YMMV / Star Trek: Deep Space Nine S06E13 "Far Beyond the Stars"

• Anvilicious: Institutionalized discrimination sucks and there's no easy answers to it, but keeping quiet and being calm about it is just going to be taken for acquiescence. It's received praise, especially in more recent years when the issues rose to greater public attention, for just saying it's talking about racism and sexism among humans rather than the franchise's usual cloak of allegory.
• Broken Base: One of the most divisive episodes of an already divisive installment of Trek. Either praised as a brilliant take on racism in America, or seen as a heavy-handed pet project that stops the war plotline dead for an episode. The specifics of the episode aside, it's also seen by some as a Bizarro Episode that uses the barely justified involvement of the Prophets to keep Avery Brooks happy. The ending in particular is a bit divisive, as Benny's struggle against endemic racism and Sisko's concerns about Dominion aggression don't really correlate and his renewed motivation seems tacked on.
• Memetic Mutation: "It's REAL!", which is sometimes amusingly juxtaposed with Senator Vreenak's "It's a faaaaake!" from "In the Pale Moonlight" later in the same season.
• Misaimed Fandom: Certain viewers consider Macklin to be the true protagonist, pointing out that he was the only one of the writers who never got involved in the arguments over Benny's story to any real degree (aside from suggesting the All Just a Dream ending), and that he was rewarded for focusing on his work by being able to sell a novel to what at the time was a fairly respected publisher. However, this misses the point that Macklin is free to write about the subject he's passionate about, while Benny isn't because of the racial prejudice of the time; a point that's subtly made by having Macklin be the first of the other authors Benny is seen with, and then more overtly made when Pabst encourages Benny to be more like Macklin.
• Values Resonance: It's hard to see Jimmy (Jake) shot dead by police on a flimsy pretense and not think of the "Black Lives Matter" movement.

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