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Black ops is also a convenient writing trick because if it's all super duper maxi extreme double secret things can just pop in or out of frame with only as much explanation as the writer feels like giving to justify it.
It's like those really pretentious "genius serial killer" movies from years back where the laziest possible writing move is "HE'S SO SMART HE PREDICTED EVERYTHING WE DO! WE'RE JUST PLAYING HIS GAME!"
Yeah, its lazy writing. At least in Deep Space 9, you get the sense that while Section 31 has enough connections to keep itself hidden, it wasn't all powerful. If I were gonna pick up the plot threads, I'd have it be what it was first stated to be: a small group of essentially vigilantes, high on their own mythology and exploiting the gaps and shadows of a huge organization like the federation.
I think in some ways, Star Trek let liberals indulge in American Exceptionalism. Like, here's all the values we purport to hold, being evangelized by a good democratic federal government and its space-navy! Yes, they're socialist; but its because of replicators! Don't worry about it! Obviously, this varied across episodes and writers. Some might be more explicitly socialist, some might have a little more yankee-brainworms. But New Trek feels like its all in on the American Exceptionalism. So now Section 31 is just Federation CIA and they do "critical work" whatever that means
Bashir's encounter with them made them seem like a few assholes that were propping up a more menacing front with more resources than they actually had access to, and pretty much just criminals with too much clearance.
Theeeeeeeen NuTrek gave them le epic drone armadas and le scary AI cliches with "Control." And for some reason massive drone swarm battles where it's hard to tell what's even fucking happening and it's all smeared and pewpewpew in a boring way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI6QQs8ImWg
Compare that to, say, the Battle of Dollyworld in Orville where I find myself actually caring because the stakes emotionally matter and it isn't just a bunch of copy-paste wanking and one-upmanship special effects:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caBzvF9hwkI
That was my experience with the smuglords of the Lemmyverse Trek site. "Believe whatever you want but this is all about sports teams and of course the coolest seeming team is the bad guys but don't call them bad guys because it's totally more complicated than that. We're the adults in the room." It's that "Grey Jedi" power fantasy from Star Wars all over again where a fandom conjured up a bullshit escapist way of having cool dark side powers without being dark siders.
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