The Future of DS9
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Why Orkney of all places? Shetland is far better
SISKO: Returns after a few years with the Prophets but has turned bitter and even eeeeevil (much like Kes who went off to explore higher realities)
KIRA: While her services as highest Bajoran liaison officer on DS9 and aide to the Emissary are acknowledged, she's not considered diplomatic enough for the Bajoran political arena and is quickly sidelined. She grows into a bitter old woman.
EZRI DAX: Her insecurities and her improper joining get the better of her and she spends a significant part of her life in an institution.
WORF: Becomes a Klingon in moderate standing, but slowly sees the influence of his house wane, in later life, because he's too much human to live in Klingon society, and too much Klingon to live in Starfleet.
BASHIR: Gets locked up, he's a mutant after all.
O'BRIEN: I don't know, but he will suffer! After all, that's his raison d'être.
ODO: Ends up brainwashed by the Great Link. After all, it's him alone against thousands at least, possibly billions.
QUARK: Ends up destitute as he's too kind-hearted to make unscrupulous profits. He didn't really succeed in those 7 DS9 years, and he won't succeed after. He's developed too much of a ... conscience in all those years being in such close contact with hew-mons.
ROM & LEETA: Assassinated. Remembered in Ferenginar history as the 'Apostate Nagus'.
NOG: Engineering Instructor, Starfleet Academy. Can't return to Ferenginar, being the son of the accursed Apostate Nagus. In later years, his Ferengi roots start to tug at him more. A tugging he can never satisfy.
GARAK: Has an important role initially during Cardassia's transition period, but gets sidelined by more opportunistic and ruthless political leaders later on.
Jake: Never becomes more than a second-rate niche writer, only somewhat known in small circles.
(Do I really believe -or hope- that everyone's fate will turn out that bleak? Of course not, but I wanted to provide a bit of counterweight to those sugary sweet endings that has almost everyone of them ending up as the leader of their race, or at least in a very elevated position, such as 'head of X'. It's a bit improbable, to say the least. )
KIRA: While her services as highest Bajoran liaison officer on DS9 and aide to the Emissary are acknowledged, she's not considered diplomatic enough for the Bajoran political arena and is quickly sidelined. She grows into a bitter old woman.
EZRI DAX: Her insecurities and her improper joining get the better of her and she spends a significant part of her life in an institution.
WORF: Becomes a Klingon in moderate standing, but slowly sees the influence of his house wane, in later life, because he's too much human to live in Klingon society, and too much Klingon to live in Starfleet.
BASHIR: Gets locked up, he's a mutant after all.
O'BRIEN: I don't know, but he will suffer! After all, that's his raison d'être.
ODO: Ends up brainwashed by the Great Link. After all, it's him alone against thousands at least, possibly billions.
QUARK: Ends up destitute as he's too kind-hearted to make unscrupulous profits. He didn't really succeed in those 7 DS9 years, and he won't succeed after. He's developed too much of a ... conscience in all those years being in such close contact with hew-mons.
ROM & LEETA: Assassinated. Remembered in Ferenginar history as the 'Apostate Nagus'.
NOG: Engineering Instructor, Starfleet Academy. Can't return to Ferenginar, being the son of the accursed Apostate Nagus. In later years, his Ferengi roots start to tug at him more. A tugging he can never satisfy.
GARAK: Has an important role initially during Cardassia's transition period, but gets sidelined by more opportunistic and ruthless political leaders later on.
Jake: Never becomes more than a second-rate niche writer, only somewhat known in small circles.
(Do I really believe -or hope- that everyone's fate will turn out that bleak? Of course not, but I wanted to provide a bit of counterweight to those sugary sweet endings that has almost everyone of them ending up as the leader of their race, or at least in a very elevated position, such as 'head of X'. It's a bit improbable, to say the least. )
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I wouldn't doubt that for a second! (My choice, between Orkney, Shetland, and the Hebrides was solely based on what I thought would be the least developed in the 24th C.)Why Orkney of all places? Shetland is far better
That doesn't mean Kira would reciprocate! She's used to dating the head of the Bajoran government, a changeling, a vedek, and suddenly she'd go for an adolescent with a crush on her?
Hey, sometimes life takes dark turns.
How about no?
I'm gonna stick with my head canon. But I would be willing to entertain the thougth that DS9 has an EMH based on Julian. Not as a CMO, but as an emergency thing.
Hey, you do you. No offense.
Plus, while I don't a relationship between them either...we don't know how Jake develops in say, the next 5-10 years after the show. Maybe by the 2490s he has grown into a man Kira could fall for?
I can't imagine 40 year old Jake would be less desirable than Berial ... or Shakar, for that matter. Some of those love interests tended to be meh.
With the help of Odo the Dominion now looks more like the Federation with a ruling council of various members on it. Jem Haddar are still the military force of the Dominion and still only listen to the Founders but they now have control over the Ketchel White and over their own creation when creating new members.
Odo=Still in the great link but sometimes he and group of others go and talk to the council. Also Odo makes trips into Federation space to see the Female Changling still locked up after leading the Dominion War, so she can still be part of link even if just for a short time.
Worf=Captain of the Enterprise. Missing a eye from a hunting accident but got a cybernetic implant unlike his best friend/brother in Martock.
Bashir=Head of Starfleet Medical. Married to Ezri and they have two children. One is trying to become a host and going through the training while the other is in grade school. Bashir and O"Brien hangout again now that both are on earth but Keiko and Ezri joins in now as well when everybody isn't busy.
Ezri=Left Starfleet and is in charge of the New Zealand prison. Federation likes prison wardens to have backgrounds in counseling and therapy more than just some military type.
