races onboard on the Feds' side. At the end of it all I'd wanna see the Dominion win the war as they rightfully should, with the last scene being Odo claiming the DS9 station as Dominion property.
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Dude. That sounds like massive fan-wank.
No offense, or anything.
Dude. That sounds like massive fan-wank.
No offense, or anything.
I would have done two arches, one arch where they'd find out the aliens were actually some sort of parasitic race of beings and they would have had to rescue Benjamin from them, and a B arch with the rebuilding from the war, and a war between the Romulans and the Klingons, where both sides would have put preassure on the federation and Bajor to join their side.
CorporateClaus said:
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Dude. That sounds like massive fan-wank.
No offense, or anything.
Don't laugh, it may be a cry for help.
Navaros, I think it should be you and Bashir in that holosuite, battling to the death at the Alamo.
That's not a season 8...that's a porn movie!
i would've just like to have seen bajor become official members of the federation.
I would have made the season about a Federation Civil War. I would also make Section 31 the major villian. The idea would be that they would be using the war as a excuse as to why they should change some aspects of the Federation. You would see people want things to return to status quo and others who would want to make the Federation more brutal and Sisko and his people would be sort of in the middle. They know the Federation can never return to the idealistic TNG type of thinking but the things Section 31 is oviously going to far. I would have also liked to see Nog become a series regular and would have killed Keiko and use that as the excuse for O'brien to return to Ds9. The idea that he has lost his way as a person on Earth and wants to go the only place he feels truly at home.
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Season 8 opener "Missing Link" would reveal that the whole war was another simulation by the Founders. Basically everything after Broken Link never happened.
The Federation would seal the wormhole and the next 23 episodes would be bottle shoes about dart games, holosuites, Bajoran politics and visits by oversexed septuagenarian Lwaxana Troi and decrepid Grand Nagus Zek. The series finale would be of course, Zek marrying Lwaxanna...in the nude.
The Federation would seal the wormhole and the next 23 episodes would be bottle shoes about dart games, holosuites, Bajoran politics and visits by oversexed septuagenarian Lwaxana Troi and decrepid Grand Nagus Zek. The series finale would be of course, Zek marrying Lwaxanna...in the nude.
Don't know about this one. DS9 is my fav of the series' but I liked the ending of it even if they killed off Sisko, sort of. Maybe something involving the Romulans not wanting to give back areas they hhad a hand in defending, like Benzar.
I have really enjoyed the 'season 8' books, but not what the writers have done with the Founders. There was the "Vortex" episode from the first season in which the guest star character Croden (Cliff DeYoung) had a metamorphic stone that turned into a key that opened a cryogenic chamber containing his daughter.
That metamorphic stone/key never made another appearance, but screamed of some connection to the Changelings, and gave me the following idea:
The Changelings were created thousands of years ago by a Gamma Quadrant race, the "Slavers" (remember the animated episode "The Slaver Weapon" with the shape-shifting device?), to serve as household servants. The Slavers' entire technolody was based on metamorphic materials, and the Changleings were originally non-counscious, un-self-aware "androids." The Slavers did not anticipate the AI connectivity problem though, and eventually there were enough Changelings connecting to another that they developed consciousness and self-awareness. One day, the Changelings declared both their self-awareness and their freedom. As their entire civilization was based on the Changelings, the Slavers fought for control of the Changelings, but lost the battle, and were themselves nearly exterminated. As the Changelings set out to discover their own destiny, the Slavers were scattered throughout the Gamma Quadrant, but this history would explain the Founders profound distrust of solids.
I had this idea long before the seventh season, and the episode I thought could introduce this revelation about the Changelings wouldn't work post WYLB, but with the Dominion on the ropes, maybe the Slavers could make a return and try to take advantage of the Founders' current weakness to re-enslave them?
And, of course, the Federation would find itself in the position of having to decide if it should come to the aid of its most potent enemy since the Borg.
That metamorphic stone/key never made another appearance, but screamed of some connection to the Changelings, and gave me the following idea:
The Changelings were created thousands of years ago by a Gamma Quadrant race, the "Slavers" (remember the animated episode "The Slaver Weapon" with the shape-shifting device?), to serve as household servants. The Slavers' entire technolody was based on metamorphic materials, and the Changleings were originally non-counscious, un-self-aware "androids." The Slavers did not anticipate the AI connectivity problem though, and eventually there were enough Changelings connecting to another that they developed consciousness and self-awareness. One day, the Changelings declared both their self-awareness and their freedom. As their entire civilization was based on the Changelings, the Slavers fought for control of the Changelings, but lost the battle, and were themselves nearly exterminated. As the Changelings set out to discover their own destiny, the Slavers were scattered throughout the Gamma Quadrant, but this history would explain the Founders profound distrust of solids.
I had this idea long before the seventh season, and the episode I thought could introduce this revelation about the Changelings wouldn't work post WYLB, but with the Dominion on the ropes, maybe the Slavers could make a return and try to take advantage of the Founders' current weakness to re-enslave them?
And, of course, the Federation would find itself in the position of having to decide if it should come to the aid of its most potent enemy since the Borg.
Man, am I looking forward to reading more of that idea. I'd bet you could publish based on that premise.
You should e-mail the Reeves-Stevens', or Eric Nyland and propose a team proposition!
You should e-mail the Reeves-Stevens', or Eric Nyland and propose a team proposition!
I'm not sure what you mean by "become more expansionistic." The Federation is already an incredibly expansionist state -- its goal, after all, is to eventually convince every single foreign state it encounters to become a Federation Member State.
The difference between Federation expansionism and, say, Klingon or Cardassian expansionism, is that the Federation seeks to expand peacefully, through persuading foreign states to join voluntarily, not through coercion or pressure.
As for aggressiveness -- I'm not sure how you can call the Federation a true constitutional liberal democracy if it's running around starting wars all the time. Surely this would violate its own stated belief in the right of all societies to self-determination?
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