DS9 was famous for the continuing storyline. Before, there were a couple of two part episodes and characters thT showed up from time to time such as Q, but not continuing, with the small exception of Tasha, my favorite character on TNG.
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I don't think its odd that Sela disappeared, considering she failed every time on TNG. Brainwash Geordi to kill a Klingon, that didn't work. Back the Duras sisters to take over the Klingon Empire, foiled again. Try to establish a beachhead on Vulcan, and she's outdone by the same guy who stole a Romulan cloaking device a century ago. Three strikes, and she was probably taken out back & shot.
This is the most likely explanation.
They were considering bringing Sela back for “Star Trek Nemesis”, but that got squashed story wise.
She was Empress in STO. They even gave her a Redemption arc.
I remember the IMDB page for Star Trek: Nemesis prior to release listed every castmember who had ever played a Romulan on TNG plus Leonard Nimoy returning as Spock.
Perhaps in an different version of In the Pale Moonlight, Seska could have been the Romulan who Sisko tried to fool (thus continuing her perfect record of screwing things up) or another important Romulan. Or maybe official Romulus got tired of her and she slipped away from any official role but is working underground.
I remember that early on Sela was going to be the Romulan that ultimately became Donatra, however, because of the backstory with Sela and Picard & crew, it was decided to create an all-new Romulan, as Sela probably wouldn’t have worked, with her joining up to fight Shinzon.
Although it would’ve been nice to see Denise Crosby return, since she was the only one from “Encounter At Farpoint” not to appear in the movie or any TNG movie!
Yeah, but we got Wil Wheaton as Wesley in Nemesis.
Never liked Sela even in her original episodes. Yesterday’s Enterprise was a fantastic way to bring back Tasha, but I think that should have been it for Denise Crosby, which is a shame since she seems to really regret leaving.
In a universe as large as Trek’s, it just feels a little ridiculous, at least to me. Makes the universe seem too small.
Also, and this might just be me, I didn't enjoy Crosby's acting in that role.
In a universe as large as Trek’s, it just feels a little ridiculous, at least to me. Makes the universe seem too small.
Also, and this might just be me, I didn't enjoy Crosby's acting in that role.
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I suppose Tasha -- or a version of her -- could have popped up in the MU. I wouldn't have minded that.
One of my nerdiest fan boy wishes was that Sela had been our season 7 Romulan in place of Cretak. I would have happily taken Denise playing Sela as a full series regular after Terry Farrell's departure (they always talk about how the Ezri slot HAD to be a woman because Kira was the only other female regular).
I understand all the perfectly valid reasons they wouldn't have wanted to put Sela on DS9 in the last season. And Sela on the whole was a lousy idea. But it was an even lousier idea to go to all the work of introducing her, and then drop her so anticlimactically. Plot-wise, it's plausible enough that she was killed or banned from positions of power after "Unification", but dramatically, I don't really see it as defensible. It's so unsatisfying, abrupt, and unresolved.
One of my nerdiest fan boy wishes was that Sela had been our season 7 Romulan in place of Cretak. I would have happily taken Denise playing Sela as a full series regular after Terry Farrell's departure (they always talk about how the Ezri slot HAD to be a woman because Kira was the only other female regular).
I understand all the perfectly valid reasons they wouldn't have wanted to put Sela on DS9 in the last season. And Sela on the whole was a lousy idea. But it was an even lousier idea to go to all the work of introducing her, and then drop her so anticlimactically. Plot-wise, it's plausible enough that she was killed or banned from positions of power after "Unification", but dramatically, I don't really see it as defensible. It's so unsatisfying, abrupt, and unresolved.
In the novel “The Romulan Strategem”, Sela managed to outwit Picard and company and bring a planet into the Romulan Star Empire.
Yeah, in a Startleet uniform, totally ignoring Wil Wheaton's final episode of TNG where Wesley was still a cadet, left the Academy & joined the Traveler on a disputed planet in the DMZ to attain a higher level of existence.
The "A Time to..." TNG novel series tried to fix this by having Wesley show up naked in Alaska, thinking it was the Betazoid wedding, and a uniform being beamed down from the Enterprise that had permanent pips attached. A deleted scene had dialogue that Wesley was going to be going with Riker & Troi on the Titan.
But, still, his character had never been killed off, so it was probably a lot easier to have him in a non-speaking cameo than it would have been to put Yar in the wedding party.
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