Star Trek: Deep Area 9 Season eight Would Have Killed [SPOILER]
What We Left Behind, the brand new documentary wanting again on the legacy of Star Trek: Deep Area 9, options information concerning the first episode of a hypothetical season eight – which might have opened with the dying of Nog! The DS9 author’s room reunites within the documentary; govt producers Ira Steven Behr, Ronald D. Moore, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, René Echevarria, and Hans Beimler broke down the story of what would have been the primary episode of DS9 season eight, which kicks off with a literal bang when Nog is shockingly killed.
As What We Left Behind trumpeted, Deep Area 9 was famend for its eclectic solid of well-developed ancillary characters and Nog, performed by Aron Eisenberg, was one of the vital beloved. Nog loved one in every of Ds9’s most unimaginable character arcs: he started the collection as Jake Sisko’s good friend on the Promenade however as they grew up collectively, Nog determined he needed to develop into the primary Ferengi in Starfleet. Nog earned the help of Jake’s dad Captain Sisko, who was initially reluctant, however the younger Ferengi frequently proved himself in Starfleet whereas nonetheless offering comedian aid together with the remainder of his Ferengi household.
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Within the later seasons of DS9, Nog fought bravely in the Dominion Battle and acquired two promotions, first from Cadet to Ensign after which Captain Sisko himself made Nog a Lieutenant within the collection finale, “What You Depart Behind”. However Nog additionally suffered enormously; he misplaced his leg in fight throughout the warfare and Nog’s lengthy street to restoration was arguably Star Trek’s most poignant depiction of overcoming wartime trauma. DS9 isn’t any stranger to the deaths of its core characters; Terry Farrell’s Jadzia Dax was killed off in season 6. It is no shock Nog’s demise would have had an affect as seismic as Jadzia’s.
In What We Left Behind, Nog is the point of interest of the teaser that kicks off the writers’ imaginative and prescient of season eight, which is about 20 years after the DS9 collection finale: the Ferengi is now Captain Nog and he is accountable for the united statesS. Defiant, which is beneath hearth from a cloaked ship. The Defiant manages to flee by way of the wormhole and emerges close to Deep Area 9, which might have closed out the teaser. However in Act One of many episode, after Kira Nerys, Jake Sisko, Miles O’Brien, Julian Bashir, Ezri Dax, Worf, and Quark are reunited on the station, they’d have witnessed Nog’s arrival on a viewscreen – proper earlier than the Defiant explodes, killing the Ferengi!
Nog’s dying would have kicked off an investigation into his homicide, which might have lured Odo again to the station. By the top of Ds9 season eight, episode 1, it might have been revealed that Kira, who’s now a Vedek, was accountable for a secret military of Jem’Hadar troopers who transformed to the Bajoran faith. When Nog discovers this, he’s subsequently killed by Part 31, which is now led by Dr. Bashir and is plotting to drive Bajor to hitch the Federation. Lastly, Ben Sisko himself, who entered non-linear time to stroll with the Prophets in “What You Depart Behind”, materializes from the wormhole, fulfilling his promise 20 years in the past that he could be again.
Within the documentary, the bombshell that Nog could be killed off within the hypothetical season eight set off an amusing response from Aron Eisenberg, who yelped, “You possibly can’t kill Nog!” However the writers additionally highlighted how essential Captain Nog was as a mentor to the following technology of DS9’s Starfleet Officers, together with the grownup Molly O’Brien and Joseph Sisko, Ben’s son with Kasidy Yates-Sisko. What We Left Behind leaves it to the followers to think about how the remainder of DS9 season eight would have turned out. Given how something is feasible in Star Trek, it was left open that Nog both did not actually die or that he may in some way be resurrected. However even in his hypothetical dying, Nog continues to have a optimistic affect on Star Trek: Deep Area 9 and its legions of loyal followers.