The new lorca rip off in season 3 of picard, is proof to me that executives realized how stupid it was to make him a mirror universe character.
What story elements would you remove or just forget exist from canon?
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Really? Seems like only leads and important characters know about them.
Also, their purpose is to defend the Federation at all costs, and ensure plausible deniability. I don't think they are as super secret as their paranoid minds would like to think.
Not to mention a number of Admirals at headquarters, the head of the Tal Shiar, and who knows how many others across the fleet (if not the quadrant) are aware of them.
Yup. Plausible deniability and compartmented information. That's their MO and then shift the deck and leave no trace.
Works for me, at least as far as shadow organizations go.
But they have left a trace, the entire senior staff of DS9 knows and they're all reputable sources, they've also uncovered the corruption goes high up into the Starfleet ranks. Rather than destroy the station during the war and claim it was a Dominion attack Sloane funnels who knows how much extra resources into recruiting Bashir. That's just sloppy.
Ok...? And? You want them to destroy the heroes? Cool, I can get behind this.
It wasn't even threatened, surely Sloane would know that for someone like Bashir threatening his friends and chosen family would see him agreeing to work for S31 to keep them safe, at least until he can find a way to expose the organisation.
DS9 was made during the time when cast member deaths were the result of contract disputes and not just killing off a main character every season for the *drama*.
Again, are you wanting heroes to die? Because that would make DS9 way different than Trek before.
Personally, I think Sloan was so compartmented that he basically had carte blanche and his superiors would write him off as a rogue element. Then manipulate the data and shift the blame and Bashir can say all he want.
Picard being a robot now