There's a particular Deep Space Nine episode that I saw when perhaps first aired like 20 or so years ago maybe and I've been wanting to see it again ever since, but I don't remember the name of it or what season or episode it might be.
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I seem to remember it was about some alien race that perhaps some enemy had like destroyed their homeworld so they come to the station, petitioning the Bajoran planetary government for an unused small island of land for them to live on and thereby support themselves and thus return to their previous autonomous existence, claiming a little island was all and exactly just what they really, really needed. But the Bajoran Heads of State refused, breaking the deal, instead offering that if an island were given to vagabond alien race at all, they would also have to get whatever the Bajorans like wanted to believe they needed with the line something very similar to We would feel compelled to help you.*
Of course the alien agriculturists passed on that whatwith otherwise having some bunch of crap mandated upon them all the while still going without the modest bit that they really, really needed. So no deal, meeting adjourned, and as they depart the station to still continue searching the stars for a new homeworld, they tell Kira Nerys something like We know your planet [Bajor] suffers from famine. We're farmers. We could've solved your little famine problem, ya know, and left Kira silent, staring blankly at their backs as they walk through the exit-port doors, they still vagabond with no homeworld upon which to live and till, and Bajor still starving from a famine problem they are unable to resolve. THE END of the episode.
Wow, what a great story, and what a great Star Trek story! Sure wish Deep Space Nine had a lot more great and profound stories like that throughout its seven-season television run! But what the hell episode is it? ??? Please help! And much, much thanks in advance!
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*On a side note: Incidentally, this story/scenario makes me think of a bit of ancient wisdom: "If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?" (Terran Christian Holy Bible, New Testament, Book of Luke, chapter 11, verses 11 & 12, c. 35 A.D.) I think the point is that if you truly mean to help someone, give them just what they need instead of something else as a jackassed and narcissistic pretense to "helping", adding, as another old adage says, Insult--or more Injury--to Injury, especially if the one(s) in need are good enough to actually be able to tell you exactly what they need, no more, no less. Oh wow, thanks for a whole lotta nothin', Bajoran Heads of State, you big dummies! Next Bajoran election, I'm totally voting Bajoran Right-Space-Wing hehehehehe
[ * * * SPOILERS MY FOLLOW, SO WATCH OUT! * * * ]
I seem to remember it was about some alien race that perhaps some enemy had like destroyed their homeworld so they come to the station, petitioning the Bajoran planetary government for an unused small island of land for them to live on and thereby support themselves and thus return to their previous autonomous existence, claiming a little island was all and exactly just what they really, really needed. But the Bajoran Heads of State refused, breaking the deal, instead offering that if an island were given to vagabond alien race at all, they would also have to get whatever the Bajorans like wanted to believe they needed with the line something very similar to We would feel compelled to help you.*
Of course the alien agriculturists passed on that whatwith otherwise having some bunch of crap mandated upon them all the while still going without the modest bit that they really, really needed. So no deal, meeting adjourned, and as they depart the station to still continue searching the stars for a new homeworld, they tell Kira Nerys something like We know your planet [Bajor] suffers from famine. We're farmers. We could've solved your little famine problem, ya know, and left Kira silent, staring blankly at their backs as they walk through the exit-port doors, they still vagabond with no homeworld upon which to live and till, and Bajor still starving from a famine problem they are unable to resolve. THE END of the episode.
Wow, what a great story, and what a great Star Trek story! Sure wish Deep Space Nine had a lot more great and profound stories like that throughout its seven-season television run! But what the hell episode is it? ??? Please help! And much, much thanks in advance!
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*On a side note: Incidentally, this story/scenario makes me think of a bit of ancient wisdom: "If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?" (Terran Christian Holy Bible, New Testament, Book of Luke, chapter 11, verses 11 & 12, c. 35 A.D.) I think the point is that if you truly mean to help someone, give them just what they need instead of something else as a jackassed and narcissistic pretense to "helping", adding, as another old adage says, Insult--or more Injury--to Injury, especially if the one(s) in need are good enough to actually be able to tell you exactly what they need, no more, no less. Oh wow, thanks for a whole lotta nothin', Bajoran Heads of State, you big dummies! Next Bajoran election, I'm totally voting Bajoran Right-Space-Wing hehehehehe
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