#Cadet Bashir

[noxequusart]

I think Bashir and T'Ana could have studied together at the Academy. And it was Bashir who showed her the holodeck and old American movies.

[broccolimusicrecs]

nobody but bollywood could ever film a music number in an army setting

[dragonwhisper23]

Urg Rotating a Julian Bashir meets Dal R’El scenario in my head. Pain and suffering knowing with the cancellation of prodigy these two have not met and maybe won’t. They’d have such an interesting interaction.

[fatalism-and-villainy]

Something I love about DS9’s framing of Jake Sisko is how he’s consistently positioned as someone worthy of protection, whose survival and flourishing and emotional well-being are of tantamount importance, and whose innocence and vulnerability are precious.

It’s present from all directions in The Visitor. Everybody protectively closes ranks around Jake upon Ben’s disappearance, with those little moments of Dax and Kira and Bashir giving him physical affection and reassurance and Quark going out of his way to be nice to him. Jake’s older self’s protective impulses towards his younger self, as well as his desire to save his father, are the basis for the timeline reset. And then after the spacetime continuum gets wrenched back in line purely to save Jake from the emotional trauma of losing his father, the episode ends with Ben, who’s borne witness to everything and is the only one who remembers it all, continuing that work of shielding Jake from that knowledge.

And then Nor the Battle to the Strong carries on the thread of protectiveness towards Jake, in that case as part of the episode’s deconstruction of military heroism. As he’s marinating in shame over bailing on the mission to retrieve the generator, Bashir apologizes to him and says he was wrong to put Jake in harm’s way in the first place. And then at the end, he wakes up after sealing the cave entranceway and both Bashir and his father are tenderly looking after him, with similar imagery to The Visitor in terms of him being symbolically cradled by the other cast members’ concern for him. He never needs to toughen up or grow out of that need to be rescued - in fact, his fear and panic and feelings of being out of his depth prove to be immensely valuable, as his last conversation with his father emphasizes, because he’s able to bear witness to the experience of the soldiers through his writing.

That comes through in a really interesting way in Valiant as well, with Jake’s emphatic concern for his own survival in the midst of all the culty militaristic weirdness of the Valiant crew:

Nog: You don’t understand, because you’ve never put on one of these uniforms. You don’t know anything about sacrifice, or honor, or duty, or any other things that make up a soldier’s life. I’m part of something larger than myself. All you care about is you.

Jake: That’s right. All I care about is Jake Sisko and whether or not he’s going to be killed by a bunch of delusional fanatics looking for martyrdom.

And I love that exchange not only because it’s a rare articulation of how I would actually feel in a situation like that in a franchise full of characters who are all prepared to sacrifice themselves in the line of duty, but also because in the context of the episode, Jake’s position is actually the heroic one! It’s his sense of self-preservation, and the fact that he hasn’t romanticized the notion of heroic sacrifice, that enables him to see through the dogmatic ideology of the Valiant cadets and recognize how dangerously out of their depth they are. And it’s just a nice articulation of his own worth.

(And of course the Defiant rescues them at the end, because Jake’s grown up now, but he hasn’t outgrown needing his father to save him. And that’s never a shameful thing, but a really beautiful thing, and necessary to the fabric of the show.)

[mllebleue]

Just realized I've never done this (or I don't think I did in any case)

Favourite Star Trek Novels

Personal favs :

• A. C. Crispin, Yesterday’s Son and Time for Yesterday (best Spock characterization ever; Spock who is all there for his son with Zarabeth, but who is continuously thinking about Kirk and going home to him; time shenanigans)

• Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath, Price of the Phoenix and Fate of the Phoenix (obvs!)

