#ds9 season 3

[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 [life support, s3ep13] 'Allow me to introduce 'Kai Winn' - quark

#star trek #star trek deep space nine #deep space nine #rick berman #Michael Piller #ds9 season 3 #deep space nine season 3 #ds9 life Support #life support #lot: st ds9 season 3 ep 13/26 (ep 59/176) #armin shimerman #louise fletcher #Quark #Kai Winn #Allow me to introduce 'Kai Winn'

[lonelymoonrambles]

Almost finished DS9 season 3. I have many thoughts to share

But mostly I've been thinking about Bashir in the red surgery outfit, so here are some thoughts on just that:

- He looks like a red chess piece

- Is it a dress

- Is he wearing pants under there

- love the matching red gloves 💅

- he served not only in a medical way, but also in a fashion way

- I don't think he's wearing pants under there

- matching red short shorts most likely

#Star trek ds9 #julian bashir #star trek fashion #Julian's surgery outfit #lives rent free in my mind #deep space nine #First watch #ds9 season 3

[jimintomystery]

DS9: "Civil Defense"

ATTENTION BAJORAN WORKERS: The crew of Deep Space Nine has inadvertently tripped a Cardassian failsafe left behind by Gul Dukat, the former prefect of the station. To prevent a Bajoran uprising, key systems will require Cardassian access codes. Any attempt to bypass these codes will activate security countermeasures, including the self-destruct sequence.

For my money this is one of the better episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Most of the superior candidates are entrenched in long-term storytelling, but if you just want to kill an hour with the DS9 gang in a very DS9 story, you can't beat "Civil Defense." I like when a Star Trek show does stories that wouldn't work on the other Star Trek shows, and this premise gets right to the heart of "we moved into a secondhand space station without kicking the tires."

The problem-solving here is top-notch. I especially like that Commander Sisko almost immediately tries to convince the program that the "Bajoran workers" have surrendered, because why not? Another great bit is Jake Sisko panicking while trying to find a way out of ore processing, and his father calmly advising him to relax, even as the room is about to be flooded with poison gas.

Of course, things really get cooking once the real Dukat answers his own prerecorded distress signal. This is the first time we've seen Dukat since "The Maquis, Part II," when the Cardassians threw him under the bus and he owed his life (and a chance to salvage his career) to Sisko. Evidently he's recovered from all that, to the point that he feels comfortable swaggering onto the station looking to take over. A bit jarring, but totally worth it when he activates another failsafe his boss left in case he tried to desert his post. The look on Dukat's face when he realizes he just played himself is priceless.

The solution is a little flimsy, but I'll accept it. I don't understand how overloading the power supply grid would turn off the force fields but somehow turn on communications. But I like the poetic justice of thwarting Dukat's program by using a different lethal security measure that's unaffected because Starfleet disconnected it when they moved in. And instead of the usual race against time to abort the self-destruct sequence, Sisko ends up letting it happen but redirecting the energy into the station's shields (which are active for some reason). I assume that means Dukat's program released its lockouts, because it thinks the station is destroyed, or something like that. But a win is a win.

#star trek #deep space nine #star trek: deep space nine #ds9 season 3 #we are of bajor #attention bajoran workers #your use of 'prev tags' is unauthorized and doomed to fail #you are valuable rebloggers and we wish you no harm #you can still surrender and save your lives

[hawkp]

Scared for what will happen to my babies in season four because they’ve been having such a good time this season. Like, Dr. Slut is slutting, Captain Stim is hyper-fixating over old spaceship designs… sure war is looming over the horizon we can ignore that. <3

#DS9 #ari watches ds9 #ds9 season 3

[sparkyblizz]

I know Jadzia doesn't end up with Bashir but lowkey I kinda wish they did because they would seem so sweet together (at least from where I'm up to - S3 E14 as of rn) 😭

#sparkyblizz speaks #star trek #star trek deep space nine #deep space nine #star trek ds9 #ds9 #jadzia dax #ds9 dax #ds9 jadzia dax #julian bashir #doctor bashir #dr bashir #ds9 bashir #ds9 dr bashir #ds9 doctor bashir #ds9 season 3

