SuaveSocialist said:
The franchise does indeed contain a lot of the best science fiction to have appeared on a screen, and the movies have largely kept their distance from the thought-provoking concepts which built the fanbase. Personally, I think a DS9 "prequel" dealing exclusively with the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor could have the same emotional and intellectual weight Star Trek as a whole has brought to the table, while still leaving room for things blowing up splendidly. Of course, if it happened nowadays it'd probably be considered a rip-off of the Hunger Games or Rogue One, rather than being accepted as depicting something that had been fleshed out in morbid detail back in the 90's. |
Yes, plus it's so disappointing that when people hear "Cardassian" today everybody thinks about the celebrity family and not the amazing storylines that we got to experience in DS9.
For the record, though, I think a film about the Bajoran occupation would make for an insanely gutsy and likely awsome movie! Much of DS9's story-telling in its last 3 seasons was close to movie quality, in my opinion. It would be so easy to make a dark and gritty movie with the storylines that are already available in that franchise. There's also so much of the Dominion Wars that was unexplained: I would have loved to have seen a movie just devoted to fleshing out some of the story-arcs in the final two seasons of DS9.
