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So I recently saw a post about discovery being the queerest star trek and I said I wasn’t going to write a speech about why it’s actually ds9, but i did it anyway.

So! Below the cut I’ve listed most of the queer moments and queercoding that I remember from my two watches of ds9. There are a lot of them! So even if you don’t read the whole thing I still urge you to watch ds9 if you’re a fan of trek and want to see queer trek!

Note: this post contains spoilers for ds9

In explicit canon:

-Jadzia Dax was the first canonically pansexual and transgender main character in Star Trek. No one ever makes a big deal of this. She is shown correcting people on her name and pronouns on screen and people just rolling with it!

-Rejoined: jadzia falls in love with a woman on screen, the entire cast supports her. They tell a queer story by including an in-universe taboo on reassociation, and beautifully pull off a queer story where women loving each other is seen as natural and normal, but also reflects on the taboos of gay relationships in present society!

-mirrorverse ezri and Kira’s lesbian kiss!!!! (the entirety of the mirror verse is so queer, actually)

-we hear about a man giving birth in casual conversation and this is treated as normal. He gets paternity leave! “You mean he’s pregnant?” “Yes!” “Oh I should send him something”

-a cross dressing ferengi woman is better at finances than quark and gives him gay panic when she starts hitting on him as a guy- by the end of the episode it’s implied that he did actually reciprocate. This was an Interesting one.

-that time quark had to dress up as a woman to further the woman’s rights movement : granted this was mostly played for laughs but the implication of quark getting mtf surgery in like an hour no questions asked sure is something, and most of the humor comes from the fact that it’s Quark.

-O’Brien saying he wishes his wife could be more like a man sometimes (this man is bisexual)

-Changelings don’t have gender. Odo doesn’t have a gender. He is literally gender fluid. I believe it was one of the comics where he pointed this out as an excuse to help Kira do a mother-daughter thing. But yeah he’s very explicitly chosen his human form and gender, which is pretty neat!

-so much sex positivity! They have so much sex on this show! We see odo lose his human and goo virginity! The amount of times quark gets oomox on screen! Sisko and kassidy waking up together! Worf and Dax! Quark and his Klingon wife! Bashir and leeta! Kira and her various lovers! Dax is talking about it constantly! Quarks mom fucked the Nagus and brunt was in his closet! Sex is treated both as a serious thing and as just a thing you do and the topic is explored in so many interesting ways!

-great takes on masculinity and parenting as well! Sisko is such a good dad! Rom’s entire arc touched on this as well! Miles who is just such a wife guy! All these men who love their children, aren’t afraid to be emotional and caring and kind, especially with the contrast of misogynistic, overbearing, “manly” characters like quark and dukat being shown as undesirable!

And of course, there are plenty of storylines that hit on queer themes like found family, coming out as “different”, the intersection of gender and cultural norms,

So much queercoding:

-garashir is so intentional that Andrew Robinson (garaks actor) has, on multiple occasions, expressed that it should have been canon, discusses how he set out to flirt, their entire first interaction is about the gayest thing I’ve seen, they have regular lunch dates, get very anxious when the other one is gone. The way they look at each other like they’re gonna eat each other. It’s more canon than some of the canon relationships to me and is the closest two trek actors have gotten to spirk since spirk

-garaks storyline and character on its own is very gay. Props to Andrew Robinson for making the “ziyal likes garak” storyline so uncomfortable and for acting garak so gay we love him for it. He has said before that garaks sexuality is inclusive and you can read more about that in the book he wrote if you want!

-Kira nerys is a lesbian. (“The stones are straight, it’s me who’s-”) She dresses and acts like a lesbian. She eats every woman she sees with her eyes. Every one of her relationships with men is with a man who has power (eg the lesbian “he must therefore be attractive, right?) and ends with them dying or leaving. (“The prophets said we weren’t right for each other” lmao ok). Her last relationship was with odo, the literal gender fluid. That man is goo, that man is the last man you date before you finally admit you’re a lesbian “just to see”. PLUS her lesbian kiss in the mirrorverse I rest my case.

-odo was played as asexual for the first few seasons and Rene has said at events that he has always thought of him that way. Do I wish they continued with this? Yes.

