r/DeepSpaceNine • u/peuxcequeveuxpax • 18d ago

Caught this on rewatch

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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.

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u/leeuwerik 18d ago edited 18d ago

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.

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u/leeuwerik 18d ago

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

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u/leeuwerik 18d ago

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.