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[iainpj]

Media Relations: allegory and relevance/ September 16, 2009:

... But on the ... well, not so much an upside as a "gee, wonder if they were paying attention" side, it looks like they're going to be reinventing the better years of Deep Space Nine -- only with characters that weren't quite developed for any story that dark, and putting it in a terribly compressed storyline. After all, one can but assume that they're not going to make war with the Klingons/Romulans any kind of long-running theme through the next and succeeding films; that would hamstring their ability to tell stories that didn't have to do with the wars of the worlds. Any war is likely to be a one-and-done story, maybe with enough time passing between the films to say, "So, right after Nero, the Romulans/Klingons did this thing, and then the Federation finally retaliated, and then we had this war, see?" [...]

[...] Sounds like the new film is going to be all about defining the parameters and ethics of the new Federation....

Comments

[nonelvis]

Ooooooh. And how much would I love to see Sloan turn up in this new movie? A LOT.

[iainpj.livejournal.com]

Of course, now there's the open question as to whether he, or any of the DS9 peoples, will exist at all. Did Nero kill off too many progenitors? The descendants of all those people killed at Vulcan -- never mind those of the Vulcans themselves -- all no longer exist in that timeline. How many of them were important to the future of the Federation as we knew it?

[nonelvis]

Come on, if anyone is resilient and cockroach-like enough to survive that level of timeline screwup, it's Sloan. And as for Sisko (and potentially the rest of the DS9 crew), you could handwave that the Prophets sensed the timeline shift and rearranged things accordingly so those people existed. Semi-omnipotent aliens are so convenient for handwaving purposes.