#adventures of Jake and Nog

[thewomancallednova]

A/B story structure in star trek is ridiculous because the A story will be religious leader lobotomizes himself to give his people a chance at lasting peace with their opressors and the B story will be Nog screwed up Jake's date and they friendship broke up and now Jake has to do a wacky scheme to get them back together.

[exasperatedoctopus]

I gotta say, having Jake and Nog blundering through classic video game side quests in a desperate attempt to make money in the background of Kira coming to the horrible, crushing realization that she is the government sure was a choice.

I’m watching a tragic old black and white film that should by all rights have me in tears, but some unhinged person has set it to the Yakety Sax soundtrack.

[catsharkie]

i can b sooo cringe

[deepestturtlepielover]

Putting in my own thoughts and feelings when I first saw her most of it is in the tags

When she’s anxious I feel like she’d hold her own tail or wrap it around herself as a barrier between her and the outside world. She prefers softer things due to wearing rags for so long and doesn’t have to wear so many layers to keep herself warm but it switches sometimes like it’s too cold one moment and too hot the next moment. She has a hidden cubby hole on deep space nine where all her drawings are and a bunch of soft pillows and blankets are, she feels better there because she can see all around her and nobody can hurt her there :,)

[justalittlebitspecial2]

Post DS9 NohJay HC part 1:

After Sisko went missing, Jake decided to travel around the galaxy in the ancient Bajoran ship for almost 2 decades. He wasn’t expecting to travel for that long, but he found the solitude comforting and the adventures he encountered became great stories that he would occasionally publish.

Meanwhile, Nog climbed up the ranks of Star fleet, finally becoming the Captain of the USS Pluto.

One day, the Pluto received a distress signal and can across a battered ancient bajoran ship. One confirmed life form on board. Nog immediately ordered the life form to be transported to sickbay and ran his way there as he was sure he knew who it was.

Jake was stable but unconscious. Nog couldn’t believe his eyes. He looked like his friend but so much older and Nog kicked himself for thinking he looked even more attractive than the last time he saw him.

When Jake woke up, the first thing he saw was Nog’s smiling but concerned face

[idontknowgoaskyourmom]

Nog and Jake would have loved Adventure Time.

[sirellas]

instead of kurn coming back to get worf to honorably murder him we should have had a ds9 episode where kahless 2 comes to ds9 in the same "woe is me, everyone hates me now" mentality but he gets put with alexander, jake, and nog for the B story of the episode and they start a youtube channel where they feed him food he's never tried before (ancient mythical hero reincarnated into a clone body) -> "we gave KAHLESS THE UNFORGETTABLE a plate of REALLY SOUR GRAPES and this CARBONATED MILK that's ILLEGAL on qo'nos" and jake and nog are doing the clickbait thumbnail 😱 face and alexander does a kind of "whaddaya gonna do about it" shrug to the camera while kahless is in the background looking sad but ready for a new adventure

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#212

"This is just my opinion but I think it would've been better if Ezri had been involved in some fun friendship adventures with Jake and Nog instead of being in a dumb love triangle with Worf and Bashir."

[slippery-domjot-balls]

DS9 S4 E11 Homefront & E12 Paradise Lost, slippery thoughts

Wow....let me catch my breath. That was a wild and tense ride. Nice scenery too. Obviously these are just my opinions, but I wanted to share them because Star Trek makes me happy and passionate. I want you to be happy and passionate too!

Given the intensity of these two episodes I completely forgot it started off with Jadzia pulling off the most specific pranks on Odo.

Jadzia: I sneak into my coworker's private quarters and move his furniture by 3 cm every couple of days.

Quark: That's weird. They would not even notice that change.

Jadzia: Oh, no no no. He sees it every time and it drives him insane.

Audience: Oh you silly worm!

And I loved that we got to see these two besties playing pretend. We need more Miles and Julian aviation adventures. Super cute pals.

R.I.P. Clive

Playtime is over now because the changelings have basically infiltrated Earth and are ruining everything all the time and it isn't fun anymore....or are they? They are, but are they? Possibly. Probably. Perhaps.

To me this kind of episode is the pinnacle of what Star Trek writing has always been about. We see a complex evaluation of choices in conflict. It is not about an obvious "right" or "wrong", but one decision versus another. This is a battle between perspective and reason. All sides contain some merit. This episode also shows good intentions taken too far and taken beyond the ethical reasoning that initially inspired the action.

