#jennifer sisko

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DS9 | 1.01

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STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE // S3E19 Through the Looking Glass The way I see it, freedom is a whole lot better than slavery.

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Shout out the rebels. They were hopeless, they were beaten down. People in the utopia dismiss their world as intrinsically evil.

But they stood up. They fought back.

Feel like this energy is needed right now

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds "Lost in Translation" &

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Emissary"

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Happy 31st Anniversary to DS9!!

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If Jennifer Sisko would have been a borg it could have been interesting. I don't understand why some people think this idea is a rip off of Seven's plot. Seven didn't have any strong tie to a family. I wonder how Borg! Jennifer would have fit again with Ben and Jake. Maybe it would end in a divorce ? And Ben would still end up with Kasidy ? I think it's interesting to see the struggle of a Federation citizen outside Starfleet plot and how the borg conflict (or any conflict) hit people in a very personal scale.

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Jennifer Sisko

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30 Days Of Prodigy, Day 15: Favorite Screenshot

I have a LOT of favorite screenshots, but This is the shot that really gets me.

It's been strongly established from the first episodes that Dal is known to survive anything, by sheer force of hope, ingenuity, and determination.

But it's clear here that losing Gwyn would be the one thing that just breaks him.

The raw emotion from him reminds me of when Benjamin Sisko lost Jennifer at Wolf 359. That's how much Dal loves Gwyn.

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Elimination Round 2: Star Trek

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STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE // S4E20 Shattered Mirror Captain, you never cease to amaze me. Sometimes I even surprise myself.

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I gushed about the DS9 mirror universe in a previous post and how I feel the setting is more fluid than stories centered on the dominance of the Terran Empire, but I really do love the way it handles inverting and “mirroring” characters and concepts

“The names are the same, but the players are in different places” I think Prime Kira put it

The Federation and the mirror Cardassian Union are direct parallels. Both powers enjoy beneficial alliances with the Klingons and Bajor, and a severe dominance over Alpha Quadrant politics. The Alliance is on a larger scale essentially the mirror Federation of this era. Kira at the beginning of the series worried that the Federation would be just like the Cardassians. Oh the irony.

The TNG era is generally considered to be the Federation at its height, before the losses suffered at the hands of the Borg and the Dominion, at least. Meanwhile in the mirror universe, the Terrans, vulcans, and others are at their absolute lowest. They are in essentially the same position that the Bajorans were under the Cardassian occupation. And the Bajorans are, at least in part, among their oppressors.

Kira’s nemesis is Gul Dukat. The Intendant has Gul Dukat’s old job, and behaves similarly to him in many ways. Both Kiras are fundamentally the same person enough to understand each other, but in the ways that they differ are all traits that Intendant shares with Dukat. Kira is second in command of the station, under Sisko’s command. The Intendant commands the station, and Sisko works for her. The reversal of their egos is the most obvious, and the component Nana Visitor herself has commented on.

Prime Garak is an exile. Mirror Garak is still trapped in Cardassian military service, and seems miserable with it, much the way I imagine Prime Garak would have found himself eventually.

O’Brien has a loving family. Smiley has nothing. This very fact helps to inspire him to become a revolutionary. O’Brien knows what he lives for. Smiley has to find it.

Both Siskos “lost” Jennifer. One to the Borg, one or his own hubris.

Prime Bashir is a genius and a savant. Mirror Bashir is kind of a thug.

Prime Quark is arrogant and swaggering. Mirror Quark is timid and quiet, but also more outwardly kind. Too outwardly perhaps, considering he got caught, but we can’t fault him for doing the right thing.

Prime Worf was raised by humans. Regent Worf is all Klingon. If he knew the Rozhenkos, they were probably house servants or something. He was intentionally written to be like Gowron.

Similarly, Mirror Nog is very Quark-like.

The situation that the Rebellion finds itself in forces them to operate and conduct themselves VERY similarly to the Maquis, ironic considering how many of our Starfleet characters have mirror selves who are members of this Rebellion, and who in the prime universe, have opposed the Maquis. Sisko being the most prominent example. They even use more or less the same vehicles and weapons as the Maquis, and I think there are a few shared background actors between both groups, potentially the prime and mirror versions of the same peoples.

Similarly, Tuvok is a spy for Starfleet within the Maquis in the prime universe. He is genuinely 100% a rebel in the mirror universe. Both Tuvoks also have the same outfit in their wardrobe.

Prime Rom is relatively timid. Mirror Rom is fairly aggressive.

Ezri received the Dax symbiont in the prime universe. This never happened in the mirror universe, and the episode makes sure to emphasize this. She’s also tough, guarded, sassy, and aggressive where Prime Ezri is somewhat meek, fairly open, friendly, and usually cordial but does say what’s on her mind, bringing a similarity between her and her mirror counterpart. Mirror Ezri ultimately choosing to become a member of the rebellion could also be argued as a similarity.

Mirror Jadzia is unfortunately quite underdeveloped and boils down to mostly sleeping with people Prime Jadzia ordinarily doesn’t. But there is an interesting note to Mirror Jadzia seeming to be a more frivolous and carefree person (or at least fronting as such), while Prime Jadzia is a relatively more serious person, and while both engage in casual sex, Prime Jadzia is a lot more considered when it comes to starting long term relationships than her counterpart, who doesn’t see Bashir’s immaturity as an obstacle to his compatibility as a partner.

The mirror Klingons and Cardassians find success and dominance in aligning. In the prime universe they go to war, to their mutual detriment.

DS9 ends with the prime universe Cardassian Union brought low and made to suffer a form of ironic penance for their past sins at the hands of a greater fascist power than themselves, much like the fall of the Terran Empire. But where the Empire was conquered by the Alliance, Cardassia is brought back to its feet by the Federation.

I don’t know precisely how intentional any of this was but I found it fascinating.

Oh and Mirror Bariel has a personality.

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Episode 176: We Passed Upon the Stair

DS9: "Visionary," "Distant Voices," and "Through the Looking Glass"

It's you, but it's not you, or is it? First up, O'Brien keeps running into himself and undoing the future's mistakes before they can happen in "Visionary". Next, Bashir is stuck in his head with himself played by everyone else in "Distant Voices". And finally, Ben takes a jaunt into the mirror universe to replace himself in "Through the Looking Glass"!

Also this week: don't think about anything too hard, birthday idiocy, and the constancy of the Chief.

Spoiler Warning: Discovery S.1 spoilers from 49:20 - 50:06

Timestamps: "Visionary": 1:49; "Distant Voices": 23:08; "Through the Looking Glass": 41:29

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Jenoshir art from the talented @loopnoid

Keep Me Together, my Julian Bashir/Benjamin Sisko/Jennifer Sisko fic, is officially fully posted.

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A friend of mine made a load of adult colouring books for all walks of faith, and they’ve been surprisingly therapuetic. So I just wanted to give her a plug. I started out just colouring them as a favour, but I’ve become a bit addicted! They’re a very effective way of reconnecting with your creative spirit. You just sit back, relax, put your music on, and start filling in between the lines. It’s nice to have time to meditate on the scriptures too. The world moves so fast, it’s not often we get to stop and reflect.

So if anyone’s interested, I’d recommend them. They’re cheap, only £7-8, come in all religions, and would make a good gift.