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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This week my gym finally re-added a captain's chair with a half ball, a fave from when I was younger. I am genuinely thrilled to be back in the captain's chair. Now the Five Year Mission can really get underway.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When I tried introducing Books of the Emissary, the folks at the TrekBBS insinuated that I'm an AI. I can't say I blame them for suspecting that, after I showed up as a newbie with something like this. It's gotten hard to tell in digital spaces, but I'm a real human. I did not use AI on DS9.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ensign Ro is an amazing and pivotal episode. It's part of Books of the Emissary's opening chapter, the Book of Captains -- making Ro part of DS9's growing extended family.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Looks like Ellison is going with Skydance as the name of the combined media company. FWIW, I like it, and the name clearly resonates with him. There are countless worse options he could have picked in place of an already established brand.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I released Books of the Emissary in the first half of 2025, following seven years of working on it. After that, I needed a break. Now I'm back and doing what I can to promote it, little by little. Any help, introductions, amplification, or earned media you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If the studio execs ever learn about Books of the Emissary, they're going to figure out the same thing I did almost a decade ago. It's a business offer they can't refuse, especially in light of their colossal debt burden. Walking away from it would mean leaving billions of dollars on the table.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm genuinely curious what name David Ellison chooses and any alternatives he seriously considered. Naming things is core to branding and communications. I've authored an op-ed on how to do it right in public affairs, and it's not easy. People screw it up all the time. I may have notes.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I made a new Star Trek show. You can watch it from start to finish right now. That’s because my series is made out of episodes and films that already exist and are all streaming on the same platform. Check out this 20-min slideshow introducing DS9 and my adaptation of it, Books of the Emissary.

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Intro to DS9 and Books of the Emissary

YouTube video by David Rosen

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Coming tonight: A 20-minute slideshow video introducing Deep Space Nine and Books of the Emissary. My fan-produced series is aimed at attracting audiences who've never seen any Star Trek, so about half the slideshow focuses on what DS9 is and why it's worth revisiting in this new format.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've made some major updates to Books of the Emissary's landing page. - The intro at the top has been updated. - The watchlist now comes with a production guide, about a page of notes on the organization and themes of each book. - My full professional bio is at the bottom of the page.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy birthday to TNG! I started watching it at the beginning of season five. But I can recall seeing TV commercials for its early seasons while watching He-Man as a kid.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are now 16 Star Trek episodes remaining in the Kurtzman era: a final 10 from Starfleet Academy and the final 6 from Strange New Worlds. No era of Star Trek is perfect, and there are always some stumbles, but I generally regard his time running the franchise as a success.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tomorrow's Enterprise was great. No notes! SNW's fourth season had some hits and misses, but was a big improvement over season three. I have much greater confidence that the final season will make us proud.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I like nonsense, but the nonsense was laid on a bit too thick in Once La'An a Time. By the end, the message clear enough. Dark-and-light alternates of a character is of course a classic Star Trek trope. This version of that tale, for me and for now, worked and arrived at a time when it was helpful.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Five Year Mission update: Recent months have, annoyingly, kept me out of the gym due an unusual string of back-to-back colds, minor injuries, and travel plans. So it's anticlimactic and a bit bewildering that this happened during an off-period, but... I just hit my weight-loss goal for 2026.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Orders of Magnitude was pretty good. The admiral's monologue early in the episode about how much he likes real coffee compared to replicated tipped their hand about where this was going. See: Eddington, Michael. I also quite liked the soundtrack on this one, which had lots of nods to various eras.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's all yours, and I'm sure you'd make a great Ezri! Actually, I have some educated guesses about what the third incarnation of the show might look like. In the meantime, I need to watch out for a Pah-wraith-possessed Gul Dukat.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In writing DS9, Ira had to make peace with the Klingons, which were foisted upon his show by the studio. In creating Books of the Emissary, I discovered an affinity for both the Ferengi and the Klingons that wasn't there before, and fell in love with Worf as a character. Life imitates art.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

DS9 is a body of characters, stories, and premises -- and that body of material can be compared to a Trill symbiont. If DS9 -- the TV show -- was its first host, then Books of the Emissary is its second. In this analogy, Ira is Curzon, and I'm Jadzia, and here's how I know...

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11 and the years that followed shaped my feelings about Star Trek. At the time... DS9 felt more relevant than ever, even prophetic, and TNG felt hopelessly naive. VOY and ENT felt like they couldn't meet the moment, despite ENT S3 trying to really hard. My feelings have never stopped evolving.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One of many low-budget Star Trek shows I'd like to make some day is the Great Beta Quadrant Bake Off. It's a holoprogram with a rotating cast of holographic guest contestants that can be pulled from any era of Star Trek or real world history.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy Star Trek Day! Here's a bit of behind the scenes news. I've started working on a communications and promotional plan for Books of the Emissary. One of the key steps will be compiling the posts explaining the organization of the series into an official production guide. Coming soon!

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I liked the soap opera episode more than I expected. Some scenes and moments were also giving Futurama vibes, whether or not that was intentional. However I would have written one less act inside the soap opera and one more dealing with the more interesting interpersonal and emotional fallout.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Off-Hour was outstanding for lots of reasons. Among them: it's a model for how to take classic Star Trek premises, mix them up, and make them fresh.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is a sound premise for a multi-part episode or even a season-long arc. But if the goal is box office performance and new fans, I'm skeptical. Star Trek films have to motivate non-fans to buy tickets, and there are several KNOWN ways the franchise has done that. This isn't any of them.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"It's like if the Romulans went through a mid-century modern phase at some point in their history..." ...is a sentence I said out loud today.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The Orion Interceptor was the best part of the puppet episode. Whoever came up with this gets an A+++. Put them in charge of starship design if they aren't already. This ship not only looks amazing -- it looks like a ship from the Star Trek universe. Standing ovation!

