(July 10, 2018 at 4:54 pm)Tizheruk Wrote:(July 10, 2018 at 4:52 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: DS9 remains the pinnacle of what Roddenberry's vision had to offer. I loved Voyager, but its pilot marked the beginning of an inevitable decline. I love Trek. But it's over. Tune in to reruns if you want to catch that feeling.
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(July 10, 2018 at 4:52 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: DS9 remains the pinnacle of what Roddenberry's vision had to offer. I loved Voyager, but its pilot marked the beginning of an inevitable decline. I love Trek. But it's over. Tune in to reruns if you want to catch that feeling.Really because the person who made DS9 went against Roddenberry's vision at least some elements and quite a few episodes were devoted to tearing down it's mythology .
A capitalist (quark ) gets a major sympathetic role
A dark character like Garak also gets a sympathetic role
Sisko is the anti Picard
The Federation is depicted as heavy handed and at time hypocritical
It adds the supernatural and religion to a series that was highly secular
And it kind of became pro war as the Federation becomes slowly more militaristic
Just some thoughts
I don't think the Federation became pro-war. I think that they were shaken out of their complacent "peace at any cost" attitude and realised they would have to actually fight occasionally after Wolf 359.
Remember the Defiant (to me the best small ship to come out of Starfleet), was the first specially designed warship the Federation had built, and it was specifically designed to fight the Borg.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"