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Transcript: The character Gul Dukat from Deep Space 9 on a video screen with the top text: “ATTENTION BAJORAN CITIZENS”

Bottom text: “YOU HAVE 24 HOURS TO EVACUATE TO THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE”

  • simpleTailor@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    DS9 writers modeled the Cardassian occupation of Bajor (in part) after the Israeli occupation of Gaza. The book A Different Trek goes into detail if you want direct sources and a fuller discussion of how the Jewish-American writers and actors involved with the show didn’t think it was “ironic” as you put it.

    • orthen@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Interesting, I’ll have to look into that. So far, I have rather identified Bajorans as the “space jews” and Cardassians as the “space nazis”.