#trektalk

[frostytherobot]

do you ship geordi laforge and data?

Does the sun set in the west?

[tuwim]

gods but ezri was a balm on my heart. her absolute mishandling of garak's trauma to what looked like garak's own bewilderment in their initial interactions was captivating to watch. if someone was to come after jadzia there was literally no way to make it better for me. (ofc it'd be perfect if we had ezri w/o jadzia dying etc etc BUT I do also enjoy greatly her issues with becoming a host all of a sudden and feeling inadequate and all.) I also loved benjamin being like, hey, garak wants to decode cardassian military transmissions again, you're a fantastic counselor! :) to ezri. ben. ben please. and his line about ezri being responsible for everyone's mental health on the station at the end while gesturing at a bunch of absolutely messed up people? beautiful.

what keeps souring everything for me, though, is the julian/quark were in love with jadzia bits. this is honestly so fucking bad, still. sis said 'it's like the show tried to retcon julian and jadzia's relationship' when ezri said something about how if not for worf jadzia'd choose julian (WHAT.) and this was a SPOT ON commentary. ezri's relationship with everyone, julian and quark included, would have been complicated and interesting enough from the get-go without this!

but since I brought up one of the honestly worst lines of the ep, let's go with the best one:

GARAK: You know, when I first agreed to help Starfleet, I was convinced it was the right thing to do. I didn't allow myself to doubt it, even for an instant. I never realised how much it was gnawing at me. I suppose I was looking for a way out and the claustrophobia gave me an excuse to stop fighting my people. EZRI: Now that you know that, what are you going to do? GARAK: Get back to work. What else can I do? The Dominion must be stopped. Even if it does mean the destruction of Cardassia. EZRI: The Captain will be glad to hear that you're back on the job.

AMAZING. Spectacular. Get back to work what can I do?? I'll keep getting my people killed, I'll keep fighting against my beloved homeland. Oh nice, back to work it is then!! :DDD

look how proud of herself she is. I LOVE HER.

also shout-out to my past self who in reply to someone saying "like can we maybe. get a counselor on this station" wrote in the tags: "#i believe with my whole heart that a counselor would also become a problem". great going, past me, you were so right.

[tuwim]

Hi dear! 💖 What is your favorite Star Trek episode? (You can answer one for each series if you'd like, one overall, a top 3/5/whatever... Make this as long or as short as you want! 💖 )

The Immunity Syndrome. I can't count how many times I've seen it. It's got some of my fave Spock/Bones/Kirk interactions, it's got that classic trek space mystery (how do we get ourselves out of that pickle) and a fantastic space creature. Which sadly gets killed, but ah well. It's got an-ti-bo-dies!! It's got the tense Spock/Bones scene in the shuttlebay. It's got "why, thank you, Captain McCoy". What doesn't it have.

That's my fave out of all of treks really, and I don't think I have such a clear favourite among other series I saw. Although I do have to give a shout out to voy's "Worst Case Scenario" solely for Tuvok writing real person fiction about his coworkers. I remember how absolutely delighted I was after watching this ep.

[frostytherobot]

For real though if I’m categorizing tng/ds9/voy I’m looking at it like tng is the straight-laced eldest sibling who has a set of rules given to them and follows to a letter to the point of malicious compliance at times, ds9 is the middle child who’s rebelling against everything and throwing up the bird at every given opportunity but having some of the deepest and most intriguing conversations about their society and culture and how to include the voices of the marginalized, and voy is the youngest kid who wants so badly to follow the middle sibling down the road of interesting life and self discovery but ends up constrained by the expectations set out for them and is compared to their golden child oldest sibling constantly and self sabotages their own actions and feelings to gain validation through conformity

[frostytherobot]

would you rather live in/work on the tng enterprise, ds9, or voyager?

my immediate answer is voyager because my wife is there but to be honest deep space 9 is probably the ideal place to live and work (despite like. everything). enterprise-d would be nice but it’s not as challenging or diverse as being on the station is so I think I would get so bored so quickly. Which is funny because Q shows up like every couple months to fuck with everyone.

like obviously i do not want to be living near a war zone but it’s worth it if i am around multiple kinds of people with different insights and experiences besides “we are starfleet we do things this way and don’t really look at things from an outsider’s perspective” which really kind of pissed me off about the voyager crew tbh. you have multiple characters who aren’t in starfleet and lots of the time their perspectives aren’t really as valued as the ones from starfleet officers (well, really, janeway tbh). half the cast is maquis and could have had such interesting insight into how the ship is run that’s kind of thrown away because there was pressure from the producers to make a show that would be a replacement for tng and it really shot them in the foot.

ummmm well anyways marzim is stuck on voyager but personally i wanna live on the war zone space mall with that ragtag group of misfits

[tuwim]

a post in my search results: which cardassian has the most daddy energy?

another post right below it, healing me instantly: why do all cardassian men have big slutty bottom energy?

[tuwim]

we finished season 6 of ds9 and I KNEW jadzia dies, but also didn't super get out of my way to get spoiled, so I was. honestly. I was absolutely unprepared for how BAD it was.

I knew people hated her death too, but like I said. I have not read details. so I give it to you all now. it was awful, it was insulting, i hated everything, and i'm genuinely mad about this lol.

sis told me the actress wanted reduced hours and couldn't reach an accord with tptb, so, ok, I get it, we have to get rid of the character. but the WAY to do this. it was war. she could've gone away in a blaze of glory. there was zero need for the weird julian and quark stuff either (what was the PURPOSE of it??? julian wasn't into her since forever, and she's much better friends with quark without him having feelings for her. she was loved and adored by her friends, her death would hit them hard without them having to be in love with her.) AND THE BABY. THE BABY. oh god the baby. the fact that it was war and they could've written her dying doing something absolutely badass in her last moments, maintaining her agency, and instead she was killed offhandedly because she was at the wrong place and time praying for a baby??????????? her last words to worf were about their hypothetical baby??

I can take a lot. I really can. I can ignore shit and move on or headcanon around stuff. but it's been like two days and I'm still thinking about how completely awful and irredeemable this was, holy shit.

the only good thing about this episode was the absolute hilarity of dukat. he showed up spouting absolute nonsense, nothing!! could've happened bc weyoun rightfully wanted to just ignore him and send him away, but no, damar for some reason just had to enable whatever dukat wanted to do. why. I'm completely fascinated by whatever was going on in damar's head. and then dukat got himself possessed on purpose, fucked shit up for EVERYONE, went "you don't have to thank me :)" and fucked off again. beautiful. I'm enraged by jadzia stuff and so tickled by dukat side of things, there's a truly wild mix of emotions inside me.

[tuwim]

starfleet making the bajorans in the service take off their earrings was so fucked up. i wonder if it was ever addressed in maybe some novelizations or other additional materials? i kinda hated watching it with ro especially, but i think something like that also happened in voyager at the beginning.