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STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE 1993 – 1999・4x01 The Way of the Warrior

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"omg you're 15 and still play roblox and sleep with plushies" look who's mad I still have childlike whimsy

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This was drawn on a steady soundtrack of Toybox, Günther and the Vengaboys.

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STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE 1993 – 1999・3x20 Improbable Cause

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obsessed with these photos of various trek casts where they look like they’re the stars of an early 90s sitcom

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YOUR EMAIL FINDS ME ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE

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I wish strange new worlds had more silly b-plots. Like:

At a diplomatic event, Pike and Una sample an alien cheese platter. One of the cheeses allows them to read minds, but only with other people who have sampled the cheese.

Uhura begins translating an ancient text, only to find out it's the equivalent of a saucy alien romance novel.

Sam Kirk gets a hold of an advanced mustache wax, allowing him to try out a new 'stache style in every scene.

Pelia tells everyone about what she was getting up to in 1960s earth. It was pretty groovy, man.

Ortegas becomes an e-sports champion.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S05E03: Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places

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can’t believe i fell off the ds9 train. am watching “the house of quark” and the plot “bartender accidentally murders a client, gets involved in a complicated life insurance case and ends up married to the murder victim’s widow in a game of thrones struggle, all while being approximately 4 ft tall and with the fashion sense of an 80s diva on steroids” is just 11/10

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Love is in the air...

Quark & Grilka 🔥

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Sisko and Dax

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ds9 is an incredible show because there’ll be a devastating, thought provoking episode that’s still incredibly relevant to this day and the very next episode will ask the age old question “what if miles o’brien was hunted for sport”

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--thinks of when Sisko punched Garak--

--smiles--

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is this anything

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There is so much richness to Julian Bashir’s character and he adds so much to the fabric of DS9 as a show, and it’s unfortunate to me that so many summations of his character - I’m thinking especially of relatively mainstream critical venues, though sometimes in fandom as well - downplay or ignore his thematic significance, and contextualize his character only through either the homoerotic potential of his dynamic with Garak or the development of his friendship with Miles O’Brien.

It’s odd to me as well, because so many fans and critics praise DS9 for its willingness to be critical of the Federation and of Starfleet, and yet I see relatively little acknowledgment of how much of that criticism is accomplished through the character of Bashir (alongside, of course, Sisko). His infamous “frontier medicine” line is the very first example - it completely upends the ethos on which Star Trek rests, and it’s placed in his mouth. That matters, given that that he is set up as a character who believes in the utopia in which he grew up, and whose altruism is well-intentioned but shown to be naïve. That’s why he’s paired with Sisko in Past Tense, in which he’s shocked by the injustices of the past; it’s why we have episodes like The Quickening, which demonstrates without a doubt that his heroic impulses are good and worthwhile, but need to be tempered by humility.

And two of the arcs that are the most sharply critical of the Federation - namely, the augment thread and the Section 31 subplot - both centre Bashir. That’s not an accident. Those arcs raise all manner of questions related to institutional corruption and self-protection, the narrow standards of normalcy in Federation society, disposability and unpersonhood, the degree to which moral standards can be stretched for the greater good (similar questions to those raised by In the Pale Moonlight), etc.

Broadly speaking, Bashir’s arc centres on the awakening of innocence to experience, and about the process of becoming disillusioned with one’s ideals, but, simultaneously, the catalysts of that process only serving to emphasize the continued importance of those ideals. (Not to mention the fine line between heroism and self-aggrandizement and status-seeking). The dynamics with Garak and O’Brien are enjoyable, and sometimes thematically relevant along some of these lines, but he has so much going on in his own right, and that deserves to be recognized.

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His effortless cuteness.............

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when kai winn told weyoun they are nothing alike and yet they both end up twisting and destroying themselves in service to a god that is indifferent to their very existence