• Jean Lorrah, Vulcan Academy Murders (for those who love their Amanda/Sarek with a side of Amanda whump)

• Barbara Hambly, Ishmael (which I should not like because I do not like Westerns at all)

• Andrew Robinson, A Stitch in Time (fantastic novel that is very Garak/Bashir. Very. Siddid el Fadil and Robinson shipped it and it shows)

• Jerri Taylor, Mosaic (one of the best ST novels, bar none; rich Janeway explorations and fascinating temporal mechanics)

Slashiest TOS novels :

• Everything Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath, Triangle, The Prometheus Design, and (slashiest by far) Price of the Phoenix and Fate of the Phoenix

• Della van Hise, Killing Time (obvs; the original slashier version is easily available as a pdf online)

• The Motion Picture novelization (obvs, the footnote)

• Theodore Sturgeon and James Gunn, The Joy Machine (obvs)

• Everything A.C. Crispin

• Everything Vonda McIntyre, especially The Entropy Effect and the TWOK and TSFSnovelizations

• Everything Jean Lorah (spirkitude on top of fantastic writing)

• Everything J.M. Dillard, especially Bloodthirst and Mindshadow

• Everything Diane Duane (@dianeduane is one of us)

• Diane Carey, especially Cadet Kirk (YA and adorable Kirk and Spock interaction/friction)

• Margaret Wander Bonnano, Strangers from the Sky

• Una McCormack, The Autobiography of Mr Spock (you want to cry about just how lonely Spock is for no longer having Kirk in his life? This) (also one of us)

• Howard Weinstein, The Covenant of the Crown (a fairly nondescript TOS novel that will slap you in the face with sudden and unexpected k/s-coloured paragraphs)

• D.C. Fontana, Vulcan's Glory (Spock can easily be read with spirk-coloured glasses; also it is very good writing)

Happy reading!

[antagonistic-sunsetgirl]

"Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and I think to myself, 'Will I ever find someone that wonderful again?'"

I didn't want to hijack this great post about Julian maybe never having been engaged but I feel like we don't talk about Palis enough. She must have been an amazing person. I haven't seen anyone villianize her yet (thank gods), but she must've been so cool. Julian was (I interpret) a jumpy, bubbly, all over the place cadet. An upcoming medical star with a bright future. A thousands paths ahead of him, a thousand voices clamoring for his attention.

And he almost, almost chose a calm, easy one?? For this person! He came so close! He looked at all these options and then looked at her and saw happiness. It wasn't enough, and that's tragic and maybe it was for the best, because he obviously couldn't imagine ever being completely honest with her. But to be fair, I don't think he could've imagined that with anybody. Hell even on DS9 it had to be dragged from him, and that was after considerable character development.

But Palis must've been amazing. She must've been smart and fast and driven and delighted by life and maybe she was none of these things and actually super introverted and gave Julian a place to pause, to stop running. But we don't know, because Palis is a footnote in the glamorous life of one Julian Bashir, powerful doctor and influential figure on Cardassia (or something).

Well maybe he's a footnote in HER'S and she's revolutionizing modern ballet or a fancy second career and we don't know because no one on DS9 is cultured--

[thethirdromana]

How many wips have you got and about what?

I have 12 at the moment, at various stages of completion from basically just a concept, to mostly finished, to probably dead.

After Dark (probably dead) - this was from my brief Siskoshir phase. It's night time and various people are sneaking around Deep Space Nine to visit their lovers. I think I'd have to get into Siskoshir again to have the motivation to finish it.

All Your Yesterdays (dormant) - this is a wildly ambitious DS9 fic, with the premise that after the end of the series, Sisko asks the Prophets to send him back to DS9 when he first arrived there, to try to prevent the Dominion War. This could plausibly be at least novella-length, and will probably not happen until I next rewatch DS9, so watch out for it in 3-5 years.

Christmas Eve, 1901 (nearly finished) - Dracula ficlet, does what it says on the tin. I'll probably tweak this one and then publish when it starts to feel properly Christmassy.

Enterprise celebration (half-written) - I posted the start of this here. The Enterprise crew gets sex pollened and has an orgy. I probably need to reacquaint myself with Enterprise before I finish it, but I do want to finish it.

