I was screaming every minute for everyone to stop being such shitlib robo racists and it never stopped and they never even got a real reprimand for their utterly abhorrent behavior (which fully vindicated the Kaylons' views of biological life btw, like, they literally cannot separate isaac from the rest of his species and wish they could hate him to death, real classy). I kept wanting at least SOMEBODY to get sent to the brig or something, but woops, they didn't even get some b.s. sensitivity training or other slap on the wrist.

The captain even goes like "yeah I agree with you i'm a little robo racist" like what the fuck seth MacFarlane, people told me this season would be better and this is like 20 steps backwards. How hard is it to double down when Ensign Scratched-Liberal tells you Isaac's heroic betrayal of his own people, at great cost to himself, was "too little too late" because people died? Guess what ensign, if it weren't for him everyone would be fucking dead, you included!

Isaac is literally only guilty of being a spy and they just let this bullshit about him being responsible for these deaths fly without real argument. Isaac only directly killed other Kaylons, you're welcome dipshits! Yeah he was a spy but if it weren't him, it would have been another unit, and they should fucking pray it would make the same decisions Isaac did, because if not, good bye. Extinction. They act like Isaac told them to declare exterminatus when they make it obvious the Kaylons were gearing up for that anyway. Every single person on that ship indirectly or directly owes Isaac their life and that should be drilled into their heads in fucking reeducation camps if necessary.

And then they hinge his recovery on Ensign Racist Cracker, and her magic fucking brain, deciding to save him. I wish so badly the episode had ended with her asking to go back to her post only for her to be told she's still fired for refusing a direct order. At least SOME kind of reprimand for her gross attitude, especially when she leaves with another snide fucking comment after her magic brain helps fix him. But nope, she Did the Thing so her almost letting him die a permanent death because she's a fucking bigot is forgiven.

I'm really hoping they just wanted to get this tension about him being a Kaylon out of the way in one episode because if the rest of this season has people being petty dicks to Isaac because they're bigots incapable of handling their own trauma i'm gonna lose it

      • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        This is a solid take, and thanks for the effort dissecting it. I'll say I'm not much of a ST movie guy so I haven't had the time to really go through it. I just watch ds9 over and over again until I get bored then tng for a season then back on the ds9 train to check in and make sure worf and O'Brien are doing alright

        But, from what I've seen of it. You seem to be definitely doing a good job critiquing what's going on there and it's helpful for my Trekkie ass perspective.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Why can't more stuff be like the Foundation series (at least the first 3 books). The whole plot of that series is the unstoppable force of societal and collective power. The conditions of the empire lead to its own demise, it's predicted (not brought about!) by Hari Seldon. The whole concept of psychohistory is basically a sci-fi version of dialectical materialism. The great men in the series aren't great men so much as they're the ones who happen to be in the right place at the right time as the inevitable social crises of the developing Foundation society come to fruition. Something that a lot of them end up realizing later.

        I do think that eventually it's revealed that in the background there were thousands and thousands of psycho-historians planning out the history of the Foundation, but even then it's a much more compelling way to approach the history of an entire planet/galaxy than just saying "ah yes, then one individual came along and singlehandedly changed the course of Galactic history"