Should they have made movies about the DS9, Voyager or Enterprise Crews?

[dub]

I think the idea of doing post-Nemesis films with a mixture of cast from all three 24th century series would have been a good idea.

That is so fan-wank, but I had that fantasy back in the day.

I started writing this story back when I was in college. I think it's somewhere under my bed - 30 pages typed, and then I stopped. I remember I took the old TOS film VHS tapes (which formed the Enterprise when placed together in order) and moved them away from each other a bit to form a mega warship (which today, of course, smacks very much of USS Vengeance). I think Voyager was still on the air at the time. I had this idea that Starfleet had been secretly building this huge warship in the shadow of a distant moon, stole some advanced cloaking technology, all in preparation for a war with one of several possible enemies - the borg, the founders, the romulans - and then they actually ended up going to war with the klingons instead. A mysterious general who came to power out of nowhere convinced the klingons that there can be no warriors without war. I felt the story was epic and far-reaching enough to include characters from every 24th century series. I hadn't seen all of DS9 at the time, but now I'm sure Section 31 could have been responsible for the warship. Don't hate - I know it's cheesy! I was a kid, okay!

 

[Sophie74656]

I think a lot of fans would like to see movies with the other casts. Who wouldn't want to see the characters they love again?

 

[Vger23]

I think a lot of fans would like to see movies with the other casts. Who wouldn't want to see the characters they love again?

I think it's a matter of leaving well enough alone, though. Nobody wants to see the characters they love again if the experience is going to be sub-par and miserable. Additionally, while I totally agree that there are a number of fans who would like to see this...I think the ultimate conclusions were that there wasn't anyone else who would. So...that probably kills it dead dead dead in the eyes of the studio.

If anything, the TNG movies taught us that even the most popular of casts (which VOY, ENT, and DS9 are not) have difficulty making the transition to the silver screen. I think the powers that be probably determined that if Stewart and company couldn't pull it off, the other casts didn't stand a chance.

 

[Damian]

I'm going to have to say no. Certainly DS9 and Voyager had pretty conclusive endings. I read and love the relaunch novels of the series, but at this point, I think that's the best place for them. Movies have to be something that reaches a wider audience, and I don't think DS9, Voyager and Enterprise would fit the bill. Novels are more designed for Star Trek die-hards, and they are the ones that would like seeing those stories continue.

I know there was talk that if Enterprise was successful that there was hope they might feature in movies, though I thought tat was a bit of a pipe dream. Even if Manny Coto was there guiding it from day one and it ended up being highly successful, I think that'd be a long shot. The only reason TNG made it to the big screen is it was the one spin-off that actually did seem to reach a larger than Star Trek audience. Not necessarily as legendary as the original series, but it was a big show in its own right. DS9 has it's own legion of fans (some of which are DS9 only fans), but I don't think it had the wide range appeal.

 

[Groppler Zorn]

I’d have loved them to do a DS9 film. But they’d have needed a title crawl to explain the DOMINON and how Major Kira led a brave RESISTANCE against their occupation of the station at the outbreak of the dominion war.

Alas, this may have drawn flak from fans of another longstanding sci-fi franchise.

To be fair though, a DS9 film with a title crawl would have worked.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Here's hoping the PTB decide to go back to the likes of TNG, DS9 and VOY for the upcoming two new movies, Trek could have a two-part cinematic universe using characters from all three shows coming together to take on the biggest bad any of them have had to face off against before.

 

[RedAlert]

well... there is always the possibility of having Sisko return from the fifth dimension to try to wipe out the Federation (yeah, I'd love this story twist).... Jake and a group of fighters (I could think of Kira, Paris, Chakotay, Nog, even Garak with the Cardassians) aboard the Voyager have to stop him.

It could have been interesting.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

Sisko has a way back, at least.

No, he doesn't; one of the producers has said that Sisko will never return from where he was-his ultimate destiny is to be with the Prophets, and that's where he ends up.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

No, he doesn't; one of the producers has said that Sisko will never return from where he was-his ultimate destiny is to be with the Prophets, and that's where he ends up.

I am aware of Ira Behr's statement; however, the ending was written to give Sisko a way back.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

Here's hoping the PTB decide to go back to the likes of TNG, DS9 and VOY for the upcoming two new movies, Trek could have a two-part cinematic universe using characters from all three shows coming together to take on the biggest bad any of them have had to face off against before.

That will never happen; Tarentino doesn't care about either of those three shows (he only likes TOS) and I don't think that the current franchise runners do either. Also, most of the focus on TV seems to be Discovery.

 

[Mojochi]

In some alternate reality where the TNG films were actually good enough to spark a mass market appeal, that poured over into greater success for the series spinoffs, then perhaps having some of the characters crossover, to appear in the TNG films, would've been a novel endeavor, but as things stood, I didn't even want to see Janeway's dumb face as much as we did, or have to hear whatever excuse existed for Worf not being on DS9. I honestly don't think there's any circumstance where the post-TNG spinoffs deserved their own theatrical releases, least of all when TNG barely lived up to the effort

I'm still not convinced they should have done The Next Generation films.

Maybe not those films, but the show was easily successful enough to merit a cross to cinema. If X-Files & Mission Impossible deserved a 90's cinema shot, so did 80s Star Trek.