Everyone has to be dabo girls (half-written) - DS9 fic, also does what it says on the tin. This one floundered on my inability to decide what sexy outfits everyone should wear. (The idea is that it's mostly silly and a bit sexy but that the crew also learns that being a successful dabo girl is hard.)

Five Ways to Break the Prime Directive (probably dead) - Picard gives a speech to new Academy cadets about the prime directive, then we flash back to all the ways previous captains have broken it.

Road trip (nearly finished) - Babylon 5 smut. This is with my beta reader as we speak, and awaiting a better title.

The Battle of Bamber Bridge (probably dead) - DS9, in which Sisko, Bashir and O'Brien's Battle of Bamber Bridge holosuite programme glitches and lands them in the real thing. I think it would be a fun idea but unfortunately I have no motivation to actually write it.

The Further Adventures of Nog and Friends (half-written) - this is a sequel to Human Error that I've been failing to finish for about three years now. One day!

The Seduction of Jean-Luc Picard (mostly just a concept) - Picard has ethical dilemmas about whether it's right for him to date Q.

Valet's Honeymoon (half-written) - this is probably my most active WIP, a Jeeves/Wooster story in my Happily Ever After, Jeeves series. Hopefully I'll have time to work on this over Christmas.

What They Don't Teach You at Ferengi Commerce School (half-written) - this is the only one that's on AO3, unfinished, sitting there as a lesson to me about posting fics before I know the ending. I do intend to finish this eventually, but the stars will really have to align for me to get there.

[ao3feed-ds9]

Interlude: The Assistant

https://ift.tt/VYI5N0y by hingabee, PunishedPyotr “Well…” Bashir exhaled. “Considering the advice I was recently given… repeatedly… I thought I might try to… get to know Cadet Tigan a little better.” Elim squinted at him. It was very much not like Bashir to take advice. “Is this a euphemism, sir?” “God no. But you’re right, and so is, er, Odo, and Miles. I really don’t know enough about Tigan as a person to be casting aspersions on her.” “Does that mean you’ll listen to us about going to therapy next?” Words: 5710, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 71 of Does Your Mother Know Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen Characters: Julian Bashir, Elim Garak, Ezri Tigan, Jadzia Dax, Worf (Star Trek:TNG/DS9), Original Female Character(s), Kira Nerys Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak, Jadzia Dax/Worf, Ezri Dax & Jadzia Dax, Julian Bashir & Ezri Dax Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Age Changes, Age Swap, Paranoia, It's Not Paranoia If They're Really Out To Get You, lying, Awkward Conversations, Trill Culture (Star Trek), Drug Use

[meushell]

100 Ships Prompt Challenge

What am I getting myself into?

This is, admittedly, going to take a long time.

The Basic Rules…

• Each prompt is to be paired with a different ship. Different combinations are allowed. • A canon character can only be combined with an original character once. • Cross-ships are allowed. • Platonic/Familial Friendships are allowed, but I cannot use / and & for the same set of characters. • Combining with other prompts/challenges is allowed.

Details here. (Goes to Dreamwidth.)

I am adding…

• I am allowing myself to combine ships and prompts into one story. Basically, as long as it’s AO3 tag worthy, I think it counts. Unless I missed it, the challenge doesn’t specify either way.

Who will be my most shipped character? Probably Malek. 😂

Who will be my most platonically (shipped isn’t quite the right word since that has other implications) combined character? Probably Jacob Carter.

Who will show up the most in general? Probably Malek again.

What will be my er, most unique ship? Well, now it is Sam Carter/Egeria/Yosuuf/Garshaw/Per’sus’ Host/Per’sus. Can it get stranger? Yeah, probably.

The Prompts

I will link to the fic as I go, naming the relationship/friendship. Some fics may include other ships.

