Problem is that the feddies have the best ships, smartest nerds, boldest captains, and even god (Q) on their side. So if they have a reasonable admiral the story would just be:
Spock. The word you're looking for is Spock.
Not if Nutrek wins!
To use a real-world analogy, the Federation agreed to a Skyes-Picot treaty where arbitrary lines were drawn regardless of which citizens lived where. Of course it was going to lead to proxy war sooner or later. One which the Navajo lost.
The Admiralty in TNG times has a selection bias against bold risk takers and people of vision. All those Black Ops types like Pressman and Leyton are punished for having foresight. The Feds want bureaucratic middlemen between the Council and the Captains out in the field. Had they listened to Leyton during the Dominion War, they probably would have been able to contain the Dominion at the Wormhole because he would have assigned a fleet of advanced ships to defend DS9 a year or two earlier than they did.
As I understood it, Spock is on his death bed and the 2 are holding hands because they're old friends, and both are about to ascend to heaven or some shit. Of course the faggots have to make it weird.
It's very clearly a deathbed comfort scene. Its just very open ended exactly how Kirk is there. If he's a spirit or physically there from say the shatnerverse ( my favorite)
Indeed, and a similar thing happened in Arcane, albeit at least Kirk and Spock had a proper ending. As I've heard it, holding hands is considered very intimate to Vulcans?
Don't forget Mawell. He knew the spoon heads were up to bullshit and a lot of it.
Nope, you can't comfort your dying friend with which you gone through hell and back. The deviants will immediately claim that as a sign they were right all along and must ruin the moment for everyone else.
He's also responsible for the better half of Andromeda. (Not that it's a fantastic show, but the seasons after he left are quite a dive in quality).
I still like it. One episode with one weird coupling does not make a show bad.
I think that's the official justification. He probably felt something in that punch that scared him deeply.
I know it's probably technically a retcon, but I wonder why I never put that together before tonight haha.
He also probably knew that Sisko wouldn't need to be reminded that humans aren't the most powerful entities around.
I quite seriously believe it was a 1-in-a-million shot at the combination of all the main writers with each one helping to cover the weaknesses of the other. Take any one of them out and the show tanks in quality.
It doesn't help that it was a badly paced episode in general. Too many sub-plots crowding out the main story.
