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@deepspacefeels
Happy Easter. You should have killed me when you had the chance, I promise you will not get another.Ā
Julianās hands on Garakās shoulders mirroring their first meetingā¦
tfw the space station you're on is about to blow up and kill everyone but you just have to flirt with the gay lizard one last time
Bashir textposts
Garashir as text posts!
DS9 showrunners to Garak
my most controversial star trek opinion is that "take me out to the holosuite" should have been called "bajor league baseball" instead
It's true and you should say it!
Happy Easter. You should have killed me when you had the chance, I promise you will not get another.Ā
Nana Visitor wrote a book! It's hardcover so it's a bit pricey (at least in Canada) but I'm excited!
Preorder now!
If you live in Canada you can pre-order on Indigo.
sorry, sisko. thatās what you get for snooping in garakās quarters
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was not a perfect show but its treatment of imperialism, war crimes, and genocide was light-years ahead of some of the stuff coming out today (looking at you, Star Wars).
In DS9:
Bajor, a world struggling to recover from decades of genocidal colonial policies, is front and center
Bajoran characters, most prominently Kira, are allowed to grapple with their own trauma and their stories donāt revolve around making their oppressors, the Cardassians, feel better
Kiraās history of violent resistance against the occupation is not sugarcoated, nor does the show shy away from the fact that she hurt innocent people in the process. But neither does the story condemn her for using violence to resist genocide
Not only was Kira a terrorist, but a religiously driven one as well. Belief in the Prophets held Bajor together during the occupation, and is a major subject of exploration in the show
Despite all that Bajor suffered, Bajorans are not relics of the past or a destroyed, defeated peopleātheir culture is vital and alive, they are rebuilding against incredible odds, and are working toward Federation membership
Bajorans themselves are not some misty spiritual cardboard cutouts, either. They are complex, they lash out, they are spiritual, they are lovers, killers, reactionaries, weirdos, mystics, the full range of experiences and personalities
And then thereās Kai Winn, who is an entire book in herself. She is such a well-drawn female villain, a complicated portrayal of self-serving ambition, self-deception, and self-entitlement
Because Bajorans are given their own stories, it actually works when some Cardassiansāgenerally minor and one-off charactersāare shown to be dissenters, or themselves traumatized from the occupation
We actually see Dukat, the leader of the occupation, trying to play the misunderstood hero/redemption card only to get slapped down by the narrative time and again
Dukat isnāt a one-note villain either; he is often charming and sometimes inspiring, as when he has a stint as a resistance fighter himself against the Klingons occupying Cardassian territory
Ultimately, though, the story reveals Dukat to be a liar, a virulent racist, an abuser, and at heart an imperialist megalomaniac who almost destroyed the Alpha Quadrant with his lust for power
David Brin was right and Star Trek is better
You are right to center Bajor in this but let me talk about Cardassians too:
- the show makes an effort to explore Cardassian culture without ever trying to excuse their imperialism and the brutality of the Bajoran occupation
- Cardassian civilians who just want to do their thing outside of the military or secret agencies are shown
- the complex questions of accountability of small cogs in the machine of the administration of totalitarian regimes are explored without easy black/white answers
- they are shown as victims of imperialism as well without diminishing their own responsibility
- the reasons (lack of resources, cultural pride, militarist society) that drove Cardassians to occupy other planets including Bajor are explored openly without excusing their actions
- the selection of characters complicit in Cardassian imperialism range from true believing patriots to small minded bigot to ambitious asshole to nihilistic egotist, just like real world dictatorships
can you come collect your freak of a man please. Heās doing things
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S04E07 Starship Down
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