#siskodax

[stopthatbluecat]

The Passenger - Extreme Measures

The more things change...

[vasquez-rocks]

my hot take is that jadzia dax is everything people assume kirk is. a bon vivant verging on a hedonist. a scrappy fighter. a playboy with like twelve sex partners on every planet, starbase, and science outpost in the quadrant. loyal to her friends to the death. always like a LITTLE drunk. in command. drawn as if by fate to an emo alien who's traumatized and repressed and has a lovely baritone. a top

[olderthannetfic]

Lol I guess a 3rd part to this DS9 ask: 1. The person who I’m p sure “started” Siskoshir did make multiple posts suggesting the reason the fandom isn’t more into it is racism. It’s not just later misinterpretation 2. A lot of people who buy into it seem to believe POC/POC is automatically more progressive than POC in other combos, 3. That said it is weird how little fic and shipping Sisko as the MC gets. I just feel like it makes more sense to base it on his canon dynamics. Why isn’t there more Siskodax!

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The MC...? That's not how I remember that show being at all. It's an ensemble, and they didn't always give Sisko the juicy plots. But I also haven't watched it since the 90s and don't actually care about any of these ships. Heh.

[thethirdromana]

This is definitely a thing.

Boring normie explanation that's probably what the showrunners were going for: weird when your old pal shows up as a hot babe, amirite? Got to give you some confused feelings!

My headcanon: Sisko had a massive crush on Curzon and Curzon indulged him once or twice but politely didn't mention it for the most part. Meanwhile Jadzia, who loves drama, teases Sisko about it all the time.

does no one else see the sisko/jadzia chemistry because sometimes i feel c r a z y but it's so real 2 me

[jazzypizzaz]

I... need this to be true. Probably it's Jake being a sneaky liar, but but but gosh I need Jadzia and Benjamin to be the type of platonic friends that wrestle?????

[wanderingwriter87]

can't believe siskodax isn't more popular

[wanderingwriter87]

For the ship ask game: Sisko/Dax, O'Brien/Bashir, Kira/Cretak (choose whichever if you don't wanna do all three!)

SISKODAX!!!

I ship it, I really do. Feel a little insane that it isn't more popular. Their chemistry is insane and they're literal soulmates like Dax keeps finding him and glomming onto him across multiple lifetimes. Jadzia in particular seems to open up to Ben in ways she can't or won't with other people, and when she does get actual canonical character growth it usually is facilitated through him.

Which gets REALLY interesting when you consider the relationship between her and Curzon. That's the only thing in the siskodax relationship that wasn't explored that I wish they had.

Also it was big brain of the writers to pair them up in the mirror universe where all the impossible ships get to thrive.

I think I answered all the questions without really meaning to. My unpopular take is probably the fact that I ship it at all - it's such a rarepair 😭

O'BRASHIR

Do I ship it? Yeah, just not as endgame.

They have a fun chemistry and I think Miles' whole gruff exterior thing, the way he talks around his real feelings, is something Julian enjoys. And Keiko even ships it 😭

I don't know if I have a broadly unpopular opinion, I just think it's cute and it's a fun thing to take a relationship that the writers very explicitly intended as a very hetero bromance and make it sexual. I don't think they're actually in romantic love with each other or anything and miles isn't about to risk upsetting Keiko over it - like he refused to bang Kira too, and I don't think he was unaware Keiko wanted to make it happen, I think he's just monogamous by nature, bless him.

KIRA/CRETAK

God I ship it. They have insane chemistry and you know Kira wants a taste of that jumja stick if you know what I mean. They're both kind of stubborn ideologues and it's SUCH a bad idea for them to fuck nasty and that's why they gotta.

Unpopular opinion? Well this is a side issue but I think Julian banged her in IAESL and if that isn't the setup for the world's most regrettable threesome idk what is.

[wanderingwriter87]

ds9 drift compatibility ranking let's go

S tier -

Garak and Kira (they're both mad about it)

Siskodax

A tier -

O'Brashir

Garashir

Worfzia

B tier -

Deyoun

Siskoshir

Kiradax

Tain and Garak

Sloanshir

C tier -

Garak and Odo

Garak and Miles

Jezri

Instantly trip and die -

Quodo

Dukat and anyone

[jazzypizzaz]

LISTEN I ALREADY SHIP SISKO AND CURZON WAS THIS NECESSARY

[wanderingwriter87]

oh you're so right about the normie take on it. ugh im glad they didn't play it like that, but every time i think about dax i get so annoyed that they didn't do more with the fact that jadzia was this quiet studious girl before she became a dax. then she becomes known as the party worm and that's like her whole identity. where is jadzia idaris? she's so absent from the narrative of ds9 that WE DON'T EVEN KNOW HER ORIGINAL LAST NAME. it's only in beta canon.

anyway. whatever. siskodax real. american TV in the 90s was probably as unlikely to pair a black man with a white woman as they were to do a canon gay relationship, so it was dead on arrival canonically, but im surprised more ppl don't ship it

does no one else see the sisko/jadzia chemistry because sometimes i feel c r a z y but it's so real 2 me

[wanderingwriter87]

oh i never intend to minimize what audiences take from media when i talk about stuff like this, and im sure worfzia was meaningful for some people in that way - but in the same way that dax could only ever be trans coded or bisexual in the context of her alien species, the fact that worf isn't human made it more palatable. not that it's BAD to explore things through metaphor etc it's just. different.

i think the ds9 writers were VERY weird about race in other ways, but im not like trying to condemn them on this - mostly because i don't even think it's something they did wrong. siskodax didn't need to be a thing and the fact that it wasn't a thing isn't racist. i just think it was unlikely to happen at the time despite the fact that worfzia did.

does no one else see the sisko/jadzia chemistry because sometimes i feel c r a z y but it's so real 2 me