An Orion Interceptor approaches in space.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The puppet episode was good enough for me. What would have made it a lot better, IMO, is tighter editing. The pacing dragged because it had a lot of repetitive and redundant gags. I know not everyone likes these kinds of episodes, but I don't mind a diversion into silly season.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

When another platform or network wants to license Star Trek, for any given show or film series, it's always the same number of entries at a relatively fixed price point. Books of the Emissary can be customized to match the buyer's preferred length and budget. Many different editions are possible!

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Books of the Emissary was designed to be expandable and collapsible. Here's one example: It's possible to subtract all of the episodes and films from outside of DS9, and it still holds up with nothing but the DS9 episodes. This flexibility would be an enormous asset when it comes to licensing.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Otrovert is a new concept that needs more research, but I definitely check all the boxes and have done so for as long as anyone can remember. Fellow outsiders like Spock, Data, Worf, Guinan, Odo, Garak, The Doctor, and Seven of Nine all fit the profile to varying degrees.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Now that Paramount's new owners are looking for fresh ideas for Star Trek, I would be thrilled just to pitch Books of the Emissary, even if they say no. The business case for making it is far stronger than for any newly created series or film, with an eye-popping 10-to-1 return on investment.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

One of my priorities for Star Trek is getting characterization right consistently. I'm willing to indulge A LOT of other nonsense as long as the characters I like are generally behaving like themselves. The episode was underwhelming on the whole, but this character misfire stood out for me.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I have little doubt that Demore Barnes is capable of dialing up the charisma and theatrical flair to match the Kor we all remember. So this looks to me more like a writing, directing, or casting issue than the actor's fault. It reminds me of how DS9's Field of Fire got Joran Dax completely wrong.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Kor is highly charismatic. He steals every scene he's in. This is far more than just John Colicos's acting -- it's part of the character. A Case of Chiaoscuro has a compelling portrayal of a Klingon occupation overseer that was well written and well acted. It just didn't seem like Kor.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Kira is now the Kai. A ship transporting a captured Pah-Wraith back to Bajor has crashed on Khitomer. Kira needs a special ops partner she can trust with access to that world who gets what's at stake and is familiar with the now-highly-classified chroniton tech from The Reckoning. That's Worf.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

There are some interesting premises here, but I've got my own ideas for Worf in the early 25th century. In my version, Worf's next journey would begin with a call from Kira asking for help that only he can provide. screenrant.com/star-trek-pi...

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Picard Showrunner Reveals Unmade Star Trek: Legacy Spinoff’s Worf & Klingon Story

What could have been Star Trek: Legacy season 1.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

For me, Total Eclipse of the Heart has already been connected to Star Trek for over 30 years. It's closely linked to the final stretch of Deep Space Nine's third season and with Odo. Here's the story: bsky.app/profile/ds9r...

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

You haven't heard Total Eclipse of the Heart until you've heard it in the original Klingon.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I strongly agree that Star Trek episodes should occasionally end with an unsolved or unresolved mystery, because this is intrinsic to exploration and discovery. Sometimes you walk away with far more questions than answers. FWIW, this is one of the rare things that ENT got right.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I find it darkly funny that there's an entire cast of hot, in-demand megastars who wanted to do another Star Trek movie... Yet the studio just could not figure out a way to make it happen. Hollywood has always been -- and will always remain -- its own worst enemy.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The Griffin Incident referenced many past horror moments from across Star Trek and dialed them up to 11. I adore "Spooky TNG" -- Night Terrors, Schisms, Phantasms, Dark Page, Genesis, and others -- but full blown horror isn't my thing. This one gave me some scared-ies, so mission accomplished.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Five Year Mission update: Saturday was the first time I could extrapolate what I aim to look like from what I could see in the mirror, rather than just make educated guesses and wishes. That's a major milestone -- one I did not see coming -- and that's part of what makes it so meaningful.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The next time a Star Trek film or TV show depicts the Great Hall, it could probably use a production upgrade. However this very cool chandelier -- or something that looks a lot like it -- is well worth keeping.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The SNW S4 premiere Valles Marineris was great. A lot of this story was a big nod to TOS, with some of the comedic writing influenced by LDS. Importantly, it was exactly the right time in the series' run for a gigantic, ambitious episode like this. The new season is off to an outstanding start.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The best part about making Books of the Emissary is what it has done for my self-confidence. No matter what people think of it, no matter what becomes of it, and no matter what the future holds... I get to be the guy who cracked the code to Deep Space Nine. And I wouldn't trade that for anything.

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I love it when real world interior design feels like it's from Star Trek. This one feels like it's from a whole bunch of my fandoms, and they all got together in a pouf! www.chairish.com/product/1604...

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I started some boozy infusions today for my annual pride party. The 2026 menu: - Papaya in Honeyed Gin - Red Pear in Honeyed Gin - Red Pear in Bourbon - Pluot in Bourbon - Red Apple & Blackberry in Gold Rum

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Books of the Emissary @ds9reworked.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Turns out I'm not the first to remix a TV series, but Books of the Emissary takes a very different approach than this and at a much larger scale. Around 2013, two fans of Lost created chronological versions of the show with extensive editing of individual episodes. www.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/a...

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In a Twist on the Remix, Fans Recut TV Series (Published 2013)

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