Quodo in Every Episode discussion: "Paradise"

[chacusha]

This week we're discussing... episode 2x15 "Paradise"!

Episode synopsis: Sisko and O'Brien crash-land on a planet where no electricity or electronic technology works, discovering that the human colony living there is run as a cult under their leader, Alixus, who wants Sisko and O'Brien to give up on the possibility of rescue and integrate into the community.

What The Boys are up to in this episode: Quark and Odo don't appear in this one. This was a problem because for the first time, I couldn't include a screencap for them!

One screencap from this episode:


Transcript: http://chakoteya.net/DS9/435.htm

Quodo fics tagged with this episode: None (https://archiveofourown.org/works?work_search%5Bsort_column%5D=revised_at&work_search%5Bother_tag_names%5D=Episode%3A+s02e15+Paradise+%28Star+Trek%3A+Deep+Space+Nine%29&work_search%5Bexcluded_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bcrossover%5D=&work_search%5Bcomplete%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_from%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_to%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_from%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_to%5D=&work_search%5Bquery%5D=&work_search%5Blanguage_id%5D=&commit=Sort+and+Filter&tag_id=Star+Trek%3A+Deep+Space+Nine)

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- What did you think about this episode?
- Have you written a fic set during/after this episode?
- Do you know of any other fics set in or that build off this episode that weren't linked above?
- What do you see as the Quodo potential for this episode?

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Comments

[conuly]

The premise of this episode doesn't make any sense. If our cult leader was able to find a ton of sympathizers to help her sabotage her own ship, she could've found even more sympathizers to openly establish a low-tech colony. The Federation doesn't seem to actually stop people from leaving the Federation to start outlands colonies.

I mean, I get that she really just loved being a controlling cult leader, but still.

[chacusha]

Yeah... I didn't notice it, but now you point it out, it really doesn't make sense!! DX I guess you could explain it by Alixus power-tripping/preferring to convert others forcibly(???) rather than just make a colony of like-minded technology skeptics happy to keep the device on all the time, but the more likely explanation here seems to be the writers put in one too many plot twists and now the episode just doesn't make sense anymore... The original premise of colonists crash-landing on a forcibly low-tech planet they can't escape from would have worked fine...