Today's crisis in Syria makes an episode about refugees pretty relevant, but this isn't really a great way to look into such an idea. For whatever reason the Skrreeans decide that moving the Bajor is the only thing that will make them happy and if it was that or be left to rot on their ships they certainly would have had a point. But Starfleet found a perfectly farmable world for them and was willing to provide all the assistance they needed and they basically spat in their faces for not letting them go to Bajor.
The episode starts with Quark freaking out that a popular musician who Kira convinced him to let play in his bar isn't playing the kind of music that makes people want to drink (I am pretty sure he is playing some adaptation of the shows opening music). Kira convinces the musician to play something more upbeat and Kira returns to ops just in time for the wormhole to open and let a badly damaged ship through. There are four aliens on board and Sisko has them beamed aboard before their ship can fail. At first no one can understand them but then they can with really no explanation. They are refugees from the Dominion and are looking for their mythic homeworld or something to return to. Sisko agrees to let them stay at or around the station while they look and shortly 3 or so million of the arrive.
The rest of the story is really straightforward: the Skrreeans don't really have many skills other than farming and have decided they should be given a ton of land on Bajor to move to. They say it is "lightly populated" but why do they have the right to just take that land, especially since it sounds like the Cardassians did everything they could to make sure it would never been productive again. Kira befriends their leader who then feels super betrayed that Kira isn't able to get them onto Bajor even though it clearly isn't her decision. There is a thing between Rom and some of the Skrreean youth and eventually some of them steal a ship. The Bajorans try to stop them but when they learn there is a child piloting the ship they try to pull back the attack but the Skrreean vessel was in such bad shape it explodes. So still all pissed off the Skrreeans leave for the totally free and perfect to farm planet the Federation provided.
Review: This episode I think was supposed to make me feel sympathetic toward the refugees, but it did a great job of doing the opposite. Maybe the Skrreeans were right and could have helped Bajor, but they give no indication of that and it isn't like they aren't given an entire freaking planet to have and develop as they please.
3 out of 10
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