For those of you who are not so obsessed with star trek you know all the episodes by heart let me give you a little recap, courtesy of memory alpha:
Experiencing a vision from the Prophets, Sisko sees himself as Benny Russell, a science-fiction writer in the 1950s, who struggles with civil rights and inequality when he writes the story of Captain Benjamin Sisko, a black commander of a futuristic space station.
Not only does it pull everything back and look to the trek future from, more or less, our perspective; the hopeful future, albeit from a slightly more scientifically naive time. and addresses some of the doubts we have in this day and age that such a future could ever come to pass. All of that pales in comparison to the fact that we get to see every last one of our favourite characters without make up on and playing other characters. There's something exciting and entertaining about seeing something so familiar and yet so different.
"You can pulp a story, but you cannot destroy an idea! Don't you understand, that's ancient knowledge. You cannot destroy an idea! That future, I created it, and it's real! Don't you understand? It is REAL! I created it and IT'S REAL!" Benny Russell.
Experiencing a vision from the Prophets, Sisko sees himself as Benny Russell, a science-fiction writer in the 1950s, who struggles with civil rights and inequality when he writes the story of Captain Benjamin Sisko, a black commander of a futuristic space station.
Not only does it pull everything back and look to the trek future from, more or less, our perspective; the hopeful future, albeit from a slightly more scientifically naive time. and addresses some of the doubts we have in this day and age that such a future could ever come to pass. All of that pales in comparison to the fact that we get to see every last one of our favourite characters without make up on and playing other characters. There's something exciting and entertaining about seeing something so familiar and yet so different.
"You can pulp a story, but you cannot destroy an idea! Don't you understand, that's ancient knowledge. You cannot destroy an idea! That future, I created it, and it's real! Don't you understand? It is REAL! I created it and IT'S REAL!" Benny Russell.
