I felt/feel Sympathy for the Maquis.
The Cardassians (at least the government) have show time and time again that they will stab you in the back the first chance they get. The federation made a shit deal to appease space Nazis.
Kirk@startrek.website 2 months ago
I always felt like they did a pretty poor job of making the audience feel any significant level of sympathy for the Maquis (assuming that was the goal).
thejoker954@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Kirk@startrek.website 2 months ago
I agree, but the particular Maquis we saw tended to be reactionary and narrow minded. I think it could have been presented as a much better grey area situation like in Journey’s End.
Tango@piefed.ca 2 months ago
I think the main goal of the Maquis was not to evoke sympathy for them, but to put the main characters in interesting moral/ethical quandaries. Both TNG and DS9 did “forced relocation” episodes where the narrative focus was on the fact that there were no “right” answers, only “less wrong” ones.