David Bridges
Of the ’90s Trek collection to get their proverbial flowers within the franchise’s streaming renaissance, Deep House 9 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 a couple of nods right here and there, and some voice-over returns in Decrease Decks, it’s not been solely brushed apart, nevertheless it’s not precisely on the identical degree of issues like Star Trek: Picard turning into a giant Subsequent Technology follow-up, or Prodigy being a loving tribute to Voyager and Captain Janeway’s legacy particularly. But when Paramount’s Star Trek future have been to incorporate some sort of Deep House 9 love letter, possibly don’t embody a Miles O’Brien look among the many plans.
“I feel seven years in an area go well with was sufficient, you already know?” Colm Meaney, who performed Chief O’Brien on TNG after which in all seven seasons of DS9, lately mirrored in an interview with the Sci-Fi & Fantasy Gazette. “I’m usually requested that query, and also you by no means say by no means, in fact, however initially, I wouldn’t slot in it anymore… I keep in mind individuals saying on the time when Voyager received 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 “loads” previously few many years, with loads extra to return, as Meaney went on to acknowledge. “They efficiently did it with Star Trek they usually’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 need to see an aged Miles O’Brien? I don’t know. It’s definitely not on the high of my agenda of issues I’d love to do in the meanwhile.”
Meaney is perhaps underestimating the wishes of Star Trek fandom there—particularly DS9‘s fanbase, who, as we mentioned, have largely not had the identical sort of referential revival in Trek‘s fashionable period in comparison with TNG and Voyager. There’s definitely potential available in revisiting the world of DS9 and seeing the lingering influence the Dominion Conflict had on its characters within the years for the reason that present. One thing within the vein of what Picard‘s first season wished to attempt to do (earlier than it took a tough swerve into hero deification by the top) with these left behind at DS9‘s finish would truthfully be sort 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 “up to date” setting of the franchise within the early twenty fifth century.
However alas, if we have been to go there with the DS9 forged, possibly we gained’t get to take action with one among Trek‘s most beloved (and put-upon) chief engineers. Perhaps 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/dwelling assemble fiasco enterprise.
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