I’ve gotta rant here a bit…

I just finished re-watching all of Deep Space 9 a few weeks ago. I’d seen most of the series as it aired, managed to miss a few very key episodes, but never really gave it a ton of thought since the show ended. All the memes about the prescience of the Bell Riots gave me the nudge to go back and give the series a solid second look (after 25-ish years of hindsight).

The introduction of Section 31 was one of DS9’s biggest controversies. The writers behind DS9 were more-or-less arguing that you can’t have utopia without someone having to do a little genocide every now and then. And while our heroes genuinely hate this idea, they can live with it.

This is all super interesting stuff to think about and debate both for the sake of fun fiction and how we should all endeavor to live and rule our reality. And this silly-looking movie appears to want utterly zero part of that complex conversation.

And that’s really disappointing.