One of the things that really annoyed me about TNG was the length the Federation seemed to be willing to go through to avoid conflict.
You got the impression that if an unknown alien species wiped out a colony of 50,000 people the response would be, "Let's chase them down so we can talk to them and find out ways to avoid misunderstandings!"
DS9 and, to a lesser extent, Voyager somewhat reversed it.
Though it seems weird that Sisko was recognised as the man who started the Dominion War, even when the Dominion had been attacking Federation and Klingon ships on the Alpha Quadrant LONG before the war actually started.
For anyone who's interested, I recommend looking up Star Trek renegades - it's a fan series being made. Actors? Walter Koenig (Chekov), Tim Russ (Tuvoc), Terry Farrell (Jadzia (not sure how they're working that one in), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), and Robert Baltran (Chakotay), among others...
You got the impression that if an unknown alien species wiped out a colony of 50,000 people the response would be, "Let's chase them down so we can talk to them and find out ways to avoid misunderstandings!"
DS9 and, to a lesser extent, Voyager somewhat reversed it.
Though it seems weird that Sisko was recognised as the man who started the Dominion War, even when the Dominion had been attacking Federation and Klingon ships on the Alpha Quadrant LONG before the war actually started.
For anyone who's interested, I recommend looking up Star Trek renegades - it's a fan series being made. Actors? Walter Koenig (Chekov), Tim Russ (Tuvoc), Terry Farrell (Jadzia (not sure how they're working that one in), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), and Robert Baltran (Chakotay), among others...
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
