#'our' dilemma. go shove 'your' dilemma up your own ass forever dr mora
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watching odo just have to sit there in the background as dr mora is talking about him as a 'child' is giving me. such a visceral reaction. I too want to surrender my physical integrity and become formless goo to get away from being inside my own skin while listening to this. this one scene in a 1990s sci-fi show has better expressed my experience of neuroatypicality than every explicit piece of representation I've ever seen (save harrow the ninth but then no one is doing it like harrow the ninth it can't be beaten).
MORA: It would seem to me that being a scientist yourself, Lieutenant, you can appreciate the difficulty of our dilemma, and the elegance of the solution. When Odo was first found, nobody knew who, or indeed, what it was we were dealing with. A shapeless, viscous mass of fluid, a veritable organic broth. That was our Odo in the beginning. DAX: When did you realise you were dealing with a sentient lifeform? ODO: He didn't. I had to teach him that myself.
sometimes you are truly just sitting there while someone cheerfully calls your vulnerable unguarded childhood self a shapeless viscous mass of fluid or likens your body and soul to a vaguely unpleasant soup and you can't say shit about it. and the fact that young odo started to shapeshift as a desperate wordless helpless plea of 'please stop hurting me', and the way he phrases it as 'teach him that myself' in an attempt to cling on to some sort of control and agency he has to believe he had in that situation........
#'our' dilemma. go shove 'your' dilemma up your own ass forever dr mora#odo's tiny little voice on 'you don't know them'.................................................#star trek#star trek ds9#ds9#odo#I LOVE that odo tries to use the same phrasing -- 'my dilemma' -- in that same conversation#he really did try to model himself on mora and it shows in such interesting ways#also catches some stuff about childhood medical trauma I've rarely seen expressed so well too. great episode#almost had me clawing my own skin off
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