Why everyone hates Kieko

[Hippocrates Noah]

I don't hate her, but I really don't care for her. She's so touchy and negative. Whenever there's a scene with her and O'Brien it's almost as if I feel like I have to walk on eggshells. I'm just bracing myself for her inevitable nasty comment, dirty look or passive aggressive BS. It's like having my ex nag at me while I'm trying to watch Star Trek. I don't watch Star Trek for believable marital issues, she belonged on All My Children.

 

[mos6507]

It's like having my ex nag at me while I'm trying to watch Star Trek.

Or this...

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[2takesfrakes]

 

[Scotchy]

In Power Play it's because she's the one with the bawling baby. Whether it's a movie theater, airplane or the starship Enterprise, having the screaming kid automatically makes her the least popular person in the room.

 

[2takesfrakes]

What's teaching in the 24th century? You download an appropriate curriculum and give it out. It's not that big a deal really.

What would've been cool was to have Keiko as a Lunch Lady at the existing school, then have her kind of gravitate towards teaching with the actual teacher's encouragement, whomever that would've ended up becoming ... a Bajoran, perhaps?

 

[Hippocrates Noah]

What would've been cool was to have Keiko as a Lunch Lady at the existing school, then have her kind of gravitate towards teaching with the actual teacher's encouragement, whomever that would've ended up becoming ... a Bajoran, perhaps?

The kids probably would have starved to death rather than eat her plankton loaf with kelp buds.

 

[2takesfrakes]

I am beginning to wonder if, perhaps, O'Brien & Keiko weren't inspired by John Lennon & Yoko Ono. Ms. Ono has the reputation for having been a killjoy in the flower of her youth and for having had such control over her husband. I wouldn't go so far as to call it "copying," which it wasn't ... if, indeed, the comparison is even correct. But certainly an influence from which to draw ...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

What's teaching in the 24th century? You download an appropriate curriculum and give it out. It's not that big a deal really.

Somehow I doubt that teaching will ever be that easy. Not even in an ultra-technological future like Trek's. If it was, then you wouldn't even NEED teachers...the computer itself could teach the class. And that's clearly not the case.

 

[Hippocrates Noah]

Somehow I doubt that teaching will ever be that easy. Not even in an ultra-technological future like Trek's. If it was, then you wouldn't even NEED teachers...the computer itself could teach the class. And that's clearly not the case.

Actually they didn't need teachers to learn, they could do that from computers, but Keiko felt they needed the classroom environment for some structure/discipline, and also because she was bored and DS9 didn't need a botanist. The idea for the school was part vanity project and part buzzkill.

"This isn't like a starship, Miles. The kind of freedom children have on the Enterprise just won't work on a space station. There are too many ways to get into serious trouble here. What this place needs is a school"

"The problem is there's no structured activity for them. Don't you miss the schools you used to go to, Jake? "
"No. I guess. Studying alone on the computer, it kind of gets boring sometimes. "

 

[Jedi_Master]

Somehow I doubt that teaching will ever be that easy. Not even in an ultra-technological future like Trek's. If it was, then you wouldn't even NEED teachers...the computer itself could teach the class. And that's clearly not the case.

I agree. Teaching is an art, and computers will never completely replace artists.

 

[2takesfrakes]

24th Century Humanity's disregard for monetary systems actually works against Miles, in coping with Keiko's frustrations. He could've otherwise employed The Perennial Solution of throwing money at his discontented woman to soften her mood ...