Star Trek: Is Captain Benjamin Sisko A War Criminal?
A wise man once said that “it’s easy to be a saint in paradise.” That is, it is easy to do amazing things and follow the rules to the letter when one is in a privileged position to do so. This man was captain Benjamin Sisko, commander of the Deep Space 9 space station orbiting the planet Bajor in the Star Trek series with the appropriate name: Deep Space 9. He was a powerful and great captain but made some questionable decisions along the way, but were they really that bad to grant him the war criminal title?
From the very start, the Star Trek creators wanted Deep Space 9 to be a grittier program that would highlight the darker underbelly of the Federation, far away from thefancy technology and shiny new spaceships the franchise had long been known for. While Picard and Janeway were given some of the best ships Starfleet could provide, Commander Sisko was given command of a run-down, repurposed space station that used to be a Cardassian space labor camp. While they modernized the best they could, the station remained a ramshackle bunch of floating bolts, with the large amount of non-Starfleet foot traffic passing through the scene constantly changing. It made for great television, but not so great when it came to keeping the place clean and tidy.
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The show focused on moral ambiguity, as well as an attempt to bring the real consequences of conglomerate politics to light, giving much more depth to Roddenberry’s utopian vision of Starfleet and the Federation. Sisko was a broken man, having lost his wife to the cyberbully Borg (specifically assimilated Picard as Locutus of Borg) and now trying to raise his son on a space station he didn’t want to be
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