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DS9 suffers from the usual "takes two seasons to get going" handicap common to Treks, but has the additional Bajor thing dragging it down. Is it the Israel-Pal
by at_a_remove 3y ago
DS9 suffers from the usual "takes two seasons to get going" handicap common to Treks, but has the additional Bajor thing dragging it down. Is it the Israel-Palestine conflict or not? The show cannot seem to decide. The actors manage to be solid enough to redeem a lot of the show's problems, even non-regulars like Jeffrey Combs.
- Beldin 3y agoBasically, the Cardassians were an authoritarian, fascist regime bent on destroying a species different from them. With the brutal oppression, "work" / death camps, religion on one side, fascist regime on the other, a nebulous Gestapo-alike secret service, "pleasure" girls, etc. Isreal-Palestine conflict is not the first one to come to my mind.
- at_a_remove 3y agoI was thinking more of the displacement of the people who had lived in one place by another group of people.
- DropInIn 3y agoIt's an amalgam of Palestine, the Irish Troubles and period since, and a smattering of pre and post WWII Jews (both Zionist terrorists and Israel, manifest in the prefederation period and competing factions corrupting the "interim" government). Theres even some north american first Nation material slyly slipped in there too. I don't understand why people expect, let alone want, the Bajorans to be an exclusive representation of a single peoples or problem... It's much more poignant as an abstract which can be used to review real issues through a figurative representation of the entire class of issues/peoples.