Narim & Lantash • Sam Carter/Narim | Lantash • Narim & Schrödinger • #29 – Bone 🦴 • #86 – Shadow 👤 • #97 – Bittersweet 🥲

Egeria/Per’sus • #78 – Leather 🪢

Martouf | Lantash/Rosha | Jolinar/Pete Shanahan • #69 – Flirt 😉

Sam Carter & Martouf | Lantash & Malek & Aldwin • #19 – Wine 🍷

Liandra/OC Female Tok’ra • #79 – Liberty 🆓

Per’sus’ Host/Cordesh • #21 – Rhythm 💞

Ocker/Ren’al • #46 – Pearl ⚪️

Delek & Ocker • #91 – Seafoam 🌊

Sam Carter/Delek • Delek/Martouf | Lantash (one sided) • #13 – Blue 💙 • #87 – Lemon 🍋 • Warnings: MCD, Rape, Aliens Made Them Do It, Rape Recovery/Aftermath, Suicidal Talk, Survivor’s Guilt, Break Up/Make Up

Sam Carter & Pete • #16 – Neon 🟩

Sam Carter/Martouf | Lantash/Delek • Malek/Per’sus • Sam Carter & Per’sus • Jack O’Neill & Delek • #18 – Blush 😊 • #06 – Lust ❤️‍🔥 • #84 – Crystal 💎 • #73 – Jade 💚

Aldwin/Delek • #32 – Chocolate 🍫

Cordesh/Jaydin/OC Male (Per’sus’ previous host) • #56 – Flame 🔥

Janet Fraiser/Sam Carter/Martouf | Lantash/Malek • #54 – Rainbow 🌈

Sam Carter/Martouf | Lantash • #98 – Honey 🍯

Delek & Ren’al • #20 – Nude 🦶🏻

Julian Bashir/Lexington • #49 – Electric ⚡️• A DS9/Gargoyles Crossover Ship

Gabrielle/Xena • #88 – Mystic ✨• A Xena & Stargate Crossover

Delek/Thoran • #99 – Candy 🍬🍫

Per’sus & Egeria’s Clone (OC) • #43 – Yellow 🌼

Sam Carter | Egeria / Yosuuf | Garshaw / Per’sus • #28 – Vanilla 🍦

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#01 – Adamant 💪 #02 – Snow ❄️ #03 – Lion 🦁 #04 – Spark ⚡️ #05 – Amber 🟠 #07 – Bronze 🥉 #08 – Mint 🍃 #09 – Arctic 🌨️ #10 – Black 🖤 #11 – Moonlight 🌖 #12 – Sunlight ☀️ #14 – Navy 🔷 #15 – Tea 🍵 #17 – Twilight 🌄 #22 – Brown 🟫 #23 – Linen 🧥 #24 – Ember 🔥 #25 – Thistle 🌼 #26 – Cherry 🍒 #27 – Orange 🍊 #30 – Harlequin 🤡 #31 – Cadet 👨🏼‍✈️ #33 – Peach 🍑 #34 – Lead #35 – Cream #36 – Sand #37 – White #38 – Crimson #39 – Pink #40 – Ocean 🌊 #41 – Dove 🕊️ #42 – Platinum #44 – Earth 🌎 #45 – Midnight 🕛 #47 – Frostbite 🥶 #48 – Pumpkin 🎃 #50 – Purple #51 – Coral 🪸 #52 – Salt 🧂 #53 – Crow 🐦‍⬛ #55 – Cloud ☁️ #57 – Red #58 – Ash #59 – Rose #60 – Slate #61 – Green #62 – Ruby #63 – Olive 🫒 #64 – Lipstick 💄 #65 – Spice #66 – Grey #67 – Denim #68 – Rust #70 – Sunset 🌅 #71 – Sable #72 – Desert 🌵 #74 – Sage #75 – Buff #76 – Jet ✈️ #77 – Plum #80 – Metal #81 – Sepia #82 – Lavender #83 – Scarlet #85 – Chestnut 🌰 #89 – Silver #90 – Coffee ☕️ #92 – Lime 🍋‍🟩 #93 – Punch 🤜🏻 #94 – Pickle 🥒 #95 – Champagne 🥂 #96 – Copper #100 – Gold