If this episode were to have a villain it would be fear and paranoia itself and not any particular character.

Vice Admiral Leyton was an amazing character. It was brilliant to establish that he had a close professional history with Sisko early in the episode because it immediately made me trust him. You sneaky writers!! But that was the whole point. The story that was unfolding to the audience purposefully made us feel betrayed with Sisko. We co-experienced in real time the feeling seeing a close friend commit treason.

Enter the most powerful man on Earth. He can move the most stubborn hearts, calm the most irrational mind, and fill up the most starved stomach. Replicated foods beware of Grandpa Sisko. I see where Jake gets his style too! It was so believable that these three were family. You could see how cadences, mannerism, and behaviors in Granddad Sisko were passed to Ben and then passed down to Jake, but in their own naturally developing ways in each generation.

*Spoiler Alert* Grandpa Sisko also saves the day.

Just when I thought this episode had all the ingredients for perfection Nog the keeper of all things pure and innocent shows up. Look at that smug Ferengi. He knows that he is the best thing at the Academy and so do we.

A great thing about these two episodes is that every character acts as an essential part of the story. Nog will lead Ben on the chase with his talk of the Red Squad. A+ Nog!

This ain't your normal seagull. This one loves Bajoran women.

Around this point we have all the main details of the episode. Admiral Leyton and Captain Sisko are working together to protect Earth from a suspected Dominion infiltration and invasion. The President of the Federation is against the proposed worldwide security changes but reluctantly allows their implementation.

With security personnel, blood tests of all crucial Starfleet staff and family members, and martial law practically in effect everywhere we are ready to repel any Dominion attacks. After all, the wormhole was winking at DS9 a lot so perhaps a cloaked invasion fleet is on Earth's doorstep.

HERE WE GO! Papa Sisko challenges Daddy Sisko's paranoia. Ben is seeing changelings in his sleep and not the Odo kind either.

So we start to see the episode present one of it's many challenges:

How far should we trade individual autonomy for protection?

And THIS is why I love Star Trek. Grandfather Sisko is absolutely correct!! And yet, Ben Sisko is also correct. Both want to protect what they love, life ad they know and perceive it.

We search for the highest good in each situation. Ben wants to secure and save everything he loves on Earth. He wants to protect his family, his home, and everything therein. Grandpa Sisko wants the EXACT same thing. The methods to achieve their shared goal is in conflict.

DS9 writers have a candy bar on me. Well done!!! (engage smooching sounds)

This very moment is crucial for Ben. His paranoia is pushing him toward the type of dictatorial control that Admiral Leyton is calling for, but Ben has found that not only is something odd happening in the background but this entire movement smell stinky.

Nog is such a good cadet. I love him with all my little heart. He provided critical information about Starfleet Academy's unofficial super special secret mean girls club Red Squad. This little snack of information sets Ben Sisko on the trail of breadcrumbs leading to the smorgasbord of treason committed by Leyton.

Smug Shapeshifting O'Brien is a gift. Enjoy every second of this hilarious goop boy. Colm really did a great job. We do see that there is a Dominion changeling on earth (saw it earlier in Homefront as well). We understand how real the threat of their activity can be. We especially see how terrifying a changeling can be when Dominion version O'Brien has a little chat with Ben. It might only take one hostile changeling to completely destabilize an entire world.

I do wish we figured out how the fake changeling blood was created to trap Sisko. Clever girl, Admiral.

I felt bad for Leyton. He is someone caught in a difficult position of authority and personal fears. His own paranoia drove him to the utmost extreme. I imagined that maybe he has a cute little family with a kid back home. I imagined what it might be like in his shoes. It would be hard to live thinking that your lack of effort led to the death of your child or friend or family member or significant other. It would be hard to go to bed knowing that the person you once shared it with prematurely died because of that you thought you failed to do. Even in much of the two episodes his facial expressions show a man full of internal strife and conflict. It is as if he kept questioning his actions as he made them.

What if his fear of failing his community drove him to radical dictatorship? He wanted to keep all that he loved safe, but he betrayed everyone he loved. He demanded that all his loyal friends trust him. Trust is a two way exchange though. He abandoned trusting his friends and confidants. That was the beginning of his downfall.