-quark and Odo’s weird little thing. They hate each other. They love each other. They’re obsessed with each other. It’s great. Its definitely unhealthy and also pretty queer. One time they kissed for comedic effect on screen and it was a little bit too convincing.

-the O’Brien polycule. This series of episodes was great because it showed surrogacy as a valid thing to happen, and also because of that whole thing between Kira miles and keiko. What happened there? Who’s to say

-Kira and Dax, especially in the early seasons. Kira was truly following her with her eyes in every scene together it was great. I personally don’t see it but many many people do

-ezri my beloved she is a lesbian as well. Look at her. I personally have always been of the opinion that she’s non-binary. But also look at her, short hair, tense relationship with her family, drive towards found family and a queer community, mirrorverse lesbian kiss, yk

-also Julian bashir is trans coded. I don’t know enough about this to tell you but my transmasc friend said so so it must be true. They changed a lot with the genetic engineering who’s to say. Also the name change is right there

Quite frankly, the only character that isn’t presented as some sort of queer at one point or another is captain sisko! You could make an argument for every single other cast member for some or another type of queercoding which is wonderful!

So, yes, in many cases they weren’t allowed to say it outright, and they of course weren’t advertising queerness as a positive in the 90’s- but ds9 is full of both canon and implied queerness and touches on so much about gender and sexuality which was really boldly going back then! That’s why it is and will always be one of my favorite shows and my favorite trek!

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Star Trek DS9 Rewatch Log, Stardate 1907.10: Missions Reviewed, “Destiny,” “Prophet Motive,” and “Visionary.”

Star Trek DS9 Rewatch Log, Stardate 1907.10: Missions Reviewed, “Destiny,” “Prophet Motive,” and “Visionary.”

Sisko’s “Destiny” is called into play when a Bajoran Vedek reinterprets an ancient prophecy to mean the Cardassian scientists about to come onto DS9 to construct a communication device to operate through the wormhole are going to instead destroy it. Sisko is initially dismissive, but as Kira (trying to balance her position as first officer and her faith in The Prophets) keeps pointing out, the signs seem to line up.

 When the legitimate threat to the wormhole seems to fall into place, Sisko has to make a choice to behave as an officer or as a religious figure.  Using Dax’s science after Kira tells him she believes he will do the right thing, the wormhole is saved and the experiment successful…fulfilling the prophecy as well if you interpret it just a little differently.

The tension builds here nicely, particularly for Kira as she balances her duty and her faith. It’s also nice to see Cardassians who are not portrayed as the monolithic military bad guys, but have a genuine interest in the science and working with Starfleet. Sisko’s discomfort with being “The Emissary” is something that will be visited to great effect again. Seeing guest stars Tracy Scoggins- 90s icon, and Wendy Robie (Nadine from “Twin Peaks”) is full Cardassian makeup is pretty cool, and they both flesh out their characters well, particularly Scoggins’ character who thinks there’s a romance between her and O’Brien because they keep bickering of engineering.

The Prophets are still with us in “Prophet Motive” as Grand Nagus Zek comes onto the station, ready to involve Quark and Rom in a re-write of the Rules of Acquisition. Quark is appalled however to find they are now very philanthropic, and the Nagus seems far more interested in helping people with charity than profit.

 Rom jumps in heading a new benevolent aid organization, but Quark realizes everything changed for Zek after going into the wormhole and asking the Prophets to show him the future. Quark has his own discussion with the Prophets, mirroring a lot of what Sisko went through back in the pilot episode, and finally convincing them to restore Zek’s avarice. As Zek leaves to continue profiting on Ferenginar, Quark laments how much money they lost in this venture. Rom however has embezzled a tidy sum from Zek’s charities, making Quark proud of his brother.

I always enjoy the fine line between the Ferengi on DS9 being likable and horrible, and even when it’s not specifically the goal of the story, it’s one of the few places Trek asks you to try to examine how open minded the Federation is. These are cultural differences, but so different than just “let Worf wear his sash.”

 The presentation of “Prophet space” here does echo the pilot, and it’s neat to see the more comic relief character standing up to this timeless group. Very fun.

