#ds9 fascination

[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 [fascination, s3ep10] 'Opening Ceremony of the Bajoran Gratitude Festival'

#star trek #star trek deep space nine #deep space nine #rick berman #Michael Piller #ds9 season 3 #deep space nine season 3 #ds9 fascination #fascination #lot: st ds9 season 3 ep 10/26 (ep 56/176 #nana visitor #rene auberjonois #majel barrett #Philip Anglim #Kira Nerys #Odo #Lwaxana Troi #Vedek Bareil #Opening Ceremony of the Bajoran Gratitude Festival

[thesevenwondersofawitch]

Lwaxana is back at ds9 and I truly love her

#TheSevenWondersOfAWitch #star trek deep space nine #ds9 fascination #ds9 season 3 #ds9 #lwaxana troi #ds9 Lwaxana Troi

[walkingstackofbooks]

DS9 3x10 Fascination thoughts (I'm re-watching, so there may be future spoilers)

"Isn't that the earring you-" "-bought for Mardah?" Huh, I thought Bajoran's earrings were personalised and individual to them, like when Kira recognised Nalas', not something bought by others as gifts.

I say this every time, but I love Sisko and Jake's relationship

"But I'm not going to have any fun." "Oh." XD

Julian's "we've played 70 games" makes me think he's comfortable enough with the chief to not hide things like counting racquetball games <3 although I doubt it was a perfectly round 70

"And you know what all those games have proved to me? That I'm a poor substitute for your wife." "I could've told you that sixty games ago."

Okay so an average person could have done that 70x2=140 calculation in a few seconds, but Julian did 70x2=150 so either he made the mistake on purpose, or he rounded 73/4/5 games down to 70 then doubled the actual number and rounded it up to 150.

His little grin at the end there <3 Idk the "Maybe you can try and convince her to stay" was just a nudge, knowing that Miles would be like definitely not and realise he didn't really resent her being away.

Odo's noticeable slow down as he approached Nerys

Kira's smile at "Actually, I was thinking of joining you this year." - she's SO beautiful, I love her smile to bits

"Well then, we'll see each other later." "I'd like that." He's so awkward but he's trying <3 I didn't like last time suddenly realising he was in love with her, but this time round I am here for it, because she obviously thinks super highly of him, and although he's jealous and doesn't always hide it, he never tries to make her uncomfortable or push her (at this point), even though he's not used to these feelings.

"For you I will make the time, Odo." She does like him a lot. (And her smile again, wow, she's radiant)

Keiko's sigh at "I should never have given you all that candy" - if she had been looking at Lwxana, that would have been a death stare.

"I usually make it a point to drop by Quark's three or four times a day at random intervals, just to let him know that I'm thinking about him." Oh do you, now, Odo?

Ughhhh, Lwxana is So Forward and I don't like it. Odo's so uncomfortable. (I do ship them. Just not right now.)

"What kind of help do you mean?" THat is the correct question to ask. He sounds so nervous and he is so right to.

Lwaxana just being like #icanfixhim 😅

"The office has changed Kai Winn" Has it, Bareil, or is that just wishful thinking?

KIRA'S HAIR. ffffffffff I love her look rn

He's jealous of Jadzia. If she was a guy Kira would have gone "she's just a good friend." But no, perish that thought even be entertained on this throughly straight space station.

KiraDax tradition!!

Miles and Keiko's argument is so Aghhhh. Neither of them are exactly wrong but they're both tired and grouchy and need to give each other some grace or some time.

Kira is SO BEAUTIFUL, her dress is gorgeous but so is SHE

Her catching eyes with Dax who smiles back why can't they BE GIRLFRIENDS

Jake's grin and "wanna go out with me?!" he is such a child. At least in this episode it's mind games and kind of endearing.

Kira is understandably speechless at that

"Because I was hoping that you and I could get to know each other better... A lot better." Oh dear.

