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May your memory be a blessing, Aron Eisenberg. When you place your bid before the Blessed Exchequer, you may do so with the vaults of love from everyone you touched with your talent, your goodness, your humour, and your wisdom.
no offense to the v*yager fans but like……….. the fact it’s so damn noteworthy that s7ven of n9ne is finally wearing some actual clothing in the new trailer? maybe that means the show you like was BAD in SO MANY WAYS
Gah. Yeppppp.
i’ve been very sporadically online in the past week or so but that’s because i just got back from visiting @deepspacekayt who i love so much and, as i mentioned in the tags of my last post, i’m now DATING! five days before the end of Pride month and it’s made this the absolute best one.
so for everyone to know: i love my girlfriend!!!
Finally reblogging, and still absolutely revelling in how magnificent this is!
Jadzia Dax from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is your fave!
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I feel called out by this relatable content.
DS9 fans challenge:
stop hypersexualizing literally everything about the character of Julian Bashir, and consider why it’s bad to do that for a bisexual man of color. both groups are hypersexualized very negatively. use critical thinking please for the love of god
For all Julian’s romantic escapades (and their varying degrees of success), he is in fact an incredibly complex and compelling character. We owe SO much of this to Alexander Siddig’s decdication, skill, professionalism, and determination to advocate for his character — even before the writers’ room was giving him much to work with. I love Julian Bashir for his imagination, his courage, his compassion, his skill, his social awkwardness, his unique combination of arrogance and insecurity, and his beautiful idealism. Popular culture needs more representation like this, and we should celebrate it fully!
I saw this post and my hand slipped
Seriously, though, turning his subplots into Florida Man headlines makes Tucker exponential more watchable.
broke: Benjamin Sisko is the most morally grey Captain out of Star Trek
woke: Archer and Janeway regularly make choices worse than his most morally grey act; DS9 is just the show that gives us the most in-depth look at a Captain wrestling with those choices. Because the other shows didn't devote whole episodes to the moral dilemma and torment the Captain feels, their actions just get more overlooked
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[Captain Sisko gushing over babies gives me life.]
Always.
the one april fools joke i played today, and i did trick her at first!
(for context, @deepspacekayt and i both resoundingly believe VOY is the WORST star trek, and we regularly make fun of its shortcomings and failings. the one and only true best trek is DS9.)
Ajfsfklmdkffd!
From @lesbianjaxa ‘s insightful and incisive tags on this post:
#just as a reminder to others in the tags... saying julian is jealous or something? #That's Not Julian #the real julian is suffering in solitary confinement in a POW camp in the gamma quadrant!!! #this is the evil imposter who's taken his place #and plans to murder everyone in the solar system in a few days so... #there's some different angst going on here lmao
It’s one of the most agonizing things about the fifth season that Julian was gone for weeks (thirty-seven days, as he states adamantly in “Inquisition”) and no one noticed he was gone until he alerted them to that fact. Here is the character who tried so desperately to make friends, who needs so much to be liked, to be loved, to be seen as a whole person because he’s not sure he is: and no one even noticed he’d been replaced. The episodes don’t delve into how that must have felt, but POOR JULIAN!
And if you’re looking for a reason for him to be jealous of Ziyal and Garak, how ‘bout at the end of this same two-parter, when he finally escapes from Internment Camp 371?
And Garak gets this welcome:
And Worf gets this welcome:
And all Julian gets is his best friend -- who should damned well know what it is like to come back from a lengthy incarceration, traumatized and suffering, to find that everyone in your life barely even noticed you were away -- telling him that the Changeling “was a lot easier to get along with”.
Stop writing men as if modern Western toxic masculinity were the default throughout time and space.
Your medieval knights can share a pallet at night because it’s cold in this castle and they’re demonstrating their respect and affection for each other by sharing physical proximity.
In the far future, your dude can be a scientist adventurer robot captain, but he can also make food for people to demonstrate his affection and dance to show off his happiness.
