Why hasn't DS9 been represented in NuTrek?

[Mr. Laser Beam]

At least Gene put some thought into Starfleet's rank structure. In the original BSG, for example, Glen Larson didn't know anything about military ranks, so he arranged them in alphabetical order! (i.e. Captain, Colonel, then Commander)

That being said, I know there's precious little canon evidence for this (other than Colonel West in ST VI), but I'm firmly of the mind that Starfleet also has Marines, with the appropriate ranks.

Edit: Colonel West isn't the only one we know of. I believe the ground team accompanying Kirk and crew to Nimbus III in ST V were also supposed to be Starfleet Marines. And Gene even wanted to have a platoon of them stationed on the Enterprise in TOS!

 

[fireproof78]

Where's my Colonel Worf spinoff series?

Long overdue!

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

Hmmm.

DS9 references in modern streaming ST:

• DIS S1: Depiction of Kol of the House of Kor as classist is consistent with Kor himself being classist in DS9 "Once More Unto the Breach"
• DIS S1: Continues DS9's identification of the Empire established in TOS "Mirror Mirror" as the Terran Empire
• DIS S2: Features Section 31 in prominent season-long plot
• DIS "Forget Me Not" features the Trill, re-creates the Caves of Mak'ala set from DS9, and establishes Adira Tal and Gray Tal
• DIS S3: USS Nog is featured
• DIS S4: Federation President Laira Rillak is a Human/Cardassian/Bajoran hybrid
• DIS "Choose to Live: The Trill zhian'tara ritual from DS9 "Facets" is used
• DIS S4: Ferengi appear as background characters
• DIS "All In:" A Changeling appears for the first time since DS9 ended
• PIC "Stardust City Rag" establishes that Quark's Bar has become a franchise with locations on multiple planets, including Freecloud, and that Quark is famous enough that Rios uses his name as part of a cover story. This newest episode of LD gives us some backstory on how Quark managed to get so successful as to open off-station franchises
• PIC "Penance" features several DS9 Easter Eggs, including
  Spoiler: Penance

  the skulls of the alternate timeline's General Martok, Gul Dukat, and Grand Nagus Zek, and references to General Sisko and General Miles O'Brien
• PIC S2 in general features the existence of Sanctuary Districts in 2024 Los Angeles
  
• And then of course LD has been full of DS9 references, including flashbacks to Mariner's time aboard the station in S1, appearances by Jeffrey Combs, appearances by J.G. Hertzler as Martok, Tendi and Rutherford putting together models of the station together, and various verbal references to the show... and of course the revelation that in the distant future, Miles O'Brien is considered the most important Starfleet officer who ever lived

Picard’s “Remembrance” also has, among the skyline image of Boston, a billboard for “Kasidy Yates Interstellar Freights.”

 

[Farscape One]

Without spoiling anything, every single episode of LOWER DECKS season 3 has references to DS9, with one episode set there.

My DS9 heart was aflutter.

 

[somebuddyX]

It's an interesting question though. Why are these analogies drawn from the Navy, and not the army or the airforce? Why are starships 'ships' and not 'craft' or 'vehicles'?

I could understand the idea of large, (semi-)autonomous vessels with a localized command structure on board of them to lead to associate in that direction, but our real-life space craft (with tiny crews) are nothing like that, and we still often call those 'spaceships'.

In Stargate, where the Airforce is in control of the program, even there the BC-304s are given the prefix U.S.S. implying that they're ships, I guess.