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Beardguy57 said:
Yes.. it was a very sad ending. Bennie Russell got screwed over.. He was not allowed to get a story about a black space Captain published, simply because he was a black man living at a time before the civil rights movement. .. before a black writer was truly accepted in the general public, and before black main characters like Captain Benjamin Sisko could have ever been much more than a dream....

Avery Brooks is a superb actor! He was splendid in that episode, and many others, too. He has most likely experienced prejudiced in his lifetime. He was able to draw on that and thus made Bennie Russell so fucking real to me....

This, and the Next Gen. ep, " The Offspring ", are the only two Star Trek episodes that made me shed a tear.


TNG had a great cast, but DS9 will always be my favorite. They had incredible fun (Our Man Bashir, Take Me out to the Holosuite) and they had incredible drama (too many to mention).
Though the Inner Light episode of TNG was particularly moving, moreso for me than Offspring. Also Darmok was another favorite, despite being a clear ripoff of Enemy Mine.

Bow ties are coool.