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People talk about the LA riots as influential to the DS9 pilot, but i wonder also if the Gulf War was in the writers’ minds while developing the show. After all, the DS9 pilot is about a powerful government interfering in the politics of a faraway and unfamiliar nation, and seems concerned with the question of whether or not that interference is ethical. Given that the Gulf War was, shall we say, less than ideal, I could see Sisko’s compassionate leadership among the Bajorans as an attempt to articulate a kind of foreign policy that is ethical and that the US might hopefully practice someday. What are your thoughts? Do you feel like the Gulf War informed the way you tackled the political situation with Bajor, Cardassia, and the Federation over the course of the show? (For context, I was not alive during the Gulf War and I watched DS9 on Netflix, so I apologize if there’s anything about the early 90s that I’ve missed or misunderstood)
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