Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

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"...you got to play the cards life deals you. Some times you win, some times you lose. But at least you're in the game."

Words I try to live by every day. Thanks, Vic.

 
WonderWino said:
That said, I would have made the ending, such as it is something of a twist ending. Rather than have things go the way they did in the finale I would have had it set up so it ended up being the pah wraiths fucking over dukat and using him as a useful idiot then making winn their emissary as a fuck you for his narcissism and hubris.
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Personally, I would have changed the whole dynamic between Sisko and the prophets.
Make the secret prophet his dead wife instead of his mom. Make Jake have those weird visions that send them off on their S7 quest. Then at the finale, send Jake off into the Prophet Zone to hang out with his mom while Sisko and Cassidy take a leave if absence to relax.

Now, that does break the whole "mirror image" thing the writers kept doing with Sisko and Dukat, and sticking to it might get clunky. Maybe... keep Ziyal alive but brain dead and in a Bajoran hospital after the Feds take DS9 back. After Dukat's cult falls apart, she gets possessed by a Pah Wraith and appears to him. Then she, Dukat, and Kai Wynn instigate a rebellion against the Prophets on Bajor right as the alliance invades Cardassia.

In theory you could even keep Dukat alive that way. Just find some fitting way to kill off Wynn and possessed-Ziyal. Dukat loses his daughter again and probably my ends up in prison, Sisko essentially loses his son for an indeterminate time, and you avoid the bad optics of having him walk down to the corner wormhole for cigarettes and never return. There's plenty for writers to work with there.
 
It is pretty funny that Sisko prevented the first Good v. Evil battle on the station by gassing Kira and Jake, which led to the real final battle in the Fire Caves. Which does show how finite the Prophets actually are. They can only directly influence what happens in the Wormhole and indirectly influence the Bajorans with the Orbs.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
It is pretty funny that Sisko prevented the first Good v. Evil battle on the station by gassing Kira and Jake, which led to the real final battle in the Fire Caves. Which does show how finite the Prophets actually are. They can only directly influence what happens in the Wormhole and indirectly influence the Bajorans with the Orbs.
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No he didn't. He was going to let the fight happen - it was Winn to activated the gas, ending the battle.

I remember it clearly because Kira chews her out at the close of the episode that the Emissary was willing to sacrifice his own son because he trusted them more than the Bajoran pope did.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
It is pretty funny that Sisko prevented the first Good v. Evil battle on the station by gassing Kira and Jake, which led to the real final battle in the Fire Caves. Which does show how finite the Prophets actually are. They can only directly influence what happens in the Wormhole and indirectly influence the Bajorans with the Orbs.
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That is one of a few occasions where mortals could alter the prophets plans through free will, but as @Flexo pointed out, it was Winn who did it, not Sisko.
 
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