Many cultures alive today expect the average man to be good with children, to be able to diaper a baby, to know how to assist in childbirth. Your men don’t have to go, “Oh god, an infant, I’ve never touched one of those before.”
Before modern Europe, there was nothing unmanly about loving colour, fashion, art, and decoration. Flowers weren’t always emasculating. Emotions weren’t always considered signs of weakness. Men got to want and have warm, close, affectionate friendships with other men.
In many ways, Western toxic masculinity of the last few centuries has been the exception, not the rule.
All right. I have to chime in here and say... EVERY EXAMPLE IN THIS POST IS CANONICAL BEN SISKO.
Sharing a bed because it’s cold: “Past Tense”. We don’t see them do it, but when Ben returns to Julian in the cellar well with the plate of scrambled eggs (see also: feeding people to show affection), there is very clearly one blanket in the place they were sleeping. The night before, Ben spends most of the incredible scene discussing Federation ideals blowing on his hands: it was bitterly cold. Our heroes shared that blanket like the Federation idealists they are, and that is simply a Trek Fact.
Making food for people to demonstrate his affection: too many examples to list, but they include “The Nagus”, “Equilibrium”, “Blaze of Glory”, “In the Cards”, “Statistical Probabilities”, et cetera, et cetera. This is one of Ben’s predominant acts of love, and he does it all the time. For his family, for his friends, for his crew.
Dancing because he’s happy: often also while cooking, in fact.
Ben and the babies! Oh, there are not words enough to express how much I love this! “Explorers”, talking about how passionately he decorated his son’s nursery. “Heart of Stone”, instantly radiant with joy talking about Ensign Vilix’pran: “You mean he’s pregnant! 😍”. “The Abandoned”: absolutely absorbed in the eyes of the Jem’Hadar baby, and subsequently nostalgic for the Baby Jake of years gone by. “Children of Time”, barely holding up his end of a conversation about the Defiant’s plight because he’s cuddling his multiple-great grandbaby. Smiling down at Kirayoshi in the pit in “Business as Usual”. In “The Begotten”, he even cooes over a baby Changeling, who looks like a cup of goo!
And the ways in which he shows affection for other men — Jake, Miles, Julian, Odo, Worf, Curzon, on goes the list — really ARE too numerous to even attempt to list. All of this while still being a skilled captain, a brilliant tactician, a soldier, and soforth.
Benjamin Sisko is the masculine icon the world needs.
For the sake of clarity, because I once again forgot that replies come from the “main blog”, I also administer three DS9 roleplay blogs: @jadzia-suggestions , @molly-suggestion , @kukalaka-suggestion . Replies come from @jadzia-suggestions .
Was this outfit ever explained?? Like.. top 10 hottest bashir looks but at the same time.. why?
Ah, yes! The clothing historian in me has given this a GREAT deal of thought over the years.
This, and briefly in “Rocks and Shoals” in the same arc, are two of the only times we see on-duty Julian looking anything but pristinely buttoned-up. (He sometimes gets dishevelled because of circumstances beyond his control: in “Crossover”, in Internment Camp 371, but when he has a choice, he projects a very fastidious, professional image — even in the jungle in “Hippocratic Oath”.) There is indeed a reason this costuming choice was made.
At this point, the Defiant has just returned from a sortie to the front lines. As established by Jadzia’s dialogue in the teaser, they’ve been at high alert for seventy-two hours straight. Julian has been working for three days without interruption, and since we know our good doctor well, we know he’s been doing absolutely everything he can for his “twelve wounded officers and crewmen” (plus Garak). He is exhausted, he is overworked, and he has clearly been moving at a pace that no one should have to sustain for so long.
He’s popped his collar because he cannot, at this point, endure the sensory constriction at his throat (a common phenomenon among health care professionals in stressful situations). He’s rolled up his sleeves because he’s been performing field surgery in the Defiant’s under-equipped medical bay. As gorgeous as he looks here, the message is simple: Julian, like the rest of the crew, is near the end of his tether today.
