My poor Worf.
Gotta be the GOAT character in all of Trek. The roar pierced my soul.
DS9 has now passed TNG in my heart.
Is this the community for this post?
EDIT: wow guys. I meant E26. 24 episode format got my head mashed. Times Orphan is awful. I meant the finale! (No spoilers!)
Original post title for reference was “ First time DS9… just finished S6E24” — when I meant to reference Tears of the Prophets.
I’m replying back in public because long private message chains make Lemmy seem more dead than it is.
That was an issue of whether he was a Federation citizen or property. There is no question for Molly. Starfleet correctly ruled he was a citizen because of their principles.
There are time travel shenanigans and found orphan children every few weeks in TNG and DS9. The Enterprise was one of a thousand ships. Molly wasn’t unique.
Besides, we are shown no evidence in any episode of TNG or DS9 that the Federation would experiment on children. You can’t tell me I need therapy for having a negative interpretation of O’brien’s character in this episode and then turn around and claim the Federation is into child experimentation and she would be placed in a mental institution equivalent to the worst of what exists today.
This is a Federation prison:
Molly would love a Federation prison. Grass, trees, no starvation, shelter, medical care.
The planets were under Cardasian control by treaty. The colonists who stayed wanted to be independent of Cardasia despite it being a Cardasian planet. If you bought a house and found squatters living in it, would you be angry at the police for removing the squatters? Especially after the squatters where shooting at you for going in your own house?
As I already explained, they had other options. They could have taken her to Earth or any of the thousands of federation planets to stay with her where she would have constant access to the outside.