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Extreme Measures is sort of the Section 31 equivalent of Starfleet’s wildly overclocked holodecks.
It’s absolutely trivial to make holodecks that are fail-safe instead of fail-dangerous, but the kind of people who join Starfleet don’t want that. These fuckers love danger so much they left a post-scarcity utopia to find it. They’re not playing the holodecks to be safe, they’re playing to get redshirted in new and bizarre ways. So Starfleet respects their wishes; they’re just like ah, we’re doing RACK I guess, go with the Federation you rascals. And lets them rig up their holodecks to explode or whatever.
All that goes double for Section 31 agents. They want to live in a grim zero-sum universe where everyone is out to get them. They want to stoically crunch down on their neuro-depolarizers. Aside from the good it does for the changelings and the rest of the quadrant, threatening Sloan with a Romulan mind probe is enrichment for him.
Really the problem with Section 31 is that they keep seeking enrichment outside their enclosure (other covert operatives). There’s a world where they don’t get dismantled but instead everyone else makes a deal with those hunter aliens from the Gamma Quadrant to tosk all the various space-CIAs. Everyone wins, they’re happily zooming around getting hunted for bloodsport and their governments can negotiate with each other without any weird extralegal bullshit occurring. They can be like “by our noble sacrifice we protect the rest of the quadrant from getting tosk’d” and everyone else can just smile and nod and let the (now) indoor cats have their fun.
"Tosk" is a lovely O'Brien episode in that you go oh : ) O'Brien is so kind and eager to connect with someone who is very different from him, in such a short time he manages to find camaderie and friendship : ) and then you remember this is exactly the trait that will doom him in at least two O'Brien Suffers episodes
DS9 mini-arcs. oh, how very fond i am of you.
Chapter 2 of Tosk Switching is up!
Two men cross paths on their hunt for a greater adventure. What effect will they have on each other's lives?
Chapter 2: Julian's Angels
Julian has some thoughts about Tosk, and finds himself in the middle of several scintillating specimens.
Based on this post 🤭
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Chapters: 2/?
Relationships: Julian Bashir/Tosk, Julian Bashir/Elim Garak
Characters: Julian Bashir, Tosk, Elim Garak, Crew of Deep Space Nine
Additional Tags: Fix-it, Xenophile Julian Bashir, Reptilophile Julian Bashir, Tosk lives and thrives, Pre-Garashir, Training for Garak, Episode: s01e06 Captive Pursuit, Canon Compliant, Crack Treated Seriously, Humor
they should've let the nice lizard guy stay with O'brien and Keiko
I cannot figure out how it would work logistically and I assuredly can't turn it into one of my rounds of "the crack must be taken very, VERY seriously!" but the idea of a Julian who is on the run from Section 31 falling in with a Tosk on the hunt and them running away from both of their pursuers together is an interesting one concept-wise.