GalaxyX said:
1a. At the same time, they tried to give "substance" to Alien cultures, but while doing that they pretty much made them "Human". I mean most Cardassians are portrayed as "deceitful humans" with weird shaped necks. Only hardcore sci-fi enthusiasts are going to take characters that act 100% human yet look 100% goofy with any seriousness.
I'd much rather have aliens that can't be boiled down to just one word, personally. I don't think either Cardassians or Bajorans were anything like Humans. They both had clearly different cultural heritages and ways of thinking, and yet neither were just always spouting about "logic" or "honour." Far preferable, to my mind.
3. Having everyone at each other's throats. Kira was probably the worst for this.
That's one of the things that attracted me to the show most, after five years of dull colourless characters on TNG. Good on them.
5. Why does Sisko always sound like he's pissed off?
Because he
is pissed off. About a great many things, more than any other Trek commander has ever had to handle. I'm not surprised he got a little testy.
I clearly remember that episode with Garak where he is getting tortured by stopping his regeneration cycle. Not only is he totally powerless, but like a little crying girl he confesses everything that Garak wants to know, and to add insult to injury, he doesn't even do ANYTHING to Garak afterward?
Then I would say you either misunderstood or misremember the scene. Odo was most emphatically
not mewling like a little girl. He did
not confess everything to Garak. That is totally the opposite of what happened. Even while Odo was suffering,
he was the one taunting Garak. Garak was the one who begged Odo to tell him something, even a lie, just so that he could stop torturing him. And not in a "you're making me do this" way either - Garak was just as upset over the whole thing as Odo was. And Odo forgave him because he knew exactly where Garak was coming from - an exile desperately wishing to go back to his people, but even given the chance, can't quite bring himself to do it because he knows they're wrong.
7. The sillyness of having the Dominion be a race that is only "slightly" more powerful than the Federation, and they require alliances in the Alpha Quadrant.
The Dominion weren't slightly more powerful - they were
massively more powerful. At first, Cardassia was nothing more than a staging ground for them - not a necessity by any means. The Feds pulled off a neat trick thanks to Sisko's relationship with the Prophets which cut off the Dominion from their hugely superior resources in the Gamma Quadrant. If it weren't for that, the Federation would have been toast.
See, this is what annoys me: Valid differences of opinion are one thing. Complaints based on an incorrect reading of the text are quite another.
