Star Trek executive producer Alex Kurtzman has spoken of the possibility of revisiting Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in future spinoff shows. The titular space station is due to feature in an upcoming episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks but so far, no further visits to the station have been announced. Speaking at Comic-Con, Kurtzman stated that discussions about DS9 have been had, but the Star Trek creatives “would all want to make sure that it was coming from that place of being able to tell a new story while honoring the old one.”

Krutzman’s statements make sense given that, more than any other Star Trek show, DS9 had a clearly defined ending to its story. Where previous Star Trek shows had either ended abruptly due to cancelation or by leaving the story more open-ended to lead into a movie franchise, Sisko’s DS9 ending was far less ambiguous. DS9’s finale resolved so many characters’ story arcs that Star Trek would need to have a good narrative reason for bringing back the DS9 crew.

2019’s feature-length documentary What We Left Behind reassembled the DS9 writer’s room to conceive a hypothetical season 8 premiere. Set 20 years after the events of the DS9 finale, it would revolve around tensions between Bajor and the Federation, and a conspiracy that would pit the former crewmates against each other. Looking back over the plot of the season 8 premiere, it feels like it would sit alongside modern Star Trek’s long-form storytelling. While it’s unlikely that this hypothetical season 8 premiere will become a reality, there are elements of it that could form four potential DS9 spinoff shows to continue the crew’s stories.

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