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[–] TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes.

It was also the year of fire. The year of destruction. The year we took back what was ours.

It was the year of rebirth. The year of great sadness. The year of pain. And the year of joy.

It was a new age. It was the end of history. It was the year everything changed.

The year is 2261. The place: Babylon 5!

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Emissary of Prophets, gesturing to all the religion:

Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.

[–] TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll never forget the episode where he punched Kosh in the face and thus Kosh never showed up again to mess with Commander Windu.

[–] aeronmelon@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Avery Brooks will probably never agree to play Sisko again. But Samuel L. Jackson might.

It could happen. IT COULD HAPPEN!

[–] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He seems totally disinterested if the DS9 documentary was anything to go on.

[–] lunatic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, much as I'd like Sisko to come back in anything regarding DS9, that Brooks doesn't want to do it is actually convenient for the story: Sisko's in the Celestial Temple with the Prophets, let him stay there. LD has shown we can have a great DS9 episode without him.

It's a shame he's not interested, but there are plenty of BIPOC actors who'd love to have a chance at being in Trek.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, you could definitely do a DS9 reunion like the TNG reunion on Picard without Sisko (and Nog, unfortunately)... but would people really want to see that?

[–] lunatic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also without Odo, similarly unfortunately. And yes, I would. Hopefully better than on S3 PIC though... eesh

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh yes, I forgot about Rene Auberjonois.

I can definitely buy Sisko as a king under the mountain figure, believed by the Bajorans to return in their hour of greatest need, like Arthur for the British.

[–] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I watched that one. Is it the one where he seems a little weird and plays the piano? Do you remember if he gave a reason to not want to do more DS9?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I don't remember, no. But yes, that's the documentary. They also come up with a hypothetical first episode of a series taking place 20 years later.

[–] teft@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was a Bajoran not born of Bajor.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Valen has entered the chat

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No one here is exactly what he appears

[–] aeronmelon@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Cylons were created by man. They evolved. They rebelled. There are many copies. And they have a plan.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My name is John Crichton, an astronaut. A radiation wave hit and I got shot through a wormhole. Now I'm lost in some distant part of the universe on a ship, A living ship full of strange alien life forms, help me, "HELP ME!" Listen please, is there anybody out there who can hear me? I'm being hunted 'Hunted' by an insane military commander doing everything I can't! I'm just looking for a way home!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Michael Knight, a young loner on a crusade, to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless. In a world of criminals who operate above the law.

[–] ScrollerBall@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Captain Jonathan Archer stepped into the quantum leap accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so, Captain Archer finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

Uh, is Scorpius half Scarran, half Peacekeeper? Frell YES I got the limited edition Blu-ray!

[–] ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

Avery would absolutely deliver that line exactly as you wrote it. His acting in DS9 is so delightfully unhinged, way over the top and campy, I love it!

[–] lunatic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Sisko would've punched Madred the same way he punched Q, with Q being the closest thing Star Trek has to an actual god.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] lunatic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Q could fingersnap the Prophets out of existence. While powerful, and indeed nonlinear (which Q is as well), their influence is more or less strictly limited to the Celestial Temple.

[–] sirblastalot@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah but they're non-temporal. If Q ever did that, they wouldn't be present when we see them in ds9, therefore Q does not and can not!

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey...stuff."

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Infinity stones have no power at the TVA.

The wormhole / Celestial Temple seems to be extradimensional in some way. They might actually be out of Q's reach. Or they might not. Q's powers are vaguely defined.

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If Q were non-linear, then the Big Bang would not make such a great hiding spot from the other Q. He can travel through time, but he is not omnipotent, omniscient, or omnipresent. He stands no chance against non-linear beings. The Prophets could stop the Q from ever existing in the first place.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like big events like the big bang are not a good place to hide because there are likely other people who go there a lot. It's like in the Dr Who episode where someone is hiding at the end of time. Like, how is that a good hiding place? No one ever got curious and decided to go check it out?

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the closest thing Star Trek has to an actual god

More like a messiah...

[–] lunatic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm saying Q is the god-alike, not the Prophets / Sisko.

[–] kaitco@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Incorrect. There are five lights.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago

Found the cardassian

[–] TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are you talking about?

[–] pleb_maximus@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Nice Starfury my dude.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

There are lights? .... wait ... I can't see! ... I'M BLIND!!!!

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Three, sir!