#ds9 1x01

[agendereddie]

"None of your past experiences helped prepare you for this consequence."

Benjamin Sisko in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine + Eddie Diaz in 9-1-1

[walkingstackofbooks]

Music has captured my mind once again and I'm back on my songwriting bs :D This time it's turning out to be a Julian & Kira first-meeting duet, but I've only got these choruses so far so we'll see where it goooes...

KIRA: All this time I've had to fight for what I need, Snatching life from scarcity, There was no other way to be. On your precious Earth there's no struggle to survive - How can you know what it means to be alive? 

JULIAN: All my life I've had to hide what I can do, Wear a mask you can't see through, Let the world decide what's true. Balanced on the edge of a devastating fall - If you knew the real me you'd hate me more.

If you want to listen, here's how it goes (for now!)

[dadbodbensisko-moved]

the episodic nature of star trek tos is literally so funny b/c like we see bones and spock fight every single episode and like every episode bones learns "damn spock has emotions. he has feelings that i am capable of hurting. i should be nicer to him" and then like the next fucking day its "you pointy-eared stupid ugly faggot hoe kill yourself"

[thesearchforbluejello]

I am honestly just rendered very much speechless by this week's SNW. Like... I am not sure I have come this close to the exact vibe of M*A*S*H as having this fucking unbelievable gutpunch of an episode between the LD crossover and a musical episode???????????? I don't even know how to unpack this episode honestly. I didn't see it coming at all even given the title. I don't know how to place it between silliness and fun when I know people who are living the reality of what this episode explores, but I think it is something that current audiences sorely need to see.

[sebastianmercier]

Look at what they took from us. Berman was catching on (and I hope somebody who could spell proofread the final version).

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/tvwriting/us-drama/us-drama-collections/star-trek-ds9

[lets-steal-an-archive]

Voyager: scanned scripts + some background materials

Please to enjoy!

Background:

Voyager Bible

Voyager Technical Guide

Voyager Writer-Director Guide 95-96

Scripts:

1x01 Caretaker - First Draft (replaced on TV Writing with the Final Draft)

1x01 Caretaker - Final Draft

1x07 - Eye of the Needle

2x01 - The 37s

2x10 - Cold Fire

2x15 - Threshold

3x01 - Basics pt. 2

3x02 - Flashback

4x05 - Revulsion

4x21 - The Omega Directive

5x06 - Timeless

5x15 - Dark Frontier Part 1

5x16 - Dark Frontier Part 2

6x16 - Collective

7x07 - Body and Soul

7x08 - Nightingale

7x12 - Lineage

7x13 - Repentance

7x14 - Prophecy

7x15 - The Void

7x16 - Workforce Part 1

7x17 - Workforce Part 2

7x20 - Author Author

7x21 - Friendship One

7x22 - Natural Law

7x23 - Homestead

7x25 - Endgame Part 1

7x26 - Endgame Part 2

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[fictionz]

The top 31 spookiest Star Trek episodes (according to the Internet)

It's spooky season and I'm also a Star Trek nerd and a list nerd, so here we go!

I asked in a Star Trek discord, ran a bunch of searches, and assigned a point each time an episode was listed among the scariest/creepiest in Star Trek. The episodes are ranked from least to most spooky, so watch in this order if you want to build up to the spookiest stuff. I cut off the list at 31, one episode for each day in October.

So without further ado...

Spookiest episodes of Star Trek*:

