Before the Dark Times: Difference between revisions

== Live Action TV ==

* The image for this trope is of Starfleet Headquarters from ''[[Star Trek]]''. During the early run of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'', the Federation, Starfleet, and Earth were viewed as ultimate achievements of humanity growing up, the embodiment of perfect people, and paradise, respectively. As the show ran on and its spinoff ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'' ran on, the Federation met and was attacked twice by the Borg, involved in a war with their closest allies, the Klingons, had several citizens break away to form a splinter group called the Maquis who waged a Guerrilla War against the Cardassians, made first contact with an empire called the Dominion and went to war with, leading to millions, if not billions of casualties, an Admiral who tried to lead a coup against the Federation, and the Breen bombing San Francisco. By the end of it all, with Starfleet on a war footing, several moral compasses gone from black and white to gray, Picard's offhand comment seems especially poignant.

 

 

 

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Katara neatly sums it up in the opening credits:

 

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