Markup View

Author: WeAreAllKosh

Oct 15th 2012 at 7:34:20 PM

Perhaps the Bajorans saw themselves as such more than anything. They saw themselves as sort of a chosen race (chosen by the "Prophets"), and some of them could be quite self-righteous about all that. They were the stock "spiritual people" of the franchise, anyway. And Sisko seemed to rhapsodize about their world a lot, believing it to be the most beautiful place he'd ever seen or imagined. Their cities (as seen in the shot described above) look almost utopic in their greenery. They seemed to come across as the "peaceful agrarian spiritually-enlightened people" who were victimized by the horrible [[ANaziByAnyOtherName space Nazis]], in the story (and maybe the history really was that cut-and-dried--and either way, the Cardassians ''did'' do horrible and inexcusable things to them). There were a few elements like this suggesting SpaceElves I guess, but those were more their impression of themselves than anything, and the trope itself probably doesn't fit. I'll get rid of that link on their name above.