So Kurtzman is just winding up the audience with tabloid puff'n'huff? Either they are or aren't.
Sounds to me like he was just asked a question and answered it off the cuff, in such a way as to keep the readers sweet while not promising anything. So no, he wasn't winding them up, he was improvising. Unfortunately it's exactly the kind of thing that creates problems, because look at the headline of this very thread – yes it includes the word "could", but you know damn well everyone is going to read that as "will" and then get annoyed when they don't get the thing they were never promised in the first place.
If there is one character I would love to see back, it's Ezri Dax. I've seen Deboer at the Las Vegas convention and she still looks great.
I agree that Ezri is one of the most likely characters to bring back – she was a long way from the breakout character of the show like Data or Seven were, but she is the most mobile and could pop up anywhere, unlike the rest who are more closely tied to their individual DS9 storylines. The
Picard show as depicted so far (and we have no reason to believe it won't continue in a similar vein) has been all about Borg, Romulans and AI – all things DS9 has next to nothing to do with.
Tying that back into the Uhura idea also mentioned in that interview, the books establish that Uhura slept with Curzon at one point, so a reunion with Ezri would be interesting...
I've always wanted to see a scene involving Garak and Picard.
Picard would hate everything about Garak, and Garak would mark Picard down as predictable and potentially useful.
Picard doesn't hate anyone who hasn't hurt him, that's not who he is. And again they have met in the books, and they got along fine thanks to a shared interest in literature.
Although those books are loved by you and a lot of other people, they're not canon, and aren't going to be used by the writers of this show anyway
You say that like we don't already know. We know the books aren't canon, thank you very much, and the TV shows don't have to adhere to them. But the fact is they can if they so choose – it's all Star Trek, it all belongs to CBS/Paramount, so they are at liberty to use as much or as little of it as they want. For example, the ideas of Romulans having personal names that only their families can use, and of an advanced society of AIs that want to contact the AIs in our galaxy, are both out of the books.
It doesn't mean you have to go into detailed backstories and explanations, it just means it's an idea that first came up in the books and which the TV writers picked up to use in service of their own stories. No reason they couldn't do so again with other ideas from the books,
if it served their purposes.
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