Of the ’90s Trek collection to get their proverbial flowers within the franchise’s streaming renaissance, Deep Space Nine has arguably been the present that, a lot because it was within the ’90s, has been handled as a little bit of an underdog. With just a few nods right here and there, and some voice-over returns in Lower Decks, it’s not been fully brushed apart, but it surely’s not precisely on the identical degree of issues like Star Trek: Picard turning into a giant Next Generation follow-up, or Prodigy being a loving tribute to Voyager and Captain Janeway’s legacy particularly. But when Paramount’s Star Trek future had been to incorporate some form of Deep Area 9 love letter, perhaps don’t embody a Miles O’Brien look among the many plans.
“I believe seven years in an area swimsuit was sufficient, ?” Colm Meaney, who performed Chief O’Brien on TNG after which in all seven seasons of DS9, just lately mirrored in an interview with the Sci-Fi & Fantasy Gazette. “I’m typically requested that query, and also you by no means say by no means, in fact, however to start with, I wouldn’t slot in it anymore… I keep in mind folks saying on the time when Voyager obtained going, ‘What number of occasions are you able to go to the nicely? What number of occasions are you able to revamp this?’”
The reply in Trek‘s case has been “so much” prior to now few many years, with a lot extra to come back, as Meaney went on to acknowledge. “They efficiently did it with Star Trek and so they’re nonetheless doing it. Good luck to them,” the actor continued, earlier than non-committally ruling out a possible for his personal return to the franchise. “Do you wish to see an aged Miles O’Brien? I don’t know. It’s actually not on the prime of my agenda of issues I’d love to do in the intervening time.”
Meaney is perhaps underestimating the wishes of Star Trek fandom there—particularly DS9‘s fanbase, who, as we stated, have largely not had the identical form of referential revival in Trek‘s fashionable period in comparison with TNG and Voyager. There’s actually potential available in revisiting the world of DS9 and seeing the lingering impression the Dominion War had on its characters within the years because the present. One thing within the vein of what Picard‘s first season wished to try to do (earlier than it took a tough swerve into hero deification by the tip) with these left behind at DS9‘s finish would actually be form of fascinating, particularly as, for all its revisits to that late Twenty fourth-century time interval of ’90s Trek, fashionable Star Trek materials has largely eschewed doing a lot within the “modern” setting of the franchise within the early twenty fifth century.
However alas, if we had been to go there with the DS9 forged, perhaps we received’t get to take action with one in all Trek‘s most beloved (and put-upon) chief engineers. Possibly he simply retired with Keiko and spent his days turning into much more of a holodeck-tabletop wargames fanatic and determined to maintain out of all that synth revolution/Borg resurgence/residing assemble fiasco enterprise.
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