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Subj: Answers Date: 02/05/98 02:03:17 PM Eastern Standard Time From: RonDMoore <<Now that there will be a seventh season, is it definitely the last?>> While I suppose anything is possible, I'm virtually certain year seven will be the last. <<What ever happended to the Romulan woman who was imprisioned by the Dominion along with Bashir and Garak? If Changlings were sent back to DS9 to impersonate Bashir & Garak, did the Dominion send Changlings back to 'Romulus'?>> Presumably, the Romulan woman was returned home. We never made a decision as to whether there was a Romulan Changeling loose back on Romulus or not. <<As I recall, in the first season of Voyager they encountered a small Romulan scout vessel with a single pilot. It was able to make it back through the wormhole, but Voyager's crew expected no help from that area. (Not being a videotaper, I rely on my memory which may be flawed here.) What ever happened to that ship? And have any Romulan interests in that regard been overcome by the recent "Message in a Bottle" episode--or instead revived?>> I'm not sure what happened to this ship, but I do know we have no plans to pick up that plot thread, nor anything from "Message" on DS9. <<I'd like to hear your thinking... about whether or not the media, TV, movies should be held responsible for the current state of our society?>> I've never bought the notion that the "media" is responsible for society's woes. I believe there's a complex interrelationship between the culture and the media that is more symbiotic than parasitic. Film and television seek out popular trends in the culture and seek to capitalize on them while at the same time striving to create original works that will stimulate interest by the public. The medium and the culture are tightly interwoven and I find it absurd on its face to assert that "Hollywood" is somehow responsible for something like the teen pregnancy rate, or violence, or sexism, or anything else. People don't have to consume the media's product and there are hundreds of failed Hollywood productions that will testify to that. People only consume that which they want or which interests them on some level. They have plenty of choices and if they choose "The Jerry Springer Show" over "Masterpiece Theatre" or "Spice World" over "The Apostle", that's their decision. <<the elderly in this country have both time and money to see films, but Hollywood ignores this audience segment with a single-mindedness that is awesome. Why? Is it possible that no one can find issues that would be challenging enough to engage an audience that has seen everything from the Wright Bros. to the Moon (not "Moom"--sorry about that) landings?>> My impression is that the majority of ticket buyers are young adults and teenagers, and that's who the studios market their films toward. Not all films skew this way, though. For instance, "The First Wives Club" did very respectable business with a somewhat older audience. But as a rule, younger audiences will go to a hit over and over again and that's the dynamic that a film studio wants to see. <<How much input after the script is written to the actors have into changing lines or saying that this is not what my character would say or do?>> The actors are always free to discuss their lines and scenes with the writer/producers and this happens all the time. <<Also, in one of your answers you said that Miles would get a promotion to Senior Chief Petty Officer, isn't he that already or not?>> I think we've established him as simply "Chief Petty Officer." <<Was there anything you left out of Worf and Daxs wedding because of time or budget?>> No. The ceremony was filmed largely as written. Subj: Answers Date: 02/05/98 02:33:26 PM Eastern Standard Time From: RonDMoore <<it seems like at the end of every episode, all the people on ds9 are all friends and every diusagreement is solved in an hour, are you planning on haveing anymore real character conflicts between the main characters like you used to?>> We introduce conflict between the main characters when we feel that it's appropriate. Some conflicts should be wrapped up by the end of the episode, others should not. We'll see more of both as the series heads into its final year. <<Since next season will (sob!) be the last, are you thinking about totally eliminating the Dominion as a threat in the Alpha Quadrant?>> We'll see. <> We played around with several ideas, but our internal reasoning in the end was that Picard's brain had somehow been altered by the Borg to the point where it was still capable of acting as an "antenna" that could pick up some of the thoughts and messages from within the Collective. <> We've discussed seeing Dukat's children and wife, but at the moment we have no plans to do so. <<Since you have come to the decision that the seventh season would the last for DS9, have you given much thought to future Trek projects?>> I haven't and I'm not aware of anyone who is thinking of new Trek projects at the moment. <<Do you ever regret some of the plot arcs that were introduced at this point? Are there things you would have done differently if you had approached it then as you do now, with paramount concern to story integrity and a damn-the-ratings flair (that Ira admitted to)? What about Dukat? Is there anything you would have chosen to do differently about him then so that your decisions about his direction now would flow more smoothly?>> I think the Klingon war arc could've been handled a little more smoothly in retrospect. It might've been nice to have the Feds fighting the Klingons when war with the Dominion broke out, forcing them to join forces against the Founders. I don't have any regrets about Dukat. <<Any plans to revisit Kahless the Kloned Emporer? >> Not yet, and we haven't had many discussions about him in a while. <<Any plans on seeing Drex (Martok's son that Worf disgraced) anytime soon?>> Not yet. << Is there any other episodes in the works that you feel you can anounce?>> After "In the Pale Moonlight" will come a Kira/Odo show called, "His Way" and then a Sisko show dealing with some weighty Bajoran matters. <<What are your views of the death penalty? Do you think Starfleet places a premium on human life?>> I personally have deeply conflicting views of the death penalty. While I have trouble approving of the state-sanctioned execution of criminals, I also find myself able to justify state-sanctioned war, which often involves killing people whose only crime was being born in the wrong place at the wrong time. Viscerally, I think we should eliminate the death penalty just as all other western democracies have. On the other hand, I find it hard to fight for Jeffrey Dahmer's right to live. Of course, the fact that Dahmer and Charles Manson got life sentences and Karla Tucker got a lethal injection speak to a fundamental inequality in the way the death penalty is applied. On the other hand..... well, like I said, I'm conflicted. I don't think Starfleet has a death penalty. (The Talos IV prohibition probably isn't around anymore either.)
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