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If you are a fan of Star Trek: Deep Space NineThen you know the show had a rocky first season, but the “Duet” episode highlighted the show’s full potential. This was a chapter where we learned more about the cardasses’ horrors against the Bajorans and more about how Kira has steered her bridge from Freedom Fighter to a military officer. What the most Deep space nine fan not Knowing this chapter, however, is that it is inspired directly by The guy in the glass boothFamous drama by Robert Shaw.
The guy in the glass booth
If you have never seen the 1967 play, The guy in the glass booth relating to a Jewish man arrested by Israeli authorities for becoming a Nazi war offender. The case against him seems to go well until the surprise reveals that he deliberately changed medical records to mimic his old Nazi tormentor. In the Deep space nine Episode “Duet,” we have a shocking disclosure in the same way when it is revealed that Cardassian is posing as a Great War offender as a minor government functional officer who changed his own records in the hope that his prosecution would shed light on the cruelty caused by cardassians on the Bajorans.
The story was originally set to Deep space nine Showrunner Michael Piller by two of her interns, and they had a very different idea of how a “duo” should be. They conceived from a chapter where the cardassian is truly were A war offender and that Kira would be put in the inevitable position of his defense. There was a clear dramatic potential in such a default, but Piller did not love the initial idea because he believed it was too much A judgment in nuremberg1961 movie that happened to Star Future Trek Star William Shatner’s icon.
According to Piller, it was Deep space nine The producer and future showrunner Ira Steven Behr gave us the time he gave it The guy in the glass booth A kind of feeling, where the man does not say he only does for more noble reasons. ”This twist made the chapter’s precedent feel fresh because we rarely found any cardassians who seemed repentant for their war crimes against the Bajorans. We also saw Kira’s own findings evolving as she stopped seeing the accused man just another enemy and began to see him as someone with amazing amounts of compassionate depth.
By The guy in the glass booth is a classic drama adapted into an equally classical film, you might argue that Deep space nine improves on his formula with “duo.” A little frustrating, the earlier story never explains exactly why her main Jewish character would go out of his way to get caught and trial as his Nazi tormentor. In “Duet,” we know that the Cardassian who mimics a justified war offender has a just cause…, the spread of galactic awareness of the evil acts of his people even as he helps to close to the people of Bajoran.
We are big believers that Deep space nine is Star Trek’s best show, and “Duet” remains one of her most stunning episodes. He is mocked, filled with monologues, and abolishes the franchise world by giving us a look at Kira’s inner depths, one of the show’s most compelling characters. In retrospect, though, it is quite sobering to realize that without some Robert Shaw The guy in the glass boothThe earliest DS9 masterpiece may have never reached the air at all.
