Spoilers Something from DS9 plays a big role in PIC S3

[Space Socialist]

Says a lot about how CBS-Paramount and the Trek creative team regard DS9 considering that, having tried to pretend DS9 doesn’t exist for nearly a quarter of a century…

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they use two concepts from DS9, the over-used Section 31, and the idea of a Changeling infiltration, and none of the actual DS9 characters, which Voyager characters get lots of air time.

 

[fireproof78]

The creatures on Vadic's ship, what are they?
At first I thought they too were Changelings, or perhaps a new species of Jem 'Hadar but they look more birdlike than reptilian and yes I have read the dinosaurs eventually became birds theory!
JB

Spoiler: Picard Season 3 Spoilers. Discussed further in the Picard Forum

Modified and experimented upon Changelings.

 

[johnnybear]

None of the actual DS9 characters? No? What about Worf himself who joined at the beginning of the fourth season?
Agreed though that he is the only character who has had experience of dealing with the changelings before!
JB

 

[fireproof78]

None of the actual DS9 characters? No?

Not necessary.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

It might be nice to see some native DS9 characters make an appearance, but in the end, I know it wouldn't be anything significant. The season is about TNG reunions. It makes some superficial borrowings from the other series.

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If you think about it, the Sao Paolo/Defiant 2.0 had no business being at the Fleet Museum, unless they were going to argue that it tied to Nog's heroic career (double spoiler: they don't). And without exposition, there is nothing that connects Vadik's baddies to the Dominion. They are little different from any other shape-shifting monsters in Trek. They could have been the salt monsters from The Man Trap

There was perhaps one point in which some narrative from DS9, validating something that was contentious among Fandom.

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Shaw recounts his own experiences of Wold 359, and Picard is forced to acknowledge his pain. I can't help but feel that this idea had its roots in a possible means of crowbarring Sisko into the story, much as Ro has been

 

[Poltargyst]

None of the actual DS9 characters? No? What about Worf himself who joined at the beginning of the fourth season?
Agreed though that he is the only character who has had experience of dealing with the changelings before!
JB

It feels to me like Worf is in Picard because he was in TNG, not because he was in DS9. This is a TNG show period.

 

[fireproof78]

It feels to me like Worf is in Picard because he was in TNG, not because he was in DS9. This is a TNG show period.

I think it's both.