Secure Da Bag
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that 1st season of discovery
Benjamin Sisko was thrown back in time on this date August 30th 2024 and participated in the Bell Riots
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alternate kira made the alternate universe episodes she was in work
Elim Garak
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I only saw season 1 and the beginning of season 2. What I'm saying though is the creativity is gone imo and is replaced by big budgets. It's flashy, but seems to lack substance.that 1st season of discovery
Secure Da Bag
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Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks seem to capture that ST spirit.
Elim Garak
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I don't like Lower Decks at all lol. Never watched Strange New Worlds. After Picard and Discovery they lost me lol.
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Secure Da Bag
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Lower Decks is funny. But if you watch SNW and you don't like that either. Then you might as well cancel Paramount Plus.
Nkrumah Was Right
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I think you’d like season 1 of Strange New Worlds
Space Cowboy
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The TOS ep is incredible. You’re nuts
AquaCityBoy
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Don't forget Prodigy AKA GOATigy
AquaCityBoy
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One of the most relevant episodes of DS9 to today is "Business as Usual" from season five.
In it, Quark gets into selling weapons, but is overcome by guilt when one of the clients wants to use them to commit a genocide of over 20 million people.
Quark comes to the realization that if he sells weapons to someone planning to commit genocide, with the full knowledge that they're going to use those weapons to commit genocide, then he too is complicit in said genocide.
It's crazy how the greedy profiteer on a Sci fi show from 27 years ago was able to understand this concept but the US government can't after 11 months of Isntreal destroying Gaza
In it, Quark gets into selling weapons, but is overcome by guilt when one of the clients wants to use them to commit a genocide of over 20 million people.
Quark comes to the realization that if he sells weapons to someone planning to commit genocide, with the full knowledge that they're going to use those weapons to commit genocide, then he too is complicit in said genocide.
It's crazy how the greedy profiteer on a Sci fi show from 27 years ago was able to understand this concept but the US government can't after 11 months of Isntreal destroying Gaza
Space Cowboy
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What a childish showOne of the most relevant episodes of DS9 to today is "Business as Usual" from season five.
In it, Quark gets into selling weapons, but is overcome by guilt when one of the clients wants to use them to commit a genocide of over 20 million people.
Quark comes to the realization that if he sells weapons to someone planning to commit genocide, with the full knowledge that they're going to use those weapons to commit genocide, then he too is complicit in said genocide.
It's crazy how the greedy profiteer on a Sci fi show from 27 years ago was able to understand this concept but the US government can't after 11 months of Isntreal destroying Gaza
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CodeKansas
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Far Beyond the Stars suffers from being such a serious episode....right up until they got Weyoun stomping out Sisko in the middle of the street. That scene completely took me out of the episode proper, because Weyoun dropping elbows on anybody, let alone Sisko, is just completely unimaginable. Had that been Dukat and Damar, shyt would've gone so much harder.
There's a similar theme that's taken even more extreme in Octavia Butler's "The Parable of the Sower", which was written in the early 1990s and is also set in 2024. People were looking at almost a decade of Reganomics, three decades of oppressive post-Jim Crow policing, and years of dysfunction from the crack era, and could only see the situation getting worse.
There's also a cult-like political leader in the book (featured even more in the sequel) who is damn near EXACTLY like Trump. It's fukking prescient.
There's also a cult-like political leader in the book (featured even more in the sequel) who is damn near EXACTLY like Trump. It's fukking prescient.
Secure Da Bag
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That episode belonged in another sci-fi show. Not that one. It was a good episode but never fit with the series to me.
Elim Garak
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That was the point.