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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Paradise (1994)
Great study of religious cults
Firstly, brilliant acting by Gail Strickland.
She is perfect in the role.
Some people have complained that the inhabitants of the paradise were too passive, but that discounts ten years of anti-technology brain washing and brutal dictatorial abuse by the Alixus character.
To be perfectly clear, Alixus, the head of this Luddite cult, is quite possibly one of the more evil characters in all of Star Trek. I consider the Borg Queen to be less evil.
The episode is brilliant because it perfectly describes what goes on in many religious cults. You do not need to fly to a remote planet in a distant part of the galaxy to find people behaving like this. There are eerily similar cults all over the place that are doing the exact same sort of things right now.
Although I acknowledge it to be a great episode, I hope that I never watch it again.