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!Picard, as Locutus of Borg, killed Sisko's wife at the battle of Wolf 359. The four lights reference is related to an episode where Picard is tortured and to price his well is broken the cardiacs want him to say there are 4 lights when there were actually 5. Picard never breaks during his torture and quite emotionally yells "there are five lights"!<
Clearly, there are 5 lights. I don't know how you could be so wrong about this.
This always seemed like the cheapest way to manufacture tension for me.
There are serious core philosophical differences between Sisco and Picard. There are multiple avenues that could have been used to create conflict and tension.
Instead we get Sisco hating Picard because he blamed him for that shit with the Borg. At best the first impression of Sisco is that he's kind of an idiot. If you dig deeper Sisco is a victim blaming asshole who hates Picard for serving as a meat puppet after getting brutally violated by the Borg.
You could have just switched the reason for Sisco to hate Picard to the fact that he had his chance to strike a fatal blow to the Borg and refused for reasons Sisco would see as sanctimonious.
I’m more disappointed that ‘Movie Picard’ and then ‘Picard show Picard’ abandoned, or at least lost the emotional regulation that enabled him to hold onto, many of the principles that made him so admirable and exasperating.
It doesn’t seem like Picard in season three of Picard would have had any of the same qualms, or at least his emotional attachments would have overtaken them.
I wonder what Ben Sisko’s reaction to Picard’s choices in season three would have been. I definitely think he would have called him out, and made Shaw’s critiques look tame.
Someone please explain to a peasant like me?
Fantastic! Thanks for this awesome context and explanation!
Edit: thank you all for delivering!
Thank you!