I think it’s easy to feel a lot more for the narns because of all the stuff they go through during the series, as opposed to just in the backstory. I think the fact that the narns as a whole and our main narn character in particular start the show as people obsessed with hate and revenge is also very important, both because it shows the impact that the centauri have had on them, and because it makes their arc and character development so much more dramatic.
It’s been a long time since I went through DS9, but when I think of the bajorans, I think of their own internal political squabbling more than the occupation. Sure, we hear about it and on a few occasions even see what it was like on the station at the time, but there is nothing in there as powerful as the stuff we got in B5, like say, G’kar’s father on the tree.
Hell, Sisco was thinking about retiring to a little house on Bajor. Ain’t nobody thinking that way about the narn homeworld.
jet@hackertalks.com 1 year ago
I got super invested in emotions of Bajor… mostly the emotion was seething hate of Kai Winn… Space Karen made me feel hate more then I ever felt hate in a TV show.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Kai Winn is a special piece of fun to watch, but when she’s riling up the Bajorans, I find myself not caring about them as a whole.
jet@hackertalks.com 1 year ago
I did care about Kira going from a terrorist to a government security officer and the struggles she had with the different world view approaches.
JWBananas@startrek.website 1 year ago
Kira = John Wick. You try to leave the life behind, but the
streetsGuls keep calling.