Relevant ? Fuck, it's a documentary at this point.they absolutely need to show the DS9 eps Past tense part 1 and 2, as those episodes are absolutely relevent to our current times.
Badda Bing, Badda Bang kind of touches on overt racism as well, even if the conclusion is a bit unsatisfactory.For a BLM marathon, Far Beyond the Stars is... kinda mandatory. Duet is just uniformly excellent, but I feel like the moral there isn't really relevant to them moment. Past Tense I feel has a strong argument, as does the two-parter where the admiral tries to stage a coup in the name of security, but like, they're definitely secondary compared to Far Beyond the Stars.
It's mostly just the bit where he calls out the falsity of the fantasy, but like you said, it... pretty much backtracks on that.Badda Bing, Badda Bang kind of touches on overt racism as well, even if the conclusion is a bit unsatisfactory.
For a BLM marathon, Far Beyond the Stars is... kinda mandatory. Duet is just uniformly excellent, but I feel like the moral there isn't really relevant to them moment. Past Tense I feel has a strong argument, as does the two-parter where the admiral tries to stage a coup in the name of security, but like, they're definitely secondary compared to Far Beyond the Stars.
I like Badda Bing, Badda Bang because I think it brings up and interesting "what if" scenario.
Look at the problems today, and people who say "that was all in the past. Things are different now". Now, in our present, these problems still exist, they haven't gone away.
But what if the problem was solved. In the world of Trek, would Sisko's view be common one? What would discussions on racism and oppression in history look like in a world where Earth really had solved that one, hundreds of years ago. I get that the episode only brought it up because they know we, the viewer, don't live in that future, and it was right to call it out. But I still think it makes an interesting idea to think about.
I'd agree if not for the other episodes shown during the marathon. Seems Duet would work far better than Nemesis. And heck, even with Voyage I'm surprised they didn't show "Living Witness". An episode about revisionist history seems appropriate about now, given the talk about how some statues and memorials rewrite a terrible history.
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I can't imagine Sisko's mindset would be common (hell, you can argue he only acts that way because of his time travel/Prophet shenanigans.)
Part of the appeal of cosplaying the past is enjoying the trappings of it without any of the difficult realities of the era, and if you have no personal connection to any of that stuff why would you care? It's not like we have protest groups around now trying to remind everyone about all the raping and killing Ghengis Khan did. For interactive entertainment? I think the holodeck as presented is exactly what it would be like for the vast majority of people.
I don't think Sisko was influenced by time travel stuff. He was a history buff, and even collected ancient African artifacts. Can't remember which episode it was, but there's a later series episode where he brings his collection out of storage, and to DS9. Jake comments that it's when he really considered the station to be his home.
I'd agree if not for the other episodes shown during the marathon. Seems Duet would work far better than Nemesis. And heck, even with Voyage I'm surprised they didn't show "Living Witness". An episode about revisionist history seems appropriate about now, given the talk about how some statues and memorials rewrite a terrible history.
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Garak's a great character and remains semi-regular throughout.So watching all of Star Trek for the first time and I'm on to Deep Space 9. I really hope this Cardassian tailor dude becomes a series regular because the three episodes I've seen him in so far have been great.
the saru episode does loosely fit but yeah for picard it's pretty much showing the first 3 episode as a way to ''promote'' the show completely disregarding the themeThis seems a pretty bad list considering what it's meant to represent, bar a few episodes. The STD/STP episodes especially. Seems like they just didn't want to leave those shows out.
The Saru episode is terrible, his people were basically violent savages who almost committed genocide until the other race was able to basically castrate and enslave them.the saru episode does loosely fit but yeah for picard it's pretty much showing the first 3 episode as a way to ''promote'' the show completely disregarding the theme
uh what?the finale seem to have gone back to attacking and taking over the other race.
Believe they're referring to how the Kelpiens are now flying Baul ships and such
The Saru episode is going to end up next to Tuvox on the list of "all time bad decisions" once more time passes I think. If only for literally forcing a traumatic biological process that the entire species associates with death onto the whole planet
Someone in the writers room really thought "yes this is a happy ending"
Okay it might get overblown specifically as "the one everyone knows" but I still don't like how Janeway handled it. Restrictions of the format reallyTuvix is a legitimately great moral conundrum episode, and one of the great things Voyager actually improved on TNG with was allowing for some of those episodes to end on a non-definitive and proscriptive note.
She has the choice to save two of her crew over the life of one person, and chooses the two people. It's utilitarian, but I understand her choice. The format does limit its impact as it never gets brought up again, but that's a failing of the show as a whole not the episode.Okay it might get overblown specifically as "the one everyone knows" but I still don't like how Janeway handled it. Restrictions of the format really
Either way the Saru episode is just terrible on this front
Sisko and Riker (as far as we've seen in Picard) are the only good dads in Trek. Riker's dad, Paris' dad, Worf, and O'Brien are all bad dads. I guess Sulu wasn't horrible because his daughter turned out fine, then again Molly seemed fine in spite of O'Brien.
Sooo. Exactly the same attitude as now, then. LOL.id also imagine sisko's perspective on 20th/21st century stuff would be very different from the others, since he noted in past tense being a 21st century history buff. I imagine most earth people look at that time as "hey we solved that shit 200 years ago,we good now" and only know the federations cliff notes version unless they actively studied the time period.
Except they actually have solved it :)
He hooked up with Bashir after he send his wife and kids to Bajor😙
It actually surprises me when he asks about his kids in any episode.You could remove the element of O'Brien being a father and outside of a few episodes you could count on one hand it would make utterly zero difference to his character.
He's not a bad father, but his being a father is completely irrelevant to his character.
And kayaking. The dude loved kayaking even though it always fucked up his shoulder.O'Brien cared more about racket ball than his wife.
Him and Bashir has their thing.
O'Brien had better chemistry with Kira after she moved in with him than he ever did with Keiko. It didn't help that the actress who played Keiko wasn't a very good actor.
O'Brien had better chemistry with Kira after she moved in with him than he ever did with Keiko. It didn't help that the actress who played Keiko wasn't a very good actor.