[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

[ladyylavenderrr]

WHY DID JULIAN MAKE A JOKE ABOUT FUCKING QUARK’S MOTHER?! HE HAD NO REASON FOR THAT

#star trek #ds9 #deep space nine #julian bashir #quark #they were literally all about to die #Julian and the yo mama jokes #season 2 episode 3

[zzapnel]

let him cook ✨️

#odo ds9 #my art #odo #ds9 #im on season 3 now and this scene where he was trying to help cook was really cute n i really wanted to draw it

[automatonknight]

id: a halfbody digital drawing of odo from deep space nine. he’s shown facing the viewer, holding one of his hands, which is still goop, in the other. he’s looking down at them with a smile. the background is a mix of blue, pink and yellow lines, all going outwards from odo’s head like he’s lighting up his surroundings. end id

#i started season 3 today and his scene made me cry so i had to draw it #*THIS not his #i was going for a very different vibe at first but i decided to just have fun with it halfway through so #i did have fun btw. i love colors!!!! #art #fanart #ds9 #deep space 9 #odo ds9 #ds9 odo #ds9 spoilers #eyestrain #bright colors

[krillbot]

I relate to Odo because after 16 hours of being a person, I also want to collapse into goo and sleep in a bucket for a while

#it is cruel that I cannot do this #Odo #DS9 #Star Trek DS9 #no spoiler pls I just started season 3

[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 Garak [distant voices, s3ep18]

#star trek #star trek deep space nine #deep space nine #rick berman #Michael Piller #star trek characters #ds9 character #Garak #andrew robinson #ds9 season 3 #deep space nine season 3 #ds9 distant voices #distant voices #lot: st ds9 season 3 ep 18/26 (ep 64/176)

[lonelymoonrambles]

I just finished watching season 3 of ds9 for the first time and here are my thoughts:

- everybody has a crush on kira but she's loyal to her hot priest boyfriend, worm girlfriend and slime bestie

- Garak is flirting so hard with you Julian, let him make you a dress please

- Rom is just a wholesome lil guy!?!! 🥺

- Miles is dating Julian while Keiko is away confirmed (Keiko suggested it)

- Odo, babe, dont pine after Kira, Quark is right there! Hiding around the corner hoping you'll pass by (about to say something extremely gay to you)

(ok but seriously Quark and Odo have some of the gayest dialogue I've ever heard)

- Lwaxana Troi, you will always be famous

- rip hot priest 🙏😔 you had a sad energy that I really liked

- Ensign Vilix'pran: a single dad who works two jobs, who loves his kids and never stops

- Nog!!? That's why he needed to go to school 😭🥺

- I do not support Sisko hooking up with the mirror counterparts of his subordinates 🥰

- crazy long hair mirror Julian can get it

- I miss Keiko :(

- Enebran Tain looks like his name should be "Mike" or "Joe" (I can't explain this thought)

- did 👏 Odo 👏 ask 👏 Garak 👏 out 👏 on 👏 a 👏 date 👏 ???!!!??

- Sisko's midlife crisis episode lmaoooo

- Dukat, you are not slick with those fireworks for Sisko... 😏

- People I think Jadzia Dax has hooked up with: everyone

- Rom defending his son and telling Quark he'll burn down the bar *chefs kiss*

- I really thought there was gonna be another Tuvix situation and they were gonna murder Curzon/Odo

- every season my love for the show grows, and so does the ds9 polycule

#star trek #ds9 #star trek ds9 #deep space nine #First watch #quark x odo #Julian x Garak #Julian x miles O'Brien #Season 3 #Keiko!!! #where the hell have you been loca #I try to keep these short but I have so many more thoughts actually #Enebran tain #Vilix'pran #star trek mirror universe #rom ds9 #nog ds9

[jimintomystery]

DS9: "Second Skin"

Major Kira is abducted by the Obsidian Order and surgically altered to look like Iliana Ghemor, a Cardassian sleeper agent who allegedly replaced the real Kira ten years ago.

