tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13576198.post7216618872643161516..comments2023-09-05T05:20:50.393-04:00Comments on second americano: A vote for Hillary is a vote for Kai WinnUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13576198.post-46239327980982584972008-03-16T19:04:00.000-04:002008-03-16T19:04:00.000-04:00This post rules in, like, nine ways. It rulzzz wit...This post rules in, like, nine ways. It rulzzz with several extra z's (and would also rule with an umlaut if I knew how to type it).Transient Gadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10313323030838183737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13576198.post-48227196326293645432008-03-16T01:17:00.000-04:002008-03-16T01:17:00.000-04:00Really good post. DS9 was always the most underra...Really good post. DS9 was always the most underrated Star Trek. <BR/><BR/>I think it must have been because it was so political, hence "dirty" in a way that the Star Trek future often is not, what with its Hegelian urge toward historical unification married to cleanly Kantian prime directives. The Trek ethos that appealed to so many fans was similar to what Orwell described in Road to Wigan Pier as the telltale weakness of English socialism: the crankish dream of a sanitary future, one freed of money, risk, and conflicts over ends, and elevated by benign technological change. That they somehow combined this with swashbuckling adventure evaded Orwell without really answering his serious questions. <BR/><BR/>But on DS9, the equipment usually sucks, the warp drive didn't get you anywhere (no "new frontier", where the original ST fused Kennedy idealism and old West escapism), and you kept encountering the same persistent bad guys week after week. The Cardassians were really good villains--an understandable, and very human, kind of evil. Kai Winn was even better. How perfect that she had been Nurse Ratchet!<BR/><BR/>The one weakness: a crappy romance b/w Odo and Kira. Made them both unbearable saps. Anyway, I stopped watching the various successor shows. They could never live up.tenaciousmcdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16017631367821997948noreply@blogger.com