With apologies to Temis. 
Just watching Favour The Bold the other night, and when it got to the scene where Weyoun explains his people have no sense of aesthetics, it hit me.
Did the writers intend the Vorta to be an allegory for the studio suits, and infact all middle management types? Cause it sure seems that way.
First off, they're all sniveling suck-ups. They're the middle managers of the Dominion, no real power of their own, yet they certainly like to think they have it and like to wield it over the Jem Hadar.
And finally, the point of this post, no sense of aesthetics, no imagination, they can't appreciate art or even really know what art is. Just like most corporate types, if they want to put out a product (be it a film, or television series, or whatever), it has to be market-researched to death, making sure it hits all the right buttons with Joe-schmoe and if it doesn't, well it's either scrapped or the artists/architect, has to be sent back to the drawing board, because the suits can't trust their own abilities to judge whether it's good or not. Much like the Vorta.
Now, this may not have been intentional by the DS9 writers, or at least not what they wanted to do when they started out with the Vorta, but it just adds another layer of allegory to the series that I hadn't actually picked up on before.
Or, I could just be repeating what plenty of other people have said before.
Anyone else care to comment?
Just watching Favour The Bold the other night, and when it got to the scene where Weyoun explains his people have no sense of aesthetics, it hit me.
Did the writers intend the Vorta to be an allegory for the studio suits, and infact all middle management types? Cause it sure seems that way.
First off, they're all sniveling suck-ups. They're the middle managers of the Dominion, no real power of their own, yet they certainly like to think they have it and like to wield it over the Jem Hadar.
And finally, the point of this post, no sense of aesthetics, no imagination, they can't appreciate art or even really know what art is. Just like most corporate types, if they want to put out a product (be it a film, or television series, or whatever), it has to be market-researched to death, making sure it hits all the right buttons with Joe-schmoe and if it doesn't, well it's either scrapped or the artists/architect, has to be sent back to the drawing board, because the suits can't trust their own abilities to judge whether it's good or not. Much like the Vorta.
Now, this may not have been intentional by the DS9 writers, or at least not what they wanted to do when they started out with the Vorta, but it just adds another layer of allegory to the series that I hadn't actually picked up on before.
Or, I could just be repeating what plenty of other people have said before.
Anyone else care to comment?
Nah, I don't think so - studio suits aren't that smart. No Vorta would have cancelled Firefly! 
