i caved and made a ds9 blog

28 // she/her // mainly garashir... okay actually mb i like the whole crew. i write & draw things.

[eugenieedanglars]

when bashir asked dax out in the first episode and sisko was like "i wonder if he'd be interested if you were still some old man" What no one realised is the answer was probably yes

[annarcana]

[animentality]

was watching a video essay on how grim star trek is nowadays and saw some great comments.

[woofsonofmoog]

[aphrostiel]

the one with the whales

the way the voyage home has changed my life, not a day goes by that i don't think about it

[cursedtrekedits]

“And now we'll get what we want: a burger from the Five Guys restaurant. And if your conscience is bothering you, you should soothe it with the knowledge that you may have just saved my entire weekend. And all it cost was one shuttle trip, $13.99, and the diet of one Starfleet officer. I don't know about you, but I'd call that a bargain.”

[cursedtrekedits]

followup caption by @oldmanyellsatcloud

[cursedtrekedits]

new franchise location

[leseigneurdufeu]

One thing i respect about Star Trek tos is that if they wanted to shoot a movie about Macbeth or a ww2 espionnage epic they just did it they simply added ten minutes at the beginning to explain the enterprise was orbiting a relevant planet and slapped pointy ears on leonard nimoy. And then they did their macbeth or their ww2 espionage epic.

[lakariancityamusementcenteradult]

Okay willy wonka,

[deepspacescully]

it’s genuinely so awesome how ds9 stops halfway through its oceans eleven themed holosuite episode to let sisko explain why he’s uncomfortable roleplaying in an era that in reality he wouldnt have been accepted in. hard to imagine a show nowadays that would play this so straight.

even though he does eventually join in, and kasidy presents a different perspective, his opinion isn’t treated as invalid by the narrative or anything. it’s perfectly understandable & in character for him to feel like he does, and also in character for him to put aside his feelings to support his friends. just great stuff

[mushabon]

so i'm back on my bullshit again with this pos

[green-mug-tomato-juice]

*stares at you through the middle part of my sewing machine* i'm in hell. this is hell. i'm fucking dying

[green-mug-tomato-juice]

visualisation

[deepspacescully]

i truly believe in order to make peak star trek again you simply have to get a cast of actors who have only done theatre and nothing else. you can have one token TV Guy if you wish. but so help me god i need those aliens doing shakespeare up there

[starberry-cupcake]

I personally think that garak should always get pardoned for any crimes past, present or future, due to the fact that he's so iconic and fabulous and I love him

[fred-the-dinosaur]

[pippinstook]

they like to play darts together

[ds9promenade]

ID: fanart of Miles and Julian on a brownish-red background; Miles is holding a dart, about to throw it, while Julian stands behind smiling at him

[2x16]

i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of ‘what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as ‘the evil ones’ and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it’s a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it’s not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don’t think about it’ and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes

[mouse-doubleo100]

the more i watch star trek tos, the more it becomes abundantly clear that the reason why modern trek doesnt get kirk at all is because they dont utilise mccoy nearly as much anymore

in modern trek, they always present the idea of logic vs emotion, with spock being logic and kirk being emotion, but thats not how tos has it. in tos, the logic vs emption debate is spock vs mccoy. kirk is supposed to be the mediator between the two, sometimes siding with one side over the other, sometimes finding a middle ground between the two. thats why hes the captain, hes able to see all angles and pick the best course

when you make kirk the emotional one, it completely breaks the format, because 9 time out of 10, it means kirk has to be correct. theres no more balance

mccoy is just as important to tos as spock is, and while i do understand why spock is as popular as he is, without mccoy, the show doesnt work. you need them both. kirk spock and mccoy are the three leads of the show, and removing one requires you to change the others, which is whats happened to kirk

[trek-tracks]

I have been saying this for approximately 400 years, thank you.

When I teach rhetoric in my college essay writing/analysis course, it's always with the example of Kirk, Spock, AND McCoy. Ethos, Logos, Pathos--you need all three. Kirk isn't the counterweight to Spock; he's the fulcrum that balances Spock and McCoy.

Kirk isn't emotion. Kirk is ethos: credibility, authority. Spock and McCoy are there to stop him from damaging that credibility by falling back on an authority he doesn't actually have in the situation, to remind him of the logic or compassion that's lacking when an abuse of power would be the easy or basely satisfying thing to do.

What keeps Kirk credible is that he usually chooses the most ethical thing to do based on the information he has; what makes him a good leader, outside of his own innate abilities, is his understanding that he requires these two trusted advisors to keep him on an even keel. When Kirk says "I need you" to both Spock AND Bones, he means it.