I don't like how Lwxana forces Odoout of his comfort zone. I think she would be good for him if she went at his pace with the PDA, and actually asked him about it, rather than assuming he needs to have affection forced upon him. I know I liked her more in DS9 than in TNG, but atm I'm just frustrated with her

Oh it's Quark's trans flag suit!

Yay, Keiko and Miles made up! "You know, I haven't sat here since you've been gone. " "That's so sweet. " I love her smile too :)

Annnnd another argument. of course.

Jealousy is not a good look on you, Miles

Yes, Miles, you are behaving like a child.

Oh fuck you Miles she is TIRED do better than this for goodness' sake you're an adult

"Of course I like her." "Well so do I." I love how simple this argument is and how clearly Jake thinks it solves everything XD

Sisko is so worried and rightly so <3 But clearly has no clue how to handle this curveball

"That's very thoughtful but I have nothing to give you in return." "Being with you is the only present I need." Nah, usually that's a sweet line, but here's it's just downright manipulative

"There's no divorce, no broken homes, nothing but peaceful conjugal bliss." This is a really good illustration of why divorce can be a fucking good thing and rising divorce rates since women have been given more rights and freedoms is not a worrying sign!

"You cancel the party, and then that way we can spend the evening alone together. What do you say?" "Sisko to Bashir." XD I just really like this as a response. Not "something is wrong", but acting on that wrongness immediately

Miles is good at apologies, I'll give him that

I remember the first time I watched this I was convinced Keiko was in her bedroom with someone else having been affected by the weirdness, and everything was going to ramp up even more between the two of them.

Huh, Lwxana is arm in arm with Julian too! She gets round XD or he does....

That was the most ridiculous kiss XD How Siddig and Visitor kept straight faces during that scene I have no idea!

Okay, so Sisko is the only sane one here and he's just noticed.

Oh, and Odo is too

Julian's slight self-awareness of "this is very embarrassing" mid-kiss is so amusing to me

Jadzia just stealing the betrothal bracelet like a magpie there

Keiko's entrance :o I'm glad she took the time for herself to just think things over and figure out what she wanted, rather than feeling like she had to accept the apology straight away.

Sisko really just took that punch

JADZIA'S SO GREAT. Taking down Bareil like that was just so much fun to watch, she's wonderful (poor bareil i guess)

Keiko and Miles are so stunned XD I forgot they've missed out on everything else and have literally no clue what the heck is going on here.

Sisko's tact XD "hen Mrs Troi's amorous feelings for ... someone on the station"

"There would have to have been some pre-existing latent attraction." They didn't have to add that in, but they sure did.

"Only on a subconscious level. Best not think about it too much, if you ask me." *Sigh* *sad nod*. Oh, poor boy, he's really going to try hard not think about it isn't he

You KNEW he didn't like you and you STILL kissed him? This is NOT OKAY, Lwxana!

I'm happy Keiko and Miles made up, but it would make so much more sense for Miles to insist on resigning and going to Bajor to be with her. I'm sure he loves her enough to, and the only reason he didn't is because he's a main character - but in universe this makes him a little eh.... and Keiko deserved sooo much better

*Throws racket* "Chief" straight away. Yep, you're definitely not trying to be a wife-substitute, eh, Julian?

So this was a long one! I did enjoy that episode, despite it's weirdness and frustrations... and how achingly heterosexual it is. Hey ho. It's silly and fun and very Star Trek, still

#ds9 fascination #ds9 3x10 #andi watches ds9 #WSB

[improbabledreams900]

Deep Space Nine · The Ferengi

#deep space nine #ds9 gifs #ferengi #star trek #my gifs #something about these gremlins fascinates me

[vasquez-rocks]

ever think about how ficcy ds9 is

#the sheer number of these robert hewitt wolfe and rené echevarria wrote #ds9 #deep space nine #garashir #daxworf #kiraodo #kiracest #quodo #and i didn't even do heart of stone #or waltz #or change of heart or fascination or penumbra or or or

