Bellator wrote:This is a hypothetical scneario: "what if these characters had equal Force Sensitivity; which one would be ideal as a Sith Apprentice?"
Then why again does age matter? Someone who's untrained in his or her 20s is already too old (according to Yoda anyways), let alone 30s or up. But if it doesn't matter if someone is 30-ish, why does it matter if someone is 40-ish or 50-ish?
Age matters because he will be set in his ways.
Imagine if Pellaeon was force sensitive. Why would Emperor Palpatine decide to make him his apprentice, when Luke Skywalker is around?
Furthermore, we're not looking at the candidates and suggesting any one of them could make a GREAT Sith Apprentice. We're looking at them and noting which have the best qualities for a Sith Apprentice, given they're the only ones available at the present time. Kira has those qualities. Sisko does not.
he's a Federation ideologue.
Sisko even used WMDs on a Maquis (=human) colony just to capture one man! Federation idealogue my ass. This isn't Picard we're talking about!
Picard was quite prepared to commit xenocide-by-noninterference if it meant not violating his precious Prime Directive. (season seven episode with Worf's step brother) He was prepared to unleash a bizarre WMD upon the Borg and was only persuaded against it by his idiotic CMO and Chief Engineer, who had no place lecturing him on command decisions. That girl in season two, who's planet was going to be destroyed, was only saved from destruction because he heard her voice. How many other planetary populations have died because a Starfleet captain was too uncaring and too unemotional to intervene? yet in spite of this, Picard was not full of anger or hatred or fear in his decision, except in regards to the Borg (yet that was prudent strategic option irregardless).
Sisko's act pales in comparison. He was launching an attack on rebels and terrorists. There couldn't have been that many of them, and the effect of the weapon is such that a full-scale evac would have been easily accomplished (in fact, that is what happens at the end of the episode anyway, in another touching Trek displat of the 'reset button'). And once again, he did not hate the Maquis, or was angered by their plight - he initially had sympathy for their cause, but it was their methods which drove him to oppose them - it was more of a ploy to force Eddington to surrender to him. And Eddington, like the schmuck that he was, bought it.
For the fucking umpteenth time, Sisko is not full of hate, anger, or fear, unless you count the Borg, and that plot development was thrown out IN THE FIRST FUCKING EPISODE. Sisko never encountered the Borg again after Wolf 359. Kira on the other hand grew up under the occupation of Bajor, saw first hand her friends, lovers cut down by the brutal Cardassians. Assuming she is Force Sensitive, she's the ideal candidate
from the selection we have been given to consider.
This isn't goddamn rocket science.
Am i being a killjoy?
