• GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Personally I disliked the whole introduction of religion into the Trek setting, though DS9 is still a great show. It just felt like a weird step back in an enlightened future defined by knowledge and science to suddenly have “gods” fucking around

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      1 year ago

      Q are basically gods, and religion is widely present in our society so I’m okay with it.

      I do skip most of the Bajoran episodes though…

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        1 year ago

        Fair enough, though they don’t have a religion worshipping them and are not at all very god like aside from their omnipotent powers. They seem more like bored Greek pantheon gods, pretty normal and flawed people with superhuman abilities.

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        1 year ago

        Thats a good point I hadn’t considered, it’s been a while since I watched TOS.

        But I would argue that especially the latter was more a lesson that superhuman powers don’t constitute a god, whereas DS9 seems to be a lot less critical in their depiction of the bajoran belief system and the wormhole aliens / prophets.