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The Pale Moon light great episode!

I think this episode would have been massively improved if there had been a B-plot back on Romulus, where Vreenak's wife and children waited him to come home. It would be the birthday of the youngest daughter, and daddy had promised to bring a gift from Bajor.
 
I think this episode would have been massively improved if there had been a B-plot back on Romulus, where Vreenak's wife and children waited him to come home. It would be the birthday of the youngest daughter, and daddy had promised to bring a gift from Bajor.
Would they then reveal that daddy was deeply involved in the business of a agency that does intelligence against foreign governments?
 
Vreenak's actions would have resulted in the destruction of the federation. Billions of people dying... I'd say that's enough to qualify as self-defense.
Bullshit Vreenak isn't the Dominion. Romulnas didn't trust the Feds and didn't want to help them, and Sisko's actions proved that they were absolutely right about that.
 
Bullshit Vreenak isn't the Dominion. Romulnas didn't trust the Feds and didn't want to help them, and Sisko's actions proved that they were absolutely right about that.

Be that as it may, Vreenak would have exposed Sisko's lies, making it impossible for the Romulans to trust the Federation and therefore ensuring the defeat of said federation. As Spock's dad once said: "What is necessary is never unwise."
 
Bullshit Vreenak isn't the Dominion. Romulnas didn't trust the Feds and didn't want to help them, and Sisko's actions proved that they were absolutely right about that.
There must have been some evidence that they would, since the Jack Pack concluded that the Romulans would soon be abandoning the non-aggression pact.
 
I don't think Starfleet would have approved of the assassination.

I actually think elements of the starfleet would have. I 100% think that if Sisko had gone to an Admiral like Nechayev, she would have given it her stamp of approval, I think Admiral Ross would have approved it as well.
 
I like In The Pale Moonlight but I think it is overrated, and that's not just because I dislike "It's a faaaake". If the writers wanted to really make a morality show about "The Road To Hell Being Paved With Good Intentions" then Sisko should have paid a real price. As it is, he punches Garak, makes some impassioned personal logs, The Romulans join the war, and Sisko is happy that less lives will be lost. Life goes on. The writers could have made everything backfire on Sisko but in the end, he got what he wanted.
 
Well, the coherence between series is not always perfect.
No, it wasn't. However, Moore, who extensively rewrote the script, was still good friends with Braga. There's really no need for their to be an overarching explanation. Sisko's operation is undertaken with the blessing of Starfleet, who can freely inform its officers or keep them in the dark about why policies are chosen.
 
I like In The Pale Moonlight but I think it is overrated, and that's not just because I dislike "It's a faaaake". If the writers wanted to really make a morality show about "The Road To Hell Being Paved With Good Intentions" then Sisko should have paid a real price. As it is, he punches Garak, makes some impassioned personal logs, The Romulans join the war, and Sisko is happy that less lives will be lost. Life goes on. The writers could have made everything backfire on Sisko but in the end, he got what he wanted.

Sisko sort of lost his virginity on that one since a few months later he simply asks Worf to kill Gowron.
 
I like In The Pale Moonlight but I think it is overrated, and that's not just because I dislike "It's a faaaake". If the writers wanted to really make a morality show about "The Road To Hell Being Paved With Good Intentions" then Sisko should have paid a real price. As it is, he punches Garak, makes some impassioned personal logs, The Romulans join the war, and Sisko is happy that less lives will be lost. Life goes on. The writers could have made everything backfire on Sisko but in the end, he got what he wanted.
Absofuckinglutely!
 
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