Everything I Know About Deep Space Nine As Someone Who Has Only Ever Seen The Memes

– You don't know what any of this is about, do you? You work here, you see these people every day, how they live, and you just don't get it. – What do you want me to say? That I feel for them? That they got a bad break? What good would it do? – It'd be a start.

STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (1993–1999) ⤷ Paste Tense (parts I & II)

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nan goldin image study but kiraodo

Shoutout to the Trek ladies who didn't get to wear the uniform often but looked awesome when they did

the thinggggg the thing about kira and jadzia is that. jadzia is so so so full of joy and the measured, steady, unshakeable optimism of someone much older than she is. but she wasn't always like that, she was a lonely, anxious, nerdy kid who "grew up" 300 years in the span of a single medical/spiritual operation. and a big part of that experience was the dedicated training she got towards knowing herself, knowing her needs and desires and how to meet them, so that she wouldn't get drowned out by the rest of dax. right

and she comes to ds9 and she meets kira, a lonely, anxious fighter who was an adult by the time she was 10, who never had the opportunity to know more about herself than what was strictly necessary--that she is strong, that she makes a good leader, that she can do anything she sets her mind to. but she never figured out what she might like to set her mind to, because freedom was the only thing it was possible to want.

and jadzia sees her old self in kira's face, in the bowstring-tight lines of her, and jadzia takes her by those aching shoulders and says Hey. do you want to know yourself? do you want to know what joy is? do you want to play?

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S03E14: Heart of Stone

ds9 crew: “guys we gotta stop the evil bad guys from the wormhole”

quark subplot:

He’s being a slut again

I SURVIVED THE BELL RIOTS

1995 crew gift from the DS9 writers (my friends broke out theirs for our DnD game last weekend). Please consider a gift to a local charity that supports the unhoused and hungry “In Memory of Gabriel Bell” this weekend.

Bajoran clapping is superior. It allows you to clap for longer without hurting your palms because you can alternate back and forth.

And Quark there is doing the Ferengi clap, which is otherwise known as sending an invoice.