Ferengi Rules of Acquisition

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I remember when I was a teenager and thought Star Trek was a sophisticated depiction of the future.

Now I understand that Star Trek is nothing but a simplistic universe filled with hat planets.

That's because you haven't sat down and watched a whole series from start to finish like I have. I just started watching the full series of DS9. There's some real subtext if you know where to look. Take a look at the relationship between Odo and Quark, there is some really good story telling going on it's really deep. Odo locks Quark almost every week to Odo Quark is despicable specimen of man. But they seem to need each other, Quark in the Ying to Odo's Yang they provide harmony to each other. But at the same time Odo would never admit it, the last line in the series is Quark saying, "Are you kidding? That man loves me, it's written all over his back."

Also, look at some of the story lines, some of the surprise endings are worthy of your favorite author Stephen King. Like the episode I just watched, the crew was looking for a monster aboard the station it's not until the very end that the monster they were looking for was a mutated Odo. No one, not even Odo had realized that he had changed. And the revile was brilliant, they were all standing around when Odo begins a gruesome transformation, it was a really disturbing scene, I have no clue how they got permission to show this on TV. It was like something out of one of those horror films that screw with your mind, the scene really messed with my head. Odo's fingers began to reform and mutate and slowly they started to become tentacles that began to suck the life out of the console. And they his face literately started melting, right before his body went ape shit.. It really disturbed the hell out of me.

Also, the sub story line with Kie Wen is really well written, she manipulates events and schemes people throughout the whole series like real master.. And at the same time she is worshiped like a hero. She's like a Sith lord, no one sees how evil she is except a few chosen people, that is until the end when her evil scheming is finally reviled and her horrors unleashed upon the world.

Finally the episode I'm watching right now is really well written. Miles O'Brien starts to notice that everyone has changed. Suddenly people are conspiring ageist him, his wife and friends suddenly have changed. So he runs, and contacts star fleet but now star fleet has changed and they have begun to conspire, soon we realize that the hole world is different. Then the master twist happens..

It's not Miles O'Brien, the world is different, because he is different. The Miles O'Brien we have been following was a clone programed to think he was the real thing, and then suddenly turn on the station. The story was so well written, I never saw it coming. The clones dieing words where, "Keiko... Tell her I love....."

My point is, if you think StarTrek story lines stayed as deep as "Hat Planets" then you need to watch some of the newer series again from start to finish, so you can really appreciate how amazing these writers are.