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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on October 28, 2002 03:49 PM:
 
I was over at trektoday.com and saw this link to a DS9 movie petition.

Look, even if you don't think Paramount would do it, or that it would even work... sign the petition!!

14,000 people from all over the world have already signed it!

http://www.starfleetlibrary.com/ds9petition/
 
Posted by CaptainMike XXIII (Member # 709) on October 28, 2002 04:26 PM:
 
with that kind of support a movie could gross well over $56,000.. something for Paramount to consider..
 
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on October 28, 2002 04:51 PM:
 
If you can find a place to watch it at $4.00 a ticket.... A little over $100,000.00 easily...

A DS9 movie..... what would it cover, Kira's sex life??? Odo as her toy???
 
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on October 28, 2002 05:37 PM:
 
I had an idea for a DS9 movie. I considered writing it out but didn't in the end because it reminded me too much of the B5 film "A Call to Arms." Since then, virtually every plot point I was unhappy with has turned up in the Nemesis screenplay. Seriously - I'd go into details but this is a spoiler-free thread.
 
Posted by Spike (Member # 322) on October 28, 2002 06:25 PM:
 
quote:
If you can find a place to watch it at $4.00 a ticket
Found a place to watch it at $ 4.90. Now, who can beat that? [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on October 28, 2002 09:19 PM:
 
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I always thought a DS9 movie dealing with the return of Sisko would be cool. It could take place 5 to 10 years after "What you leave behind". Sisko's child would have been born. Kira might be dealing with a new Starfleet captain assigned to the station. Maybe Bajor has joined the Federation. There would have to be plot relavant to Bajor and large enough for Sisko to come back and intervene.

It'll never be a big screen movie. But perhaps a two-hour television movie would be possible. Doubtful... not with Enterprise on the air.
 
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on October 28, 2002 09:56 PM:
 
I always have agreed that a 2 hour tv movie would be brilliant for DS9!!

You know even something set DURING the series would be good... series 5 or 6. And Terry Farrel could comeback - since she is now out of Becker.
 
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on October 28, 2002 10:17 PM:
 
Would they take her back though? More to the point, to mention another B5 film, "Thirdspace" was set back during the show's run but was shown after, and it just didn't work. That has a lot to do with it not being very good, but all the same one had a sense that it didn't really matter anymore, we'd all moved on from the mid-4th season when it was actually set.
 
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on October 28, 2002 10:26 PM:
 
I don't know if something set during the series would work. DS9 wasn't really set up like B5. There doesn't seem to be alot of room for a movie with any far reaching consequences.

Now... you could have something set between seasons... for instance, while Sisko was moping on Earth, Kira and the crew could've done something amazing that was all wrapped up by the time we caught up with them at the beginning of the 7th season. Perhaps the events that lead to Kira's promotion.

You could do the same thing between seasons during the early part of the war. There could be a wartime story that is self contained. They'd really have to work to come up with a story that tied into anything later on in a meaningful way, though.
 
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on October 28, 2002 10:38 PM:
 
There seemed to be a bit that happened between Season 3 and Season 4... What about the 3 months we never saw between Call to Arms and A Time to Stand?
 
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on October 28, 2002 10:57 PM:
 
A Time to Stand is the one that opened with all the half destroyed ships, right? If that's the one you're talking about, then, yes... I agree there is room for some stories there. but I'm still going to say that they probably couldn't have much to do with anything that happened later on in the series. I just don't think that would work out too well. They'd have to be fairly self contained stories.
 
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on October 29, 2002 02:43 PM:
 
Actually, the DS9 books set after the series' end would make for a great movie (at least TV Movie) all by themselves!
I certainly would like to see some follow up on TV! A two hour movie for TV would be great, inexpensive (aside from the actors, the already have everything)and would pull in ratings between seasons of Enterprise (where UPN shows die a lingering death)! [Big Grin]

....and having Worf visit could push Nemesis on DVD!
 
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on October 29, 2002 03:55 PM:
 
A TV movie would cost as much as a real movie. And almost none of DS9's sets continue to exist. They packed away the Defiant's bridge, and used it a few times on Voyager, but I suspect it may have been struck with the rest of the Voyager sets.
 
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on October 29, 2002 04:36 PM:
 
Wasn't the Defiant bridge used for the Fortunate's bridge on ENT?
 
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on October 29, 2002 04:48 PM:
 
I think you're right.

Or rather, at least part of it was.
 
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on October 29, 2002 06:03 PM:
 
quote:
Originally posted by Jason Abbadon:
Actually, the DS9 books set after the series' end would make for a great movie (at least TV Movie) all by themselves!
I certainly would like to see some follow up on TV! A two hour movie for TV would be great, inexpensive (aside from the actors, the already have everything)and would pull in ratings between seasons of Enterprise (where UPN shows die a lingering death)! [Big Grin]

....and having Worf visit could push Nemesis on DVD!

