I was more sad when Alara left than when the magic lesbian died. They seriously overplayed their hand with her.
She was arrogant, obnoxious, had a targic backstory, that did nothing but defy orders and talk shit, her only personality trait was "racist against the only good kaylon in history" had a super duper unique magic (but also undefined) superpower that no other human in history had that let her save the day multiple times and she was also a lesbian in a "slam dunk" reveal, as if that wasn't obvious enough from the first scene.
She played more like a self insert than a real chararcter.
And her failure of a character is compounded by the fact that ds9 did the same thing but much better two decades earlier.
She's pretty similar to Sisko in that both have the same tragic backstory (lost their spouse to the malevolent collectivist robot faction) and both have some sort of undefined unique magic superpower that no other human has that is core to the plot (Her 5D or whatever vision and Sisko's whole prophet thing), but the difference is she's an obnoxious selfish unprofessional bitch and the story flaunts her superpower in our faces every other episode, while sisko was a humble selfless profesional and the story was clever enough to keep magic bullshit to the wayside unless it was absolutely nessesary.
Sisko used the prophets like once or twice in the span of 8 seasons/years and even then they weren't a solution, just a temporary help.
The lesbian used her superpower like what? 6 fucking times in one season consisting of 8 episodes?
And every single time the story had to twist itself into a pretsel to make her superpower seem useful.