Leyton wanted to protect society at the cost of society itself. He could not see beyond his fear of losing society to war and enemies abroad to the point of blindness. He became an enemy of all he cherished, and I honestly think that he knew that too. He was just so scared that he desperately dug in to the one aspect of his life that he thought he could control, which is so relatable. We all can act irrationally under stress and pressure. This is not justification or approval. This is accepting that life may not have as many villains in it as we are told to believe. People are just trying to be people, meet their obligations and responsibilities while preserving what little bit of life exists to enjoy.

We are all prone to brash behaviors in order to protect what we love, but sometimes it is healthy to set down the admiralty bars and accept that you can't do it all, especially alone.

Remember that everyone in this episode wanted the same thing. Leyton wanted to protect life. Sisko wanted to protect life. Grandpa Sisko wanted to protect life. Everyone held the same belief and motivation.

I appreciated how solemnly Leyton gave in and how respectfully he surrendered. It actually felt less like defeat and more like he was relieved of a burden that he was too overwhelmed to carry alone. He didn't need to carry it alone but chose to go alone. In a symbolic way by removing the admiral bars he set down his fear and moved on.

The amount of time taken for these shots impressed upon me the symbolic significance of it. Sisko also lets go and moves on with Leyton. By setting the phaser down he too lets go and agrees it is time to move forward from this conflict. He is still betrayed and disappointed, but he is not stuck or trapped in the past. He sets down his weapon and joins Leyton in facing a reality outside the oppression of their own paranoia.

I loved that Paradise Lost ends with the restaurant opening up again. It is the resolution these episodes needed. It was closure showing that being open to others and not letting the world cloud you of the humanity in others is fundamental to life.

Despite the many differences in all these characters, regardless of where they were in the progress of their own lives, no matter the goal or intention, we all essentially desire the same things.

Star Trek is the future I hope for!

If you made it to the end of this post and are reading this then 10,000 sweet kisses to your forehead. If you didn't make it then I am still giving your forehead tender kisses, you are just not aware of it.

[oddlittlestories]

Actually you know what

No hate to Lower Decks (I’ve never seen it but a lot of stuff about it seems soooo based)

BUT.

This notion that only the head honchos on Star Trek ever had magical space adventures…

You know the post that’s like “only the enterprise had all these wild tales so they chucked them in the bin” that gets countered with “all the spaceships of that era had sooo many wild encounters that a bunch of them just got lost in the mix.”

I much prefer the latter concept, and it applies to lower decks (the concept not the show) as well.

Just because someone isn’t on the leadership team doesn’t mean they quietly sit around filing boring paperwork. Why wouldn’t they be doing just as much interesting stuff as anyone else? They’re analyzing most of the weird samples, often interacting with folks on a more casual level. Accepting supplies. Sending messages. Flying shuttle transports.

It makes sense that a lot of stuff would never even make it to the leadership team - just be dealt with by lower level staff. And even if it *did*, it could very easily have been in the form of a memo that they read and go wow glad I didn’t have to deal with that on top of everything else!

And the thing is, a lot of canon (pre-JJ Abrams) actually supports this conclusion. Every time the camera slides over to a secondary character in Voyager or DS9 they’re doing something incredibly interesting. Keiko puts herself in the crosshairs for extremists by starting a school. Kes develops psychic powers and breaks up with her boyfriend. Jake and Nog accidentally bring back the crew’s will to live. Sisko’s gf smuggles for the Maquis. You get this sense that their lives between the scenes are just as vibrant and rich as anyone else’s. Hell, Sisko was a random side character at Wolf 359 before he was the Commander and Captain of DS9.

And even if we step away from two shows where slice of life is very important, TNG does this too! Lt. Barclay, Ensign Ro, O’Brien. Every time the camera pans to another character, not only are they experiencing something extremely interesting, it’s also implied that they were important before, they’re important now, and they’ll be important hereafter.

And I think part of why this notion bothers me so much is it isn’t just narratively important. It’s thematically important too! A huge theme over and over in Star Trek is that people matter. Ordinary individuals doing what they can to make the world a better place. While TOS doesn’t always do this narratively (redshirts, anyone?) it DOES do this thematically. How often is the day saved or some deeply historical pivot determined by someone ordinary?