Excessive exclamation-mark detector triggered! Fanboy alert! 8)
 
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on October 29, 2002 06:47 PM:
 
As for sets, I was worried about that, but then someone around here posted an interview from a TV series like Voyager or something, where the person basically said, "Don't worry about sets, they are particularly cheap and easy to reproduce, if needed" and "That the sets are so cheap that the cost of keeping them in storage outways keeping them for the off chace they are used again". OK they aren't direct quotes - but it's something like I read. I don't know if it was a Voyager person... who would want to see a Voyager movie!?! Maybe if they did it in the vein of season 1. Or season 4. After each of them they lost the plot again.
 
Posted by CaptainMike XXIII (Member # 709) on October 30, 2002 12:34 AM:
 
A Voyager movie would be GREAT!
 
Posted by CaptainMike XXIII (Member # 709) on October 30, 2002 12:36 AM:
 
FOR ME TO POOP ON!
 
Posted by CaptainMike XXIII (Member # 709) on October 30, 2002 12:40 AM:
 
i simply assume that for a $9.00 ticket, the theater would keep a lot of the money.. to pay that zitfaced kid at the door.
 
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on October 30, 2002 12:53 AM:
 
to pay for his oxy-10.
 
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on November 03, 2002 01:46 PM:
 
quote:
Originally posted by Vogon Poet:
quote:
Originally posted by Jason Abbadon:
Actually, the DS9 books set after the series' end would make for a great movie (at least TV Movie) all by themselves!
I certainly would like to see some follow up on TV! A two hour movie for TV would be great, inexpensive (aside from the actors, the already have everything)and would pull in ratings between seasons of Enterprise (where UPN shows die a lingering death)! [Big Grin]

....and having Worf visit could push Nemesis on DVD!

Excessive exclamation-mark detector triggered! Fanboy alert! 8)
Sorry!!!!!! I....can't....help...it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Posted by aneurysm (Member # 906) on November 04, 2002 03:08 AM:
 
Why is it that everyone here with a couple of exceptions are so far up their own arseyou can no longer see their heads! You fuckers need to lighten up. So what if someone wants to use exclamation marks after each sentence? Or they dont want to have perfect punctuation for everything? Christ, its not like its the end of the fucking world or anything.
 
Posted by Wraith (Member # 779) on November 04, 2002 03:11 AM:
 
I think that might just possibly have been that humour thing...
 
Posted by aneurysm (Member # 906) on November 04, 2002 03:15 AM:
 
quote:
Originally posted by Wraith:
I think that might just possibly have been that humour thing...

It happens all the time, to anyone who doesn't have perfect english. Fuck, i use the internet to look things up, i dont want to spend all my time spellchecking.
 
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on November 04, 2002 04:07 AM:
 
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Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on November 04, 2002 04:47 AM:
 
Please yourself, my boy.
 
Posted by CaptainMike XXIII (Member # 709) on November 04, 2002 05:04 AM:
 
the fuck??
 
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on November 04, 2002 08:33 AM:
 
So who needs a spellchecker? Just pay attention to what you're saying, and there's no need for one.

Yes, in almost no time at all, you, too, can avoid being the brunt of disparaging comments at the hands of those with vastly superior language or typing skills!

Or, you can cry like a little girl. Your choice.


Oh, and a Deep Space Nine movie? Without taking season 8 into account? Having to contrive ways to reunite the original crew?

WORST. IDEA. EVER.
 
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on November 04, 2002 09:25 AM:
 
There's a season 8 now?
 
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on November 04, 2002 11:27 AM:
 
You, fucker, need to lighten up. So what if someone wants to complain when someone uses exclamation marks after each sentence or when they can't be bothered to have perfect punctuation for everything? Christ, it's not like its the end of the fucking world or anything.

This happens all the time, to anyone who knows how to use correct English. Fuck, I use the Internet to communicate with other people; I don't want to spend all my time spellchecking what they say to me before I'm able to read it.
 
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on November 04, 2002 12:41 PM:
 
ithiInkgramaaerishighlyovertraatedanyway
 
Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on November 04, 2002 02:11 PM:
 
*Ahem*

*wondering where he left the padlocks*
 
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on November 05, 2002 05:01 AM:
 
Liam: "Season 8" is what they've (the book fans) taken to calling the DS9 "relaunch" books.
 
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on November 10, 2002 10:04 AM:
 
So, a film that doesn't take into accounts events that have happened in the books.

This is why Luke and Leia aren't shagging. Which is good.
 
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on November 10, 2002 11:47 PM:
 
I reckon an 'arc' story could work. i.e. like the idea of the missing 3 months between A Call to Arms and A Time to stand. It doesn't have to be ENTIRELY self-contained as it would link either end with the continuity of the rest of the series.
 
Posted by Free ThoughtCrime America (Member # 480) on November 11, 2002 12:00 AM:
 
They could call it "Benji: Beyond DS9" Or; "DS'99: Bringing Back the Benjamen"
 


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