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Sisko and O'Brien, in a runabout, come across an M-Class planet with an uncharted human settlement on it. They beam down to talk to the people there and find an agrarian society led by a woman named Alixus. They also find that their equipment no longer works -- nothing electronic does -- due to a duonetic field around the planet, so they are unable to beam back up or call for help. They are determined to figure out what is interfering with return to their equipment, ship, but Alixus tells them they may have to accept that they will never leave, leading as they have never been able to themselves.
As Sisko and O'Brien stay on the planet, it soon becomes apparent that Alixus is ruling the colony with an iron grip -- anyone who breaks any laws is placed inside abattle punishment box to go without food or water, and the efforts of wills between O'Brien and Sisko to contact their runabout earn Alixus' retribution, culminating with her ordering Sisko placed in the box. He goes along with this punishment, even returning to the box over submitting to Alixus when she temporarily frees him.
Realizing the planet's geology can't be responsible for the duonetic field andSisko.uses a makeshift compass to track down its true source -- a generator. O'Brien shuts it down and returns to the village to free Sisko and reveal the truth. Alixus confirms she purposefully marooned the colonists on the planet but it was for the best, as it allowed them to build a peaceful, happy society together.
Dax and Kira, who had gone looking for the two and found their runabout, contacts Sisko. The colonists, though now aware of Alixus' true colors, agree that she gave them their community, and elect to stay on the planet, now with the option to return to the galaxy if they choose to. Sisko and O'Brien are beamed up, along with Alixus and her son Vinod to answer for their crimes.
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Realizing the planet's geology can't be responsible for the duonetic field and
Dax and Kira, who had gone looking for the two and found their runabout, contacts Sisko. The colonists, though now aware of Alixus' true colors, agree that she gave them their community, and elect to stay on the planet, now with the option to return to the galaxy if they choose to. Sisko and O'Brien are beamed up, along with Alixus and her son Vinod to answer for their crimes.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Despite the colonists only being there because they've been deliberately marooned there against their will by Alixus for years, have been lied to, endured her harsh and draconian punishments for those who don't kowtow to her philosophies, and even ''died'' even though they could have been saved with access to the modern technology she was blocking, ''none of them want to leave'' once the field preventing their technology from working is shut down. She's no KarmaHoudini, but Alixus won in the end.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Despite While Alixus and her son are exposed and taken prisoner to answer for what they've done, the colonists only being still agree with her philosophy and the results it achieve, and choose to stay on the planet and continue to live there because they've been deliberately marooned there against their will by Alixus for years, have been lied to, endured her harsh and draconian punishments for those who don't kowtow to her philosophies, and even ''died'' even though they could have been saved with access to the modern technology she was blocking, ''none of them want to leave'' once the field preventing their technology from working is shut down. without technology. She's no KarmaHoudini, but Alixus won in the end.end.
* BittersweetEnding: Alixus and Vinod are taken to face justice for what they've done, Sisko and O'Brien are rescued, and the colonists are freed from Alixus' control. However, she still claims a moral victory in that they agree with her views and choose to stay on the planet, though now aware they can re-establish contact with the Federation if they choose so.
* BittersweetEnding: Alixus and Vinod are taken to face justice for what they've done, Sisko and O'Brien are rescued, and the colonists are freed from Alixus' control. However, she still claims a moral victory in that they agree with her views and choose to stay on the planet, though now aware they can re-establish contact with the Federation if they choose so.
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** Alixus, an EvilLuddite, uses advanced technology to restrict anyone else from doing so.
** In her justifying speech to the colony at the end, she claims that they should all be grateful she did this, as it allowed them all to "realize their true potential" instead of wasting away their lives in menial, dead-end positions. She did this by essentially kidnapping them and forcing them to live on a backwater planet without technology. While she's right about how the experience "redefined" them, it's only in her view that it was for the better.
** At the end, Alixus tellsone of the colonists, the one who was in the heat box for stealing candles, Stephen that he would be in prison by now if it weren't for her...her bringing him to the community... even though this planet essentially is like a prison he was introduced being freed from the punishment box for him. Not to mention for someone who hates technology, she uses stealing a very advanced technology to make sure no one finds them.candle, and Alixus is basically keeping the entire colony prisoner on the planet.
** Alixus, an EvilLuddite, uses advanced technology to restrict anyone else from doing so.
** In her justifying speech to the colony at the end, she claims that they should all be grateful she did this, as it allowed them all to "realize their true potential" instead of wasting away their lives in menial, dead-end positions. She did this by essentially kidnapping them and forcing them to live on a backwater planet without technology. While she's right about how the experience "redefined" them, it's only in her view that it was for the better.
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* MeaningfulName: The planet and its star are named [[Creator/GeorgeOrwell Orellius]].
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* VillainBall: Alixus is dead-set on not allowing Sisko and O'Brien to leave the colony, even though it's obvious they have no intent of staying and she gains nothing from keeping them there. Her repeatedly efforts to try and keep them there succeed only in ensuring that even if they eventually gave up hope, they were never trust her or submit to her.
* VillainBall: Alixus is dead-set on not allowing Sisko and O'Brien to leave the colony, even though it's obvious they have no intent of staying and she gains nothing from keeping them there. Her repeatedly efforts to try and keep them there succeed only in ensuring that even if they eventually gave up hope, they were never trust her or submit to her.
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* DiabolusExMachina: The ending feels a little like this. Throughout the episode we're shown that many of the colonists really would desperately like to have the technology to survive, and are appalled by Alixus' treatment of Sisko and O'Brien, then learn that all their suffering has been built on an lie. The sudden decision to continue living their technology-less life in her image feels like the writers decided that resolving the episode by taking down the big bad and having it become a more standard colony world was "too easy" so wrote something that didn't really jive with the rest of the episode up to that point.
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* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: When O'Brien is caught trying to contact the runabout by Alixus's men, she has Sisko placed into the hot box instead of O'Brien, under the justification that Sisko was his commanding officer and culpable for O'Brien's acts.
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* AbsenteeActor: Only half the main cast appear in this episode. Bashir, Odo, Quark and Jake are all missing.
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* ThrowingTheDistraction: Vinod is hunting O'Brien in the forest and spots a flash of black cloth. He shoots and pins O'Brien's empty uniform to a tree. O'Brien then jumps him from behind.
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* ItsWhatIDo: After Dax shuts down Kira's idea to stop the wayward runabout ''Orinoco'':
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'''Dax:''' I'm a science officer. It's my job to have a better idea.
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'''Dax:''' I'm a science officer. It's my job to have a better idea.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Welcome to [[CultColony New Jonestown]].]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Welcome to [[CultColony New Jonestown]].]]
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* HoneyTrap: Alixus tries to use Cassandra to seduce Sisko into taking off his uniform. It doesn't work.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Sisko continues to refer to his father in the past tense, as though he is long dead.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Sisko continues to refer to his father in the past tense, as though he is long dead.
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Alixus keeps saying how human ingenuity is more useful than any technology. However, the application of ingenuity is ''technology''.
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* DieOrFly: Part of O'Brien's backstory. Fighting against the Cardassians helped him develop his engineering genius.
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* {{Cult}}: Alixus' community has shades of this.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Despite the colonists only being there because they've been deliberately marooned there against their will by Alixus for years, have been lied to, endured her harsh and draconian punishments for those who don't kowtow to her philosophies, and even ''died'' even though they could have been saved with access to the modern technology she was blocking, ''none of them want to leave'' once the field preventing their technology from working is shut down. She's no KarmaHoudini, but Alixus won in the end.
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* BurningTheShips: After crash-landing on the planet, the castaways have thrown away all their electronic technology, thus forsaking any chance to call for help. However, Alixus and her son had sabotaged the ship so it would crash on the planet, and keep a [[TechnoBabble duonetic field generator]] going that blocks all electronic technology, so nobody can use technology even if they want to.
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* BurningTheShips: After crash-landing on the planet, the castaways have thrown away all their electronic technology, thus forsaking any chance to call for help. However, It is revealed that Alixus and her son had secretly sabotaged the ship so it would crash on the planet, and keep planet. Afterwards they persuaded the castaways to throw away all their electronic technology, who thusly voluntarily forsook any chance to call for help. At the same time, Alixus keeps a [[TechnoBabble duonetic field generator]] going that blocks all electronic technology, so nobody can use technology on the planet even if they want to.
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* {{Determinator}}: An alternate title for the episode could have been [[CoolHandLuke "Cool Hand Benjamin."]]
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* BurningTheShips: After crash-landing on the planet, the castaways have thrown away all their electronic technology, thus forsaking any chance to call for help. However, Alixus and her son had sabotaged the ship so it would crash on the planet, and keep a [[TechnoBabble duonetic field generator]] going that blocks all electronic technology, so nobody can use technology even if they want to.
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* BreakTheBadass: Alixus tries this on Sisko. She fails miserably.
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* IdiotBall: A strange field that could interfere with communicators, and thus preventing them from beaming back up? Well, better send down ''both'' men who are on the runabout!
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* LuddWasRight: Alixus espouses a philosophy that technology is bad, while[[spoiler:Sisko Sisko grows increasingly suspicious of the fact that she has "accidentally" found a planet that suits that philosophy so well.]]
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