"The Never Ending Sacrifice", did DS9 predict Star Wars?

[Qonundrum]

"The Wire", apart from being one of DS9's best-ever episodes, had an opening that had me rolling until the opening credits ended.

"The Never-Ending Sacrifice" is the Cardassian novel that Bashir gives his review to Garak*. Bashir whines about the book being repetitive, how the same story is played over and over again - even with subsequent generations doing the same thing over and over again.

To be clear, "seven generations" was stated.

Replace "generations" with "episodes", or replace "episodes" with "chapters", and the unintended allusion to the then-unmade "Episode Seven" really pops out thanks to the mere coincidence of the passage of time.

Especially as you've got Star Wars Episode VII, a movie whose plot is so rehashed that even the movie's characters in the movie have dialogue to reference the obvious, that the plot is an (empty) rehash (with even worse science despite being made decades after the first one!)

Never mind the "ring theory", discussed here -->

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* one of the best TV characters ever...

 

[Jono]

It predicted it as much as "The Ascent" predicted that my cousin would break his leg due to an incident with a car 2 years ago since Odo broke his leg in a shuttle crash in the episode.

 

[Finn]

"The Wire", apart from being one of DS9's best-ever episodes, had an opening that had me rolling until the opening credits ended.

"The Never-Ending Sacrifice" is the Cardassian novel that Bashir gives his review to Garak*. Bashir whines about the book being repetitive, how the same story is played over and over again - even with subsequent generations doing the same thing over and over again.

To be clear, "seven generations" was stated.

Replace "generations" with "episodes", or replace "episodes" with "chapters", and the unintended allusion to the then-unmade "Episode Seven" really pops out thanks to the mere coincidence of the passage of time.

Especially as you've got Star Wars Episode VII, a movie whose plot is so rehashed that even the movie's characters in the movie have dialogue to reference the obvious, that the plot is an (empty) rehash (with even worse science despite being made decades after the first one!)

Never mind the "ring theory", discussed here -->

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* one of the best TV characters ever...

Is it really predicting when the original trilogy and the prequels predates the book, not to mention the the original trilogy predates the series and Phantom Menace premiered around the time DS9 ended....?

And I think this belongs in the Trek literature.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Other than being another science fiction series that tried to put its inprimatur on "epic," no. I don't think it's ever been said, but I suspect that the writers answered as much to Star Wars as they did to the rest of Star Trek.

 

[Tosk]

And I think this belongs in the Trek literature.

Nah, Cutie is talking about the in-universe book The Never-Ending Sacrifice, not the Una McCormack novel named after it.