[frecklenog]

things i now have rattling around in my head as i write my hugh on ds9 au(/picard rewrite)

annika hansen was born in 2348

nog was born in 2353, and jake in 2355, making them sixteen and fourteen respectively in emissary

the hansens were assimilated in 2356

the battle of wolf-359 took place in 2367, while hugh was still part of the collective

i'm placing hugh's age at 15 in 2368 at the time of his reclamation in i, borg, making him roughly the same age as nog

the bajoran wormhole was discovered and the federation took over ds9 in 2369 (two years post-w359 and the death of jennifer sisko)

worf moved from the enterprise-d to ds9 in 2372

nog returned to ds9 as a cadet in 2373, age 20 (along with hugh, with jake age 18)

(this means jake and hugh meet six years post-w359)

seven of nine established a temporary mini-collective in 2368, but wasn't disconnected from the borg until 2374. this isn't all that important since uss voyager didn't return until 2378 but oh well

first contact was set in 2373 (and at the actual point of first contact in 2063, but i’m not talking about that part)

the siege of ar-558 happened in 2375

icheb, mezoti, and the other borg kids were found by voyager in 2376

reiterating: voyager got back to the alpha quadrant in 2378

i, excretus happened in 2381

picard s1 takes place in 2399, s2 in 2401. we’re ignoring s3 almost entirely

sto largely takes place in 2409 (albeit in an alternate universe, but i’m borrowing the uss chimera, the magnificent ferengi sequel, and captain taggert/one zero one for my Soup)

and, most alarmingly to my brain,

hugh was reclaimed in the same year that julian bashir graduated from starfleet medical academy (2368)

[kittenwriter]

Curious about “Variations Draft” and “The Prank Aftermath” and would love to know more!

"Variations draft" is another round of me making off with somebody else's premise-- in this case, Variation, which is Garak/Bashir/Parmak. My version of it took the basic premise of "Julian and Garak met on Adigeon Prime as children and stayed friends via subspace (which was challenging during the war) and then Julian got taken as a POW while triage training as a cadet during the war and wound up staying on Cardassia and marrying Garak when the augmentations came out as a result and also Garak succeeded Tain because of fallout from this" and left out the "and then Section 31 invaded Cardassian space to do a kidnapping" part and it's intended to be a full-bore series rewrite along the lines of what I'm doing in Escapees or Exiles, except with Julian-as-Garak's-husband slowly reshaping Cardassia from within (working with Tekeny Ghemor and Natima Lang) and becoming gradually more prominent in relations with the DS9 crew as the person who gets dispatched to deal with whatever diplomatic crisis Dukat has caused this week. (And being Ziyal's official guardian-- since the human husband of the head of the Obsidian Order is allowed some eccentricities like having a half-Bajoran ward-- Julian is the one who winds up holding Dukat's leash most of the time, since Dukat would never work directly with Garak.)

I'm actually going to come back to that one at some point, but I have a rule that I'm not going to do more than one full-bore canon rewrite at a time, so it's one of three concepts competing for space after Escapees or Exiles is finished.

The Prank Aftermath... is HP. It's actually part of a gestalt; the elopement one and the Wrong Boy Who Lived one are also in the same universe. I intended to have a main story with side stories a la renascentia, where there's The Story and then there's the separate series of side stories filling in backstory and whatnot. (I did not feel equal to beginning with Harry's grandfather's generation and telling three generations' worth of fighting dark wizards, although that's really how the story should be told.) The Prank Aftermath is exactly what it sounds like, a side story about the events after The Prank, and what's there is largely unusable-- it deals with an OC Slytherin daughter of Alphard Black. She's been a contrasting figure to Lily throughout the main story, someone else who died young and left orphaned children as a result of the war... but unlike Lily, Alyssa was very much Not A Good Person except we've mostly been hearing about her from people who loved her and have had a decade to soften her in their memory. This was the first stab at "what was going on immediately after The Prank" in this universe, which Alyssa worked her way into because of course she's going to notice her cousin's inseparable friend group suddenly having Tensions, and it plays way too much into the version of her we've been hearing about from her friends and family and does not lean hard enough into "No, really, she might have had saner parents than any of the other Blacks of her generation, but she's still a Black who was raised quite thoroughly in the family fold and is actually kind of terrible."

