[Rockingham]

DS9 had the virtues of a grimy, lived in look, with moral equivocations and many episodes leading to messy conclusions. Kinda like the Clinton era that the show originally ran in and like most of our futures.

[Kartographer]

That's what I like about DS9 the lived in look of things. The fact that sometimes not all the time, but sometimes you have to work in a 'gray area' and then you have to just do your best and relay on your own judgement and moral code. These two lines from other shows I think sum it up the best:

"Choosing between right and wrong is easy. It's choosing the wrong that's more right that's hard." From the Movie The Siege

Michael Westen [voive-over]: Being a spy, you have to get comfortable with the idea of people doing bad things for good reasons; doing good things for bad reasons. You do the best you can. From the TV Show Burn Notice

IMHO two of the best lived in realistic Sci-Fi moives were Riddle Scott/Harrison Ford "Blade Runner" and Peter Hyams/Sean Connery "Outland".