YMMV / Star Trek: Deep Space Nine S01E15 "Progress"

• Harsher in Hindsight: Brian Keith plays a man who insists on staying at his farm even knowing he'll die soon there. He committed suicide a few years later.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Sisko seems an old hand at dealing with cantankerous, stubborn, long-winded old men who use being belligerent as a deflection tactic. Once you meet his father and Curzon Dax you understand why.
• Spiritual Successor: The episode is essentially a rehash of "The Ensigns of Command." In both episodes, settlers have had the rights to their home taken away from them without their say to benefit the greater good. A main character must try to convince them to leave, but they insist on staying even though remaining would be a death sentence. Ultimately, the main character destroys a prized construction to force the settlers' hand.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Intentionally ruining a habitable world and destroying all of its indigenous life seems an astonishingly cold-hearted decision for the Bajoran government to take, especially considering that there are famines all over Bajor and they need all the farmland they can get, and the benefits of the project (powering "a few hundred thousand homes", something any nuclear plant can outdo) don't seem to outweigh the costs. One has to wonder whether there were any other planets or moons in their solar system^note There are fourteen planets in total, and Bajor itself has five moons that would have worked for the energy project and also don't have any indigenous life forms to complain. Though if one pays attention to Mullibok during the episode, it's clear the moon isn't good farmland, and is probably closer to being just barely habitable.

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