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The Sisko thinks we're made of money (startrek.website)

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[+] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They were interesting when they took over OBrien’s wife, I didn’t enjoy most of the Bajoran religious episodes though.

I also found it annoying that their incorporeal nature was inconsistent. They live outside of time, and they basically possessed his mother‘s body for like 2 years and forced her to have sex with a man and give birth to him so that they could create a timeline where Sisko exists. Yet they were surprised that he wanted to get married and they told him he’d live a life of pain if he did so, and yet nothing came of that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

and yet nothing came of that

Oh, that's a common theme in Star Trek.

I'm still waiting to discover how high-wrap is destroying the Universe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You can always cop out of these conundrums with the "lord works in mysterious ways" rhetoric.

Perhaps they needed to act surprised and tell him that in order to steer events in the right direction.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I never really enjoyed that part

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Q are basically gods, and religion is widely present in our society so I'm okay with it.

I do skip most of the Bajoran episodes though...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fair enough, though they don’t have a religion worshipping them and are not at all very god like aside from their omnipotent powers. They seem more like bored Greek pantheon gods, pretty normal and flawed people with superhuman abilities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gods (as aliens) were a recurrent theme in TOS.

Remember Apollo. Or... what does god need with a starship?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He is limited… corporeal…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This meme is more wild when seen outside of linear time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The only way to watch DS9 is in 176 simultaneous windows.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Exchange of money is such a linear concept.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know you've been watching too much DS9 when the first thing you see is that his phaser is on the wrong side.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That means you're ready to edit Memory-Alpha.