We talk about...war crimes mostly. We crack jokes. About the war crimes, now that I think about it. It sounds bad, but you're going to laugh at those war crimes jokes.

It's also worse than "Progress." "Progress" had the moral complexity and messiness that becomes a strength of Deep Space Nine. Despite the twists and turns and great acting, "Duet" has the clean ending of an episodic TV show. It's--and secure your monocles--way closer to Star Trek: The Next Generation's wheelhouse than Deep Space Nine's.

The movie I was thinking about was 2016's Denial, which dramatized the events of the Irving v Penguin Books Ltd case.

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