when the Patriot Act just turned evil for no reason and wanted to kill Arabs all by itself.
you're taking the analogy too literally, it's that it ended up harming the federation more than any utility it had
I don’t think it’s entirely uncritical
bruh dax literally said "Sometimes I like it when the bad guy wins." after he did it lmao, there was like zero pushback for it, and sisko doing section 31 shit as a federation officer was never mentioned again, and that's ignoring the other shit like lying to drag the romulans into war lmao
he also doesn't kill anyone in that attack
he had literally zero assurance for that, he just dropped the WMD, if anyone didn't evacuate or didn't have the capacity to evacuate they would have died
No, she’s a genocidal dictator. No pass for her unless you actually see here try
her being there was trying, at any moment she could meme out with her jeans out but she didn't. The entire point of the federation is FALGSC, punishment for the sake of punishment has no material basis anymore, and they're doing their best to rehabilitate them. The whole S31 stuff was dumb but DS9 started that lib shit
In DIS they use it interchangeably with Starfleet Intelligence
yeah, because they're directly comparing them with IRL intelligence agencies. S31 is shown as a villain that constantly overreaches its boundaries and causes the destruction of all life because of their patriot act shit. The characters talk about how they need more oversight, but just like attempts in RL to add "more oversight", it doesn't do anything like we see later on in DS9
and unlike in DS9, the main cast doesn't do shit just as bad as them while also stopping their plots
but nah I'm done here fam, if you're saying you can't see any themes beyond surface level in STD it's bc you're either not engaging with it beyond a surface level or just don't want to see these themes
It's not even a clever analogy. There is nothing to the story there. Okay, it's an overreach in security, sure. Why is that bad? Because it would turn evil and kill everyone for no reason of course.
The Patriot Act isn't bad because it directly wants to kill people. Its bad because it allows people to use it for their own nefarious deeds such as spying and such, and erodes basic human rights to privacy.
In fact there's already an episode arc that did this already and it's called Homefront and Paradise Lost. And they're way better at portraying using a crisis to enact sweeping authoritarian edicts that erode rights in the name of "security" and it came out in 1996.
Control is the equivalent of some guy walking up to you and saying "Boy, the war in Iraq sure is bad, right?"
So yeah, I'm not overly impressed by "What if the Patriot Act blew up the world for no reason?" as a story hook.
you're taking the analogy too literally, it's that it ended up harming the federation more than any utility it had
bruh dax literally said "Sometimes I like it when the bad guy wins." after he did it lmao, there was like zero pushback for it, and sisko doing section 31 shit as a federation officer was never mentioned again, and that's ignoring the other shit like lying to drag the romulans into war lmao
he had literally zero assurance for that, he just dropped the WMD, if anyone didn't evacuate or didn't have the capacity to evacuate they would have died
her being there was trying, at any moment she could meme out with her jeans out but she didn't. The entire point of the federation is FALGSC, punishment for the sake of punishment has no material basis anymore, and they're doing their best to rehabilitate them. The whole S31 stuff was dumb but DS9 started that lib shit
yeah, because they're directly comparing them with IRL intelligence agencies. S31 is shown as a villain that constantly overreaches its boundaries and causes the destruction of all life because of their patriot act shit. The characters talk about how they need more oversight, but just like attempts in RL to add "more oversight", it doesn't do anything like we see later on in DS9
and unlike in DS9, the main cast doesn't do shit just as bad as them while also stopping their plots
but nah I'm done here fam, if you're saying you can't see any themes beyond surface level in STD it's bc you're either not engaging with it beyond a surface level or just don't want to see these themes
Dude, the AI just turns evil for no reason lol
It's not even a clever analogy. There is nothing to the story there. Okay, it's an overreach in security, sure. Why is that bad? Because it would turn evil and kill everyone for no reason of course.
The Patriot Act isn't bad because it directly wants to kill people. Its bad because it allows people to use it for their own nefarious deeds such as spying and such, and erodes basic human rights to privacy.
In fact there's already an episode arc that did this already and it's called Homefront and Paradise Lost. And they're way better at portraying using a crisis to enact sweeping authoritarian edicts that erode rights in the name of "security" and it came out in 1996.
Control is the equivalent of some guy walking up to you and saying "Boy, the war in Iraq sure is bad, right?"
So yeah, I'm not overly impressed by "What if the Patriot Act blew up the world for no reason?" as a story hook.