Just finished my DS9 rewatch and I don’t think I realised that Garak’s final line is his bitter admonition to Bashir. He doesn’t get a poignant montage; just a broken, ruined home planet, with no family or friends left alive.
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ST: Picard was such a waste of energy as a follow up to those shows when the real sauce would have been something covering the political intrigue of the alpha quadrant’s major powers recovering in the wake of the war.
They’d already established that the Federation wasn’t as squeaky clean as they’d like you to believe. The other powers were ruined, millions dead. A proud Imperialist Klingon chancellor replaced by a war hero with Worf as his most trusted aide.
The annoying thing is that S01E01 seems initially to be going in that direction and then…
(I don't mind the fan service of S3 - I think we basically deserved seeing -D after sitting through S2, but if they'd done that _first_ and then given us something more afterwards…)
I get the nostalgia value, but I couldn’t get over the ridiculously high-stakes galactic-scale crisis of that show. You need low-stakes stuff as well as the big story beats.
*stares at every RTD finale ever written* oh, I know the feeling ;)
The other problem is every show since Enterprise seems to go full tilt into Evil Federation. Or a complete misunderstanding about how Section 31 Are Bad, Not Cool.
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(I don't mind the fan service of S3 - I think we basically deserved seeing -D after sitting through S2, but if they'd done that _first_ and then given us something more afterwards…)
The other problem is every show since Enterprise seems to go full tilt into Evil Federation. Or a complete misunderstanding about how Section 31 Are Bad, Not Cool.
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