TOS 1x05: The Enemy Within

TOS 1x25: The Devil in the Dark

PIC 2x07: Monsters

VOY 2x08: Persistence of Vision

ENT 3x16: Doctor's Orders

DS9 3x26: The Adversary

VOY 4x25: One

VOY 5x18: Course: Oblivion

ENT 2x10: Vanishing Point

VOY 3x12: Macrocosm

VOY 3x18: Darkling

VOY 4x07: Scientific Method

TNG 7x14: Sub Rosa

ENT 2x04: Dead Stop

TNG 3x26: The Best Of Both Worlds, Part I

TOS 1x01: The Man Trap

TNG 7x06: Phantasms

DS9 5x05: The Assignment

DS9 2x14: Whispers

DIS 1x03: Context Is For Kings

TNG 6x21: Frame Of Mind

TNG 7x19: Genesis

TOS 2x14: Wolf in the Fold

VOY 6x25: The Haunting Of Deck Twelve

TOS 2x07: Catspaw

VOY 2x23: The Thaw

TNG 4x17: Night Terrors

TNG 1x25: Conspiracy

ENT 3x05: Impulse

DS9 5x24: Empok Nor

TNG 6x05: Schisms

Shorter list of the the spookiest episode from each of the 11 series:**

TOS 2x07: Catspaw

TAS 1x01: Beyond the Farthest Star

TNG 6x05: Schisms

DS9 5x24: Empok Nor

VOY 2x23: The Thaw

ENT 3x05: Impulse

DIS 1x03: Context Is For Kings

PIC 2x07: Monsters

LD 1x06: Terminal Provocations

PRO 1x12: Let Sleeping Borg Lie

SNW 1x09: All Those Who Wander

Data used to collate these rankings:

Star Trek Discord

https://www.handitv.com/lists/18-eerie-disturbing-and-downright-scary-star-trek-episodes

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-scariest-star-trek-episodes/

https://screenrant.com/most-disturbing-star-trek-episodes-ranked-horrifying/

https://screenrant.com/most-terrifying-star-trek-episodes-halloween/

https://movieweb.com/scariest-star-trek-episodes/

https://screenrant.com/scariest-star-trek-episodes-ranked/

https://gizmodo.com/12-scariest-star-trek-episodes-strange-new-worlds-alien-1849136069

https://aiptcomics.com/2020/10/22/the-ultimate-star-trek-horror-episodes-guide/

https://www.startrek.com/news/9-underrated-spooky-star-trek-episodes

https://gizmodo.com.au/2022/07/the-12-scariest-episodes-of-star-trek/

https://gamerant.com/star-trek-episodes-sci-fi-horror/#enterprise-impulse

https://www.monstercomplex.com/blog/Star-Trek-Scariest-Episodes

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/scariest-star-trek-horror-episodes.html

https://www.slashfilm.com/910821/10-terrifying-star-trek-episodes-to-watch-after-this-weeks-strange-new-worlds/

https://www.cbr.com/star-trek-spooky-halloween-episodes/

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/star-trek-halloween-scary.html

https://redshirtsalwaysdie.com/2017/10/26/star-trek-horror-episodes/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8BXCo9XKw4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsvbp9EahI

...

* There was a 12-way tie for the final 8 slots, so the final 8 in the first list are randomly selected from among those 12 episodes.

** PRO did not make an appearance on any of the lists I found, so I selected an episode that felt most appropriate. Other series only had one suggested episode and are in the list by default.

[startrekaliens]

Patron at Quark’s Bar (portrayed by Tyana Parr), DS9 1x01 “Emissary”

[worldcatlas]

PIC: Remembrance

Please note: This article contains spoilers for ST: Picard 1x01 (and earlier events that you should really already know about by now).

Eighteen years after Nemesis, the first episode of Star Trek: Picard opens with our titular admiral playing a game of poker with his old friend Data, who wears the DS9 style of uniform he died in. It’s hard to tell, but it looks like the vertical lines on the grey shoulder area of this remake may have been made by pleating the fabric, rather than quilting.

Yes, our favourite robot is back from the dead, but can we talk about these seams?

Picard himself doesn’t wear anything particularly noteworthy just yet, which is fine, because this was all a dream. Sadly, I can’t say the same for the next scene, in which this cool Xahean guy’s awesome vest–

–does not prevent him from being immediately murdered.

Great lining on the vest, though.

Jean-Luc, awake now, strolls through the vineyards of Château Picard looking absolutely dapper. With a cane and flat cap, he is the very image of a peaceful, pastoral retirement. Somehow, this is the cottagecore content we all needed in our Star Trek.

Number One also looking very gentlemanly.

