I'm rewatching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and I've just gotten to the episode that features this exchange:
KIRA: Incoming transmission. [He's] sending over a document. EDDINGTON: It's a book. One of my favourites. Les Miserables. SISKO: Thank you, but I've read it. EDDINGTON: Recently? If not, you should read it again.
Absolutely unhinged thing to tell somebody. Although the episode (deliberately?) draws on the misconception of the book being About the obsession Javert has for catching Valjean, I choose to believe it was a space-PDF of a completely unabridged version of the story, digressions and all
sflkjsdfld Thank you for sharing. I've seen out of context screencaps of this episode and the dialogue is truly powerful. I know nothing else about what happens in it beyond that there's a line where one character says "Les Mis isn't about the policeman," and they were so real for that.
Eddington needs to read it again, too, because it doesn't go the way he thinks it does.
what Eddington read:
