From Chris Snellgrove
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One of the stranger that sometimes runs on the Internet is that Star Trek should not be political, although Hasser claims discovery The concentration on a strong black woman is an important deviation from franchise standards. In reality, Star Trek was political from the start, and even the stars often read connections to real events in the other side stories that they bring to life. A typical example: for the Deep Space Nine Episode “Dramatis Personae”, Quark actor Armin Shimerman saw the unrest in Los Angeles in the tension between Sisko and Kira.
Armin Shimerman & Bajorans
In order to bring them up to date, “Dramatis Personae” is an episode in which the residents of DS9 fall under the telepathic influence of bullets from an alien breed that died a long time ago. They died out due to a power struggle, and the telepathic nature of the balls led to a similar power struggle between Sisko and Kira. It ensured a fascinating television and in the eyes of Armin ShimermanUsed Kiras Bajoran race to explore the otherwise sensitive issues of the unrest in Los Angeles.
The actor said that he “loved this episode” and “this revolution broke out” symbolically about “the conflict between Sisko and Kira, a person who is national and only thinks of their world.” According to Armin Shimerman, such a nationalism was regularly exhibited in Los Angeles at that time: “We had our riots because the neighborhoods had the feeling that they had no reasonable part in Los Angeles’ wealth, and there are the Bajorans who fight Because because they don’t get a reasonable proportion of what they deserve, what they deserve. “Here he not only refers to Kira’s personal struggle, but also to the Bajorans, who are rebuilt after their brutal cardacic occupation.
Especially in the early days of Deep Space NineWe see how Bajor was often caught between a rock and a hard place. The Starfleet is in orbit to help the planet, but Sisko does not always do things the way Kira or other bajorans would prefer. In “Dramatic Personae”, for example, the conflict begins when Kira wants to capture a ship that she suspects by Cardassians and Sisko that she refuses to hold a ship without evidence.
Interestingly, Armin Shimerman sees this conflict between Starfleet and the Bajorans as a symbol of the conflict between local law enforcement authorities and rioters. These rioters like Kira – or at least her people and their neighborhood – have triggered all others, including the laws and law enforcement authorities, which they may have suppressed very well. The curd actor says that this tension is “very intrinsic for life in which we live in Los Angeles. So when she is represented on TV, I feel that for that “.
It seems that Shimerman had the same emotional breakthrough that many of us experience when we see a good episode of Star Trek. A well -written episode can be therapeutic and help us achieve an insight into our fellow human beings, which we once thought was impossible. Maybe these sensitive breakthroughs are why Star Trek: The film picture Had such a brave slogan: “The human adventure is just starting.”
While we always like to hear the findings of Star Trek’s great actors, Armin Shimerman’s link is really fascinating (as Spock could say). Certainly, many Kiras have seen people as metaphors for others in the real world, including Palestinians. The DS9 actor can be very good one of the few who link them Aliens With his neighbors in LA, who once and for all prove that it can always learn something new from episodes of the best Trek show that has ever been done.