The writer of this story, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, originally wanted it to be about Chief O'Brien, which accounts for all the "O'Brien Must Suffer" DNA in the plot. Either way, he wanted to leave open the idea that the sleeper agent stuff was true, with no way to prove the main character wasn't originally Cardassian. It's a provocative idea, but incompatible with the finished episode. From the start, it's awfully suspicious when Kira has the first seed of doubt planted in her mind, and the Order already has an operative lurking on the station. (Well, one more operative than usual. You know what I mean.)

Since the 1960s, Star Trek has been having fun with the idea that future doctors can disguise humans as an alien as easily as 20th century make-up artists. Well, it's one thing to stick pointy ears on Captain Kirk and call him a Romulan. It's quite another to saw off a Cardassian's neck ridges and that forehead thing, and somehow make these massive anatomical changes undetectable by the enemy for ten years. It'd be tolerable if they just did it once, for a story like this where it's worth it. But they just keep coming back to it, until it's as big a cliche as the holodeck.

Hell, let's talk about the holodeck. One of the big moments in this episode is when Entek has the "real" Kira's corpse beamed into the room to "prove" she's been dead for years. Unfortunately that gets blunted right away when Kira decides "For all I know, this whole place is a holosuite." Entek's whole point is that nothing he's claiming is impossible for the Obsidian Order, but that means nothing when literally anyone in Quark's bar could fake all this in a simulation.

So it's a good thing the story looks past that to Kira's real dilemma, because whether this is real or not she's still trapped by people trying to gaslight her. The triumph of this episode is pivoting from "is Kira actually Iliana Ghemor?" to "this is all a trick to expose Iliana's father as a dissident." Once we go there, the situation feels more tangible and relevant--the sci-fi spy stuff becomes a vehicle for genuine human drama, instead of existing for its own sake.

I really, really like how Kira has A Moment with Legate Ghemor at the end, and he offers some fatherly advice which turns out to be "Garak is trash, 0/10 would not recommend."

#star trek #deep space nine #star trek: deep space nine #ds9 season 3 #we are of bajor

[quasi-normalcy]

Which brings us, inexorably, to Picard season three. Here, Section 31—although mostly offscreen—is as evil as it’s ever been depicted: We learn that not only did they engineer a bioweapon for use against the Changelings back during the Dominion War, but they also performed torturous medical experiments on Changeling prisoners of war. The revelations presented are truly heinous—even difficult to watch—and the entire season-long arc largely results from blowback against Section 31’s crimes against sentient life. And yet… the story pairs these revelations not only with complete legitimation of 31 as an organization, but complete acceptance of its crimes on the parts of our ostensible heroes. Worf—you know, the honourable guy? Whose friend, Odo, was deliberately infected with a plague by Section 31 with the intent of using him to wipe out his entire race? That Worf?—even calls them a “critical division of Starfleet Intelligence.” There’s one glorious moment where Picard actually looks sick upon hearing the extent of Section 31’s crimes; but then—arguably in the face of thirty-five years of consistent characterization—he and Dr. Crusher opt to compound them by executing a prisoner of war. This is never mentioned again. Just another day at the office, I suppose. We have, as an official, critical division of our humanist utopia of Starfleet, an organization that openly commits war crimes… and it’s just become part of the setting. It’s not even presented as a reason for Jack not to join Starfleet. One wonders if it was mentioned in the recruitment materials they gave out to the kids on Prodigy.

#Section 31 #star trek deep space nine #ds9 quark #star trek discovery #star trek enterprise #star trek picard #season 3 #star trek into darkness #philippa georgiou #emperor georgiou #michelle yeoh #Yes I wrote this

[lonely-night]

kira nerys is so handsome I have pause every time she appears on screen to just:

#rambling tag #continue my ds9 first watch #currently on season 3

[curator-on-ao3]

✨manifesting no secret love child in Picard season 3✨

#star trek picard #star trek picard season 3 #if he has to be related to someone can he maybe be deanna’s half-brother from lwaxana’s ds9 pregnancy? #he has the eyes for it