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Willow - they/them - 27 Star Trek sideblog where I get to be unhinged. Mainly ds9, but tos, tng and voy get their moments. I follow from @thewillowtree

[deepspacetits]

[kewsi3542]

[Julian Bashir: somewhere inside me there is a room I haven't entered in years. I think a younger me is still sitting there, wondering why I never came back.]

[the-last-dillpickle]

im sure it would've made a lot of people enraged regarding Worf but god, if they were just going to kill Jadzia off at the end of the season anyways, she really should have died in episode 16 "Change of Heart". The moral conundrum and impossible choice of weighing of lives in war would've had so much more impact, and the sacrificing of Jadzia for Lasaran (and therefore his intel) would've given her death more oomf

[walkingstackofbooks]

Absolutely! Then her death would have been for a *reason*, and actually given Jadzia agency over what she was dying for, rather than just being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Actually, I am of the strong opinion that most main character deaths should come mid-season anyway, so that we get to see the impact it has in the other characters and really feel the hole that their absence leaves. End-of-season deaths always seem to be followed by some sort of time skip in which most of the morning happens off-screen and I despise it.

(Also, I know I say this every time Jadzia's death comes up, but I'm forever going to be mad that both Morn and Lisa Cuzak got better funerals than she did in season 6. I felt utterly funeral-baited, I was certain she'd get something good seeing as even minor characters had, but nope. Screw you, DS9.)

[thresholdbb]

During a rewatch, I remember thinking it seemed strange that Jadzia survived Change of Heart knowing that Tears of the Prophets was right around the corner and looked up the episode to see if there was any additional backstory. Turns out, Terry Farrell thought the same:

I tend to agree that ten episodes of morning and then Ezri showing up to get Ben from Sisko's Restaurant would've had a great emotional impact. Worf choosing duty and honor over his wife would've been very in character, but it definitely would've given all of them much more to play. Worf could've saved the symbiont but lost Jadzia in the episode, setting the scene up for Dax to come back as Ezri in Image in the Sand. They only would have needed another tragic event to trigger Ben leaving DS9 and going back to Earth.

They didn't even really use Jadzia to her full potential throughout the series anyway, but she was especially underutilized after Change of Heart. She didn't have huge dramatic turns that would've been affected by her absence, and in some cases they would've been made more resonant because of it. The Sound of Her Voice would've been heart wrenching knowing they were talking to a dead woman during her wake, then they would feel the absence of their fallen friend even more, her absence would be felt without even having to evoke her name. Plus Jadzia only had TWO LINES in that episode, explaining the wake:

Worf could've played his grief while any of the other characters could've explained what an Irish wake was, probably O'Brien.

She had 3 lines in Inquisition. She had ONE line in Profit and Lace. She fixes Quark's replicator in Valiant for a total of 5 lines. She has a little heart-to-heart with Kira in His Way, plus a little interaction with some other characters. All in all, she doesn't have much going on.

In The Pale Moonlight could've been more resonant since what spurred Ben Sisko to action in the first place was the loss of friends and colleagues because of the war, and Jadzia only serves as a bookend in this episode talking about death and loss anyway. Her biggest episode post Change of Heart is probably The Reckoning, serving as a conduit for technobabble and a sounding board for Sisko. She's in Time's Orphan a fair amount for technobabble as well, but that episode serves mostly to set up her wanting a child during Tears of the Prophets. (IMO a cheap tactic to make her death more tragic because she wanted a child, but I digress.) Even in Tears of the Prophets she isn't very present in the episode, since there are bigger plot points being played out on the Defiant and with Dukat. She gets a couple moments with the characters closest to her then a few measly goodbyes and that's it.