Miles O’Brien becomes a “Visionary” during a visit to the station from the Romulans. Having provided the Defiant with a cloaking device, the Romulans now want their intelligence information about the Dominion in exchange. Something affects the station, zapping O’Brien who starts going all Billy Pilgrim unstuck in time and flashing 5 hours into the future. 

At first, it’s simple things like a Klingon/Romulan bar fight he sees, but later, he sees his own death and finally the destruction of DS9. Dax traces the problem to a singularity that seems to be orbiting the station. When O’Brien triggers himself with radiation to go forward, he finds out exactly what happens- the singularity is actually a cloaked Romulan ship planning to destroy the wormhole to protect the Alpha Quadrant from the Dominion. Miles dies in that flash forward, so the future miles comes back in his place, saving the day and stopping the Romulan threat.

It’s time for our annual “let’s screw with O’Brien” episode and this is a good one. Trek has always been touchy on just how their temporal physics work, and we can argue here whether or not O’Brien actually creates a series of parallel timelines as seen in “Parallels,” any Mirror Universe episode, and “Trek 2009.”  This also furthers my theory that there IS no “Prime” timeline, and all of the Trek history we know is in fact a collection of similar but divergent interacting universes with varying degrees of difference.  It also explains why sometimes my keys aren’t where I am sure I left them.  The Romulans questioning DS9 crew about the Dominion is well handled here, especially Kira’s friendship with Odo, who is one of the “Founders” according to the Romulans, actually bringing some of his behavior into question. Another thing I love here is the idea that maybe the Romulans are on to something- collapsing the wormhole does protect this part of space from the superior forces of the Dominion.

NEXT VOYAGE: Bashir is trapped and aging, having to listen to “Distant Voices.”

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Why Star Trek 2009’s Enterprise Bridge Looked Like an Apple Store

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Other than a lot of lens flare, one aspect of the J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot that haters loved to bring up was the fact that the Enterprise bridge kind of looked like an Apple store. Whether or not this fact dates the movie more than the style of the ‘60s bridge, or the laid-back Next Gen bridge is up for debate. But, within the context of the movie, the reason why the technology on Chris Pine’s USS Enterprise looks “better” than William Shatner’s Enterprise has an in-universe explanation. And, when Trekkies get into it about the various zigs-and-zags of the Kelvin Universe versus the Prime Universe, one very interesting detail from the 2009 Trek tends to get left out. Star Trek 2009 is streaming now on Netflix, so, let’s explore the Enterprise in the room: The souped-up-tech used by reboot Starfleet comes from reverse-engineered tech from the future of the Prime Universe. But who “invented” it? And how many technological bootstrap paradoxes are keeping the lights on in the Star Trek canon?

Although it is never stated outright in the film, both screenwriter Roberto Orci and director J.J. Abrams publicly confirmed that the reason why the technology of the alternate 2258 looks so much more advanced than the 23rd century of The Original Series is that the USS Kelvin’s shuttles took scans of the time-traveling 24th century Romulan ship — the Narada. According to Orci, Starfleet clearly reverse-engineered the future-tech technology from the Narada to create more advanced technology, much earlier than they did in the Prime Timeline. Responding to fan posts on Ain’t It Cool in 2009, Orci said, “Imagine the wealth of information that Starfleet was exposed to from scans of the Narada.”

Abrams backed this idea of paradoxical time-travel Trek-tech advances, by telling MTV in 2009 that the scans from the Narada “inspired ideas and technology that wouldn’t have advanced otherwise.” So, your shiny Apple Store USS Enterprise exists because of reverse-engineered time travel tech. These details get even stranger when you factor in the quasi-canon 2009 IDW prequel comic Star Trek: Countdown, which revealed that the Narada was souped-up in the 24th Century with reverse-engineered Borg tech, captured by the Romulans. In 2020, Star Trek: Picard created a possible canonical link to that idea, by demonstrating that the Romulans had been harvesting tech from a damaged Borg Cube called “The Artifact.” Because the Artifact conked out in Romulan sometime in the early 2380s, and Nero went back in time in 2387, this pretty much checks out. (This is why I’m calling Countdown quasi-canon. Picard justifies the Romulan-Borg tech connection.) The Narada was the product of reverse-engineered Borg tech, and the Starfleet ships of the Kelvin timeline were the result of reverse-engineering the future tech from the Narada. That’s a lot of reverse engineering! 

