Basically, if you’re going to be comitting black ops crimes against humanity or breaking treaties with black ops, fuck you, that’s not star trek. Doing something so horrible that you have to erase it from history is going to be a no from me for the “optimistic utopian sci fi”.
If you’re doing crimes against humanity on the reg, you might as well hand Bajor back to the cardassians.
Erase log message.
I’m so glad I haven’t seen that ep, and hope I never do.
I did just see Michelle Yeo as Georgie Papadopoulos DIS 3:2 and yeech. Great actress, awful character for trek.
Loved the idea about “I want to just jump around multiverses” being a nod to everything everywhere all at once though.
Why? It’s widely considered the best episode of ds9.
I wrote a long ass post about why I hate a different episode that touches similar themes : https://lemmy.world/post/30261184?scrollToComments=true
Basically, if you’re going to be comitting black ops crimes against humanity or breaking treaties with black ops, fuck you, that’s not star trek. Doing something so horrible that you have to erase it from history is going to be a no from me for the “optimistic utopian sci fi”.
If you’re doing crimes against humanity on the reg, you might as well hand Bajor back to the cardassians.
Sisko is definitely a darker character, morally dubious. But that’s what I love about him as a captain.
It’s more realistic. More honest. Picard equivocates and bitches and moans and then does it anyway as if that makes it perfectly alright.
Sisko does what he sees needs to be done, and recognizes it wasn’t “good” or maybe even acceptable.
Yes, because nothing screams “We’ve evolved beyond petty things” like “the captain is doing things that are unacceptable”