In a move that seems surprisingly self-important, Picard also appears to be wearing a pin of his own family crest while touring the grounds… but I think he just feels naked without a little badge there. I also appreciate that he has pinned it to – in true Trek fashion – an asymmetrical sweater.

Straight lines were banned in 2360.

Speaking of great sweaters, another member of the household who wears the Picard family crest is Laris, Jean-Luc’s Romulan housekeeper. 

The fuzziness offsets the pointiness.

Our plot needs a catalyst, so a mean reporter is introduced to bully Picard into action. Her outfit is fine – nothing particularly futuristic except the weird single lapel – but she accessorizes it with digital makeup. We only get to see this concept for a few seconds, but I’m sold, I want ten, and I wish she’d gone with the indigo lip.

And here I am using crushed berries and charcoal like a chump.

Back to moving the plot forward, important character Dahj shows up to the vineyard wearing what I can only describe as an elven cloak.

Good boys know good fashion.

This gorgeous coat appears to be made of a heavy green wool with black strappy accents, a big slouchy hood, and a very pointy hemline. The sides cross over in front instead of having a traditional closure, which seems like it would leave your tummy chilly, but does allow for greater flexibility.

Always buy a coat that you can wear in snow, wind, and combat.

I’m also a huge fan of the thumbhole sleeves/built-in gloves.

Next, it’s time to visit the Starfleet Archives, which means another rib knit sweater.

If you’d spent a lifetime in polyester uniforms, you’d make the same choice.

I know it makes sense that, in any century, most people will still just wear normal, everyday clothes. But it doesn’t quite feel like the future without, like, androgynous holograms in wispy all-white outfits made of sheer fabrics and angular lines, you know?

Oh, there we go.

After some unfortunate events, our hero finds himself speaking with one Dr. Agnes Jurati, whose lab coat is business in front… box cutter mishap in the back?

Maybe she Hulks out sometimes and needs a contingency.

And then, just when you thought we couldn’t possibly introduce any more characters, a dark and brooding Romulan makes a dramatic entrance.

I’m sure the outfit is great, but these guys REALLY like shadows.

[colnerys]

a quality i absolutely love about kira (and is actually... both a virtue and a flaw depending on who you are) is how kira is quick to trust her own people but remains heavily skeptical of outsiders. i think about how kira didn't trust anyone from the federation (once again, for good reasons!) at the beginning of the show but literally the next ep enter tahna los, who literally was apart of the MOST radical "terrorist" groups, the most bajor nationalism (not the right word bc bajor's a planet but you know, the equivalent of nationalism) group and she still trusted and believed in him.

in some ways, kira's so naive despite everything's she's gone through. this makes sense given her circumstances —— during the occupation, and as kira has iterated time and time again, they were either with or against them. there is no middle ground. whilst she prolly had to grow up faster than her federation peers, it doesn't change the fact that she was a child. so it was pretty hardwired in her — that type of black and white thinking of bajorans who weren't collaborators can't be bad people and even when they do bad things its with good intentions.

this is one of the things i really appreciated some of the novels for extrapolating on (i'm taking the ones that were published as ds9 was ongoing — a good example is wrath of the prophets) because you see kira getting pissed at people she trusted with her life doing shady things and it hits her again and again that she's no longer living in the occupation. people have to live. people have to survive.

freeing bajor was the first step but what comes next is a long road.

i really liked them establishing her character like this in the first two episodes. we see kira, who's highly suspicious and distrusting of any outsiders like the federation and kira, who without even so much as asking of PROOF from a former kohn ma terrorist believe in him so completely and absolutely until thee oppositions proof ultimately won her over. you see her grow and flourish as a character.

her worldview gets more nuanced, complex, and maybe even muddled but ... she's also allowed her propensity towards kindness, compassion, and empathy to shine through. if we think of the establishing idea of emissary (1x01) as an examination of sisko's trauma and how the past is the shackles that weigh him down, the same can absolutely be said about kira especially if we look into battle lines during her exchange with kai opaka.

