DS9 s5e13 “For the Uniform”
Benjamin Sisko in: The man with no chill.
Also, in that very episode, they relieved him of the duty of chasing that guy after he fucked it up and gave it to someone more capable. Didn’t give a fuck. Sisko is a nice guy to the people he knows, but JFC the man has no chill or understanding of the boundaries of what he should do.
remember, the only difference between the good timeline and the bad timeline is circumstance.
Sisko likes to do a little bit of war criming… As a treat.
So what are you going to do, Mollari? Huh? Blow up the island.
Yep just one of the several times Sisko is actually kind of an evil scumbag.
My favorite, albeit holosuite centered, example:
Evil or completely misguided by untethered rage and extreme betrayal?
The result is the same, regardless of the motivations. Sisko of all people feels like someone who would be a stickler about that, considering Cassidy was duped into providing humanitarian relief to rebels.
Sisko had a grand ideal of what was right in his head and as the series goes by that ideal is tested again and again and he comes to terms with the fact that the ideal isn’t the reality and that he is capable of breaking his own ideals and still living with it. 🤷♂️
At its core, I’ve always felt that DS9 is ultimately about what it takes to create and maintain the utopian future that exists in (at least) the core worlds of the Federation.
The high ideals of the Federation are very inspiring, to be sure. But Sisko lays it out in Season 1 when he tells Kira that “the problem is Earth” and that “it’s easy to be a saint in paradise.”
They are caught between the Cardassians and the Bajorans… and then discover they are also on the Dominion’s doorstep. And in a corner of the galaxy that Starfleet and the Federation have given up on and would like to forget about as quickly as possible. DS9 is as far from paradise as it gets.
Things get dark during the series, by Trek standards, and all of the characters show themselves to be less than perfect, but I think that’s what makes the series so interesting.
Meanwhile Dennis & Dee’s real dad joined with V’Ger
Didn’t he poison two whole planets and then make the colonists trade? Or am I misremembering?
The Maquis used biogenic weapons on a Cardi colony, so Sisko responded in kind to a largely human populated Maquis planet. Threatening to go further finally stopped Eddington.
Thank you!
Sisko’s poison. The poison from Sisko to poison the planet. That poison?
