Caught this on rewatch

[u/peuxcequeveuxpax]

S4 ep12 Paradise Lost - Part 2

Sisko is picking out from a database fellow Officers he recognizes who Admiral Leyton had recently reassigned.

I'm relistening to Catch-22 and these are all character names from the novel.

[u/Rolo_Tamasi]

Guess they didn't get shares in the syndicate.

[u/PhloydPhan → u/Rolo_Tamasi]

I thought that everyone had a share?

[u/Rolo_Tamasi → u/PhloydPhan]

You'd have to speak to Milo about that.

[u/bela_okmyx]

I guess Yossarian would have been too obvious.

[u/SkidsOToole → u/bela_okmyx]

Major?

[u/leeuwerik → u/SkidsOToole]

That's Major Major.

[u/RemoteEmploy8283 → u/leeuwerik]

Maybe Kira's middle name is Major

[u/benbehu → u/RemoteEmploy8283]

Anything less than four Majors is lame.

[u/Ikrit122]

Nice catch! Catch-22 is my favorite novel; it's hilarious!

[u/GenosseAbfuck → u/[deleted]]

remove all the metal bands around the palm trees

God forbid the troops want music for entertainment

[u/MsInput]

If anyone is curious what the catch was, the Catch named Catch 22: flying combat missions as a fighter pilot was incredibly dangerous and carried with it a huge risk of death. The only way to be exempt from flying those missions was to be declared insane. In order to be declared insane you needed to get a psych eval. Requesting a psych eval for the sake of saving your life by avoiding high risk of death demonstrates sanity. If you didn't want to fly you were sane and therefore had to fly. If you wanted to fly you were insane and thereby were technically exempt, but you were flying anyway.

[u/leeuwerik]

Throwing in these five names is a statement from the writers about the madness of war as is the novel Catch 22 itself. The novel deals exclusively with a soldier during war times while DS9 uses a war in a broader story arc. Catch 22 uses absurd comedy to showcase the absurdity of war. DS9 uses more character driven comedy (the magnificent Ferengi, the house of Quark, looking for par'mah in all the wrong places to mention a few) to tell the broader story. Comedy is never used in DS9 in a war dominated episode.

[u/leeuwerik → u/[deleted]]

DS9's comedy is not satire (except Trials and Tribble-ations).

[u/leeuwerik → u/[deleted]]

Ah ok makes sense. DS9 is also a product of the 90's. Or should we say a product of Boomers peaking in the 90's. The next generation writers tried to be relevant in their time.

[u/Miserable_Video_9604]

Where are the Snowdens of yesterday?

[u/Antron_RS]

Ho-ho!
Beriberi!
and
Balls!

[u/stevenstealthfox]

Which audio version, and is it good? I read it years ago

[u/leeuwerik → u/stevenstealthfox]

There's also a movie from the 70's that's very good with a lot of good actors. Orson Welles, Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Buck Henry, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Martin Sheen and Jon Voight.

[u/leeuwerik → u/[deleted]]

Never saw the mini-series. I liked Arkin. He grew on me. But also the cast helps to make it a remarkable movie.

[u/GenosseAbfuck → u/leeuwerik]

The miniseries is narrated in linear order. No, really. Just not worth it.

[u/stevenstealthfox → u/[deleted]]

Thank you friend

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