Other shows and the Dominion War

[tim0122]

TNG was off the air by the time the Dominon War started in DS9, and the movies didn't need to worry about it. Voyager took place in a quadrant far, far away with little to no communication with the Federation and thus didn't have to worry about mentioning or incorporating the war in episodes.

But if a show, Voyager or otherwise, had come out after TNG ended that took place in the Alpha Quadrant, do you think they would've addressed the Dominion War? They almost would've had to at least some of the time, and it's hard to see the war not affecting the show in a major way for at least a short amount of time.

But I then wonder if Behr and co would've even been allowed to do the war if Voyager wasn't set where it was. There's a lot of coordinating that would've needed to be involved, and writers aren't always great about that kind of thing. I could see Berman putting the kibosh on that long-time storyline because he didn't want to deal with it across multiple shows.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Pushing Voyager into a different space was effectively a means of avoiding integration. Indeed, elements of the Dominion War were mentioned by both the TNG movies and Voyager, they did not shape either. It's tempting to think that Behr would be restricted in how much of a war he could tell. However, Berman would probably allow there to be several episodes of conflict between the Dominion and the Federation, much more like how the Borg was treated. And if you look at the last two years of DS9, often the war was just a few passing references or subtle framing individual story in to enrich the overall war narrative. There could easily have been several years of conflict with the Domion, but there probably would have been 8-12 episode of actual conflict.

 

[Finn]

They could have written a story about one of the characters wring back forth with a loved one back home about a predicament that somehow ties to the Dominion war...because plot.

Maybe Naomi's dad tells her war stories, about adventures along with the DS9 crew (as if he was around in certain episodes..) and make it somehow relevant to whatever was going on Voyager...

 

[cooleddie74]

The war is referenced in later episodes of VOY after the Pathfinder Project allows the crew to send and receive messages from home, and is also name dropped in both INS and NEM, but yeah, aside from some noteworthy lines of dialogue from Chakotay and B'Elanna about their old Maquis comrades now being dead because of a war with some power from the Gamma Quadrant that series just didn't touch much on the worst war in Alpha Quadrant history.

 

[F. King Daniel]

It would have been so funny if it was an Agents of Shield/Avengers Endgame situation where they just totally ignored massive, world-changing events

 

[XCV330]

PIC is the only show that really deals with it at all, and then it's just back clutter to whatever was going on each season. It was a terrible missed opportunity, but TentacleBots, Good Borgs, Bad Borgs, Q , etc were more interesting to the show runner than the idea of an entire quarter of the galaxy still reeling after this conflict.

 

[cooleddie74]

Even 24 or 25 years after a war that devastating the Federation would be rebuilding. We sort of get the implication that it's become more cynical and jaded in the years following the war and then the destruction of Romulus, but rarely given any fleshing out.

 

[XCV330]

Even 24 or 25 years after a war that devastating the Federation would be rebuilding. We sort of get the implication that it's become more cynical and jaded in the years following the war and then the destruction of Romulus, but rarely given any fleshing out.

it must have been a stressful time. It turned Bruce Maddox into an older Grisly Adams

 

[cooleddie74]

John Ales is all of us having to watch Seasons 1 and 2.

 

[XCV330]

John Ales is all of us having to watch Seasons 1 and 2.

It makes one wonder why
Brian Brophy didn’t return?

 

[Shawnster]

It makes one wonder why
Brian Brophy didn’t return?

Brian Brophy didn’t return?

I understand the show is just getting started and I can’t believe they didn’t get Brophy to reprise the role. It’s not like a meaningless cameo. The show has been mentioning Maddox repeatedly since day 1. what a shame. My first BIG criticism.

www.trekbbs.com

 

[cooleddie74]

Brophy and Robau are both very disappointed in that.

 

[XCV330]

Brian Brophy didn’t return?

I understand the show is just getting started and I can’t believe they didn’t get Brophy to reprise the role. It’s not like a meaningless cameo. The show has been mentioning Maddox repeatedly since day 1. what a shame. My first BIG criticism.

www.trekbbs.com

 

[Dukhat]

Brophy and Robau are both very disappointed in that.

They are afraid to recast Robau for fear of what Robau would do to them.

 

[The Wormhole]

They can't recast Robau. Nobody else can deliver the line "walk with me" with the same gravitas as Faran Tahir.

 

[CoveTom]

Well, nobody else could deliver the line, "We're Starfleet; we don't lie" besides Wil Wheaton. Well, maybe Samuel L. Jackson, but that's it.

 

[Weyoun 251]

Brophy and Robau are both very disappointed in that.

Robau would have won the war single handed

@SantaTom - that would be "We're starfleet mutha fucka; we don't lie"

 

[Paul755]

The war is referenced in later episodes of VOY after the Pathfinder Project allows the crew to send and receive messages from home, and is also name dropped in both INS and NEM, but yeah, aside from some noteworthy lines of dialogue from Chakotay and B'Elanna about their old Maquis comrades now being dead because of a war with some power from the Gamma Quadrant that series just didn't touch much on the worst war in Alpha Quadrant history.

They did the whole episode centered on B’Elannas “death wish” after finding out about the end of the Maquis. I’ve always thought they could have done a Janeway centric episode about not being there to help in the war effort, the possibility that there might not be a Federation to go home to, etc… but it might have been redundant after the B’Elanna episode.

 

[The Wormhole]

They did the whole episode centered on B’Elannas “death wish” after finding out about the end of the Maquis. I’ve always thought they could have done a Janeway centric episode about not being there to help in the war effort, the possibility that there might not be a Federation to go home to, etc… but it might have been redundant after the B’Elanna episode.

Plus a few episodes prior to the B'Elanna one we already had Janeway experience self-doubts over the various decisions she made since arriving in the Delta Quadrant, making it redundant even further.