The result is the same, regardless of the motivations. Sisko of all people feels like someone who would be a stickler about that, considering Cassidy was duped into providing humanitarian relief to rebels.
Sisko had a grand ideal of what was right in his head and as the series goes by that ideal is tested again and again and he comes to terms with the fact that the ideal isn’t the reality and that he is capable of breaking his own ideals and still living with it. 🤷♂️
At its core, I’ve always felt that DS9 is ultimately about what it takes to create and maintain the utopian future that exists in (at least) the core worlds of the Federation.
The high ideals of the Federation are very inspiring, to be sure. But Sisko lays it out in Season 1 when he tells Kira that “the problem is Earth” and that “it’s easy to be a saint in paradise.”
They are caught between the Cardassians and the Bajorans… and then discover they are also on the Dominion’s doorstep. And in a corner of the galaxy that Starfleet and the Federation have given up on and would like to forget about as quickly as possible. DS9 is as far from paradise as it gets.
Things get dark during the series, by Trek standards, and all of the characters show themselves to be less than perfect, but I think that’s what makes the series so interesting.
Yep just one of the several times Sisko is actually kind of an evil scumbag.
Evil or completely misguided by untethered rage and extreme betrayal?
The result is the same, regardless of the motivations. Sisko of all people feels like someone who would be a stickler about that, considering Cassidy was duped into providing humanitarian relief to rebels.
Sisko had a grand ideal of what was right in his head and as the series goes by that ideal is tested again and again and he comes to terms with the fact that the ideal isn’t the reality and that he is capable of breaking his own ideals and still living with it. 🤷♂️
At its core, I’ve always felt that DS9 is ultimately about what it takes to create and maintain the utopian future that exists in (at least) the core worlds of the Federation.
The high ideals of the Federation are very inspiring, to be sure. But Sisko lays it out in Season 1 when he tells Kira that “the problem is Earth” and that “it’s easy to be a saint in paradise.”
They are caught between the Cardassians and the Bajorans… and then discover they are also on the Dominion’s doorstep. And in a corner of the galaxy that Starfleet and the Federation have given up on and would like to forget about as quickly as possible. DS9 is as far from paradise as it gets.
Things get dark during the series, by Trek standards, and all of the characters show themselves to be less than perfect, but I think that’s what makes the series so interesting.
My favorite, albeit holosuite centered, example: