#ds9 The Search

[filmjunky-99]

s t a r t r e k d e e p s p a c e n i n e created by rick berman, michael piller Ornithar of the Karemma [the search, part i, s3ep1]

'Our only contact with the Dominion has been through the Vorta. I have no idea who they report to. All I know is that the Vorta say to do something and you do it. If you do not, they will send in the Jem'Hadar, and then you die.' - ornithar

[unfortunate-cantaloupe]

Watching the Search be like: TREKKING? In the STARS?? In THESE conditions???

[walkingstackofbooks]

DS9 3x01 & 3x02 The Search thoughts (I'm re-watching, so there may be future spoilers)

Part One

Loving Jadzia's hairstyle

The Defiant! :D

Eddington, you slimeball

"I wonder when I started thinking of this Cardassian monstrosity as home?" I love how well Jake knows his dad, and can pinpoint it

"Maybe I'm your friend, and maybe I want you to see that you are still needed here no matter what some idiot Starfleet admiral might think." I really like Kira/Odo, actually. It keeps checking out this early on

I love how they always have to contrive a reason to bring Quark along. And by they I mean both the DS9 crew and the episode writers

"Rom only has a son to think about. I have a business." Checks out.

Honestly, this does kind of feel like Sisko's just bullying Quark

"I've downloaded as many of my files from the station as I can." Since we now know Julian's memory is Excellent, I kind of wonder if this is laying the groundwork for Sisko to assume that any knowledge Julian does have comes from the aforementioned downloaded files, rather than wondering how he knows it. (That was an awful English sentence, sorry.)

Sisko's and Kira smiles when Odo calls in :3

"Odo!" Lol Quark is genuinely so excited to see him

AND THEY WERE ROOMMATES!!!

"Am I glad to see you." This is all very Quodo

I love how ominous the searching ships manage to look

Quark is in his element here

"Can I speak freely?.. What the hell is WRONG with Starfleet?!!!" Kira is always incredibly wonderful

OHHH I forgot this would be the hallucination one!

"NO-ONE is expendable." Doctor Bashir my beloved <3

"Prepare to leave orbit, Major." "Commander!" "As you were Doctor." I just really love this interaction. Julian's always gotta save everyone <3

Part Two

"Odo this isn't a police interrogation." XD This is just how he interacts with people tho

"He really is happy to be here." Kira knows him so well <3

Female changeling immediately going for a link against others' protests. She justifies it with "He's been gone too long. He needs to remember, if only for a moment" - but I'm sure she's very eager to learn everything you can from him as soon as possible

Jadzia and Miles just turning up felt way too convenient the first time watching this... Now it's understandable.

This Garak is made from Julian's thoughts of him. This Garak says, "I've missed you."

I'm still feeling betrayed by Starfleet here, even though I know none of this is real 😅

Sisko's imagination suggests he expects to be disappointed by Starfleet...

"The urge to return home was implanted in your genetic makeup." These people really love genetic manipulation, huh?

>>>>> OOOOF I HAVE NEVER MADE THE CONNECTION THAT THEY ARE FIGHTING GENETICALLY ENGINEERED BEINGS FOR BASICALLY THE ENTIRETY OF DS9.

"You see, I have a dream. A dream that one day all people, human, Jem'Hadar, Ferengi, Cardassians, will stand together in peace around my dabo tables." Oh, Quark....

Julian getting in the Jem'Hadar's face to protect Miles :3 "That's enough." I love it when he's furious

Garakkk what are you dooooooing???

"I pretend to be their friend... and then I shoot you." Ah, that's what you're doing. XD Garak's one-liners are always top-notch

Garak dying in Bashir's arms is everything. Time to go read a lot of fanfic.... <3

That Vorta is weirdly uncaring about Odo, having seen the other Vorta's reaction to him later in the series.

This is EXCELLENT - although I think it definitely confused me having memories of this episode later down the line but not remembering it had been in a dream. But yes, VERY GOOD. (Not least because of the Garashir, I'm sorry, what can I say, I'm a person of simple pleasures.)

[trekacrosstheuniverse]

If you could retcon one thing from any Star Trek property, what would you choose?

Cause personally--- I'm getting rid of that weird cave scene between Saavik and Spock in Search for Spock 🤢

[andyoullhearitagain]

He likes to be tall.

[ectogeo-rebubbles]

Mr. Garak, I never knew we thought so much alike.

siskarak textpost memes 10/?

[asexualjedi]

Ok so… Garak dying in Julian’s arms in the group hallucination…. Was that like all Bashir’s influence or is that how the whole crew views them? And if they didn’t before do they have a new opinion on the two?

