Deep Space Nine"s Surprise Star Trek Comeback Proves It’s Time For A Revival

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Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4, Episode 7 - "A Few Badgeys More"
Summary

Deep Space Nine's cameo in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 proves the need for a real revival of the beloved series.
The Dominion War from Deep Space Nine is crucial to the storyline of Star Trek: Picard season 3, but fans were disappointed by the absence of DS9 characters.
The crossovers between Star Trek: Lower Decks and Deep Space Nine demonstrate that an animated revival may be a logical and successful way to bring back the show.

Deep Space Nine makes a surprise cameo in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, and the sight of Captain Benjamin Sisko's (Avery Brooks) space station proves that it's high time for a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine revival on Paramount+. DS9 went off the air in 1999 after a revolutionary 7-season run where the Star Trek series embraced serialization and told deeper character-driven story arcs that predicted modern-day Prestige TV. Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Picard have included DS9 crossovers, but the beloved series and its cast are due for a real comeback.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Dominion War was the foundation of Star Trek: Picard season 3's central plot line about Changelings secretly infiltrating Starfleet. Picard season 3's first half was largely a mystery about why Captain Vadic (Amanda Plummer) wanted to steal the remains of Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and what it had to do with Changelings replacing Starfleet Officers and hunting Picard's son, Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers). The crimes Section 31 perpetrated against Changelings during the Dominion War is ultimately what drove Vadic to seek vengeance against the United Federation of Planets, but DS9 fans were disappointed that no characters from the series appeared in Picard season 3 when much of its story was built upon the fallout of the Dominion War.