One obvious candidate is the Klingon War in Star Trek: Discovery. So, what’s a Star Trek war that we saw a piece of, but was only briefly depicted?
Okay, so maybe you don’t want to do the Dominion War, since we already got a lot of it on screen during DS9. And, if you did an animated Dominion War show, original actors from the TNG, DS9, and Voyager eras could totally still do the voices. None of these books are official canon, but just like the canon Clone Wars had a bunch of non-canon material to draw from, a Dominion War series that wasn’t exclusively focused on DS9 would also have plenty of material to mine. A few tie-in novels covered this a little bit in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s, including a book about the Battle of Betazed from the perspective of Deanna Troi. An animated series set during the Dominion War, which revealed what the The Next Generation crew was doing could be really interesting. Deep Space Nine doing several seasons devoted to the Dominion War was a big deal at the time, but in reality, we only really saw the Dominion War from the perspective of the DS9 crew. The sprawling Star Trek timeline has more than enough gaps - and huge unexplored conflicts - in which an entire animated series could be set.
But when in the timeline should a hypothetical animated Clone Wars-style Star Trek series happen? Here are some options… The Dominion War The point is, it seems like the Star Trekfranchise has an opportunity to pull a Clone Wars. Watch the first three minutes of “Overlords,” when Ahsoka, Anakin, and Obi-Wan first land on Mortis, and tell me it doesn’t feel like a Star Trek episode. It took awhile, but by the time we got The Clone Wars, the ongoing nature of it occasionally had a Trek –ish feel. This has less to do with a desire to see a never ending space battle and more to do with the fact that, like Star Wars, Trek canon has several unexplored periods of time where a lot was happening, but very little of it was chronicled.Įver since Luke Skywalker asked “You fought in the Clone Wars?” to Obi-Wan Kenobi, fans have wanted to see what Luke was talking about. Star Trek needs its own version of The Clone Wars from the Star Warsuniverse.
And yet, here I am, arguing for something exactly like that. Long, drawn-out war arcs in the fictional universe of Star Trek are rare precisely because they are (theoretically) antithetical to what Star Trek is about. The final frontier and the galaxy far, far away are different in one specific way: The latter is about war and the former is, ostensibly, about peace. This article contains minor spoilers for The Clone Wars season 7, Star Trek: Picard Season 1, and Star Trek: Discovery Season 2.
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