🖖Star Trek DS9 S02E15 Full Length Reaction
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This week's episode we see Sisko and OB pair up to take on an off-the-grid society led by a culty leader👍 Engage! 🖖
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Somehow - maybe it's because this is episodic with a neat bow at the end - but I always envision this as Picard/Geordi on the planet and Ryker/Data rescuing them. Can't you see Patrick Stewart going voluntarily back into the box? I wonder if it was originally written that way...
John DiGiantomasso
2025-08-26 23:27:50 +0000 UTCI've got some strong feelings and opinions on this one—but first off, it's a great DS9 episode (I've rewatched it plenty times) and credit to Gail Strickland, who played Alixus. She did a fantastic job… but wow, I absolutely hated that character and her whole philosophy. Anyone who's anti-technology, who thinks giving up science and progress is the "better" way to live? Hard pass from me. Big props to Sisko and O'Brien here, and I also loved the little moments between Kira and Jadzia Dax. This is the kind of Trek storytelling I live for. 😊 What I've always loved about Star Trek is that the Federation and Starfleet represent a utopia built on technology, exploration, socialist ideals, and big-picture philosophy—Gene Roddenberry's vision at its best. That's why Alixus' "community" never felt like a real community to me. It was built on lies and manipulation, forcing people into unnecessary hardship. That's not noble—it's a prison. Ethically, it's just wrong. I'm glad she faced justice and ended up in a Federation penal colony/prison, which that's what I believe where she ended up. And that whole quote of hers about humans becoming "fat, lazy, and dull"? Or that progress has cost us our "true power"? I couldn't disagree more. That's not evolution—that's just her projecting her own twisted worldview. Honestly, anyone who feels that way in real life too? Nah, miss me with that. Now don't get me wrong—I absolutely believe people should have the right to live however they want. If you want to go off-grid, live in the woods, farm your own food, and ditch technology, that's your choice and I respect it. But don't force that life on others. Personally, I can't go without technology—it makes my life not just easier but possible. I was born with a physical disability, cerebral palsy and a speech impediment, and tech is a lifeline for me. Internet, TV, movies, gaming, music, my phone, solar panels—these aren't luxuries to me, they’re essentials. So yeah, I'm more like Kara Zor-El—Supergirl—someone who thrives in an advanced, technological society, not a primitive one. That's where I feel at home. Lol. 😁
The Star Treker (aka Michael)
2025-08-25 05:23:46 +0000 UTCWhen Alixa kept saying it was all for the community, I think back on what Picard said about those that say they do things "for the greater good" that woud be thought of as ethically atrocious: "The age-old cry of the oppressor." Any community built on a lie is not a community, it's a prison.
Over50Gamer
2025-08-24 06:58:41 +0000 UTC
