Blair lives?
I know it may seem a stretch, but I just saw the last scene from Prophecy again and against my prior memory, there is no clear cut evidence that Blair is dead. Call it nostalgia, but Blair might very well have survived his encounter on gate 7 of the nephilum wormhole.
You don't really believe that the hero of the confederation was outsmarted by a roach do you?
He still had plenty of time before the countdown terminated when that bug swooped down from above. Blair has great skill in close quarters combat as he demonstrated in WC4 after dusting off some Black Lance security and escaping on a Dragon. He could've have iced the falling bug and boarded his LC.
The fact that he had been kidnapped by the bugs before and managed to survive is a testament to this man's incredible strength. If that kidnapping didn't occur, then I would be more likely to conclude that Blair did die on gate 7.
How on Earth did the bug know who he was?? Did that not bother the heck out of you when it screamed out Blair!!? I know it bothered me and at first I said to myself "No way did the bug say Blair". But then I ran the last scene with subtitles and sure enough we have a special bug. Either the bug was telepathic, which is not unheard of considering a roach problem I had in the past and the way the bugs knew to stay away from me. OR The bug might have also had tremendous eyesight and knowledge of the english alphabet and merely read his nametag. OR the bug might have seen him on Nephilum's most wanted when he was being tortured, which is suprising that he'd be such a bug celebrity given that he was hardly a celebrity outside of military circles for Terrans.... remember the opening scene from WC4 where the ex-pilot has trouble figuring out who he is.
Bugs must be smarter than us.
It also bothers me that the best fighter pilot ever would go out like that. That was a marine's death, something that would have brought Dekker and his men honor. They would have died in their field, doing what they do best- but Blair was an ace fighter pilot. I think we've all dusted off millions of furballs via him in three episodes of combat. Maybe if: he'd been alone and ambushed by 20 Devil Rays, was fighting his way out and the bug higher ups decided that they should point a ship killer at him and fire away, taking him and the Devil Rays out of commission. Maybe if Blair went down like that I'd be satisfied. Maybe if: he decided that gate 7 required more time and the only way to provide that time was to fly through the wormhole, guns blazing in a vampire, and that it was the only way to give the marines the time they needed to lower the shields- so that we would see a cutscene akin to Butch and Sundance taking on the Venezuelan army- that would be something more fitting.
So basically, I'm saying that Christopher Blair is alive and well- whether he's in a Marine LC somewhere, or on the wrong side of the wormhole, or on some planet in Kilrathi space searching for a way to get back to Confed, he's still there and knowing Blair, he will succeed. I'd personally prefer the last option because it can open up to a whole other story and would explain why by the time Sec Ops had come out that no word had been received. Perhaps he couldn't tell the Kilrathi all at once who he was or he did and was held prisoner. Here the possibilities are endless, unlike on gate seven with a roach overhead and in the situation with the Kilrathi there is more intrigue.
If I was Blair, the thing keeping me up at night would be: why couldn't I get any lines with Ginger Lynn in WCP?