Tales of an Injured Fog Rat

S02E05 ’Cardassians’

Bonus!

STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (1993-1999), S3 E12 ❝Past Tense, Part II❞

In 1998 we first got to see the ds9 episode “far beyond the stars”, in which Sisko experiences violence and racism through the life of a black sci fi writer in the 1950s. 22 years later it is absolutely unacceptable that the story could have been set in 2020 and he would still have faced racism, hatred and injustice. We don’t deserve to look back at it as a “lesson from the past” because he would still have had to fear for and fight for his basic human rights - that is the reality of being black in 2020. Racism and police violence isn’t a story of the past, this is the reality we are living in right now, this is the reason why its important to fight and speak up. (This is also obviously about more than just star trek, I just wanted to make my stance clear and show my support in a way that was authentic to the content I post here. I want to make it clear that if you like my art and disagree with black lives matter, then my art is not for you.)  

Reason #1,324,789 of why I love this show.

This was a casual side conversation between Bashir and Sisko about a fellow crew member, completely unrelated to the episode’s plot, and its just so sweet.

It’s nice to know that if you’re a pregnant father-to-be on DS9, your buddies Julian and Miles will build you a hatchling pond, buy you baby clothes, and throw you a shower eagerly attended by the station’s commanding officer (who was practically beaming with joy when he found out that you were expecting).

How wonderful.

And they speak of it so casually with no judgement! Love this!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH MY GOD. I DID NOT KNOW THIS.

Vilix’pran gets mentioned a couple more times on the show, and we find out that:

A) he buds twice more, and had quadruplets during his second budding and an unspecified number for his third, bringing the total number of babies to between eight and 18

B) Kira says she’ll have to assign him bigger quarters after the third budding

C) and the babies have wings that can get tangled up with each other when they play together

D) AND ALSO that Vilix’pran gets promoted from Ensign to Lieutenant (so clearly Starfleet has some rockin’ maternity/paternity policies and thus parenthood is not an obstacle to career advancement)

The more you know. :D

Well that got exponentially more adorable and awesome quickly.

change in time to the computer generated beat gives us this twist on a sisko classic

my bravery is never foolish requested by anon

There’s just not enough theories about the implications of Sisko having Dukat’s old office:

Sisko finding Dukat’s hidden stash of bad love poetry.

Sisko accidentally tripping some security measure by leaning on the wall the wrong way. (Dukat is paranoid after all). The whole station has to be evacuated.

Dukat visiting and triggering one of those security measure so he and Sisko gets trapped together in his office for seven hours. So they can “talk”, since they’re “best friends”.

Sisko finding Dukat’s hidden stash of illegally strong kanar. Quark somehow gets a hold of it and 5 people have to be hospitalized.  

Sisko having to remove the mirrors covering the ceiling before he moves in.

Sisko having to sign for a real size bronze statue of Dukat that due to being stuck in the Bolian customs arrives three weeks after Dukat left.

The statue being passed around DS9 because nobody wants it - Quark’s, Garak’s, finally the rec room for Bashir and O’Brien to throw things at.

Dukat visiting Sisko’s office and intentionally picking up Sisko’s baseball just to irritate him.

Lots of this:

I can totally see that statue being like a joke they send around. 

Kira visits Bajor for a week and when she comes back there’s a bronze statue of Dukat in her quarters. 

She gets her revenge by placing it just inside the sick bay doors so Julian is scared half to death when he enters in the morning.

After losing a bet with Jadzia, Nog sneaks the statue into Sisko’s office, wearing a shirt that says “Everybody loves me”.

Quark dresses the statue in his clothes and uses it to try and fool Odo he’s in the bar while he’s not. Odo isn’t fooled, mostly because of the lack of ears. 

At one time Miles has to go on an urgent mission and finds that someone has placed the statue in the runabout. There isn’t time to unload it so he has to spend 54 hours with bronze Dukat staring at him while he pilots.

Big mood, Julian.

Julian’s fuckin face as Ben talks about the time him and Curzon picked up a couple of hot twins. He’s so freakin into it and enthused 

wait a minute. the federation uses the metric system

He meant they each had seven feet.

That’s why Julian’s so excited. 

Archer and Picard truly exist on opposite ends of a spectrum

Archer - Janeway - Sisko - Kirk - Picard

hot take