Dirk Savage/Seasons 8 and 9.
 

I just finished watching his episode and it's too bad he never showed up in Season 8, especially during the HAVOC trilogy. He understood there were good mutaants as well as bad and Donatello and Raphael did help him see the light. Would've been interesting but oh well.

Is it just me or does Dirk look alot like Star Wars's Dash Rendar?

Considering a lot of characters are homages I wouldn't be surprised.

I thought he was supposed to a be a nod to Nick Fury from Marvel.

That sounds about right. :) It's too bad he wasn' there, but I can see why. Casey Jones was the only ally to appear in any of those seasons - and in only one episode. IIRC Krakus was supposed to be in the episodes that later became "Carter The Enforcer" rather than Landor and Merrick but that's it.

I think they really could have used Dirk Savage's help when HAVOC was here and when the turtles had their super mutations.

Where did you hear that about Krakus? That would have made it more interesting with him instead of Landor and Merrick. I also thought that Wesley Knight of Dark Water and Berserko would have had great further use beyond thier one episodes.

That was in an interview with the writers about how an episode is made. This was on the old ninjaturtles.com site. The Internet Archive can't help here since it started up after Season 10 was over and they were planning for the Next Mutaton. Yes, it would've made more sense, but I'm guessing Krakus's VA wasn't impressed with how the show was turning out or was among those let go with the restructuring. Too bad. Maybe Carter was his descendant? :)

Yes, Colonel Wesley Knight and even Dirk Savage would've been great help during the anti-mutant propaganda. They knew the Turtles were good guys even if the media was labelling them as menaces.

It would have been cool if Wesley Knight and Casey Jones were both helping the TMNT and got into it over April. Knight and Savage were also edgy and I agree about adding them into the mix during Dregg's anti-mutant campaign. Burne Thompson would have been great for this storyline as well if he were the leading citizen prompting Dregg.

Are you referring to Jeffery Scott's interview that was one of the very first things ever on the ninjaturtles.com site? I have not looked at it in a number of years. I was wondering what went into the scripting process. Beyond that and David Wise explaining his exit and distaste for Dregg,Cater, and Zach the three TMNT '87 series characters that I could have done without, I have not seen any behind the scnees things with the '87 series.

Burne MIGHT'VE thought something was up knowing Shredder and Krang were gone and yet there were still threats on the city. Whether he thought the Turtles could pull them off is another thing. The mutations wouldn't help though.

I thought the CBS suits enforcing a shakeup removing not just Shredder and gang but April's Chanel Six News colleagues was a mistake. Even if Dregg replaced Shredder's group Burne could have lead the campaign against the TMNT for Dregg and April did not have to work for him but against him as a freelance. It was a huge missed opportunity IMHO.