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Dr. Julian Bashir's involvement in a Section 31 movie could solidify his status as a double agent and continue his mission to dismantle the organization from within. The conflict between Bashir and Georgiou would be a battle of wits, with both characters equally armed and their intelligence playing a key role. While Bashir may not appear in the upcoming Section 31 series, he could potentially return in a 25th-century sequel if the show performs well, offering room for exciting new characters and the restoration of Starfleet Intelligence's integrity.

The legacy Star Trek character that Star Trek: Section 31 needs most is Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Dr. Julian Bashir (Alexander Siddig). The upcoming made-for-streaming Section 31 movie sparked speculation that Section 31 agents from across time could appear once again in Star Trek, but the cast of Star Trek: Section 31 features Academy Award-winner Michelle Yeoh as Emperor Philippa Georgiou from Star Trek: Discovery,...

Killing off Jadzia Dax in DS9 season 6 was a huge mistake as she was a beloved character and her death devastated fans. Tensions between Terry Farrell and Paramount led to Jadzia's departure from DS9 and her replacement by Nicole deBoer as Ezri Dax. There are possibilities for Jadzia Dax to return in the modern era of Star Trek, including through animated series and a potential DS9 revival. Fans would love to see her back.

Killing off Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell) at the end of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 6 was the series' biggest mistake. Dax was a beloved member of DS9's main cast who was introduced in DS9's series premiere, "Emissary." Jadzia's shocking death came in DS9's season 6 finale, "Tears of the Prophets," when she was murdered by the series' greatest Cardassian villain, Gul Dukat (Marc Alaimo). Jadzia Dax's death was a devastating moment that...

DS9 was never going to become a movie like its predecessor, Tng, and the cast members were never given an explanation for this decision. Financial reasons played a major role in the lack of a DS9 movie, as the sets for the show were extremely expensive and surpassed those of Tng. Despite not having a movie, the DS9 cast would have loved the opportunity to make one and reunite in live-action, but it was never even considered.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine didn't graduate into movies, and Nana Visitor, who played Colonel Kira Nerys, says the series was "never going to go" into feature films like Star Trek: The Next Generation did. DS9 was the first spinoff of Tng, but the space station-set saga starring Avery Brooks as Captain Benjamin Sisko was considered the black sheep of the 1990s Star Trek franchise. DS9 wrapped up its 7-season run in 1999, and...

Star Trek has done well on the nostalgia factor lately, particularly Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard, which brought closure to a number of legacy characters as well as formally saying goodbye to the crew of the USS Enterprise-d. Not only did Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager both receive copious attention in Picard's final season, but it's also given rise to speculation among fans about continuing adventures in that era, notably with talk of the still-only-theoretical Star Trek: Legacy series.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, however, was left out in the cold a bit, despite its signature shape-shifting Changelings serving as one of Picard's two big Season 3 villains. A series along the lines of Legacy could address that in both big ways and small. Doing so might actually be necessary considering one of the saga's biggest unanswered questions so far. Ben Sisko, the central protagonist of Deep Space Nine,...

Star Trek has quickly found itself at a bit of a crossroads. Star Trek: Picard came to an in early 2023 with its long-planned finale in Season 3. Star Trek: Discovery -- which launched the Trek renaissance in 2017 -- is slated to end its run with the upcoming fifth season, while Star Trek: Prodigy has been dropped with a potential second season left in limbo. That news comes even while other Star Trek projects -- such as the long-awaited Section 31 movie starring Michelle Yeoh -- move forward.

The franchise clearly isn't going anywhere anytime soon, but a moment of transition has arrived. In the wake of the ongoing writers' strike, it's a good opportunity to assess, and with nostalgia playing well in the wake of Picard's triumphant curtain call, looking behind to look forward may prove beneficial. Doctor Bashir, the brilliant if somewhat naïve chief medical officer on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,...

There are multiple story ideas from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's hypothetical season 8 that can be made canon in the wider Star Trek universe. DS9 season 8 was conceived as part of the retrospective documentary What We Left Behind - Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The documentary reunited showrunner Ira Steven Behr with writers Ronald D. Moore, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, René Echevarria, and Hans Beimler to "break" the story for a possible reunion series. As well as providing insight into where the writers saw DS9's characters in the years since the series ended, it also provided a demonstration of how their writers' room worked back in the day.

