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The war with Dominion on DS9 is the best storytelling arc in the entire Star Trek franchise. I& #39;m not watching it right now or anything. I just have this thought regularly because it& #39;s true and I care.
DS9 was very politically experimental. It went places subsequent storytellers just weren& #39;t allowed to go in a post 9/11 United States. So in that way, Treks that followed were at a disadvantage. But DS9 was always the black sheep and it was always better for that.
When I think about the most striking moments on DS9, there& #39;s a lot of messaging that would have been condemned if written post 9/11. Beyond the obvious stuff, I think even the Jem& #39;Hadar, as a critique of U.S. militarism, would have gotten push back as being too harsh.
Kira was def a character we were not going to see the likes of again for many years, if ever, after 9/11. Her history, her anti-colonial militancy, her refusal to regret what she did for freedom, her role in the homestretch of the war -- no network would have allowed it.
Pale Moonlight would have landed differently bc a lot of people were more amenable to war crimes post 9/11.
What about Miles & Julian going after Section 31 for personal reasons? 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="Gesicht mit FreudentrĂ€nen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit FreudentrĂ€nen"> Think about what the real-world equivalent of what they did would be. Luther Sloan was basically Jack Bauer. But things played out a bit differently for Sloan. Also, you were never supposed to root for him.
The thing I always come back to is that the hope DS9 gave people living in 2024 was a riot, and they told us that without that uprising here in the U.S., there was no hope for the future. They told us the Trek world we knew & loved couldn& #39;t exist without a rebellion in our time.
The Dominion arc specifically drove home that even when there is seemingly no hope left, there are some things you don& #39;t surrender to. In Statistical Probabilities, Julian was like "but we are gonna like for sure lose and die " and Sisko was like "bitch, don& #39;t be a bootlicker."
I think there were actually a number of episodes of DS9 that were just about how you shouldn& #39;t be a bootlicker.
There is some stuff in the final episodes, story wise, that prob should& #39;ve been cut (those final montages were so unnecessary), but up through the resolution of the war, it& #39;s all so damn good. Like the stuff on Cardassia in "The Dogs of War" -- just wow. Those scenes. My heart.
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I get that TNG brings back warmer memories for folks. I loved it as a child and I still do. But I also recognize that while it was draped in certain socialist ideas, TNG basically *was* liberalism, and there are certain limitations there. https://twitter.com/MsKellyMHayes/status/1253172226192543745?s=20">https://twitter.com/MsKellyMH...
