I am a Star Trek fan (not the new stuff) and I always heard Deep Space 9 is a ripoff of Babylon 5. Have the DS9 writers ever admitted as much or acknowledged an influence? I’m 19 episodes in and I’m liking it. I can see the concept for sure that DS9 uses.
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It's just their effed up culture. He was both crazy from grief and in charge. He could do whatever he wanted.
It's still cheaper than building an entire ship. And most Pilot/Leviathan are ok with moving cargo. Moving passengers does seem to not gel well with their nature. They have special consideration for crew.
Scarrans wanted baby to extract DNA memory, hence they wanted it speed up. Plus she got crystalized and reassembled. It's not a standard pregnancy. By any stretch.
Every series has some amount of breaks from reality. Them having Rigel be mom is either being PC or wanting to show their doll off. Hence comment.
I explained. He always defaults to it. Zhann default to peace. Doesn't mean they are 1-dimensional and always like that. People aren't always slothful or always hard working.
Look, if you hate it, that is also fine, but just say I hate it, don't imagine bizzare reasons why.