so during this whole series, as sisko grows, as kira grows, as their RELATIONSHIP slowly (keyword: SLOWLY) develop from borderline enemies, to reluctant allies, to a good working relationship, and eventually to a close personal one ... it's also symbolic of them slowly healing from their past wounds, learning to forgive themselves for their own misgivings of the past, and looking towards each other to build a better future together.

i just think kira's growth is so important because it isn't over the top. in fact, sometimes if you blink, you miss it. sometimes the growth gets covered up by all the trauma that's just thrown at her throughout the show but it's still there. she still grows. and the ending of ds9 ending on a full circle of kira at the promenade — except this time she isn't alone like her intro scene, this time she's holding jake in her arms and watching the wormhole open.

and i think that's fucking beautiful.

[xbcaptain]

STAR TREK:  DEEP SPACE NINE.

↳    1x01 + 1x02 :  EMISSARY.

[mollymauksworld]

You're probably right, Jasad. And if you were dealing with a Starfleet officer, they'd probably admit...we have a hopeless cause here. But I am just a Bajoran, who's been fighting a hopeless cause against the Cardassians...all her life. So if you want a war - I'll give you one!

Kira Nerys in Emissary

[the-goofball]

Château Picard

[apolesen]

Where in the galaxy is Keiko O’Brien?

I keep getting confused about when Keiko is on the station and when she’s away, and sometimes I get a plotbunny and then realise that she’s not even there at that time. When I sat down to look at it, I realised I have way too much knowledge about this, so here it is - all of Keiko’s known movements during Deep Space Nine. I’ve double-checked everything I remembered on Chakoteya and Memory Alpha. I can’t guarantee I haven’t missed something, but if I have, it’s on the level of going away for part of an episode. 

I hope this is useful for fic-writing and other endeavours!

1x01 The Emissary Keiko arrives to DS9 along with the Enterprise. She talks about taking Molly and going back to Earth, but then doesn’t. 

1x01-2x202 Keiko is on DS9. 

2x03 The Siege  Keiko and other civilians are evacuated from DS9, and are to the taken to the Korat system. However, the first shuttle with evacuees comes back at the end of the episode, so they may not even have made it to the Korat system before turning away. 

2x04 Invasive Procedures Everyone but a skeleton crew is evacuated due to a plasma storm. She is back on the station by the next episode. 

2x05-2x22 - On DS9

2x22 The Wire She is away at a hydroponics conference on Rigel Four for more than a week. 

2x23-3x03 On DS9.

Two weeks after 3x03 The House of Quark Keiko leaves for the expedition to the Janitza Mountains, taking Molly with her. Miles tells her in 3x03 that the expedition starts in two weeks. It’s unclear how big the gap between 3x03 and 3x04 is, as neither episode has a stardate, so it’s hard to say if she’s gone by 3x04. However, Miles does not appear in 3x04, so we could theorise that he’s helping her get everything ready and follow her down to Bajor (because you know Miles would fuss over that kind of thing). 

3x06-3x09 On Bajor.

3x10 Fascination Keiko and Molly come to visit DS9 for the Gratitude Festival, staying for two days. 

3x11-4x16 On Bajor. In Fascination she says she will be away two or three months longer. I lean towards this being longer than that. We know Keiko spends one night at DS9, at which point she gets pregnant. This could be the same time as Fascination, but I don’t think so, as they would have had to decide that they were going to try for a baby, and that is not something they talk about in Fascination (as at that point they almost break up). Furthermore, this must have been something that is planned ahead more. From events in s7, we know that Sisko takes a contraceptive shot once a month, and it seems possible or even likely that Miles is on something similar. That means that he has to go off it, and it also explains why he’s surprised she’s pregnant, because she says “I thought it’d take a couple of nights. To be honest, a lot more nights.” (That is partly just that he wants to have sex with his wife, but if he’s just stopped taking contraceptives, that might explain that further.) On top of all this, I have calculated (from when I wrote my Keiko/Kira fic) that Keiko is eight or nine weeks pregnant in Accession. (This was based on chronological markers within the episodes of s4 and counting backwards from Body Parts. Kira is pregnant for five months, so it’d be logical that Keiko is four months gone in Body Parts, and stuff in the episodes between Accession and Body Parts makes a two-month gap likely.) 