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

Elim Garak: fucking around vs finding out

[2stepadmiral]

So every year or two, I go through a period of reconnecting with my high school Trekkie interests, rewatching some Star Trek clips, episodes, and movies, and during this particular period, I have to voice my main criticism of the reboot films: namely, the treatment of the Enterprise.

To be clear, I think the reboot Enterprise had a nice redesign. She looked very clean and futuristic while capturing the original design in broad strokes. The lens glare is certainly annoying, and it doesn’t have the same heart and retro feel as the original, but I feel they generally did a fairly decent job with the design. I’m talking about how she is treated throughout the films, namely, how she’s treated effectively like just another ship.

In the original series, the Enterprise has a certain heart coming across almost like a character in of herself. You get a clear feel from the characters that they consider the enterprise almost to be home, and Kirk and Scotty in particular see her almost like an actual woman, one who they cherish and will protect at all costs. This sentiment is magnified in the first three movies, particularly in the motion picture and in the search for Spock. When Kirk first sees the refit Enterprise, you can see how much he loves the ship, and when the Enterprise is plunging to her final resting place, the mourning on all of their faces, especially Kirk, makes this moment particularly powerful and truly hammer home that the Enterprise was a character in and of herself. The original Enterprise felt like a character fans had grown up with, and her destruction felt almost like the loss of an old friend. And at the end of the voyage home, when the crew has that last-minute surprise reveal of the Enterprise-A, the triumph and homecoming feeling is so clear that even the audience shares the sentiment, almost as if the character has been reborn.

The enterprise in the reboots was never portrayed this way. She was treated like just a ship, one that might’ve been nicer and fancier and more advanced than the others, but not really all that special beyond that. In the first movie, that’s acceptable, as the focus is on bringing together the crew and getting them where they need to be for the start of their journeys. The second one focuses more on the captaincy, and what it means to really earn that seat, so it’s excusable that this one focused more on Kirk and how seriously he took his responsibilities, though they could’ve put more emphasis on the ship as part of that arc. Yes, the ship almost crashing was an emotional scene, but that had everything to do with the characters aboard and nothing to do with the ship beyond it being the place where the characters were and it’s damage being the reason that they were about to die.

And then in the third one, they just blow up the ship in the first 30 minutes and try to portray it with the same sentimental weight as the destruction of the Enterprise in the search for Spock. Which would’ve been fine, if it weren’t for the fact that they spent the last two movies treating the enterprise like just a thing, just another tool in the characters belt. She had no heart, no soul, no feeling that she was a home, or that she was the thing that brought the crew together, and kept them together, the thing that made them a family. She was basically just a big car, there to get them from point A to point B and occasionally shoot at some bad guys, and then, we’re supposed to feel devastated when she goes down for the final time.

The reveal of a reboot version of the Enterprise A was a nice surprise, but it lacked the emotional payoff of the original version, largely because of how ordinary the first Enterprise had been in this timeline. You can’t really celebrate the revival of a lost character when the character was never really there to begin with. They might as well have put the crew on an entirely new ship, like maybe a rebooted version of the Excelsior, and it would’ve had the same basic impact.

My point is that classic trek, as well as the next generation and DS9, did an excellent job of portraying the dynamic between captain and ship to the point where the ship felt almost like a real character. And that worked really well. It made the crash of the Enterprise D in generations a shocking scene, and it made her surprise return in season 3 of Picard a heartfelt and deeply nostalgic scene (Even if I wanted the Enterprise E, sorry but she’s my favorite). It made the loss of the Defiant in season seven of DS9 a powerful and emotional moment. I haven’t watched a lot of Voyager, so I can’t comment on that, but I can say with decent confidence that they couldn’t have done worse than they did in the reboots.

[respocked]

Starfleet building The Defiant and planning a war fleet after the attack from the Borg........... after "not believing in warships" for years........... a ship that has no science labs.................

[filmjunky-99]

s t a r t r e k d e e p s p a c e n i n e created by rick berman, michael piller Female Changeling of The Founders [the search, part ii, s3ep2]

'No Changeling has ever harmed another.' - female changeling [to odo]

[trektown]

God damn I love Odo. My goopy guy. My slime sister. My mucus man. My gunk girl. My sludge sweetheart.

[cucumbermoon]

Someone remind me when I’m on my deathbed that I want my last words to be, “I’m afraid I won’t be able to have lunch with you today,” to whoever happens to be there

[affixjoy]

[tybarious-ii]

[i-just-want-to-be-a-bumblebee]

Looking for anDS:9 fic

Hey! I’m looking for a story that had Julian, Kira, Worf and Sisko de-aged. Kira, worf and Sisko are around ten years old and Julian is seven I think? It was adorable, and the remaining adult crew split the kids up to take care of them. Garak ends up taking Julian.

Does that sound familiar with anyone?