#(Even though heavy of tongue is elsewhere used to mean 'I dont speak Hebrew' pretty specifically)
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Rotating siskarak in my mind again
#Cipher talk#The thing is. The thing is. With the reading of Garak as presented in ASIT and the Nexus and the calling. He's got narrative parallels to#Sisko. Obviously there's the sociopolitical stuff with Hebitians and their history of being enslaved and implied current economic#Disenfranchisement and ongoing cultural suppression and that has some obvious connections to be drawn to Black history (Indigenous history#Is black history and vice versa these are not discrete categories without overlap)#But also like. The relationship to unreality/a reality considered less 'factual' even though it is RIGHT THERE and happening and the divine#Being called to the divine even as you try to run from it. Even as it makes you uncomfortable or even angry#Because it makes your /superiors/ uncomfortable. Because the culture you live with doesn't /do/ that sort of thing#And obviously this is different for each: with Garak his relationship is specifically targeted and oppressed and has been for a long time#Whereas starfleet is discrimatory to Bajoran faith less because it's Bajoran and more because it's idea of equality and being 'modern'#Enough to be in the Federation is flawed and discrimatory towards things like faith in general#And their connections to being Of those faiths is different#Sisko is Moses but he's specifically the version of Moses who says he's heavy of tongue because he doesn't speak Hebrew and doesn't know#How to be Jewish because he was raised in different culture (which is NOT a popular reading)#(Even though heavy of tongue is elsewhere used to mean 'I dont speak Hebrew' pretty specifically)#But let's not get into my grief over how Judaism regards Egypt as Bad and how this has loud & nasty echoes today#Whereas Garak has known what he is since he's a teenager and was raised with carefully hidden philosophy from it#Waoughhhhh
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