Comments | iainpj: elsewhere/media relations: allegory and relevance

iainpj

elsewhere/media relations: allegory and relevance

Sep 16, 2009 11:42

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star trek, film, elsewhere, media relations

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nonelvis September 16 2009, 17:25:45 UTC

Ooooooh. And how much would I love to see Sloan turn up in this new movie? A LOT.

iainpj September 16 2009, 20:09:43 UTC

Of course, now there's the open question as to whether he, or any of the DS9 peoples, will exist at all. Did Nero kill off too many progenitors? The descendants of all those people killed at Vulcan -- never mind those of the Vulcans themselves -- all no longer exist in that timeline. How many of them were important to the future of the Federation as we knew it?

nonelvis September 16 2009, 20:53:33 UTC

Come on, if anyone is resilient and cockroach-like enough to survive that level of timeline screwup, it's Sloan. And as for Sisko (and potentially the rest of the DS9 crew), you could handwave that the Prophets sensed the timeline shift and rearranged things accordingly so those people existed. Semi-omnipotent aliens are so convenient for handwaving purposes.