From Chris Snellgrove
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If you are a fan of Star Trek: Deep Space NineThen you know that the show had a rocky first season, but the episode “Duet” emphasized the full potential of the show. This was an episode in which we learned more about the atrocities of the Cardassians against the Bajorans and more about how Kira navigated her transition from freedom fighter to military officer. What most Deep Space Nine Fans not However, it is informed about this episode that it was inspired by The man in the glass cabinA famous piece by Robert Shaw.
The man in the glass cabin
If you have never seen the 1967 game, The man in the glass cabin It’s about a Jewish man who is arrested by the Israeli authorities because he is a Nazi war criminal. The trial against him seems to be going well until the surprise reveals that he has deliberately changed the medical documents to check his old Nazi tower. In the Deep Space Nine Episode “Duet”, we get a similarly shocking unveiling when a cardassian who pretends to be a large -scale crime is a smaller government duty that has changed his own records in the hope that his law enforcement would illuminate the brutalities that Cardassians inflicted on the Bajorans.
The story was originally raised Deep Space Nine Showrunner Michael Piller of two of his interns and they had a completely different idea of
According to the Piller it was Deep Space Nine Producer and future showrunner Ira Steven Behr, who gave us the turn that existed The man in the glass cabin A kind of feeling where the guy is not the one he says is it, but for more noble reasons. “This phrase made the premise of the episode fresh because we have rarely seen all Cardassians who seemed to be remorse about their war crimes against the Bajorans. We also saw how Kira’s perception developed when she stopped seeing the defendant as another enemy and seeing him as someone with surprising amounts of compassionate depth.
While The man in the glass cabin Is a classic Deep Space Nine Improves his formula with “duet”. Somewhat frustrating, the former history never explains exactly why his Jewish protagonist would give the trouble and try to try it as a National Socialist tormentor. In “Duet” we know that the cardassian violation of a war criminal has a righteous thing … namely to spread the galactic awareness of the evil actions of his people, even if he contributed to bringing the Bajoran the closure.
We are big believers, that Deep Space Nine Is Star Trek’s best show, and “Duet” remains one of the most beautiful consequences. It is meaty, filled with monologues, and we can exercise the world of the franchise from the franchise and take a look into the inner depths of Kira, one of the most convincing characters of the show. In retrospect, however, it is quite sober to recognize this without Robert Shaw The man in the glass cabinThe earliest masterpiece of DS9 may have never made it up.
