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Star Trek sideblog for ed-teach

[avontarrant]

[odoes]

Deep Space Nine promotional ICEE machine cards, 1993

[maxknightley]

getting a cardassian coke at the Space 7-11 and everybody looks at me like I just ordered a black and tan in an irish pub

[garaks-padded-bra]

Not exaggeration to say i think about this persons comment several times a week

[garaks-padded-bra]

Still mad that they made odo human and not bajoran. That's so dumb.

[funnywormz]

captain sisko pokes random bajoran child on the head dot mp4

[ryebreadgf]

oh he's your 'right hand man'? for what, jerking you off?

[onedamnminuteadmiral]

[fancyhalloran]

it’s such a small motif but the bajoran ear grabbing thing is such an effective way of characterizing the different bajoran religious figures:

when sisko first meets kai opaka, she asks to feel his ear. he’s uncomfortable with it but she’s friendly and he’s putting his best foot forward on behalf of starfleet so he lets her.

the practice returns in the season finale where vedek winn asks to touch his ear as well, but the mannerisms are different. opaka’s friendliness and the fact that she explained the custom first made the question seem genuine; she cared about his consent and he could say no (at least on a personal level though they both knew he wouldn’t for political reasons). winn on the other hand asks as a formality; it’s obvious that she expects the answer to be yes and will be offended if she’s rebuffed.

this is then contrasted with vedek bareil in a kind of classic setup/reminder/payoff kind of thing. when sisko meets him, he notes that bareil doesn’t try to touch his ear and bareil makes a joke about winn doing it. he’s uncomfortable with the practice too and has been trying to get rid of it. so far this is a simple contrast: winn is a traditionalist and bareil is a reformer.

the payoff later in the episode adds depth to this though. winn tries to touch bareil’s ear without asking and he physically prevents her. there are a few different ways to read this: winn feels entitled to do it because he’s also bajoran, or because he’s a colleague; winn is using the tradition to assert dominance over him, knowing it makes him uncomfortable; winn was trying to emulate opaka earlier but doesn’t understand why opaka did things the way she did and by the end of the episode she’s given up. i think all of these are true on some level. regardless of the specifics, winn’s entitlement is highlighted. not only does she cling to tradition, she thinks it overrides other people’s needs and even their bodily autonomy.

[tinkerbitch69]

Is it just me or does Kira have mad sexual tension with her mirror universe self?

[tinkerbitch69]

Oh nevermind. Kira selfcest is canon

[knivesandteeth]

Everyday people discover the sacred text anew

[a-most-beloved-fool]

Here's your periodic reminder that the reason Kirk (tos-flavor) got a commendation for his solution to the Kobayashi Maru is because his "cheating" was his answer. Kirk's answer to the question of, "What do you do in a no-win scenario?" is "I break the rules until it isn't a no-win scenario. I don't give up on my crew, and I do whatever I can to save as many lives as possible."

[computer-voiced-by-majel-barrett]

And here's your periodic reminder—or first-time FYI, depending—that according to certain apocrypha, Nog similarly "beat" the Kobayashi Maru by relentlessly demanding to barter with the enemy until the simulation crashed. Like a true Ferengi, his answer to "What would you do in a no-win scenario?" is "Renegotiate the terms of the scenario. Rule of Acquisition #98: Everyone has their price."

[unit-1312]

[ltwilliammowett]

Main Course and Bridge Decks aboard the Finnish Barque Favell, by Claude Muncaster dated 1930

[blasphfemmeous]

i love being a yearner and a freak. like yes my heart aches and wants, but so does my cunt

[somethingqueerisgoingon]

DS9 paid for the rights to happy birthday I guess and it was for Julian's inside out style hubris breakdown episode where he turns 30

[simptasia]

[trip-tuckers-hyperspanner]

thinking about that episode where Quark has a noise complaint for Odo about Odo and Kira goes "you can hear that???" and Quark points to his own ears and goes "HELLO?"

[greenglassapple-deactivated2017]

My dad just came into my room and shouted at me in Klingon.

Am I more embarrassed that he did that or that I know he said I was a disappointment to the empire?

[dialmformara]

You should be most embarrassed that you’re a disappointment to the empire.

[klaipeda-witness]

Garak

[grubarchived]

both of me