Given how often the current era is derided as being inferior to the 90s era, you'd think people would have to have watched at least one crop of shows before trying to make a case...
Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x09 – “300th Night”
Case and point, I've no clue what the Omega Directive is or was about. I do know the basics of Living Witness, though. Real Life also drew a blank.
It also had (TEROK NOR) directly under DEEP SPACE 9, meaning it's the same station.
I know "Living Witness" 1,000 times better than I do "Real Life" but I recognized the references and archival clips right away.
This is true. But not everyone remembers the particles. I certainly did not. But my problems with the episode were not the particles themselves. But I will say this. it has made me want to go back and watch them. But I have to wait because im going to rewatch (which will probably be the final rewatch of my life) most Trek (in order of production) soon. I will probably skip a couple seasons of Picard and Disco and all the cartoons.
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Where did it air...Heroes and Icons???
Could be. Or maybe they use that name as well for any structure, Now I'm picturing some sort of Bajoran-Cardassian alliance.
Vance and Ake DID underestimate Braka in "Come, Let's Away". That's why the Federation is in the situation they are in now.
And I did mention incompetence as a possible why reason they took months to find out omega was stolen. (And really, only found out because Braka detonated an omega particle.)
Considering they literally just copied the map from the old Star Charts book without regard to context or anything (as is quite common going all the way back to Disco S1) I wouldn't be so quick to claim that proves anything.
I had to go give you a thumbs up. There was no gold stars.
But good on you. I didn't remember anything about the Omega Particles but I did remember the Doctors Family. That was one of Voyagers best episodes and now I can't wait to see it again.
"The Omega Directive" I remember well. But the Doctor's holographic family never ranks very high in my list of VOY memories. In hindsight it's one of VOY's better-written episodes, though. I wish I'd cared more about it back in the day.
4 months is a long time, it feels like there could be facts missing like how badly ransacked was the station, was it booby trapped? It feels like there are quite a few stories happening in the background that we've raced past.
I'm just forgetting the episode I guess. I can believe they underestimated him to a certain degree. But how does that translate into them laxing their security on key facilities.
If I remember right they asked him for help with dealing with the furies, though I never understood how that translated into a loss in security at another location.
I thought you were leaning more on arrogance rather than incompetence.
the Intrepid class that arrived with the sonic weapon was the one ship guarding the station.
wow
It would be a great twist if we found out Vance has been in on it all along...
...I might actually give an episode of SFA a 10 if that were to happen... 
Sometimes you're the only ship in the Quadrant.
There IS a 32nd century U.S.S. Enterprise after all.
I actually just recently rewatched "The Omega Directive", so I caught that reference instantly. I did have vague memories of the Doctor's holographic family, and it was enough to make the story hit home for me like it was supposed to. It did make me want to rewatch "Real Life" because it has been a minute.
Another reference that I got instantly because I had recently rewatched an episode was when Ake suggested that they "pull a Q'Mau" in order to rescue the cadets. Q'Mau was the planet in Discovery 5.01 "Red Directive" where Discovery and the Antares had to swoop down into the atmosphere to save the settlement from the avalanche caused by Moll and L'ak. I literally rewatched "Red Directive" just a couple of days ago.
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That's kind of my point, though... the copy and pasting of that map from 800 years prior. As I mentioned in my review, it's things like that that really doesn't show they care much for the details.
They had one ship that was guarding that station, and it popped up next to the Athena in "Come, Let's Away". It's supposedly a highly classified place with lots of highly dangerous weapons... but only ONE ship guards it? It's both incompetant AND arrogant because they think it's so secure only 1 ship was necessary.
They were also arrogant in thinking Braka wasn't a big enough threat to them.
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