I appriciate your well written respose. I have not seen all trek, especially not TOS.
the thing that I do have beef with is the pegasus interpretation. The issues you may have with kirk etc are about one person, or your interpretation of “standard procedure” for Starfleet.
With pegasus, it’s that the treaties with the federation aren’t worth the paper they’re written on, because the whole operation is run by black ops. Sisko bombing planets is just the cherry on top.
I think my POV is biased by the episodes I watched as a teen and the viewpoint that I formed then : this is an optimistic utopian future, and for once, the characters are geniunely good, and put in hard situations and come out on top while behaving with honor. The backstabbing, planet bombing etc takes that away and makes me sad.
I appriciate your well written respose. I have not seen all trek, especially not TOS.
the thing that I do have beef with is the pegasus interpretation. The issues you may have with kirk etc are about one person, or your interpretation of “standard procedure” for Starfleet.
With pegasus, it’s that the treaties with the federation aren’t worth the paper they’re written on, because the whole operation is run by black ops. Sisko bombing planets is just the cherry on top.
I think my POV is biased by the episodes I watched as a teen and the viewpoint that I formed then : this is an optimistic utopian future, and for once, the characters are geniunely good, and put in hard situations and come out on top while behaving with honor. The backstabbing, planet bombing etc takes that away and makes me sad.