(That being said, even if it's unusable, I'm still rather fond of this little speech: “Merde, crabapple pits, Gryffindors, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, that was what passes for humor in Slytherin, I’d never blackmail you with that, Mama would have a fit, it’s unseemly to blackmail people with things they can’t help, it was a joke and I forgot Gryffindors don’t make jokes like that, please look at me, I swear, I won’t tell anyone, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry, I will never blackmail you with this, I will swear a wand oath if you want me to…” Just for the implication that her mother has been having discussions with her about what kind of blackmail is properly seemly for a young lady of good breeding.)

[savameh]

I found this Star Trek Picrew by @star-trek-dumb-comics and I made my Star Trek OCs!

From left to right, top to bottom: Nora Garak-Bashir (Cardassian/human/secret-ish third thing hybrid), Ensign Tabok Melor (Cardassian), Ensign Milrune Marshall (Nyxtorii [original species] disguised as human), Admiral Alba Gutierrez (Human), Enya Ailki (Bajoran), and Cadet Anna Shells (Human)

[that-glitter-chick]

SPOILERS AHEAD FOR ANYONE WHO HASN’T SEEN STAR TREK DEEP SPACE NINE SEASON THREE EPISODE THIRTEEN!!!

You have been properly warned.

In this very jammed packed episode, Nog joins Starfleet as its first non-federation and first Ferengi cadet, we get Odo confessing his love to what the audience is lead to believe is Kira in life or death peril, and what I find most important and impressive in this later in life re-watch, in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, Captain Sisko and Dr. Bashir discuss a Diplomat who is both male and pregnant. They’re happy for him, and the good doctor and Chief O’Brien are said to be planning a baby shower for the lucky fellow.

I don’t know if this is an “Alien/sea horse” kinda thing or if it was a subtle attempt at sneaking some inclusion underneath the network sensors eyes, but I prefer to think of it as the latter and it made me smile and say to my mother with pride “Star Trek is at its best when it’s ahead of its time.” 🖖♥️🪐🛸🚀⭐️

[starfleetspacecadet]

i mean if you’re taking requests i gotta request Julian Bashir. (lol)

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[stra-tek]

Random spoilerific reasons to read Star Trek novels, with little to no context:

Ro/Quark is a thing

A Jem'Hadar joins DS9, tries to fit in but eventually snaps and tries to kill everybody

You learn the origins and final fate of the Borg

A thinly-veiled Dr. House clone joins the Voyager crew

Geordi briefly has 2 girlfriends at once (due to different writers not co-ordinating enough, but still)

There's a TOS book that's a musical

There are YA stories about Jake and Nog making mischief on DS9

YA stories about Worf, Geordi, Picard, Beverly, Kirk, Spock and McCoy at SFA

YA series about the Kelvinverse gang (including Gaila!) as cadets, taking on a drug problem at SFA and a very unique Borg scout in San Francisco

We very briefly meet the people who are to Q what the Q are to humanity

Janeway/Chakotay is a thing

Kirk's first mission in command of the Enterprise! Erm, at least twice.

Kirk was married between TOS and TMP

Her name was Lori

In the future, you have yearly marriage contracts that you either update or you don't and I think that's amazing

Trip didn't die! He faked his death to join Section 31 and go undercover as a Romulan

It's not great, tbh

The ENT books get better after the Romulan wars though, it's proper founding of the Federation stuff

We meet Jack Crusher (erm, the OG) when 4 timelines start overlapping and he's a bit unhinged

Teenage Kirk stole a car and his choice was go to jail or join Starfleet

What happened when Voyager got home? Seven broke up with Chakotay like 30 pages in

Kirk gets cloned, and his clone becomes the sub of an evil invincible super genius and its all very gay

