Janeway would make terrorists part of her uniformed crew then thoroughly violate the prime directive in full “fuck it” mode to change what she didn’t like about the outcomes.
Both the regular prime directive and the temporal one, just to be thorough.
I mean, they said Kirk was the worst offender, but was he? Quality vs quantity and such.
She literally did, in fact.
DS9 has the whole range of politics. Odo the Fascist. Kira the Terrorist. Quark the capitalist. Rom the proletariat. Garak the gay spy. Bashir the other gay spy. The whole range.
Rom the proletariat has some of the best lines in all of Trek 😎
ROM: There’s only one thing I have to say to you. Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains.
it always felt very on-the-nose to me. lol
And Sisko the man who poisons whole planets
‘Terrorist’ is a label of perspective, historically.
Terrorism isn’t a real thing. Threatening violence and inspiring fear for political effect is something western governments do all the time. In fact, I think their successful terror campaign is probably why the American labor movement fuckin died
*unless I feel personally slighted by it, in which case I will poison an entire planet in response
Wait did Picard do that too?
No, Picard did kind of create the Maquis in the first place though by “just following orders” and abandoning an entire planet of native americans to the cardassians
and sisko did it both sides, condemn and attack terrorist marquis, and then commit the same thing multiples later on.(romulan senator bombing+ allowing cardassians to commit acts, plus the klingons(during thier changling takeover of cardassia)
The thing with the Romulan senator was the first actually successful piece of Federation-Romulan cultural outreach in history. My headcanon is that the Tal Shiar pretty much immediately figured out what actually happened but were so touched by the effort to conduct relations in a culturally Romulan way that they recommended the alliance anyway.
False flag assassination and planting evidence is basically the Romulan “Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra”
that could be it too, romulans were looking for an excuse to side with either the dominion or federations+klingons, they are just waiting for who is the winner they were pretty neutral as they dont trust the dominion to join the war. plus BREEN being promised romulus further confirms thier suspicions.
Remember when Picard defected to the Borg and killed Sisko’s Wife? pretty terroristy if you ask me
and siskos unilaterally decides marques as terrorists when its convenient politically but almost rarely condemns cardassians for doing the same thing and doesnt raise a stink about Klingons giving cloaking tech to marquee to commit the same acts. and later commits terrorist attack(with garak bombing a senator) to drag romulans into the war