So, why is that a big deal? The tech of the Kelvin timeline ripped off cool stuff from an alternate future they never saw? Well, Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 outright acknowledged the existence of the Kelvin Timeline for the first time in the prime canon. But, before that, in Season 2, Discovery also floated the idea that within the Prime timeline, that huge leaps forward in technology might be attributed to time travel. In the Season 2  DISCO episode “The Red Angel,” we learn that Section 31 was in a “temporal arms race” against the Klingons early in the 23rd century. On top of that, it’s stated outright that some sudden leaps-forward in technology within the Prime Timeline, could be the result of time travel. Discovery even presents some evidence of this; Ash Tyler uses a TNG-style com-badge in Season 2, about a century before Starfleet is supposed to have that tech, leaving Captain Pike in shock!

Prior to Star Trek 2009, there were some indications that bootstrap paradoxes caused by time travel also created important technology. In The Voyage Home, Scotty shrugs his shoulders about giving the formula for transparent aluminum to Dr. Nichols in the 20th century by telling Bones, “how do we know he didn’t invent the thing?” In First Contact, much of the plot hinges on the crew of the Enterprise-E using their technology to retrofit the 21st century Phoenix so it can achieve its first warp drive flight. Basically, people from the future helped to make sure warp drive was invented on Earth to ensure their future.

The thing is, in First Contact and The Voyage Home, these bootstrap paradoxes aren’t taken too seriously, or, at the very least, you’re supposed to infer that maybe there was a slightly different timeline that occurred before, meaning the technology itself didn’t “originally” come from a paradox. But is that true? In the prequel series Enterprise, it was established that the “new” post-First Contact Prime timeline was one in which Zefram Cochrane knew about the Borg and the future, which really makes you wonder if there was ever another timeline in which the Enterprise-E crew didn’t make sure that the Phoenix warp flight took place. We’ve always been told you need dilithium crystals to make warp speed happen, but it’s not like Zefram Cochrane had any of those lying around. Did Geordi loan him some? Who invented Warp Drive then? Who really composed Beethoven’s 5th?

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From Doctor Who to Harry Potter, we’re used to these kinds of paradoxes being tossed off as a jokey plotpoint. Harry learns how to do his patronus by watching himself do it thanks to the Time Turner. The 11th Doctor got himself out of the Pandorica because paradoxes are just as hilarious and cool as bowties and fezzes. Star Trek likes to joke about paradoxes too, of course. In “Trials and Tribble-ations,” O’Brien thinks it’s hilarious that Bashir might be destined to become his own ancestor, via a predestination paradox. But, with most of these examples, nothing actually changes in what the audience perceives. It’s mostly lampshading for the purposes of having a good time with the audience, because isn’t sci-fi zany?

What makes the time travel tech paradox backstory of Trek 2009 different is that it creates a different statement for how to think about time travel. As Discovery Season 2 inferred, a bunch of Starfleet tech (and Klingon tech) might not exist if it weren’t for time travel. So, instead of time travel becoming a fun story element, or even a moral conundrum (like in “City on the Edge of Forever”) this kind of wibbly-wobbly time travel does something else. It’s not just storytelling. After Trek 2009, time travel also became an important building block to world building.

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Tales from the Holodeck: DS9 Fanfic: Caitlin’s Teleplay

In celebration of A Star to Steer Her By’s fourth anniversary, we did what pretty much all theaters are doing right now and put together a little Zoom reading. This time around, our latest fanfics in our “Tales from the Holodeck” series are all Deep Space Nine teleplays that you can listen to us cold read here (this one starts at 2:51), complete with really dodgy attempts at accents! Follow along with Caitlin’s teleplay below or read with your friends with your own dodgy accents!

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“Constable Odo Day!”

By Caitlin

Random pick: Odo

Scene 1 - the promenade. Odo enters to see, to his surprise, that garish decorations had bloomed there overnight, proclaiming “Happy Constable Odo Day!’ 

ODO: (displeased Odo sound – you know the one, Jake)

SISKO: Constable! I see you’ve found our surprise – isn’t it wonderful? Happy Constable Odo Day!