[1960z]

how people go about interpreting dr bashir I presume? really frustrates me sometimes ngl especially the “jules bashir died” scene.

like that whole scene is about julian revealing the depth of how deeply his augmentations fractured his sense of identity and who he is - which feeds into the themes of the whole episode surrounding how disability and then by extension disabled people are often viewed as a problem to be solved and because of that are often denied the ability to have fulfilling lives because the able bodied people around them don’t believe that they can.

but… idk, when the fandom talks about it there’s always seems to be a push to read a trans allegory into it that I don’t think is really there? I keep mulling over this post in my mind and when I initially reblogged it I didn’t really want to talk about this because the post is about how stories about racism can be hijacked by white people to be made about their own transness and it felt like as a white person, using that post to complain about ableism would be missing the point. but it really helped me articulate in my mind why the trans reading of this episode feels off to me because the same general principle seems to apply and that is taking a story trying to discuss a specific type of marginalisation and putting a trans reading above it because you can relate more to it personally.

“jules bashir died in that hospital because you couldn't live with the shame of having a son who didn't measure up!” this scene is the culmination of julian expressing his pain about what was done to him as a disabled child by his parents due to how they viewed his disability. but often when I see it being discussed, people aren’t really interested in talking about that. instead supplanting it with a trans reading instead which, in my opinion is an allegory that doesn’t even really work when you think about what’s going on in the broader context of the scene.

julian didn’t stop going by jules because he came to the conclusion on his own that the identity didn’t suit him similar to the way a trans person questions or rejects the gender they were assigned at birth, he stopped going by jules because he felt like the identity attached to that name was taken from him because of what his parents did. it’s not julian affirming who he wants to be it’s grieving over who he can’t be and to me at least, it’s honestly kind of harrowing.

and as an aside: when people read transness into a story about parents who change their child’s body and mind at a very young age without consent, which is literally a narrative projected onto trans people by transphobes to justify the curtailing of trans rights, that also doesn’t sit well with me. I think people latch onto this reading because of the idea of “killing a name” but again in the context of the whole episode the trans reading really doesn’t feel appropriate.

I think it’s okay for people to have trans headcanons about julian of course or literally any character they want to really, but I think saying that specific episode codes him as trans isn’t all that great honestly.

#shut up abe #julian bashir #ds9 #star trek #I’m nervous to post this tbh and I’m not trying to come for anyone specifically #this is just a general trend I’ve noticed and have been frustrated w for a while #and I’m not trying to say that like you can never relate to a narrative that’s textually about a marginalisation you don’t experience #like something that fascinates me about spock is how his arc is written in a way that is relatable to many different marginalised people #and that overlap in experience is interesting to talk about #but we also shouldn’t forget that *textually* a lot of what spock goes through is a metaphor for being biracial #and I’ve seen people get frustrated bc like. people often do forget lol #it's just a thing where I think we should think about what readings we give the most attention to and why yk

[fauvester]

“you SHOT me!” newsflash asshole, he’s into that!

#ds9 #garak #garashir #finally got to OMB and it is truly everything that was promised #The FACE that garak makes when Julian shoots him SENDS me #garak like Oh! I didn’t realize he felt this way about me 😳😳😳 #i think this is the ep where garak fell tail over teakettle in love. #buth fascinated by this bizarre human and also chastened and challenged by his insistence on sentimental self sacrifice #realizing that he DOESNT have all the answers #that his upbringing may have limited his worldview #julian showing him that ingenuity flexibility and principles are just as important as practicality

[chitinleg]

