#the quickening

[skybson]

4x24 - The Quickening

[1llusionmachine]

Julian Bashir in The Quickening, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4 Episode 24

A selection of my fave screenshots from trekcore :)

[fatalism-and-villainy]

"The Quickening" is wild though, because Bashir and Dax remain down there for a week before Kira returns to pick them up, and then when Bashir opts to stay longer it cuts to him telling Ekoria he can induce labour in two weeks, and then it cuts to her giving birth. So he must have been down on that planet for close to a month! How is the Chief Medical Officer of DS9 allowed to just shirk his duties for that long in order to carry out a personal rescue mission? And he's representing Starfleet (with the uniform and everything), so doesn't Starfleet have to sanction the project?

The latter point is raised in the episode to an extent, as Kira brings up the possibility of Starfleet sending a rescue team, and Bashir dismisses the idea because it would take too long. But he cites another instance in which it took him only a few days to cure a plague, and this ends up stretching much longer than that. Surely once Sisko is appraised of the situation, Starfleet would want to send more people? Bashir should at least have a small medical team assisting him.

Granted, much of this can be chalked up to television writing convention (i.e. it's governed by what makes good drama rather than by realism), not to mention the general cultural conception of the Lone Genius (when in reality scientific breakthroughs are generally achieved through the labour of teams of people). But that kind of individualism is interesting in this case because it's also thematically relevant to Bashir's character and his conception of himself.

This is why the post-canon scenarios of him on Cardassia that interest me the most, and that feature in the fic I'm working on, involve him having to contend with being a small fish in a big pond (Cardassia Prime is a whole-ass planet) as opposed to effectively running the only hospital in a town, and involve him being much more constrained by both Starfleet and Cardassian regulations than he's used to being. (Frustration with the red tape, as well as genuine ideological objections to some of what he's doing, lead to him performing illegal-on-Cardassia procedures in his off-hours, something that could put his commission at risk if he were found out. It's about the friction between his heroic aspirations and the reality of the institutions he's serving! And the friction between his benevolence and his ego!)

[conjcosby]

Stardate: 2026.2.6 - "Highlander: The Reboot"

He's been alive for over five hundred years and he is immortal. 🗡️

#HenryCavill #ConnorMacLeod #Highlander #HighlanderMovie #HighlanderReboot #HighlanderFanart #Fanart #Friday #FanarFriday #Immortals #TheGathering #TheQuickening #UrbanFantasy #Red #Lightning

[geekstuffkittykat]

"The Quickening"

One of my all time favourite episodes of DS9. Seeing Julian's growth through the episode battling his ego and arrogance, but also his compassion and kindness that makes him such a beautiful doctor. I also really admire Alexander Siddig's performance the entire episode. I compiled a few scenes from the episode that stood out to me and painted them all together like a collage. Never done this before but j think it turned out kinda nice. 😇.

[walkingstackofbooks]

Thinking about The Quickening and Trevean's assisted suicides, and Julian's reaction to it all, and how it's just a month or two after he found Miles in the cargo bay with a phaser to his head...

[hvezdnastreka]

Guess who's getting graded on their DS9 fanart B)

Basically we're all making a board game and if designing game rules, cards, 3d figures, the board and the box doesn't burn the brain rot out of me, nothing might! I wanted to make a strategy board game about the Dominion conflict, however that game already exists, so mine will be simply focused on The Quickening episode, with more characters, more conflict and none of the important moral lessons about being able to save everyone. I'm already rambling about this too much, but those two are part of the role cards (You'll be able to pick between Bashir, O'brien, Dax, Kira and Ekoria, with each of them making some part of gameplay easier). I hope noone gets burnt out haha. Anyway, if anyone read it up to here, do you like the VHS effect or is it better without?

[filmjunky-99]

'Do you think our world was always this way?' - trevean

'Two centuries ago, we were no different from you. We built vast cities, travelled to neighboring worlds. We believed nothing was beyond our abilities. We even thought we could resist the Dominion.' - trevean

'I see you've heard of them. Then take care not to defy them or your people will pay the same price we did. The Jem'Hadar destroyed our world as an example to others.' - trevean

s t a r t r e k d e e p s p a c e n i n e created by rick berman, michael piller [the quickening, s4ep24]