The Wounded is about a rogue Starfleet captain named Maxwell that is bent on getting even with the Cardassians for killing his family. This is the first appearance of The Cardassians in the series (although I didn't see Bruce Jenner anywhere) and also the first to really have Miles O'Brien as the focal point of an episode. Now let me just say that I hate the character of Miles O'Brien, but I think Colm Meaney is an excellent actor (just see Hell on Wheels ... where he literally is a Big Meaney). Obviously someone recognized his talent and thought that the seemingly insignificant Miles O'Brien should take a step forward, that's a credit Colm Meaney.
That being said, does Miles O'Brien really have to be THAT Irish?? In the beginning of the episode Miles and Keiko are eating dinner. Miles seems surprised the she eats Japanese food and she seems disgusted at his Irish cuisine. .....Do you people even know each other at all?? You just got married!! I was waiting for Miles to say ... "wait, are you meaning to tell me that your Asian??"
Anyway. He's TOO Irish and she is TOO Japanese. In the future will Irish people still be stereotypes, eat peasant food and sing 1700's shanties?? Will Japanese people wear Kimonos and decorate their rooms like its feudal Japan?? Why bother eating traditional foods in the future? I've seen a bagel dog ... literally a hot dog wrapped in a bagel. Imagine what the future beholds.
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Wait a second. You think people are going to stop eating egg rolls in the future just because we'll all have fucked each other so much there will be no more racial distinctions? I mean...egg rolls are delicious!
Anyway, I always thought it was pretty funny how O'Brien was a background character...wasn't he even in the pilot? Anyway, he was a background character for entire seasons and eventually because one of the stars of DS9. Unlike you, though, I like the character.
I figure people will be eating future food like space tacos or something. Miles is WAAAAY to irish...he reminds me of kids i went to high school with that was super irish about everything. Have shamrocks on all their clothes, always wear scally caps the whole 9 yards...but like maybe their dad was half irish and none of their family has been to ireland in 100 years.
its like miles and his wife are time travelers from the 1800s
Wouldn't everybody in the future eat Dippin' Dots?
To be serious for a moment, I think culture heritage is important to be people. I would even go so far as to say that the more we advance in years from our heritage, the more that culture becomes important. So, sure, in the future people will be just as proud of their culture. More so even.
But, to be sure, people will still hate the Irish just as they always have.
there is a trend of modernization to kill traditional behavior. Mass communications is leading to the elimination of regional accents.
If this trend continues you figure by star trek days everyone is going to be Blasian with american newscaster accent (which i think is really canadian. why american tv hires canadians to do american news)
However on Star Trek it seems like there isn't much in terms of tv/movies and I think star trek earth is "post scarcity" so people wouldn't have to move around for economic reasons any more. People might become even more isolated i suppose and humans could go back to their traditions in reaction to dealing with all these wack ass aliens all over the place.
Miles family might have lived a traditional irish life style as their would be no economic reason for them to drop all of that. He's pretty irish but I don't recall them ever brining up if he's catholic, i figure no one is religious in the future.
(though people seem to still believe in god/gods)
I hope in the future they have eggrolls. I would like it if everybody was more cultural in the future. Asians dressed like Samurai's, Italians spinning pizza, Native Americans chasing locomotives on horseback.
The British acting like downton abbey
Russians acting like Chekhov
Americans shooting hamburgers
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