ODO: (uncomfortable) Yes, wonderful… But I don’t approve of all of these fire hazards on my promenade... 

SISKO: (chuckling) I assure you, all necessary precautions have been taken. Besides, it’s a station-wide holiday – we’re giving you the day off, and we have lots of surprises in store for you!

ODO: (annoyed Odo sound)

KEIKO enters, walks quickly to ODO and SISKO, grabbing the Constable’s arm.

KEIKO: Odo, I’m glad I got to you fir- … well, second! Come see what the children have done for Constable Odo day!

ODO: (incredulous) How is it possible, with ALL of my contacts, that I didn’t hear ANYTHING about this?

SISKO: I don’t know if this will make you feel better, or worse – but it required a little help from Morn.

ODO: I’m impressed – I wouldn’t expect Morn of all people to be able to keep a secret!

Scene 2 - KEIKO’s classroom. The students have been busy with Odo-themed art projects. DAX awaits within, holding a small, mostly featureless doll in a security uniform, made in ODO’s image.

DAX: (laughing) There’s the guest of honor! Happy Constable Odo Day, Odo.

ODO: I’m glad you are amused by this, Lieutenant.

DAX: Odo, don’t be such a grump! For one day, cut loose a little and have fun.

ODO: This may be hard to believe, but for me, my work IS fun, not all this being the center of attention…

KEIKO: (gushing) Surely even the Constable isn’t immune to the charms of all the student projects! Nalas created a beautiful portrait, Antos carved this wooden figurine... and Jake even wrote you this wonderful short story where you’re a 20th century private investigator – what they used to call a “private eye”...

ODO accepts the tablet containing Jake Sisko’s story.

ODO: (under his breath) Well, this, at least may have some merit… I uh, think I’ll return to my quarters so I can read this immediately. Thank you, Keiko, and all my thanks to your students as well. 

Before anyone can object, ODO exits. The rest follow behind, puzzled. After everyone has left, the little ODO doll springs to life, comically looking one way, then the next, before disappearing from our view.

Scene 3 - ODO’s chambers. Thinking he has escaped, briefly, ODO sits down and breathes a sigh of relief.

The doorbell rings.

ODO: (annoyed) ENTER.

KIRA enters. ODO leaps to his feet to greet her.

ODO: Major, what a pleasant surprise. Have you heard about this Constable Odo Day utter non-

KIRA: Of course I heard, that’s why I’m here. I know in spite of my d’jarra, my work isn’t much, but I made this to commemorate the day.

KIRA produces a small sculpture from behind her back; it looks like a melting popsicle. ODO accepts it, bemused.

ODO: Major, I don’t think I’ve ever been more touched. What… what is it?

KIRA: (blushing) Why, it’s you, Odo – at the time between humanoid Odo becoming… something else. It doesn’t look like much, but I put my heart into it.

ODO: I have never been so pleased by any gift. Thank you, Major.

ODO and KIRA gaze into each other’s eyes, until… the doorbell rings.

ODO: (actually really fucking annoyed) ENTER!

SISKO enters.

SISKO: There you are, Odo! Oh, Nerys, I didn’t know you’d be here – I hope I’m not interrupting anything.

ODO: (quickly) No, Captain, Major Kira was just bringing me this, uh, beautiful sculpture she made for me. For Constable Odo Day.

KIRA: (laughing) A Kira Nerys original, Captain.

SISKO: (also laughing) Another fine piece of work, Major. (Serious) Odo, I’m sure right now you must feel pretty overwhelmed with all of this – 

ODO: Yes sir, it has been most irregular and has really disturbed my schedule –

SISKO: Good, good! We really wanted you to enjoy the day!

Odo: (flat) Oh yes. It has been most... enjoyable.

SISKO: Well, we saved the best for last! 

KIRA: Second-best, I think you mean...

SISKO: ...yes, second-best, Major. I’m going to take you to a baseball game in the holosuites!

ODO: A baseball game in – (stops, defeated, seeing the excitement in Sisko’s eyes). Yes, sir, I can’t imagine anything I’d… enjoy more…

SISKO: I hoped you’d feel that way! 

SISKO hands ODO a London Kings baseball jersey.

