In My Head I Live On DS9

• Ezri Dax Rocks • James • he/him • follows from imournformorn •

[deepspace-niners]

[whispsofwind]

Today on "Star Trek and tonal whiplash"

S5E8 of Ds9: we explore the ramifications of Odo being Chief of Security during the Occupation, dismantling the idea of him being a neutral party because you can't be impartial when serving under a fascist regime, and Odo has the blood of innocent Bajorans on his hands and will never wash it away. We'll also add a small side plot of Garak being schooled on his own casual racism, and then a final gut punch with Kira, who always stood up for Odo and believed in him as an impartial force of justice, confronting our changeling about the people he got killed in the name of the law. May the image of the implacable Odo with a Cardassian uniform haunt everyone's nightmares

S5E9: Quark/Odo fanfic, tags "enemy to lovers", "stranded on an alien planet", "cuddling for warmth", and "angst with a happy ending".

[july-19th-club]

ben sisko introducing his crew to folks like welcome to the station this place has everything! my beloved son. my guerrilla daughter. my competent fucklord female dad. her giant belarusian husband. my hyperactive gay nephew. the alien spy who makes all my clothes. a slimy cop (not entirely a metaphor). a venture capitalist brought low by the whims of the market. the world’s most unlucky irish man. his beautiful wife. my beautiful wife :) and this wormhole that made me a jesus  

[gentlekirk]

[girldadlestat]

[Caption: Four gifs of Jim Kirk diving through a rock structure and crawling through sand on Star Trek: The Original Series.]

[scubastranaut]

EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE IS FUNNY FOR A DIFFERENT REASON

[stardate-8353]

Add some enrichment to your captain’s enclosure by giving them a neat little obstacle course! 

[edgebugart]

and would you not feel quite the fool of deception to find the same face on both sides of the coin?

[calocera]

[serennes-art]

Your star trek art is amazing!!! Would you mind posting that piece of Ezri with all the Daxes behind her, but just by itself? I would love to reblog it :D

here you are!

[hooved]

odo was actually really cute in that one wedding robe….

[captainsblogsupplemental]

[captaincrusher]

I always thought the emotion chip was a bad move.

I totally get why it's there. It's a direct way of conceptualizing Data's emotions for the audience. Showing him slowly coming to grips with his humanity (if that's the word) in dream sequences, as well as his friendships and actions, is much harder to convey to the audience. But it's just far superior as far as story telling go, you know?

I loved the idea of Data constantly reaching to those places on his own, coming a little closer each time, without suddenly being given a ladder to quickly climb to the top. The ladder effectively removes the agency and the existential struggle of Data's arc which is a goal within itself. Considering, debating and struggling with your existence is often the very point.

It's much more appealing as a story that Data reached a state where he could feel emotions on his own, because then emotions wouldn't just be some lines of code. It would be a product of his own growth, his own coming of age story.

[captaincrusher]

Star Trek explores different difficult topics all the time. When Picard is struggling with decisions they show his anguish, his internal deliberations, his discussions with Riker. We learn who Picard is and how his experiences shape his decision making. I feel like the emotion chip is like if they just cut to Picard making decisions every time without that middle part. The process is how you grow and that's what's interesting, not just showing the result.

[pocket-emilu]

so i’m learning about garashir [1/?]

[meowmeowarcher]

fuck questions about who’s the best captain on star trek. who’s the worst captain on star trek. like worst at their job. they go to a planet and their entire ship gets blown up or something. losers and girlfailures only

[section-69]

I'm rewatching DS9 and Quark just referred to "the brothers Quark" - which could mean that 1. In Ferengi society, theres no surnames but the older brother's name counts for both, 2. Quark doesn't want Rom's name mentioned anywhere in his business, or 3. Quark's full name is "Quark Quark"

[bigbluelemon]

The first one actually makes a lot of sense

It always bugs me whenever a fictional setting regards personal names as a unique enough identifier. It seams quite illogical that there are enough personal names for every member of the population to have a unique one (except when it is an intentional part of the world building which is not the case), so it is natural to assume there is some mechanism of identifying which John you're looking for, whether it's a surname, profession, patronim/matronim, place of birth etc. It is even more likely that Ferengi have one, as they are very big on contracts and help you God if you can't uniquely name one of the parties. It can be argued that they can use id numbers, fingerprints and such nowadays, but the need for identification almost certainly preceeds centralised numbered ids of any kind, so even if the mechanism is less relevant, it would still be in place at least as legacy.

Secondly, Ferengi seem to have something of a clan system ?? Idk how to put it, but when it transpires that Ishka is earning money Brunt clearly states that it's Quark's problem, as he is the head of the family, which obviously isn't just traditional but has some legal consequences. It is probably due to Ishka, a female, not having any legal agency and therefore needing a male proxy, but Ferengi still seem quite worked up about family ties, even if their family values are kind of different from ours, so it is possible that the "head of the family" thing includes not only female relatives, but also younger males.

So yeah, it might as well be that Quark and Rom used to be Keldar's Quark and Rom, but now that Keldar is dead Quark is just Quark and Rom and Ishka became Quark's Rom and Ishka.

[unicorn-and-bluebells]

Yeah that's always been my assumption. See also the way that when Nog got arrested in the first episode, Quark held himself responsible (Rom was nowhere to be seen, probably working though) for Nog's situation. He doesn't expect Nog to advocate for himself, and he doesn't expect Rom to advocate for Nog; no, he goes in and does the talking (and also the reprimanding, did you SEE the way he hissed at Nog?? Poor kid's in hot water). That makes a lot of sense if you assume Quark is the current head of the family

Also lol please don't leave the whole "Technically this makes Gaila Quark's Gaila despite him being more successful than Quark" thing in the tags bc that's a great and hilarious point!! Maybe that's part of why Gaila is always trying to screw Quark over; he feels like Quark is in his rightful spot as head of the family, so he keeps trying to get Quark out of the picture with rigged shuttles and such.

[romulanfucker]

blame it on the spocks.mp4

[weyounbathwater]

Jake takes Nog to an earth seafood restaurant to have him try it and they order crab and Jake eats it the normal way but nog picks the whole thing up and eats it like a hamburger

[spookdoodles]

[fandommomhater]

lost tng B plot where riker is trying to teach wesley the trombone and he’s all nice and polite like yes sir i love this instrument the tromboneyes 😁 and then halfway through riker finds out he’s been learning oboe in secret instead and they have a dramatic falling out and wont talk to each other and the rest of the crew has to get involved. eventually they sit down and have a talk and riker gives wesley a speech about how he was too judgmental and it’s okay to be different and you have to find what you love and it’s a gay metaphor.. the episode ends with them having a stupid oboe trombone duet

[fandommomhater]

everyone in the notes saying ‘i can’t believe this isn’t a real episode!’ needs to realize that the one thing more unrealistic than a gay metaphor episode in the 90s is an episode having any character driven focus on wesley. at all

[breqoneesk]

star trek rlly said man whores r real and i respect them for it