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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.
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Personally I disliked the whole introduction of religion into the Trek setting, though DS9 is still a great show. It just felt like a weird step back in an enlightened future defined by knowledge and science to suddenly have "gods" fucking around
Gods (as aliens) were a recurrent theme in TOS.
Remember Apollo. Or... what does god need with a starship?
Thats a good point I hadn’t considered, it’s been a while since I watched TOS.
But I would argue that especially the latter was more a lesson that superhuman powers don’t constitute a god, whereas DS9 seems to be a lot less critical in their depiction of the bajoran belief system and the wormhole aliens / prophets.