This is a reminder about surrendering before even fighting. It is not that the fight may be futile. It is for those after who will look back and say, "How did you let this happen?"
This reminds me of one time I misread the dosage on an edible and got way too high. I thought I'd watch some DS9 to calm down, but then I got to the episode where they lose the station and was like "nope this is not calming me down at all" and had to take a break.
"the simpsons/star trek is able to predict the future!" - no. More accurately the writers behind each series knows' their history. To steal a line from battlestar 2004: all of this has happened before and will happen again. Also known as "those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it"
I love the moment when Kira takes the turbolift to Ops and get to her station, surrounded by the Dominion, and it dawns on her that she had become a collaborator and needs to find ways to start fighting.
Well, of course that was the major point there but she was there precisely to appear to collaborate in the first place to buy time and keep the Dominion from messing with Bajor, so that's how she wound up getting too used to it.
I'd recommend revisiting Babylon 5 too, especially with the coup of the earth alliance government in season two and one episode where Dr. Franklin deals with religious fundamentalism.
I'll check it out. In the meantime, it's also interesting how Blake's 7, which was a satire and warning of Margaret Thatcher's arrival in Parliament, would bring about the rise of neoliberal and eventually fascistic rule in the UK. Now all we have to wait for is the bubble-heads to leave bodies.
It is a powerful scene, it can apply to so much. The problem is, not everyone wants peace. For some, you give them a inch they'll take a mile, give them a mile, they'll take a country, give them a country, they'll try and take the world. There is a government in the middle east that thinks that way.
Yep... DS9 was something. You know, back in the 90s, being used to Star Trek's optimistic future, I thought Earth gov going fascist in Babylon 5 was almost silly, it could never happen again, right? How naive I was...
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DS9 is a sometimes comfort food.
For years, you couldn't find it in syndication. Just TNG reruns.
Well, we know why.
And it’s an amazing scene.
At this point, by "Rocks and Shoals", Kira had comfortably slipped into collaborator mode.
Only Vedek Yassim's actions shocked Nerys from her complacency.
and wow again, how DS9 is sooo on the point.
this show has so many great episodes its mindblowing.
https://youtu.be/hdQcGzbpN7s?si=Vz7ayRLE923mkttM
Controversial opinion: DS9 took waaay too long to hook me. WTF was the state of play the beginning of that show?! Isn't Star Trek post war?
My only Trek fail so far.
Less controversial opinion: Nana Visitor should have had her own spin off show, she is magnetic!
The only way she had, the ultimate sacrifice, to wake Kira up.