George Kirk was Robert April's first officer on the first ever mission of the unnamed starship with the Naval Construction Contract 1701

Robert is a hard-core pacifist and has to turn command over to George whenever it's time to fire weapons

Data becomes fully human for a couple of days and it's really sweet

They never say "wristwatch" or "phone", it's always "wrist chrono" or "personal comm"

There are gays but they don't say that word because it's the 1990's and Rick Berman runs the franchise

Spock has a son in the past with Zarabeth

Everyone in the post-Nemesis era does spy missions all the time non stop, as if Starfleet has abandoned exploring the cosmos for doing Space Mission: Impossible

Bashir does it better than anyone else, he takes on Section 31 from the inside

Remember Control? It's from the novels, except the novels do it SO MUCH BETTER.

Remember how we never found out who Future Guy was? We do.

It's very underwhelming, nobody we know

We find out how the Romulans and Vulcans split

Surak was a Vulcan internet blogger

A Borg Cube eats Pluto

Janeway dies

Janeway gets better

At least one TOS book features a wizard

There's a Star Trek TOS/Here Come the Brides crossover novel

It had cameos from The Doctor (as in, Who), Han Solo, Starbuck and others

Whole book series about Section 31

Whole book series about the Department of Temporal Investigations

One time they do the Bill and Ted thing to escape confinement and it works

Wanna know how Riker and Troi met?

Wanna know what Picard got up to on the Stargazer?

Andorians have 4 sexes and it's very complicated

Data comes back from the dead as Data 2.0, and it was fresh and exciting because it happened long before ST: Picard did it twice.

Lal comes back too and we get father/daughter android stuff! They have a home and everything but keep having to save the universe

One time Mirror Seven is led around on a leash naked on Terok Nor

Geordi becomes captain of the USS Challenger, decides it's not for him because plot, and goes back to engineering on the Enterprise

Kirk is shot on the bridge and dies

Kirk gets better

They watch 3D holos of old Doctor Who episodes in the Enterprise rec room

The Enterprise also has an AI named Moira, which was Zora long before Zora

The TOS crew get together for one last mission. About three times.

There's a Perry Mason book except it's about Kirk's lawyer from that TOS episode

Data 2.0 owns and runs a massive gambling empire on Orion

Spock keeps randomly showing up everywhere in the TNG era

Scotty keeps randomly showing up everywhere in the TNG era

Bones keeps randomly showing up everywhere in the TNG era

You're on Tumblr so you already know about Killing Time

There's a guy named McKenzie Calhoun and he's a total badass and captains a ship of weirdos and misfits

Kirk comes back from the dead, saves the galaxy repeatedly, has an intersex child (who identifies as male) with a Romulan/Klingon hybrid

Kirk beats up Worf

Kirk's child has superpowers

Kirk's child saves the galaxy at age 6

The Kirk stuff is 100% ignored in the other novels

About 50% of the novels are ignored in the other 50%, and the ones that are meant to be in direct continuity with each other aren't always quite

Just like the TV shows and movies, then

Lwaxana Troi meets Q, and it goes as well as you'd expect

Someone tells Data, yes you idiot you had emotions all along and he's like, oh shit you're right

McCoy is left in command of the Enterprise as a joke by Kirk, who is then immediately kidnapped

Ro Laren is captain of Deep Space Nine

Picard/Beverly is a thing, they get married and have a child named Rene. No running away and raising your kid in secret here

Riker and Troi are married, serve on the Titan together with a bunch of adorable weirdos and have a daughter named Tasha

You get to watch all the 24th century characters die horribly in the end along with their entire universe. Holy fuck it's a bleak horror show. Personally, I love it. But if that's not your cup of tea I'd skip the Coda trilogy

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DS9 trivia from IMDB - Part 4

