{"id":9902,"date":"2010-08-09T13:24:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T20:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=9902"},"modified":"2010-08-09T13:24:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T20:24:26","slug":"siddig-no-more-deep-space-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/08\/siddig-no-more-deep-space-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"Siddig: No More Deep Space Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although he is proud of his work on Deep Space Nine,<\/em> Alexander Siddig <\/strong>believes that there is no chance of it being resurrected.<\/p>\n

The success of J.J. Abrams<\/strong>‘ Star Trek XI means that Trek will be going in a new direction, not revisiting Deep Space Nine<\/em>. “I think beyond a shadow of a doubt [that there will be no new DS9 film],” said Siddig. “And I’m very proud of DS9. But I think that it lived and I think people quite weirdly enjoy it almost more now, that it’s not showing any more, than they did at the time.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“But [Star Trek XI<\/em>] definitely put Deep Space Nine<\/em> to bed,” said Siddig. “And I think that’s not a bad thing. Otherwise, you get into territory where we’re like, ‘And we’re gonna remake The Dukes Of Hazzard<\/em> as a movie. And we\u2019re gonna-‘ Which they do, all the time and you’re like, ‘Oh God, yawn. It better be really entertaining, otherwise I\u2019m not going.’ You know.”<\/p>\n

There’s a reason why Deep Space Nine<\/em> is more popular now than it was when it aired, said Siddig, blaming market saturation. “At the time, they were forced into making choices. I think Paramount made a few mistakes about putting, like, two or three Star Trek<\/em> shows up against each other and on different channels, so that you literally were appealing to different constituencies. And that was probably, I think, an error of judgment.\u00a0 I think it hurt the very end of The Next Generation<\/em> and it hurt the beginning of Deep Space Nine<\/em> and then Voyager<\/em> came along and Deep Space Nine<\/em> was just a kind of flailing kid in the background that was just ‘Ah, and we’re here too. We’re doing another show.’ Now, people actually get a chance to stand back and actually choose which ones they like from the whole array of this vast franchise. Deep Space<\/em> has become really quite popular and people are really, really passionate or fond of it.”<\/p>\n

Siddig isn’t lobbying for a Deep Space Nine<\/em> remake. “No, I haven’t and I don’t think I will and I think that’s really cool. As an actor, I’ve got other ambitions and Deep Space Nine<\/em>, although I’m deeply proud of it, is not something I’m campaigning to resurrect or that character, Bashir, or anything like that. Yeah, all good things (must come to an end).”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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