reading the Cardassians as European colonialists might be a little generous to the writers, they are space nazis who committed a space holocaust is how they are set up in S1, then it gets a lil' deeper but idk if it gets that :CommiePOGGERS:
Idk, rewatching the show, I've been thinking Bajor could be a Ireland analogue.
After all, the British Empire killed more people than Nazi Germany (wouldn't be surprised if the same was true of the French and the Dutch). And Gul Dukat likes to talk about how much better they made Bajor, just like the Brits constantly say for their former colonies.
Maybe just because I'm a communist the themes the show deals with to me seemed broad enough to apply to any Imperial power. They weren't particularly prosecuting a specific group of Bajorans or anything, so I never really read the Cardassians as space nazis And the themes of Bajor trying to deal with its own nationalism and trying to decide what sort of society they wanted to become, really feels like an analogue for what a lot of former colonial countries had to deal with.
reading the Cardassians as European colonialists might be a little generous to the writers, they are space nazis who committed a space holocaust is how they are set up in S1, then it gets a lil' deeper but idk if it gets that :CommiePOGGERS:
Idk, rewatching the show, I've been thinking Bajor could be a Ireland analogue.
After all, the British Empire killed more people than Nazi Germany (wouldn't be surprised if the same was true of the French and the Dutch). And Gul Dukat likes to talk about how much better they made Bajor, just like the Brits constantly say for their former colonies.
Maybe just because I'm a communist the themes the show deals with to me seemed broad enough to apply to any Imperial power. They weren't particularly prosecuting a specific group of Bajorans or anything, so I never really read the Cardassians as space nazis And the themes of Bajor trying to deal with its own nationalism and trying to decide what sort of society they wanted to become, really feels like an analogue for what a lot of former colonial countries had to deal with.