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Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 3x05 - "Reflections"

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true but not really an issue if they decide to have it both ways: this episode takes place only around seven years since Sisko’s disappearance, he could well come back later, say around the time Picard is set, some 25 years later.

Reread the entire exchange...

So what did happen to Sisko?

He's apparently not back from the Celestial Temple despite Avery Brooks saying that Sisko wouldn't abandon his children.

Canon trumps actor opinions or wishes.

I was saying that what Avery thinks Sisko would do does not matter, canon does and in canon Sisko is still in the CT.

So yeah, he could come back, but he hasn't.
 
I also got a bit emotional with the reveal of the imagined Tendi, Boimler, and Mariner in the Delta Flyer at the end. So satisfying! It is crazy how many different levels this show can work on, especially in such a brief running time.
"I wasn't going to race without my friends!"

Star Trek has always been a show about Chosen Family, but LD seems to get that on a deeper level than most.
 
New Star Trek comic by the Year Five team will star Sisko. It's treated as canon until disputed by new on screen material.
 
New Star Trek comic by the Year Five team will star Sisko. It's treated as canon until disputed by new on screen material.
Also, haven't they been teasing that as a multiverse story? It sounds like it might be explicitly setup as an alternate timeline.
 
Not a great episode, but it was ok, which probably makes it the best episode this season. Boimler's freak out and getting some of Rutherford's backstory were the highlights.
 
New Star Trek comic by the Year Five team will star Sisko. It's treated as canon until disputed by new on screen material.
It's just because of this line from an interview:
"This is as close as we can, on the comic side, to being canon. We will be canon until they un-canonize us."
Like Countdown back then, they wanna boost sales and get attention. Who could blame them? But there is a contradiction here already: are they as close as it gets... or are they, period. XD
Before another canon debate gets out of hand: No comics, books, games, etc. have so far been canonical, and there is no indication that's ever gonna change. Official tie-in material with series or movie staff on board, like the same writers, of course elevates it somehow to 'seemingly more canonical than random disconnected stuff', because it is tied to canonical productions that happen around the same time, and there are cases that are being respected in canon (like Worf having command of the E as written in the books), but no comic is per se canonical, and future canon can overwrite and contradict comics and novels. Don't let anyone stop anyone from taking non-contradicted beta material as provisional canon, though! :D

If this needs to be continued, perhaps the comics section, or DS9 section, is better for that than, you know, the LDS episode thread ;)
 
Just to close out this Sisko comic canon business, @NCC-73515 is correct, I misinterpreted what writer Jackson Lanzing said:
This is as close as we can, on the comic side, to being canon. We will be canon until they un-canonize us. But we are working with the shows. We are in communication with the teams…

We’re taking this as an opportunity to effectively fill [the space formerly occupied by the Trek novel continuity], because a lot of that stuff was created with the understanding there would never be shows again.

[But] now we know that there will be, so we are trying to create new canon that exists inside that space. But these are the characters you know. This is the canonical Benjamin Sisko sequel story. This is the last ride of Data before Nemesis. These are those stories. This is what happened to Tom Paris after he came back from Voyager.

And IDW Publishing calls this new comic the start of "a new ongoing IDW continuity". I thought they were doing canon comics like Star Wars is doing.

My bad, not so canon after all :shrug:
 
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Another episode that was strong on story but short on laughs this season.

I didn't hate it. I like the way the characters are growing and the animation/writing is very strong. It's just not so funny for me this season.

Humour is subjective of course. Not saying it's not funny per se. Just the jokes aren't landing for me.
 
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