SISKO: Here, get changed into this, and meet me at Holosuite 8 in 15 minutes! I have to go change!

Exit KIRA and SISKO. ODO studies the jersey Sisko has given him, concentrates for a moment, and shapeshifts so it looks like he’s wearing the jersey. He steps in front of a mirror to check his work.

ODO: Well, I certainly am getting better at clo-

BZZT! ODO is stunned with electricity from behind; we can see the taser-style weapon, but not who holds it. ODO falls unconscious, becomes ODO goo.

A hand reaches into shot to pick up the jersey; we hear a laugh as the scene fades.

Scene 4 - Quark’s 

Some time later…

ODO runs into Quark’s bar, looking a little wild. He is approached by O’BRIEN and BASHIR.

BASHIR: There’s the man of the hour – Happy Constable Odo Day!

ODO: Thank you, but I’m here on urg-

BASHIR: No urgent business today, Constable – come and have a pint with Miles and I, have a round of darts…

O’BRIEN: Yes, Constable, join us for one round of daerts! Who knows – you might like it?

ODO: No, I can’t right now – I really have to –

BASHIR: Constable, lighten up – we won’t keep you long – just a half-hour or so?

O’BRIEN: Aye, we just want a small chunk of your time…

ODO: You don’t understand – I have more important –

Enter: SISKO and… ODO?! Both wearing baseball caps, jerseys, holding pennants, and laughing gaily together.

SISKO: Somehow I just KNEW you would love baseball, Odo…

ODO 2: (A little too happily) Captain, I cannot think of anything I have ever enjoyed more... 

O’BRIEN notices the second ODO, does a spit take from his pint.

O’BRIEN: Jaysus! Odo – there’s two of you! 

BASHIR: Oh, dear. But which one is the real Odo?

O’BRIEN: (panic stricken) ‘Ow are we gonna tell ‘em apaert?

Quark enters, whistling, strips of latinum sticking out of his pockets, and carrying a tray laden with tiny buckets, full of shimmering golden liquid; approaches ODO 2.

QUARK: There you are, constable! You simply must try one of my limited-edition-commemorative-Constable-Odo-Day-Odo-bucket cocktails – just 1 strip of lat… Well, for you, I guess it’s on the house... But don’t get used to it.

ODO 2: How generous, Quark – thank you! (accepts drink, shoots it)

SISKO: (puzzled) Odo, I’ve seen your coffee trick, but I didn’t think you’d moved on to actually… ingesting food and drink? Perhaps I should have planned that banquet after all...

ODO: (enraged/bemused) I think if everything else wrong with this picture hasn’t clued you in, Doctor, that should answer your question – this impostor did an all right job of impersonating me, apparently enough to fool the Captain, but – can you imagine me being so pleasant to Quark, quaffing down one of his cheap gimmicks – or enjoying baseball?!

BASHIR: … Now that you mention it, no. 

FOUNDER 48Σπ7 (nee ODO 2): (transforms into other, oddly shaped humanoid Founder) Who would have thought, on a station so large, we would bump into each other like this?! Grah! (transports away. To where? Who cares!)

ODO: That’s what I was trying to tell you, while you two fools wouldn’t stop yammering about darts – there was another Founder on the station, wreaking who knows what kind of havoc and now they’ve escaped! (turning to Quark, rage building) And you! Using my… image… to make money? On Constable Odo Day?!

QUARK: (backing away, nervous) You know, Odo, you really should be thanking me – after all, it was my limited-edition-commemorative-Constable-Odo-Day-Odo-bucket mini cocktails that tipped everyone off that you weren’t… quite yourself today....

ODO: (frustrated) QUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARK!

-FIN-

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answers (and perhaps questions!) below the cut! 

1. you can have any three superpowers you want, no unpleasant side effects, no pesky physics ruining things, standard comic-book-supers level full power. what are you picking? 

it’s down to time travel, flight, or teleportation. uh.. time travel would be really sick but probably paradoxy in a kind of freaky way? so i’m saying flight so long as flight can get me places faster than walking which combines its benefits with that of teleportation. flight it is. 

2. do you use your powers for Good or for Awesome? 

honestly... mainly for mundane things. like, for hitting up audrey whenever i want and for getting places easily. 

