I liked half the ending. It's a shame that we had to slam the brakes for the other half of it so

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Dukat and Kai Winn can be satanists. I like the idea that Sisko ends up joining the Prophets outside time, but it never really feels like the writers knew what to do with him being a spiritual figure for Bajor. This ending just kind of happened.

Anyway, I'm posting this 'cus there used to be a user here with the name SiskoDidTwoThingsWrong, and i'm wondering what those two things were? Keeping the cure to the changeling disease seems like the most obvious one. I'm curious what the second is

  • MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir]
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    13 days ago

    From what I remember, it starts out with him becoming the emissary by coincidence. He just happens to find the wormhole, the prophets in the wormhole decide that he is not a threat and he is chosen by the Bajorans as their prophet for this reason.

    At the last season, they change Sisko from this everyman to actually he is the chosen one that we raised from birth for this very purpose. Suddenly he is the chosen son of one of the wormhole aliens, and I get so mad at chosen one narratives, find them so lazy and all too common.

      • MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir]
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        13 days ago

        Fair enough. They are certainly set up as just another life form the Federation encounters in the pilot, and I think they could have been handled better, if at all. The show especially got off the rails for me with the introduction of the pah wraiths.

    • Wheaties [she/her]
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      13 days ago

      Yeah, that was... some disappointing writing. If I had to punch it up a bit, maybe Sisko was always just a guy, but then timeline shenanigans erase him from existence and the Prophets are like, "Hey, that was the one guy who explained this linear shit in a way we actually understood, bring him back!" and they end up grafting him onto every timeline. Like, Sisko retroactivly becomes the only fixed point in the whole Star Trek timeline