Quark=Owns a franchise of bars and now owns the old DS9 station has basically turned it into a Las Vegas type of place. That's because that station was eventually replaced by a Starfleet built starbase with more up to date tech. He is married to Pell who came back and now can be open about being female because of Rom's reforms.
Rom= Lasted only 5 years as Grand Nagus but his reforms mostly took hold especially with treating women better but he quit to go be chief engineer of experimental Ferengi ship with transwarp drive that has gone into the DQ looking more more business opportunities.
Nog=First officer of the Enterprise to Worf. On a command track to get his own ship soon. He is also famous in the Federation because Jake wrote a book about his life story. Married but divorced soon after to that transporter chief from the "Valiant" but still on good speaking terms.
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Jason
Odo=Still in the great link but sometimes he and group of others go and talk to the council. Also Odo makes trips into Federation space to see the Female Changling still locked up after leading the Dominion War, so she can still be part of link even if just for a short time.
Worf=Captain of the Enterprise. Missing a eye from a hunting accident but got a cybernetic implant unlike his best friend/brother in Martock.
Bashir=Head of Starfleet Medical. Married to Ezri and they have two children. One is trying to become a host and going through the training while the other is in grade school. Bashir and O"Brien hangout again now that both are on earth but Keiko and Ezri joins in now as well when everybody isn't busy.
Ezri=Left Starfleet and is in charge of the New Zealand prison. Federation likes prison wardens to have backgrounds in counseling and therapy more than just some military type.
Quark=Owns a franchise of bars and now owns the old DS9 station has basically turned it into a Las Vegas type of place. That's because that station was eventually replaced by a Starfleet built starbase with more up to date tech. He is married to Pell who came back and now can be open about being female because of Rom's reforms.
Rom= Lasted only 5 years as Grand Nagus but his reforms mostly took hold especially with treating women better but he quit to go be chief engineer of experimental Ferengi ship with transwarp drive that has gone into the DQ looking more more business opportunities.
Nog=First officer of the Enterprise to Worf. On a command track to get his own ship soon. He is also famous in the Federation because Jake wrote a book about his life story. Married but divorced soon after to that transporter chief from the "Valiant" but still on good speaking terms.
DO more later.
Jason
Well, I hope he'll be happy sharing the job with the EMH, and both Pulaski and Crusher, all of whom would also be head of Starfleet Medical by now (Beverly even for her 2nd time). They're probably forming some uneasy quadrumvirate and they hope no new 24th series come along that would expand their number further.
Or, they all serve just very short terms. Must be a cursed job, much like the Hogwarts Defense against the Dark Arts teaching position.
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But why would any of them become head of SF medical? Because they are main characters? What about the scores of other doctors we didn't get to see who might end up being more qualified.
And honestly, depending on how long somebody serves as head of SF medical I wouldn't give it to the Doctor, since he's basically immortal and unlikely to retire.
That's exactly my point. Why would any of them (including Bashir) end up there among the millions of doctors they must have in Starfleet? I even found it very far-fetched Crusher ended up there, canonically, for a year. Yet I have seen threads on the respective subboards in the past claiming it for any of them.
Also, I frankly don't think Bashir is necessarily well qualified for the job. He is just a young doctor, who doesn't even have a decade of working experience down his belt yet- even if he is apparently one of the very best young doctors out there.
And, I think that to head up Starfleet Medical, you'd need to be an excellent administrator first and foremost, much more so than being an excellent doctor, even if having been a doctor may be part of the job requirement. We have no proof Bashir is particularly established in that direction, nor that he has any ambition to be, and, at the very least, he would need to have gathered administrative experience on some lower (but still high) levels.
Similarly, I see no reason why Odo would be particularly qualified to lead the Dominion (as suggested by a different poster) at this point in his life. In changeling terms, he still is a child, and has to learn way too much for that, at least from the changeling side of things, even though he has valuable experience to offer to the great link from his perspective.
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Given that the head of Starfleet Medical is most likely an administrative post, I don't see why any of the doctors would be particularly qualified to take the post, nor do I see why anyone would want it. What position is the most important in medicine in any given country? I don't know if that question even makes sense.
I'm not even sure that it would be the highest medical administrative post. In the United States, the Surgeon General is in charge of a unique uniformed service, not one subsumed within the military architecture.
Now, if we were to look at who might have shown a broader interest in policy in health and medicine, it probably is Bashir. He is the only doctor shown dealing with the long term problems of Bajoran society, not just dealing with the problem of the week.
Yes, Bad Thoughts! The head of Starfleet Medical probably never sees patients or the inside of a lab anymore, unless it's on a VIP tour. It's probably a lot like administrators here, all they think about is personnel problems and money problems. Okay, for Starfleet it's not "money" it's "allocating limited resources" but it's all the same from the bottom of the river. Being head of Starfleet Medical would be a waste of Bashier's research talents.
How about Bashir decides to buck Starfleet AND the Dominion, and goes and finds the same or another group of renegade Jem Hadar and teaches them how to make synthetic White, or end their dependence on it entirely. Naturally, with the Federation-Dominion treaty he'd be working without any support and be a wanted man.
How about Bashir decides to buck Starfleet AND the Dominion, and goes and finds the same or another group of renegade Jem Hadar and teaches them how to make synthetic White, or end their dependence on it entirely. Naturally, with the Federation-Dominion treaty he'd be working without any support and be a wanted man.
Considering Bashir is somewhat unpredictable, I could imagine him doing something like that. Indeed, wouldn't that fit in better in the "Season 8 Episode 1" story than what was written for Bashir?
Being more character driven than all the other series, Bashir would be more likely to take off to pursue his own interests. Moreover, solving medical problems that curtail people's ability to act autonomously seems exactly like the type of project that would interest him.
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