…to convince me to hate this guy.
He’s basically just another Maquis, but because the main protagonist was butthurt over his deception, so he becomes this big bad foil to Sisko. This would have been like Picard getting a huge hate boner for Ro Laren, instead of just being disappointed.
Sisko had no reason to take Eddington’s defection personally, but the writers seemed to think he should. This was even though his own girlfriend got caught working for the Maquis and Sisko and Starfleet basically gave her a slap on the wrist. I guess security officers are closer than frickbuddies.
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Sisko's a dramatic b***h. Theatrical even. What do you expect.
Sisko wasn't like Picard at all. The whole appeal of DS9 is that the whole cast is a bunch of misfits with a different view on all the federation and starfleet shit unlike the TNG crew who are the overachieving nerds thriving in, and thus loving, the system.
Ro would have turned out very different on DS9 compared to how she went on the Enterprise.
That too. Picard was boring.
Sisqo is not Picard.
>wahhh my wife died and it's the fault of someone who was abducted and brainwashed by the borg even though all humans are bare minimum supposed to be more evolved than that
>wahhh Eddington shit
>wahhh the holodeck program and muh race even though again all humans are bare minimum supposed to be more evolved than that
No, but the writers in this case failed to convince me to see things Sisko’s way.
If they had portrayed it with a little more nuance… there was some but it was pretty clear they wanted us to agree with and support Sisko’s vendetta.
But they failed to make their case.
Well yeah, DS9's producer is kinda nuts.
Which made for a better show. Minus all the episodes that centered on Bajor and it's whacky religion, those were always a snooze.
Anything to do with the prophets is a snoozefest, but Bajoran politics can be pretty kino like the coup plot at the beginning of season 2.
>If they had portrayed it with a little more nuance… there was some but it was pretty clear they wanted us to agree with and support Sisko’s vendetta.
>But they failed to make their case.
The opposite. Sisko going batshit over this was supposed to have you sympathise with the Maquis and finally hammer home that the amicable Sisko was not the whole story. In fact, that side of him was basically his "office face", the angry mf was the real Sisko.
I’d like to believe you’re right but if so it seems most trekkies just accepted Sisko’s position at face value because he was The Good Guy™
Because he's right. The federation is kind of totalitarian.
The root beer scene between garak and quark is a little sinister if viewed this way.
This, it's hitting a little too close to home for Sisko.
Cassidy was only hired to do work for them. Eddington BETRAYED THE UNIFORM!
You're not really supposed to hate him though, it's a shades of grey thing.
I don't have much to contribute to ds9 so here us a trek pep an here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h8MkYdtU61Y is a lady playing trek intros.
Crazy how soulless it gets as soon as you get past Voyager.
Also these arrangements are terrible.
Thanks.
show sucks after gul dukats daughter dies
>You know what? Frick you.
>*Bullpups your Star Trek*
>Goes back in time to Waco.
>Sympathesizes with them.
i found it odd they invented a whole new slang language for this episode, that then never has a payoff in the story..
>You've been playing a very sophisticated version of Angry Goy, Commander.
I didn't hate Eddington for his "morally grey" storyline, I hated him because the character's dialogue was hammy and the actor's delivery was fricking horrible.
They succeed in making a neat semi-realistic Federation rebellion that's politically a no win scenario for everyone but then they just turn the whole thing into a foil for Sisko and make it all into a character drama between he and Eddington.
Fair. Voyager didn’t push the Maquis story to its full potential either. On some level I suspect Star Trek’s writers drank the root beer and couldn’t really get into the headspace of someone who would rebel against globohomosexual utopia.
I really like the voy episode where 7 thinks everyone is secretly plotting against everyone else and there is still a maquis conspiracy going on. Though arguably the federation having engineered the voyager incident to establish a foothold in the delta q is more interesting.
Yeah I just (re) watched that one recently. It’s good but I have to admit it wasn’t as impactful the second time around.
I generally love the episodes where the protagonist realizes (wrongly, in Seven’s case) something’s not right and they have to figure out what’s going on.
>where the protagonist realizes (wrongly, in Seven’s case) something’s not right and they have to figure out what’s going on
The first thing that came into my mind is the episode of tng where wesleys experiment keeps shrinking the universe until the enterprise crew is just picard and beverly and she has to figure it out.
That’s a great one.
I also like the one where Riker wakes up in sickbay and they tell him he’s lost his long term memory and he has a son he doesn’t even remember raising.
>you now remember the holo telephone
Sisko is half magic space god, he's prone to being ridiculous
I literally don't remember that character.
DS9 had a lot of iffy episodes.
Recently watched DS9 for the first time and I gotta ask what the deal is with Sisko. Character was okay but his line delivery always seemed so forced, kinda ruins the character for me. The one episode where he sings makes me cringe cause it sounds like he's trying to sing in a funny voice but it's just the stupid way he talks.
It's the southern black preacher cadence, you get used to it.
YOU BETRAYED DS9
Eddington was pretty based depsite choosing a moron ideology and absolute chad gives no shits about the Norwood Reaper