At any rate, all of her more important moments post Change of Heart could've been used to note her absence. If Sisko didn't have his sounding board and friend in The Reckoning, he could've lamented her loss. Kira could've mourned the lack of someone to talk to like Dax in His Way. The magnitude of the war and loss of life would've loomed much larger with the loss of a major character for half a season. Then Ezri showing up might not have been as jarring to the viewers as a replacement for Jadzia, instead been a more pleasant surprise to viewers with the same adjustment tensions with the characters

[ansonmount]

TREKGIFS’ STAR TREK WEEK (April 5th - 11th) Day Two: Favourite Episode ↳ Trials and Tribble-ations | 5x06 | DEEP SPACE NINE

When Temporal Investigations arrives on Deep Space 9, Sisko recounts how he and the crew of the Defiant traveled back in time to the 23rd century to prevent the assassination of Captain James T. Kirk during the original Enterprise’s mission to Space Station K-7.

[deadmaidclub]

julian your lizard wife is so beautiful and strange

[glenmorrre]

[mercury-prince]

computer play 'Loosing My Mind' by Liza Minnelli

[emilinqa]

ds9 the wire screencap redraw exercise

[maroonedtoon]

Othello Avery Brooks are you free tonight

[raisinchallah]

the sisko kirk hero worship homoeroticism would be entirely reversed if kirk ever showed up on ds9 thru his own time travel circumstances because the first thing that would happen is he would meet quark and the thing about kirk is there is nobody in the entire space and time of the universe that would annoy him more than quark it would immediately be like the worst day he ever experienced it would be like nonstop torment trying to understand why these things keep happening to him and then he would see sisko tactfully handling quark or god forbid see him getting quark to kiss the nagus scepter and like it would be over for him like sisko handling quark related paperwork would be the single most heroic thing hes ever seen like he would become immediately obsessed and bewitched

[thememedaddy]

[quarkmonger]

[astralbondpro]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S06E07: You Are Cordially Invited

[startrekprodigyfan]

One of the most common complaints about Star Trek I saw growing up was “why don’t they use the holodeck more? If you were living in that time period and you could just make anything you wanted anytime you wanted and live out fantasies forever, why aren’t more people addicted to the holodeck?”

And then generative ai was created.

And now I get it. I get why nobody on Star Trek spends all their free time in the holodeck. I get why all the crew are putting on stage plays, and holding music recitals, and building models, and playing poker. I get why everyone was so skeptical and mean to the Doctor on Voyager. I get why the ONE TIME we see someone obsessed with the holodeck it infringes on people’s likeness rights and permissions.

Because fundamentally at the end of the day we are human beings and we ENJOY working with our hands and making REAL human connections. A person who learns to play an instrument is always going to be viewed as an artist over someone who asks the computer to generate music for them.

Even as recent as Lower Decks they were making fun of the fact that the crew were putting on amateurish plays and holding music recitals. But after living with Ai for so long and seeing how detrimental it’s been to the world… I’d much rather watch my friends put on a stage play than “participate” in a holodeck movie.

What’s most amazing about this is that it was completely unintentional. I do not for one second think that the writers of the time in the 90’s were really thinking about the larger issues that generative ai and chatGTP would cause. How could they? Text to speech back then was still robotic as heck. More likely they wrote that stuff in because it was cheaper to film on sets the owned than try to build, film, or rent out different locations each week.

That’s the down to earth logistical real reason Data is reciting poems about his cat or Riker is in a play put on in ten forward. It’s just cheaper to do that than to build a whole new set or move production to a new location.

Yet at the end of the day, I think that unintentionally speaks to a very human need that ai is making more and more prevalent to us day in and day out.

And that’s the fact nobody wants to deal with generative SLOP.

[captainjimothy]

i've gotten a few comments about me being a kai winn "apologist" and i just want to make it clear that i support every decision she ever made; i see her as an ideal role model sexually, ethically, and politically; i aspire to emulate her in real life in every possible way; and if i could give her sloppy i would, 100%

[hadescavedish]

Still a practice for Julian <3

[wobblycompetencies]

tfw you’re trying to figure out if you’d actually mind being bitten

[deepspacetits]

I’m genuinely on the belief that half the reason Garak went to ops in Civil Defence is because he sensed another evacuation coming and couldn’t stand the thought of crawling into the little hidey hole in the back of his shop yet again. Sure it’s stocked with food and provisions and hidden from station sensors and definitely a better option than going to bajor but he doesn’t have the wire to keep him occupied like he did for the whole mess with the circle and the plasma storm