I found a very good episode of ST:DS9

[sakabatou]

Season 1, episode 19: "In the Hands of the Prophets." It has a similarity with the ID/Creationist movements.

If you have Netflix, you can watch it streaming.

[laconicsax]

1. Is that the one where the Bajorans pull their kids out of Keiko's school because she had the gall to

refer to the wormhole as a wormhole and not the Celestial Temple of the Prophets?

[sakabatou]

2. Yup

[laconicsax]

3. I think there's a fundamental distinction that DS9 consistently failed to make.

The Bajoran gods actually exist, interact with the Bajorans, and literally exert their influence to make things go their way. Their prophecies always come true and there's no rational reason to doubt the Prophets, their power, or their prophecies.

The argument in that episode, while presented in terms of the ongoing science vs. religion "debate," is more akin to Catholics getting pissed off that someone saying "Joseph Ratzinger lives in a big house in Italy" rather than "His Holiness the Pope lives in the Apostolic Palace inside Vatican City."

[sakabatou]

4. Ah

[lindysalsagal]

5. Magic things really did appear and resonate

Avery Brooks really did go up to the mountain and return. It was really cool to see religion finally actually happen.

I miss DS9. Major Kyra Norisse was totally cool and real and flawed and wonderful. Great characters. Best TV ever.