Should DS9 Should have been a Starship?

sabertooth1217 · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 2:43 pm Should DS9 Should have been a Starship?**

TOS, TNG, VOY, ENT are all based on Starships and not on space stations like Deep Space Nine. Do you think the show would have been worse or better if it was set also on a ship and not on a station?

Founder · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 2:46 pm**

No, we had too many ships. I like starbases better anyways. The show would lose something if it was another ship. Besides for all those people who bitch that them not moving was no fun, they got the Defiant.

sabertooth1217 · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 2:49 pm**

What do you mean about the Defiant? I thought that the Defiant was part of season one.

Founder · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 2:53 pm**

No, the Defiant didn't come in until Season 3 I believe.

sabertooth1217 · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 2:58 pm**

The Defiant is under the command of Worf correct? I know Sisko out ranks him But i';ve seen that Worf has been in command a lot. Is the Defiant Worf's ship?

Founder · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:00 pm**

No its under the command of Sisko. Sisko lets Worf take command of the ship when he isn't on it because Worf is the second highest ranking officer on DS9, besides Kira, but she isn't in Starfleet. The ship wasn't made for Worf though.

sabertooth1217 · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:01 pm**

Okay, What happens if Kira and Worf are both on the Defiant and Sisko is on DS9 who would be in command?

*sorry this is a litt off topic*

Founder · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:03 pm**

Not off topic if you think about it.

I think it would be up to Sisko who was in command or depending on the mission.

sabertooth1217 · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:07 pm**

Kira isn't starfleet, I don't know how she could get command of the Defiant without a rank. T'Pol in Enterprise took command of Enterpise a few times, but she was given First Officer of NX-01 by Admiral ????. Kira was never given First Officer Of Defiant by an Admiral.

Founder · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:08 pm**

She is a liason to Starfleet though from the Bajorans. She is like an "unofficial" member of Starfleet. Although in one episode she was given a Starfleet commision. But back to the Defiant thing, she does have the right to comamnd it because A.Sisko can allow that and B.because it is DS9's ship.

Omet'Ikilan · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:10 pm**

*Ahem* Worf does end up with the Defiant, it does become his ship ( I heard it from some star trek convention were you could ask questions and stuff it was cool)

Founder · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:12 pm**

No it doesn't.

sabertooth1217 · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:20 pm**

Hitchhiker · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:30 pm**

Deep Space Nine was a great show, and I think that the producers made a great choice by setting it on a station. It really turned Star Trek around, because up until now the only thing stable was the ship itself, which changed locations periodically. If you think about it, Deep Space Nine was the one series which definitively established the geography and politics of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. We figured out that Bajor was very close to Cardassia, learned about wormholes . . . great stuff.

In Sisko's absence, Kira gets command of DS9 because it is a Bajoran/Federation station. On the Defiant I think it depends on who is in command of the mission. Usually we see Kira, because Worf is too busy firing the weapons.

In First Contact Worf had command of the Defiant because he needed to get to the Enterprise somehow. They always manage to bring him onboard . . .

At the end of DS9 though, Worf became the Federation Ambassador to Qo'nos.

sabertooth1217 · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:33 pm**

Founder · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:34 pm**

I don't think he left Starfleet. I think he is a lisason to the Klingon empire from the Federation.

sabertooth1217 · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:36 pm**

Founder · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:36 pm**

Wasn't that an alternate timeline though?

Hitchhiker · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:39 pm**

sabertooth1217 · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:40 pm**

Hmm I guess your right.
You are to smart for star trek Founder

What was Worf's furtur? I really wish that they would write what happened the all of the crew members on STARTREK.com

Founder · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:43 pm**

Heh why thank you C99.

Know one really knows any of their futures. ST.com woyld write one thing and then later contradict it in the show,ENT, or movie.

Ronevick · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 9:49 pm**

I personally think it would been worse. I loved the change to a spacestation and I don't think the plot would have been as intricate as DS9's was if it was just another series on a starship.

Omet'Ikilan · **Sun Aug 15, 2004 9:52 pm**

gul Lemek III. · **Mon Aug 16, 2004 2:13 am**

And I respect the writers for putting the show on an immobile station and still get the plots going. For example: Voyager and TNG cruise around the vastness of space and, logically, they bump into things and make plots out of it. But in DS9, writers had to ponder more about the plots, they had to "compose" them, like artists, and that's what so beautiful about DS9.

Lindley · **Mon Aug 16, 2004 1:51 pm**