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The other communities have rules, so you have to be careful about what you post, but here we can just talk about anything. So I don't subscribe to the strict ones, I just subscribe to the fun one.

Shitpost communities are the only ones that don't take themselves too seriously, and will actually give you some interesting answers without devolving into a flamewar

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Though I must confess that I am skeptical about scenes like this. In my opinion, DS9 often comes dangerously close to glorifying terrorism, which might have had a more positive reputation in the U.S. in the light of the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan, however, little did they know that they themselves would become the occupiers from the perspective of many people, especially in the Arab world. I doubt that DS9 would have approached terrorism the way it did if it would have been made after 9/11.

I disagree that kira was indiscriminate, she wasn't randomly killing any being. "I don't like where you draw your line, so I'm going to accuse you of having no line" is a fallacious argument.

I got super invested in emotions of Bajor... mostly the emotion was seething hate of Kai Winn.... Space Karen made me feel hate more then I ever felt hate in a TV show.

I think it's easy to feel a lot more for the narns because of all the stuff they go through during the series, as opposed to just in the backstory. I think the fact that the narns as a whole and our main narn character in particular start the show as people obsessed with hate and revenge is also very important, both because it shows the impact that the centauri have had on them, and because it makes their arc and character development so much more dramatic.

It's been a long time since I went through DS9, but when I think of the bajorans, I think of their own internal political squabbling more than the occupation. Sure, we hear about it and on a few occasions even see what it was like on the station at the time, but there is nothing in there as powerful as the stuff we got in B5, like say, G'kar's father on the tree.

Hell, Sisco was thinking about retiring to a little house on Bajor. Ain't nobody thinking that way about the narn homeworld.

I respect that people can have different reactions to things but I can't imagine seeing Louise Fletcher and having anything but both glee and dread for a Kai Winn episode.

Having Andreas Katsulas articulate the tragedy of the Narn goes a long way. (No offense to Nana Visitor.)

In B5, we heard about the oppression like the Bajorans. But then we got to see it again, first hand.

The great thing about the Narn was that they started as the Cardassians but turned into the Bajorans.

Narn seemed more oppressed because Bajor had an effective resistance and Narn was conquered twice by the Centauri.