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They mentioned Avery's willingness as an impediment but even if he's onboard I don't see it without René and Aron, among other reasons.
As much as I wish they could all be in a DS9 revival I don't see why they have to. Sisko ascended, Odo returned to the founders, and it would be easy to say that Nog is just stationed on the far side of the Federation or on a deep space mission. The first two could easily be off screen presences who effect the story but are never seen. That still leaves Bashir, Dax, Kira, Worf, and Jake. Could be a smaller, more personal story that follows up on plot elements from DS9. Like what they tried to do with the first two seasons of Picard, just hopefully better written.
If they hire outstanding writers then I'd be interested in a show about Jake after his dad disappeared. Follow that timeline and show Jake's struggle. It doesn't really need to happen though and it would be very high risk.
Please don't. They'll fuck it up with poor writing, thinking SFX alone is enough to carry it, when DS9 was always about the writing.
Nog I think is the easiest recast. It could be explained just that the character aged. Odo would be harder. He could be a CGI character with a voice actor but that doesn't sound good. It could be a plot point that both characters are killed prior to the beginning of the story and the story involves resolving the mystery of what happened and why.
All and all I think it's unlikely we'll see any kind of continuation of DS9, which is unfortunate because it's my favorite series.
I would have misgivings of using the character with René, but it wouldn't be hard. He's changeling, god dammit. It was one of the weird conceits of DS9 that odo kept the same humanoid form, and so the changeling who interacted with him did too (along with implausible excuses about "not being able to master the humanoid face", or the changing virus).
Having spent time with the founders, you could easily recast "Odo" as a dozen different characters of different species and genders. Perhaps he has transcended the attachment to a single form that he developed from living among solids? I feel like watching some good actors do Odoesque performances could be quite interesting!
Yeah, that's a really good solution. There would have to be something that gives the audience a clue that we're dealing with the same character I think so the actors would have to really collaborate on their collective characters. That's really a great idea.
odo is easier. Find a similar looking actor who can do a similar voice and say he got better at making a realistic human look. no more makeup needed even.
That's possible. Rene gave odo a real presence though. I don't know how well another actor would mimic it. They could always do something like interstellar. That character who was left on the ship by himself for all those years was markedly different from the character before they left for the water planet.
yeah I was even thinking why would he necessarily even keep with the look and voice once he was adept at forms.
You're right!
@Salamendacious @Evilcoleslaw In Ira Steven Behr's doc "What we left behind", he get the original writers brainstorm a new season of DS9 and they promptly kill Nog in the first episode.
Yeah that's always a potential thing they could continue from, or scrap at will. (I watched that again just this weekend lol)