Are the Maquis doing the right thing?

Thanks for the lively discussion all! My take is that the sci fi elements mean you can’t cut and paste their experiences onto our morality exactly, but it makes the feeling of conflict relatable, at least emotionally.

  • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I always felt like they did a pretty poor job of making the audience feel any significant level of sympathy for the Maquis (assuming that was the goal).

    • thejoker954@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I felt/feel Sympathy for the Maquis.

      The Cardassians (at least the government) have show time and time again that they will stab you in the back the first chance they get. The federation made a shit deal to appease space Nazis.

      • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I agree, but the particular Maquis we saw tended to be reactionary and narrow minded. I think it could have been presented as a much better grey area situation like in Journey’s End.

    • Tango@piefed.caEnglish
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      6 days ago

      I think the main goal of the Maquis was not to evoke sympathy for them, but to put the main characters in interesting moral/ethical quandaries. Both TNG and DS9 did “forced relocation” episodes where the narrative focus was on the fact that there were no “right” answers, only “less wrong” ones.

      In that sense, it’s like the Kobayashi Maru: the main characters are presented with a no-win scenario and the purpose of the episode is that watching how they deal with that tells us more about who these characters are and what they stand for. Kira’s episode certainly helped define her character, especially when Sisko summed it up for her: she was used to fighting for the underdog, but she was on the other side now.