#w359 #wolf 359 #doug eiffel #image desc in alt text #pen and ink #comic #i love drawing the hephaestus. her massive and sprawling body with endless corridors #the way that minkowski and eiffel both describe it as so big you could get lost in it #so big it couldnt possibly have been designed for a three human and one ai crew #so big that there has to be more of it than they can access #and its their home. but its also a hostile environment. #and its hera's body too. but it's out of her control #shes the stations ai but she isnt the station its a body shes been put in and its under her control but shes constantly fighting it #you know? #it reminds me a little of that one episode of ds9 where the station which theyve all made their home on. starts trying to kill them #and its all dukat on the computers going ATTENTION BAJORAN WORKERS. ATTENTION BAJORAN WORKERS. #while they desperately try to save the inhabitants and protect themselves #this is their home they live in it they get used to it. they love it. and sometimes. it wants to hurt them. and thats not its fault #its a fascinating relationship to have with a place #anyway forgive my tags i love drawing space stations

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

YOU ARE SO WRONG YOU STUPID TWINK. GET FORESHADOWED IDIOT.

#thousands of fanfiction authors and also Mr. Robinson and Mr. Siddig: Oh Yes You Are Too Going To Cardassia ^_^ #to be fair this is from back in s4 from uhhh that episode where Kira brings Ziyal back to DS9 that I just watched and already forg--OH WAIT #RETURN TO GRACE that's it #garashir #Starky's Original Posts #tbh I also love postcanon fics where Julian doesn't go to Cardassia and he and Garak end up somewhere else though I know it's not #nearly as popular #I think it actually makes perfect sense for Julian to end up on Cardassia entirely independent of his relationship with Garak #I just like also exploring an ending where Garak doesn't get to (or; gasp; even maybe CHOOSES not to) go back to Cardassia #cause I feel like there's a variety of reasons that would/could happen! #does anybody else have a fondness for some nonstandard garashir endgame settings #Star Trek: Deep Space 9 #god Starfleet Spouse Garak is so funny to me. and bittersweet and fascinating and triumphant in a way!!! but mostly so so so funny.

[stopthatbluecat]

Fake Marriage - Kira x Jadzia

In order to get Kira out of an accidental engagement, Jadzia offers to pretend to marry her. The idea seemed so simple at first...

#startrekfemslashweek2023 #Fake Marriage #kiradax #kira/jadzia #kira x jadzia #kira nerys #jadzia dax #ds9 #deep space nine #gifs #gifs from fascination

[asexualjedi]

Odo: I go lurk in quark’s like 3 to 4 times a day to let him know I’m thinking about him ;)

The poor Starfleet bastard covering for odo: 🏳️‍🌈 ???

#quodo #st #ds9 #the great ds9 rewatch #3x10 #ep: fascination

[trillscienceofficer]

Behind the scenes on season four [of Star Trek: Voyager], things continued to evolve. Jeri Taylor, after a long and successful career in television, announced her plans to retire at the end of the year, and Brannon Braga, who had started as an intern on The Next Generation, was now being groomed to take her place as showrunner (the first time he would hold that position). Braga, for his part, wanted to put his own stamp on the series, though it wasn’t always an easy thing to do as Rick Berman remained firmly in charge of the franchise. BRYAN FULLER: I was coming into Voyager in Jeri Taylor’s last year, and so she was handing the baton over to Brannon, and Brannon was very much a new showrunner. There were things that he really wanted to do and should have been able to do, and which would have made the show even better and bolder and bright, but he was not allowed to. Rick Berman more or less told him, “No, you can’t do that, because I can’t control Ira Behr on Deep Space Nine and I have to control you.” The influences of Rick on Brannon’s instincts sort of dampened what the show could have been. Brannon was a great showrunner and had great, bold ideas, but he was working for Rick Berman, who was a daughter of the syndication era. And the show had to be very specifically traditional in a certain sense, and he really squashed some of Brannon’s better ideas. I would love to go back in time and see Brannon do the Voyager that was his instinct to do. [...] You know, my experience with Star Trek consisted primarily of highlights. It was so fantastic to be able to walk onto a Starfleet ship and walk through the corridors. Being in those corridors was surreal and transportive. It was also an interesting time, because I was terrified of screwing it up and yet I was also fascinated with the politics of Rick Berman and Brannon on one show, and Ira on another show. Looking at somebody who had been a showrunner before and had the confidence and the ability to say no with someone who was still reporting to someone and still fulfilling a portion of someone else’s vision. BRANNON BRAGA: I thought Voyager could be a big, expansive, cinematic show. I wanted to up the ante from the production point of view. I would eventually get that chance. I remember Joe Menosky and I went to Jeri Taylor and said we wanted to start doing a series of two-part episodes that would let Voyager make its own stamp. Every single two-parter we did was fucking great and a barn burner. Real scope, and from a really high concept. I always thought Voyager could be high concept. BRYAN FULLER: Despite Rick’s determination to have a stronger hold on Voyager than he could on Deep Space Nine, I’d not deny how much Brannon actually did achieve with the series. He very much was eager to get into more high-concept science-fiction storytelling, like harder science-fiction storytelling. The great stuff with Species 8472, the Borg arc, the “Year of Hell,” the Hirogen and “The Killing Game.” There was a lot of iconography brought back into the world of the storytelling, and less sort of diplomacy and navigating new species and more “Holy shit, we’ve got to fight these guys!” And that was really Brannon coming into his own. Actually Brannon and Joe Menosky were really the creative voices of those last few seasons.

