[ SECRET POST #2689 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2689 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

One thing I like about DS9 is that Sisko actually comments on this history-as-entertainment thing at one point -- the crew has to go into a 1950s Las Vegas holodeck program to fix it or something, and Sisko objects that actual Vintage Vegas was racially segregated and would have kicked him out of that casino on sight, and he isn't interested in pretending it wasn't. It was a nice moment and kind of cemented my love of DS9, even though the episode itself wasn't that great.

I don't mind Miles and Julian's nerdplay that much because it always seemed like it was written as their own half-fictional tabletop-game version of The Alamo and not as How The Alamo Is Presently Understood In DS9 Times.

Though it is a little sad that with all that future history and the entire Earth to draw on, two non-American characters would settle on such a US-centric thing to geek out about. Why not something from the Post-Atomic Horror?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, it's possible that the fact that they were non-American makes it easier to geek about without any uncomfortable personal history creeping in, like if, say, one of them was of a Mexican background.

[kallanda_lee]

I can sort of concur. As a non-American, things like the Alamo mostly came to me through pop culture, already filtered. I have no emotional reaction to it either way, really.

[(Anonymous)]

That makes a lot of sense!

[(Anonymous)]

It wasn't just the Alamo. As another poster noted above, they were just going down the list of "hopeless battles" from multiple cultures, including fictional ones, as I recall.

[(Anonymous)]

Fair enough!