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Rumor has it there was a scene that was shot having Sisko order Worf to take the Defiant in order to engage the Borg. We'll see if Frakes is generous enough to include deleted scenes including that one.
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Time perhaps for my canned rant on why Sisko really ought to have been on the Defiant instead (or at least in addition to) Worf. (Well, from a, you know, internal consistancy perspective. I don't think the character would be willing to let someone else take his ship into the battle he designed it for. But I don't think you could have the same movie had that happened, without some really arbitrary way of getting Worf on the Enterprise while leaving Sisko off it. Now, on the other hand, if it had been a crossover movie, and Sisko had taken on some of the Lily Sloane moments in the plot. . . ((Well, not the "Hey, let's explain where the Borg fit into this story thematically" moments, obviously, but some of the conflict about how best to stop them.)) "OK, Picard has been gone for five minutes and frankly I don't trust him anyway. Now, here's what we do.")
Alas.
I seem to recall that the existence of the Sisko cutscene was debunked, though, or at least strongly called into question.
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We saw Worf take command of the Defiant often enough during his first couple of seasons on the show. I think the most likely explanation is that Worf was out on patrol when the Borg made their move. Heading to DS9 to pick up Sisko would have prevented the Defiant from reaching Earth before it was too late.
Alternatively, Starfleet may have ordered Sisko to remain at DS9 fearing that the Cardassians or the Klingons would seek to take advantage of the Borg crisis. Sisko being the senior most commander in the area, his presence would be neccessary.
(Obviously, we can imagine all sorts of reasonable explanations for why he wasn't there, but they do not make me happy.)
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Sisko's not there because he'd have done a far superior job in Picard's place. Besides, we cant have a TNG movie without catering to the egos of "the big three" now can we?
We, we could, but only if we really wanted something better than Nemesis.
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Well, back on TNG, it was Worf.....they kinda let it go in the last movie though (though the screentime for the other characters is still far far less than his).
I dont believe there was ever a scene with Sisko written to be added back into a FC: SE. Much as I'd love to see DS9 on the bigscreen....
As a modeler, I'm just praying for some more ship footage and mabye alittle design commantary on them.
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I can't believe that scene was ever shot either. It would have involved sprucing up the DS9 model or sets to be shot for the big screen, paying Brooks for being in the movie, and most aboninable of all, risking confusion to the audience by introducing a new character.
I have always thought, though, that FC would've have started off far more dramatically had it started with such a scene, then followed the Defiant into battle in the Typhon sector. We would then see the Enterprise for the first time as it swoops in to save Worf's butt.
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Easy the Defiant was damaged early in the battle and Sisko was injured, Worf took over. Aboard the Enterprise Sisko was in Sickbay the entire time--- out of camera sight.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Well, back on TNG, it was Worf.....they kinda let it go in the last movie though (though the screentime for the other characters is still far far less than his).
I never got the impression that Worf was more of a "main player" character than, say, Riker. Or Geordi. Parallels wasn't even written for him, originally.
(In fact, you could argue that on TNG, no-one character was more important than another. Sure, people may have liked Data more, but I don't think he got significantly more episodes than anyone else.)
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Well, not quite. Certainly by the time the series was half-way through, someone like Crusher was getting her 2 or so episodes a season, like everyone else. They might have been a bit rubbish, but they were there. Spiner didn't stick his head in saying "I like this episode where Crusher is told off for doing an autopsy on a Ferengi because of stuff with shields that make ships fly into suns, but wouldn't it be better if we stuck in a bit about Data becoming fascinated by 20th century sitcoms and shouting "Norm!" everytime Riker walks onto the bridge?"
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