DS9 As A Show Dares To Ask The Important Questions, Like For Example “would Star Trek Still Be Good

DS9 as a show dares to ask the important questions, like for example “would Star Trek still be good if it was set at the food court at the mall??” and the answer to that is “yes, and actually it will somehow be better”

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starfleet-xenobotanist - plain and simple xeno

Hello good morning and would you guys like to see a ds9 subtle foreshadowing video (reposted from my tiktok)

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4 months ago
Home, On Cardassia

Home, on Cardassia

This is my love letter to Elim Garak.


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2 months ago

One reason In the Pale Moonlight lands so well is that the show plants the seeds early on for Garak representing a sort of “out” for Sisko when he has to circumvent official procedures. There’s the bit in The Search where a holographic mental projection of Garak shows up to flirt with Sisko and enable his rebellion against Starfleet, and then The Way of the Warrior has the part where they’re wondering what to do about the Klingon invasion fleet headed to Cardassia and Sisko says “we need a third option” and it immediately cuts to Garak. In the Pale Moonlight picks those threads of Garak being someone Sisko leans on when he needs to take a more underhanded approach (and someone who, similarly to Quark, Sisko can put pressure on with no repercussions).

But Garak’s perspective on it is interesting, because of how much his dynamic with Sisko reflects the dynamic he used to have with Tain. There’s that part in The Wire where Tain tells Bashir “I never had to order Garak to do anything… that’s what made him special” and that’s pretty much exactly how Garak behaves with Sisko in this episode. He does what he does best - being maximally useful to someone more powerful and anticipating everything they want and need, taking an intention and shaping it into a workable plan with little direction. He comes up with the entire scheme pretty much on his own and puts it into play with minimal participation from Sisko save things he needs official sanction for, and anticipates all contingencies and variables beforehand. And then of course sees to it that the plan is carried out, in a way that Sisko would never sanction but that he knows that on some level Sisko wants - or rather, that Sisko wants the outcome while being spared having to order Garak to take the measures to see it through.

Garak molds himself into the role Sisko sees him as playing in a way that’s similar to how he made himself into the person Tain wanted him to be - in that case, as Garak puts it, he was a “reflection” of Tain himself. Except with Tain, that process involved Garak shaping himself to embody the values that Tain espoused, and expunging the parts of himself that Tain abhorred, namely weakness and sentiment. And with Sisko, Garak reflects the parts of Sisko that Sisko doesn’t want to face and wants to shunt off onto someone else. And that plays out not only re: Sisko’s willingness to make moral sacrifices for the greater good, but even just on a smaller scale - there’s the part where Sisko snaps and threatens Forgery Guy, and Garak steps up with that truly terrifying smile and promises to drop in on Forgery Guy to “say hello”. Just playing the role of Sisko’s Evil Henchman to perfection, and thus enabling Sisko’s loss of control and his cruel streak. He’s very subservient to Sisko throughout the episode! But it’s through that subservience that he actually gets the upper hand on Sisko, solely by reflecting his darker side at him and getting in that jab about Sisko’s self respect being sacrificed. It’s so utterly delicious.

2 months ago
A Man Arrested For Cross-dressing Emerging From A Police Van, New York, 1939

A man arrested for cross-dressing emerging from a police van, New York, 1939

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3 months ago
"Our Man Bashir" As Text Posts
"Our Man Bashir" As Text Posts
"Our Man Bashir" As Text Posts
"Our Man Bashir" As Text Posts
"Our Man Bashir" As Text Posts

"Our Man Bashir" as text posts


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5 months ago

listen yes the memes and jokes about Holo Julian not needing a bed and just sleeping in it alone out of spite are very funny but Holo Julian saying he's going to sleep in the bed alone implies that him and Garak sleep together at night. Holo Julian doesnt need sleep and can just turn himself off but the implication is that he doesnt do that, the implication is that him and his husband share a bed and sleep together, not out of necessity but purely because they want to

5 months ago

Remember when Picard kept asking Data follow up questions at dinner because he was trying to cock block Lwaxana and when they cut back Data has opened a PowerPoint presentation.

Remember When Picard Kept Asking Data Follow Up Questions At Dinner Because He Was Trying To Cock Block

He was truly living the infodump dream in this episode.

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