The overall storyline of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 8 centered around a Section 31 plot to destroy the Celestial Temple. This plot to remove religion from the Star Trek universe would have pitted old friends against each other,...

This Star Trek article contains spoilers for Picard season 3.

Between 1966 and 2005, Star Trek fans were introduced to the franchise’s first five leads: James T. Kirk in The Original Series, Jean-Luc Picard in The Next Generation, Benjamin Sisko of Deep Space Nine, Voyager‘s Kathryn Janeway, and Jonathan Archer from Enterprise.

Archer has not been seen since the end of Enterprise because that show’s storyline ended just over 100 years before Kirk’s mission began (though his Kelvinverse counterpart was apparently long-lived enough for Scotty to beam his beagle into space). But Kirk has appeared in two later series — the original spin-off, The Animated Series, in the 1970s, and more recently in Strange New Worlds, plus of course the Kelvinverse films. Janeway is a recurring character in Prodigy, which functions almost as a sequel series to Voyager, and Picard got his own spinoff named after him, with a third and...

The sons of Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) are the perfect protagonists for a potential Star Trek: Deep Space Nine sequel series. The relationship between Ben and his son Jake Sisko (Cirroc Lofton) stands out as one of the best-realized father-son relationship in Star Trek, and it was devastating to see Jake waiting for his father's return in the final shot of the DS9 finale. As Star Trek: Picard season 3 has become both a sequel to DS9 and a story about the next generation of the Star Trek: The Next Generation crew, it feels like the time is right to return to Jake Sisko and his younger brother.

When Sisko was recalled to the Celestial Temple by the Prophets in the DS9 finale, his wife Kassidy Yates-Sisko (Penny Johnson Jerald) was expecting their child. This led actor Avery Brooks to change Sisko's DS9 ending because of discomfort around the implications...

The legacy of Nog (Aron Eisenberg) on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was honored in the best way by Star Trek: Prodigy. Dal R'El (Brett Gray), Gwyndala (Ella Purnell), and their young friends saved the galaxy from the Vau'Nakat's Starfleet-destroying weapon, the Living Construct, in Star Trek: Prodigy's season 1 finale. The kids sacrificed their starship, the USS Protostar, and their mentor, Hologram Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), but they were accepted as warrant officers by Starfleet thanks to their advocate, Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew).

Nog had one of the most remarkable arcs on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The young Ferengi, who was a waiter at his uncle Quark's (Armin Shimerman) bar, became the first Ferengi in Starfleet. By the end of DS9's Dominion War, Nog achieved the rank of Lieutenant, junior grade, and he was a battle-hardened veteran. Nog also suffered a personal tragedy, losing his...

Quark (Armin Shimerman) and his fellow Ferengi were just as close when off-set from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as on it. Although the Ferengi were introduced in Star Trek: The Next Generation, they really came into their own during DS9. The Ferengi were an ideal fit for the more mature direction that DS9 took the franchise in, with their loose morals and thirst for profit brilliantly fitting into the more complex morality of the show.

At the core of DS9's Ferengi stories was a family - Quark, his brother Rom (Max Grodénchik), and Rom's son Nog (Aron Eisenberg). Each of them had a proper narrative arc that added motivations beyond simple profit. This sort of depth that hadn't been seen in Star Trek: Tng's Ferengi characters up until that point. Quark, Rom, and Nog were, therefore, an integral part of the DS9 cast, and their familial ties...

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was the fourth television series in the Star Trek franchise. It ran for seven seasons and a hundred and seventy-six episodes in syndication. The finale, "What You Leave Behind", aired on June 2nd, 1999. DS9 was markedly different from Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation. The show setting was a recovered enemy space station near the planet Bajor. A grieving Starfleet commander, Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks), assigned to help the Bajorans recover from a devastating occupation; discovers a wormhole to a distant region of the galaxy, the Gamma Quadrant. What followed was a thrilling, slow-burn escalation to the epic, Dominion War; a conflict against powerful Gamma Quadrant adversaries that threatened the United Federation of Planets.

What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Deep Space Nine is a wonderful retrospective and coda to the beloved series. The documentary is produced and directed by Ira Steven Behr,...