From “The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years” by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman (2016)

#i personally don't want to see the brannon braga special version of voyager but #the power plays behind the scenes fascinate me just as much as they fascinate fuller #the way berman pitched voyager against ds9 and braga against moore specifically is... well. sure something. that man was a petty tyrant #voy #the fifty year mission

[youngpettyqueen]

Garak bullshitting stories and implications about his time in the Obsidian Order to Odo is sweet in a hysterically funny way. Garak has literally tortured Odo. now he's leaving him a trail of breadcrumbs for his enrichment to keep him occupied

#star trek: ds9 #elim garak #odo #their relationship/dynamic fascinates me

[randomthunk]

POV: You get assigned to Deep Space Nine and end up getting into debates with the station commander over who the best shortstop of the 2030s was.

#inktober #inktober 2023 #star trek ds9 #benjamin sisko #sisko #fanart #kat arts #happy World Series day! #I realized Sisko is my captain (even though Picard was 'my first') when I was like 'he's unhinged and I feel he'd get me through battle' #'also I could suck up to him by talking about baseball' #the MLB lore in DS9 is deeply fascinating to me #baseball dying out in the 2040s is the one prediction I'll say they get wrong #YEAH I'M STAKING MY CLAIMS TO THAT ONE

[bijoumikhawal]

I bet some of garaks criticism of hamlet is making fun of him for his plan being to pretend he's crazy, as if his own survival plan hasn't involved living inside a customer service retail persona (it's own form of insanity) 24/7.

#Cipher talk #Ds9 #Elim garak #I think we should all pick a Shakespeare play and figure out at least one stupid thing Garak would say about it #I do find Andy's comment that he thinks garak would actually like the comedies fascinating

[1960z]

thinking of a stitch in time and how barkan lokar is described as literally the ideal of a cardassian male and the inherent symbolism of garak killing him and that being the last assignment he carries out before he’s exiled.

also thinking about the inherent homoeroticism in passages like garak saying that he’d never been in a “manlier, more attractive presence” and garak being on the wire during lokar’s interrogation meaning anytime lokar assaulted him all garak felt was blinding pleasure-

#elim garak #barkan lokar #a stitch in time #beta canon #ds9 #star trek #their relationship is just so fascinating to me #the garak/palandine/lokar stuff could’ve been a stereotypical love triangle but it wasn’t #lokar is everything garak tries to live up to in looks social status and palandine’s affection he’s an ideal #but instead of purely being jealous of that ideal garak often sexualises it in fact he only begins actively being jealous of lokar once #lokar betrays him up until that point he’s simply content to bask in lokar’s glory #and even after no matter how much garak begins to hate him there’s a small part of him that still finds him attractive as well it’s mwah #ty andy #shut up abe