When I was a kid, I was a big fan of The X-Files. It was the ’90s, politics were a thing for the Royal Canadian Air Farce (basically, Canada’s SNL) to make fun of, and vague yet sinister conspiracies perpetrated by shadowy bureaucracies of black-clad spooks were all the rage. And so, when the producers of Deep Space Nine opted to uncork a little of that X-Files magic in the Star Trek universe in the sixth season episode “Inquisition,” I was over the moon about it.
“A Critical Division of Starfleet Intelligence”: Section 31 and the Normalization of the Security State
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