4x17 Accession The expedition having ended, Keiko is back on the station. 

4x17-4x25 On DS9. 

4x25 Body Parts Goes to Torad V in the gamma quadrant for three days together with Bashir and Kira. 

4x26-5x05 On DS9.

5x05 The Assignment Goes on an expedition to the Five Caves for five days. (Comes back possessed by a pah-wraith - man, she needs to stop going to places with ‘five’ in their name...) 

5x06-5x25 On DS9.

Two days before 5x26 Call to Arms Leaves the station to live on Earth together with Molly as the war is heating up.

5x26-6x24 On Earth. Memory Alpha says she is gone almost a year, and often, a series is about a year, but in 6x16 Miles mentions that she has been gone for six months, so it might be shorter. There is no mention that I can find that she was away a full year.

Before 6x24 Time’s Orphan Comes back to DS9. Considering the conversations in the beginning of this episode, it sounds like they have gotten back the day before or so. 

6x24-7x26 On DS9.

7x26 What You Leave Behind Moves to Earth with her family. 

[lonely-night]

ds9 watch thread: season 1

1x01 - 1x03

1x01 - 1x02

ok they actually look cute together, still waiting for some meaningful interaction

1x03

MAJOR KIRA CUT HER HAIR *GAY SCREECHING*

hoo boi i’m very gay

- the Maquis, the Kohn-ma, huh, interesting

- love Odo’s no nonsense attitude 

[witchyfoxelf]

[tv review] ds9 1x01-03 (1993)

1x01 & 1x02 “emissary”

the general consensus on season 1 of ds9 is that it’s bad & boring, and like, in a way fair enough? but there’s also just absolutely no comparing it to season 1 of tng, so i oftentimes find myself resisting this take even though it’s kinda totally fair.

still, this larger narrative actually has zero bearing on the show’s pilot episodes. this two-parter was pretty easily the best star trek pilot ever at the time given that its only competition was either tos’s “the cage” or “where no man has gone before” (or both, depending on how you wanna count it, idk) and tng’s “encounter at farpoint.” among its contemporaries i also think it definitively edges out voyager’s “caretaker,” though not by nearly so wide of a margin. i think it’s since been surpassed by the first episodes of virtually every installment of nutrek, minus the last ten minutes or so of both of discovery’s first two episodes. but regardless, this is just a fantastic two-parter and a great way to pass the torch from tng.

linking sisko’s backstory to picard and the most celebrated episode of tng was an especially shrewd move, and having the two of them initially butting heads was a great way to differentiate sisko immediately. not that he actually ended up needing the help considering how strong his characterization is and how amazingly avery brooks plays him throughout the series. on top of that, like… as a star trek fan, it’s just undeniably satisfying to actually finally get to see some of the carnage at wolf 359 instead of just the aftermath.

beyond that, this two-parter had so many characters to introduce and so much to set up about the setting, and i think it pulled all of that off admirably. a-rank

1x03 “past prologue”

i 100% agree with the decision to swap this episode in as the first episode after the pilot instead of that episode where odo is being oppressed for being a cop. like, even leaving my personal & political feelings out of the equation, kira is just blatantly the more important & interesting of the two characters, and getting her & sisko on something resembling the same page feels like the most important thread that needed picking up after the pilot.

moving this episode up also helped reiterate the importance of bajor and the wormhole both to the show’s narrative and to the politics of the universe, so kind of a double whammy of obviousness there.

… also also, although it’s inexplicably his only appearance in the first season, this gets us to my problematic husband garak sooner, and that’s obviously very important. his interactions with dr. bashir (and others) in this first appearance are just fucking priceless, and this show will always be better off the more garak it has in it. and this episode is fully like 50% garak insinuating that he’s a spy, bashir pouncing on it like an overeager puppy, and garak denying it and making bashir feel silly.

it’s gonna taper off soon, but ds9 season 1 actually gets off to quite a strong start all things considered. a-rank