What the fuck are you on?
Ether quit that dope or share that shit with us.
DS9 is still Trek, DS9 since episode 1 is a new direction for Trek but it still explored philosophical and ethical questions. Something Trek always did. And they did “explore” space, but instead of actually visiting theses places, the unknown came to them as they were a Space Station (and not a ship) and next to a stable worm hole, so they had plenty of traffic.
Its just the other side of the coin. How do you have a galatic un and keep up the appearances of a utopia with so many different idelogies and beliefs. And are they strong enough to stay afloat when bumped against just as strong enemies.
where the klingons were originally the russians. Now we have the dominion who could either be the kkk/nazis depending on the story. how do they match up and fit into the narrative. How do you push for a utopia of the future as well as ignore some of the stuff they did.
It all still fits into the narrative of star trek. Def not star wars. lmfao star trek actually respects alien life…a jedi will murk any alien it can to get out of a situation.
The Idea TNG ignored till the later seasons and you see all elsewhere is that the Galactic Utopia that the Federation tries to sell, is only for the Core/Member worlds and colonies often get the shaft.
In Trek (starting in TNG, and later you see it in DS9 and Voyager) you have Terrorist originations such as the Maquis Resistance that are all former Federation Citizens, mostly Disenfranchised Star Fleet personnel.
TOS had a episode where Kirk mentioned he used to live as a child on a space colony that didn’t have enough food so the Planetary governor decide to cull the population to avoid starvation, and this episode decades later Kirk has no choice but to play nice with the same official.
You got a whole episode where Picard refuses to give a whole planet a vaccine as it violates the prime directive, and had to put a order on Dr Crusher not to do a thing or she be relief of duty. So fuck the people we got laws to follow. Kirk would have snuck the Vaccine down and hid it in their crops or spray it into the atmosphere or something.
Janeway would nuke whole planets, Cisco actually did poison whole planets to get his way, Archer does what ever he feel he needed to to get the job done. Hell there an whole episode Picard was actually the villain of the episode and fucks over a Federation space colony of Native Americans (as part of his orders) and Wesley of all people turn traitor to save the people.
Wait, you mean you guys didn’t watch DS9 in the 1990s? When you get to the last season you’ll see the Sith Jedi theme, or maybe even before
Yes we did. It’s how we know you’re wrong.
I was literally raised on star trek. I’m just rewatching with more adult eyes
I did a star trek Sim on AOL from 7th grade til about sophomore year when one the guys I did it with died in 9/11. My mom just reminded me about that fact that’s why we stopped.
There no Star Wars themes any where in Deep Space Nine,
If anything DS9 was closer to Babylon 5 than any other sci fi property.