3. if you could wear whatever you wanted, with social judgement/practicality of any sort being a complete nonissue, what would you wear? 

i’d be channeling terrible nineteenth century men literally all the time. from the “showing up at the door after a Wild Romanticism Party, in my shirtsleeves” look to something more polished. but still overall what i imagine the geneva ‘16 kind of aesthetique to be. that or armor of some sort. 

4. what’s your favorite holiday? 

new year’s eve or bust!!! but not like the boring american kind where you get drunk and stress out about who to kiss or whatever, rather the nice russian kind where you.. probably also get drunk, but ALSO just fucking. roll all important holidays into one and fucking throw down. and like give each other presents also with the whole “secular christmas” vibe. 

5. what would your Ideal Home be like? (again, cost and physics and practicality not an issue) 

i lack the imagination to come up with really wild things for these? every time i picture my Ideal Home it’s either a) an apartment in chicago and i live there with someone i love and it’s relatively spacious and well-lit and within walking distance of some nice exciting things, or b) a lighthouse on the wild coast of maine where nobody will ever find me or my future lesbian wife, and we have twenty cats which i’m NOT allergic to and an herb garden and we grow wild strawberries. 

6. if you could cast yourself into any au setting and have any role you wanted, what would it/you be? 

small child voice uh i want to be in starfleet. i have no starfleet-adjacent skills but nonetheless. i can be like. an expert in alien literature. in such a way that makes me a helpful consultant to alien sociologists. hey it’s probably helpful in certain hyperspecific contexts!!! (sideways look at 2x22 the wire). anyway i want to be in starfleet and all my friends are also there? except it’s not during the dominion war or whatever because i don’t want us all to be traumatized. 

7. you get to make one law that will absolutely be implemented on a national level for at least ten years, full government support guaranteed. what is it? 

uh... universal health care? not to be predictable but that’s the answer that came to mind. i can hit up People Who Know Shit for like, details on how to make it the most effective thing possible because i myself don’t know a damn thing but in concept that’s what it would be

8. is there a historical/cultural figure you think gets a bad rap? maligned, misrepresented, misrepresented, unfairly forgotten? what would you like to say about them? 

aah i think . i think a.e. housman in most cases (i’m overlooking tumblr niches here!) is overlooked as one of the staples of Gay Edwardian Poetry and misrepresented as being Dry and Dull and Sad only even tho. surely that is not all he was! that’s what i’ve said about him, what i’d like to say TO him is don’t fuck with straight guys alfred it’s gonna be okay

9. how would you describe your Aesthetic if you absolutely had to? 

rugged natural wildernesses that i’ve never been to, autumnal antics, vaguely historical things that don’t really commit to being historical, heavy-handed light imagery(tm) etc 

10. what is your favorite monster? individual or kind, either way! 

lord george gordon byron

11. you get one kind of magic - necromancy, cooking-related, etc - what would it be? 

i want to be able to cross into alternate universes and i’d use it exclusively to watch all the au canonically gay versions that exist of things i like. and to hit up au versions of audrey all mysteriously like when julian “universe prime directive whom” bashir finds o’brien and is like “back in real life, we’re BEST FRIENDS” which is by the way a blatant lie at the time lmao. 

anyway i don’t think i have eleven whole people i don’t have unfounded anxieties about tagging, but @themainannoyance @rileyball2 @zulubunsen @scary-faery @butchantigone @clownprophet @cryptyper and like @ anyone else who decides these questions speak to them spiritually

what’s a music album u think is a vital piece of art that u could write a paper about if you wanted to 

a thing you like about the month of november

favorite theater experience

if you could travel to any time period where would you go and what would u see

who’s a historical figure you would physically fight given the chance

excluding technology, what physical possession of yours do you most value

if you had to spend a day in the life of your twelve-year-old self what would you do 

if you could live literally anywhere where would you go

you can rescue one dead fictional character, fundamentally altering the canon of the established work but not altering the timeline of real life in any way. who do you pick

what songs would you use to describe your mood of the moment

rank the star trek captains from best to worst using whatever pre-existing information you have about star trek captains; if you need to, look them up and rank them based solely based on the vibe you get from them.