Star Trek puts the lens on the captain and leadership officers, but that’s a tool. Narratively and thematically, it’s about individuals’ ability to make the world a better place—and that individuals and their lives are the reason we try to do so. And that’s as much about a biology ensign or earth shopkeep as it is a starship captain.

It’s about me and you.

[nevinslibrary]

Make It So Friday

This was unexpectedly fun. It’s a short story about four ‘sons of Star Trek’ and a bit of an adventure that they go on together. QJ (Q’s son from the Voyager episodes) tries to help out Jake Sisko, Nog, and Alexander (Worf’s son) in the aftermath of the whole Red Path stuff from the most recent IDW reboot of their Star Trek lineup. But, you don’t necessarily have to have read all the previous comics to enjoy this one. Oh, and, not only do we get the well known characters in here, we also get some characters from some of the newer Trek as well, which was a delightful surprise.

Star Trek: Sons of Star Trek by Morgan Hampton

[kari-izumi]

I don't know if you feel the same way, but I never liked Bashir/Ezri. The way Worf and Bashir tried to make her their replacement Jadzia was so wrong; I'd rather Ezri had friendship adventures with Jake and Nog who were closer in age to her. The gross way Bashir told Ezri during their sex scene that he always wanted to know how many spots she had seemed like he was talking about Jadzia, and I hate that Julian was regressed back into obsessing with Jadzia instead of accepting her rejection and moving on with his life.

TBH I have no strong feelings either way for Bashir/Ezri but given all the BTS stuff I know about with TPTB trying to unqueer both him and Garak, I can't blame people for not vibing with it.

I wasn't even all that fond of original recipe Worf/Dax, but he at least had the excuse of working through his grief and Ezri trying to get her groundings after a joining she never wanted or prepared for and after they got it out of their systems, they quickly moved past it so like....I can tolerate that one. Barely.

Overall, classic Trek just did not do romance very well across the board and DS9 for all that it did get right was no exception to this.

[trekfm]

158: Even the Birds Stayed Away

“Progress” 30th-anniversary reflections

Plans by the provisional government to convert a Bajoran moon into a massive power plant sets Major Kira on a collision course with a stubborn, sweet-talking farmer who refuses to give up his land. His attachment to his home and land connect with Kira—a reminder of her fight against the Cardassians during the Occupation—but she must balance personal feelings with her duty to the Bajoran government. Meanwhile, Jake and Nog set off on an entrepreneurial adventure after acquiring a mother lode of yamok sauce.

In this episode of The Orb, hosts C Bryan Jones and Matthew Rushing continue our 30th-anniversary retrospective that will take you through all of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, one episode at a time. In this installment, we discuss “Progress” and how the story continues Kira’s incredible character development and focuses the DS9 narrative on everyday people.

Chapters Intro (00:00:00) Finding Kira (00:03:04) Everyday People (00:15:33) Inner and Outer Turmoil (00:21:17) The Right Decision? (00:25:55) The Noh-Jay Consortium (00:29:22) Final Thoughts and Ratings (00:36:00) Closing (00:38:27)

Hosts C Bryan Jones and Matthew Rushing

Production C Bryan Jones (Editor and Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) Norman C. Lao (Associate Producer)

New podcast episode:

[deepestturtlepielover]

(=ↀωↀ=) <- tora ziyal

[attiredpan]

Thinking about how when I was a kid and watching Adventure Time, I would imagine being friends with Jake and Finn because I didn’t have many close friends.

Like I had friends but whenever they would ask if they could come over, it always got brushed off either because I was too shy to let them and would give some reason why they couldn’t or my parents wouldn’t allow it because my room was messy.

So I’d just watch Adventure Time up in my parent’s room because they were watching the news or something downstairs while doing homework.

They were kind of the gateway duo to Nog and Jake in DS9 for me I guess.

[sokorra]

The Rewatch 220: Progress

The Rewatch 220: Progress

Series: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9)Episode: 1:15 Progress (0215/1993)Rating: 4/5Redshirt Status: 0/2 Notable Guest Stars: Brian Keith (Mullibok) – Brian Keith is a classic film actor most known for being the father in The Parent Trap (1961) and Family Affair. He has a long list of credits and there is probably a film for all tastes. He died in 1997. Terrence Evans (Baltrim) – This is…