- Military ranks used in Star Trek are all based upon actual military ranks. Starfleet ranks are those of the US Navy: Ensign, Lieutenant Junior Grade, Lieutenant, Lieutenant Commander, Commander, Captain, Commodore, Rear Admiral, Vice Admiral, and Admiral. Bajoran ranks are the same as those used in the U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marines: Lieutenant, Major, Lieutenant Colonel (or, as the Bajorans call it, "Field Colonel"), Colonel, and General. (Kira, after her promotion, was referred to simply as "Colonel", but she was promoted two steps in rank at once.) Klingon ranks are "bekk" (an enlisted rating), Ensign, Lieutenant, Commander, Captain, Colonel, Brigadier, General, and Admiral. Cardassian ranks are based on those of the ancient Roman Empire: Gil (equivalent to a Starfleet/U.S. Naval Lieutenant), Glinn (Commander), Gul (Captain), and Legate (Admiral).

- The Maquis was the name of the French resistance fighters during World War II.

- Lit Star Trek model kit parts can be seen as medical instruments throughout the series. In one episode, Dr. Bashir uses a part that makes up a Romulan Warbird engine nacelle to scan or heal.

- As he had on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Q was intended to make semi-regular appearances on this show, but appeared only in season one, episode seven, "Q-Less". Q instead would come to continue his appearances on Star Trek: Voyager (1995). In addition, producers announced Whoopi Goldberg would reprise her role as Guinan in a guest appearance or two, and intended to have Leonard Nimoy appear as Spock, but the plans never materialized. Some other recurring characters from The Next Generation would wind up making appearances on this show, however, including Vash (Jennifer Hetrick), Lwaxana Troi (Majel Barrett), Gowron (Robert O'Reilly), Worf's brother Kurn (Tony Todd) and the Duras Sisters (Barbara March and Gwynyth Walsh).

- The design of Ops incorporates ideas that were considered, but dropped for The Bridge on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), such as the upper level office, the briefing table in the center of the room, and the transporter being built into the set.

- Quark and Odo were intended to be the 'Bones and Spock' of Deep Space Nine, the two crew members who were always at odds with each other. However, because Armin Shimerman and Rene Auberjonois spent so many hours together in make-up, they became such good friends that Shimerman felt that their fondness for each other seeped through in the later seasons, despite their best efforts.

- The uniforms initially worn on this show were designed to look different from those worn on its parent show, Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), with a colored shoulder and a gray undershirt. Beginning with the movie Star Trek: Generations (1994), however, these new uniforms were adopted by Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) crew, and Starfleet as a whole. This change was made when a new style of uniform designed for Star Trek: Generations (1994) was rejected. From the mid fifth season of this show and Star Trek: First Contact (1996) another type of uniform was issued by Starfleet (now with gray shoulders and colored undershirt), while Star Trek: Voyager (1995) (having no way of knowing about the change) retained the earlier version, distinguishing the two series from each other again. It is also worth mentioning that the DS9-style uniforms are very similar to the ones worn by Starfleet cadets in The Next Generation, most notably in season five, episode nineteen, "The First Duty".

- The square glasses used in Quark's bar are actually candle holders turned upside down.

- The character that eventually became Vic Fontaine was written for Frank Sinatra Jr. in season four. Sinatra, despite being a fan of the show, turned it down, declaring that he only wanted to play an alien. After meeting with Robert Goulet, and attempting to get Steve Lawrence, Tom Jones, and Jerry Vale, the producers eventually considered James Darren for season six, and invited him to audition. However, Darren wasn't interested in a singing role, so he didn't read the script sent to him. On the day of auditions, producer Ira Steven Behr was discussing Darren with a few crew members, sharing his doubts whether Darren would actually show up. One of those crew members happened to be Christian Darren, James' son, who told Behr that his father was actually coming over that afternoon: James' wife had convinced him to at least go to the audition. Darren eventually accepted the role, and appeared in eight episodes.

- Buck Bokai's baseball card, a collectable featured on Benjamin Sisko's desk, had Keone Young on the front, in character, but showed "Trek" model maker  Gregory Jein, who invented the "history" of the character, on the back. The pair bore an uncanny resemblance to each other.