#kasidy yates

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together we are deep space nine

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normalest space station in federation history

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By popular demand: Avery Brooks (Extended Edition)

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DS9 | 4.01

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First Keiko invited Kira. Then Miles invited Julian. Then Kira brought along Odo in his bucket. Then Julian invited Jadzia. And things escalated from there.

Keiko and Miles would like their bed back.

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Ok random question: Do you know the romances on DS9 were conceptualized? When I started watching the show I kind of assumed Bashir and (Jadzia) Dax would get together—not because they had chemistry (they didn’t! so not doing that relationship was a good call, lol) but because it seemed like the most obvious place for the story to go. I also recall some veryyyyy early tie-in stuff that loosely hinted at some kind of romance between Kira and Sisko of all people, but I don’t even know if any of this was official or if people just assumed. So I guess my question is, were there any actual pre-planned romances—like, “Bashir and Dax should get together at some point” kind of plans? Or was it more of a “we’ll see what happens with all of these different characters” kind of thing? (I like Kira/Odo but I did get the vibe that it was not planned ahead of time haha)

Early on, I think Michael planned for Bashir and Dax to become a couple once Bashir matured a bit. The chemistry, as you noted, never felt quite right though, so we dropped that pretty early on. I don't think anyone on the staff ever discussed any kind of romance between Kira and Sisko. That just wasn't the kind of relationship we envisioned between them. And Kira and Odo's relationship definitely grew more out of the energy between them in scenes and wasn't initially planned at all.

In the end, what we leaned more into the throw-two-characters-together-and-see-if-it-clicks path toward romance. For example, we created Kasidy as a potential romantic interest for Sisko, though we would've bailed on it pretty quick if the characters didn't have chemistry. Luckily, they did! (But who wouldn't fall for Penny Johnson, really?)

The only romance we semi-planned between regulars was Dax and Worf. We thought they might be a fun couple, so we decided to write scenes for them together and see. And they were great together.

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Ok, so follow me here

The lizard assassin is fucking the twink doctor, and the twink doctor is fucking that cool Irish dude who supports unions (based). The twink doctor is ALSO fucking an android but that’s the other show

The union man is married a schoolteacher (based) who is helping their wife’s planet ecologically recover from a fascist occupation, because she’s awesome

Their wife is an anti fascist freedom fighter (based) and the biggest lesbian you’ve ever seen. The union guy is like, an exception. And so is her goo boyfriend. Goo boyfriend might enemies to lovers-ing the local bar owner. AND she’s dating two different women hosting the same worm (bad news about the tall one) and they’re both madly in love with their wife from a previous lifetime. The tall one is also fucking that dude with the funky sword and two dicks. They’re married, actually.

The short worm girl and the terrorist (based) are both dating this girl who works slot machines who helps her husband start a union (based). She and the tall worm girl are friends with benefits. She and her husband later become the leaders of an entire government and pass pro worker and feminist reforms (based)

The terrorist (based) also has a complicated toxic yuri situationship with her kinky evil dominatrix alternate universe self who is a dictator (god forbid women have hobbies)

In the alternate universe the short worm girl is a goth and married to the slot machines girl who’s a freedom fighter. The tall worm girl is in a throuple with the twink Doctor but he’s not a doctor he’s an asshole and the captain who in the main universe is everybody’s dad, but in this universe is kind of a dick but also funny af.

Back to the main universe, Captain Dad is the best dad in the multiverse and cooks a mean jumbalaya. This is vital information

He has a cool space trucker wife and a son who’s a writer and best friends with the son of the alien labor union spouses. They all love baseball.

Captain Dad might be doing an enemies to lovers thing with this theater kid who betrayed him

There’s also this creepy lizard nazi who comes by every once in a while to pester them. He’s the worst.

His daughter however is the most precious soul in the world and she was taken too soon

[lakariancityamusementcenteradult]

It's actually crazy that Kasidy Yates was dating a Starfleet Captain who worked near the Cardassian border while also being a marquis smuggler. The insane level of justified confidence she had