tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4400152815785368447.post7083780448095468574..comments2024-03-15T07:28:47.064-05:00Comments on Treknobabble: Deep Space Nine: Season 7: Badda Bing, Badda BangUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4400152815785368447.post-46562569721707997292017-03-04T19:59:09.637-06:002017-03-04T19:59:09.637-06:00I find Sisko's initial reaction completely out...I find Sisko's initial reaction completely out of left field and absolutely not en par with what we know about the Trek universe. We have never seen race, human races I mean, to matter and be an issue in the Trek universe (at least never explicitly). On the contrary, it would appear that after WWWIII and the Eugenics wars and a host of terrible historic events human kind had to overcome to "grow out of its infancy" as Picard put it, racial tensions as we know them in the 21st century would not be a thing. To see Sisko then recite Civil Rights era sentiments in this established Trek universe where it has NEVER been an issue, is completely inappropriate and, in my case, really took me out of Star Trek and the experience and was actually quite off putting. <br /><br />It was a 20th century problem just inexplicably transplanted into the 24th century. It was too heavy handed and did not fit the established context. Someone in that writing room should have caught that and stopped it right then and there. I have no clue how it passed. <br /><br />There is a Season 2 episode on Voyager where they go on that space station in the nekrit expanse and the station manager talks about catching people who sell narcotics. That is a similar issue as it is completely and utterly inconceivable that aliens in the future some 70,000 light years on the other side of our galaxy would be engaging in the pointless and politically and racially motivated war on drugs similar to that of Earth circa 1995 and especially Clinton's administration. Everytime I watch that episode, I realize how totally laughable it is. <br /><br />The epusode makes it look like there is some enlightened reason behind making narcotics illegal - both in the alien world and on Earth circa 1995, when in reality, the war on drugs was designed as a tool to win votes. It was never about drugs, but about the exploitation of racial resentment and fear for political power. As such, it succeeded more than any other political scheme of the last half of the twentieth century. <br /><br />Anyway, I digress. But my point is, putting a 20th century problem in Star Trek, especially like that, out of left field and unprecedented is never a good idea and it always leaves a bad taste in my mouth. if Trek had wanted to make black emancipation an issue in its universe (or drug use), it should have and would have done so years ago. To just dump it in there like that is just ....strange and inappropriate. poppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09064123327462038174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4400152815785368447.post-42333901545197973322017-01-29T07:10:49.718-06:002017-01-29T07:10:49.718-06:00I really like this episode! I wanted to respond to...I really like this episode! I wanted to respond to the issue of Odo's use of his ability to basically solve the problem. I don't think this breaks the time period solution issue. After all there might have been shapeshifters on Earth in the 1960's we just didn't know about it. <br />Also totally agree about the dress on Dax. sirkatzalothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01196996609340706645noreply@blogger.com