This is borne out moments after this screencap, when he has to give Ben the agonizing news of the Seventh Fleet. Sid does a masterful job of portraying both the exhaustion and the anguish of that. This healer, who’s done everything he can to save his twelve people, the lives in his (elegantly bared) hands, has to be the herald of the deaths of thousands who were not so fortunate. And he has to bear those tidings to his trusted and beloved captain, whom he knows will be just as tormented by the loss as he is.
(Another thing I love about this scene, above and beyond the brilliant costuming choice, is Martok. He has been tolerating his wound for an undisclosed length of time because he knew he was to rendezvous with the Defiant... where he could be attended by HIS doctor! The friendship and mutual respect between Martok and Julian always gives me such joy.)
Oh. And for any of you who are running off for a re-watch (highly recommended!) spare a moment to watch the mugs when Ben and Jadzia take them from the replicatior. They are steaming faintly. Someone actually bothered to put hot liquid in the cups! This is, in every possible way, a masterful scene.
Oh, how I love this show!
This friendship is cute, and I wish there were more of it.
Same! I bet Martok protected Julian in the prison camp
I just imagine him seeing Bashir come in and thinking that this fragile human will be dead in a week. And then he sees how stubborn and determined and fearless he is, and he realizes he was wrong. And Bashir starts using what few resources they have to help Martok after his fights with the Jem'Hadar, and now he suddenly owes that fragile human his life.
also this scene is great because bashir talks like a klingon
all loud and aggressive since speaking quietly is rude
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As a health care provider, I can confirm Julian is doing exactly the right thing here. This is cultural respect and mirrored speech at their finest!
The fact that Martok delays treatment in “A Time to Stand” until he can see his own doctor aboard the Defiant is evidence of how highly he esteems his friend’s skill and care.
So… given this conversation happens in Bashir’s mind during a Dominion virtual reality simulation. And this is the nicest Garak has ever been to him (by far). I’m going to say this is either:
a.) Wish fulfilment. What Bashir wants to hear Garak say every time he comes back from a mission.
b.) Bashir!OptimismFilter: what he always hears in subtext when Garak is moaning about the tailoring, bitching about the Romulans or calling him a pest.
c.) The only option: no matter how different it is from how Garak usually talks to him, the Founders can’t find anyone in else in Bashir’s psyche who’d believably be happy to see he’s alright. Most of the station still find him annoying. He’s got no family who care about him. The number of people in the universe who’d actually miss him if he got killed in action is small…
Oh, Julian...
Seriously, though. When evaluating his early behaviour, his frantic social advances — particularly with Jadzia and Miles — make such agonizing sense in the context of how alone he is in the Galaxy. He is achingly lonely, trying haplessly to connect with people in his new home without really understanding how.
I firmly believe that Jadzia, with her lifetimes of wisdom and her memories of socially awkward past hosts (I think we all know who I mean?), picks up on this. That is why she rebuffs his inappropriate behaviour so gently and good-naturedly, time and again. That is why she has patience with him while he learns how to be her friend. She has compassion for this anchorless young man who so desperately needs a support network, a community, a family.
In that promo pic it looks like Sisko is wearing PJs???
i really badly want a pajama party version of that photo now DAMN
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a) this is adorable
b) love that Julian is wearing his canonical pyjamas
c) KUKALAKA!!!
d) Miles Edward O’Brien! Put some pants on. 😂
Character actor Dick Miller died yesterday (Jan 30, 2019). He had a prolific career spanning seven decades, and worked on films such as “The Terminator”, “Pulp Fiction”, and “The Little Shop of Horrors”. For me, however, he will always be Vin, the gruff and indifferent Sanctuary District guard who experienced compassion and a profound change of heart in “Past Tense”.
Thank you, Vin, for letting our heroes disappear into history. Rest in peace.
