Source: trekuniverse
#you guys#bottom right: he starts learning from her#right away#before she learns from him she gives him this#this is a man who has been sitting in a bitter dark place waiting for a frame for his disillusionment with starfleet#and it's this disoriented messed-up twenty-six-year-old *girl* with her untempered unmediated unfiltered rage#that somehow crystallizes in the moment of this encounter into an incisive political critique#basically by accident#who gives him what he needs#he doesn't know it yet but this is the moment when he stops being just a starfleet officer#and starts being of bajor#he learns from her first#and neither of them knows it#(but he will before she does; it will take her a long long time to see it)#jesus#oh look a new kira-and-sisko feel#it is so well coordinated with all the other kira-and-sisko feels#design concept: kira and sisko feels#j e s u s#star trek#ds9#kira nerys#benjamin sisko#bottom LEFT is what i meant obviously but fuck if i'm redoing all those tags