Star Trek: The Next Generation
At one point , Quark ( Armin Shimerman ) fromStar Trek : Deep Space Ninehad a cameo inStar Trek : Insurrectionand the erase scene would have help address the U.S.S.Enterprise - E ’s blinding absence from the Dominion War . WhenStar Trek : Insurrectionwas eject in December 1998,DS9was already in the middle of its seventh and final time of year that resolved the Dominion War . However , the thirdStar Trek : The Next Generationmovie did n’t involve Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) and its crew confronting the territorial dominion in any way ; instead , the film state a lighthearted , standalone tarradiddle that was jarringly out of office while the rest of the United Federation of Planets was in the midst of a devastating war where 1000000 die .
InStar Trek : Insurrection , Captain Picard went against the orders of Starfleet Admiral Dougherty ( Anthony Zerbe ) when he sided with the Ba’ku , a race of 600 people hold out on a satellite in the Briar Patch . This area of space had regenerative properties that continue the Ba’ku from mature — essentially , it was a " Fountain of Youth " that the Federation sought to harvest with the help of the Son’a . Meanwhile , theDominion Warwas devastate the rest of the Alpha Quadrant , which was on the wand of crack as the Federation , the Klingons , and the Romulans sought to kill the powerful Dominion / Cardassian / Breen bond . police captain Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) and Deep Space Nine fight back in the front lines and the series dealt with the personal and astronomical cost of the state of war . In fact , Quark ’s own nephew , Nog ( Aron Eisenberg ) , suffer his leg at the Siege of AR-588 but he heroically battled back from his harm and desperation .
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Granted , thedeleted picture star Quarkwas comedic ; at the end ofStar Trek : Insurrection , the entrepreneurial Ferengi arrived in the Ba’ku major planet accompanied by two Dabo Girls and he had grand plan to build up a luxury recourse . Captain Picard and Worf ( Michael Dorn ) shot down Quark ’s moneymaking scheme and sent him throng . Quark ’s hilarious cameo would have suited the overall tone ofStar Trek : Insurrection , which was lighter by design because the producer did n’t want another " dark"TNGmovie afterPicard struggle the Borg inStar Trek : First Contact . But a front - and - essence appearance by a majorDS9character like Quark would have been a squeamish visual admonisher that the Dominion War was still going on , even if Quark was humorously trying to find novel avenues of earnings far from his bar on Deep Space Nine .
After all , if a sports fan only watched theTNGmovies , they ’d hardly even know the Dominion War was occur in the mainlineStar Trekuniverse . As the Dominion War crescendoing onDS9 , the fact that the U.S.S.Enterprise - einsteinium , which was the Federation ’s flagship , was not on the front lines did n’t seem appropriate . Star Trek : Insurrectionpaid some minor rim service to the Dominion War but even Worf ( Michael Dorn ) behaved as if the war where he lost his wifeJadzia Dax(Terry Farrell ) was n’t happen .
WatchingStar Trek : Insurrection , it seemed as if Picard and his ship did n’t fight in the war at all since the gang and the starship were undefiled . While there have beenStar Treknovels detail theEnterprise - E ’s activities during the Dominion War , those are apocryphal . In terms of canon , Picard and theEnterprise - E ’s lone appearance during the Dominion War had them chasing the Fountain of Youth as the eternal rest of the extragalactic nebula was suffering .
The Quark scene edit fromStar Trek : Insurrectionwould have also set upStar Trek : Picardepisode 5 , " Stardust City Rag , " where it call on out that the Ferengi did attain his dream of franchising his barroom tenner afterwards : There ’s a Quark ’s Bar on the planet Freecloud and"Mr . Quark of Ferenginar"got a shoutout . But if Quark ’s cameo had remained inStar Trek : Insurrection , it would have give aDS9character a cameo even more fun thanStar Trek : Voyager ’s Doctor appearing inStar Trek : First Contact(and far better thanDS9’sU.S.S.Defiantnearly being destruct in that moving-picture show ) , and it would have also spurt a stronger connection between Captain Picard ’s belated commission and the Dominion War that engulfed the rest of the galax .
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