What Strikes Me About “Far Beyond The Stars” Is How They Cast Odo As The One Who Upholds Oppression
what strikes me about “Far Beyond the Stars” is how they cast Odo as the one who upholds oppression through complacency. because Odo’s been shown to be very beholden to the status quo - he prides himself on his neutrality, sees himself as only being subject to justice and truth. That was the thrust of “Things Past” - he doesn’t feel guilt over collaborating with the Cardassians, but over the fact that he failed at properly exacting justice under the premises of their rule. He tries to be benevolent from within the system, but doesn’t consider the fact that the system itself might be flawed (though he arguably starts to reconsider this at the beginning of S6). So his AU role here made a lot of sense for him, tbh.
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Screenshot redraw from Star Trek DS9! As a person who's favorite dnd race is a changeling can you guess who my favorite little guy is? Come on, Odo lives in a BUCKET, he's so silly and so dear to me...
sisko loving baseball is literally so weird. like imagine your boss was obsessed with like jousting or something. he talks about jousting all the time, when you go into his office he picks up his jousting stick and just kind of holds it while he talks to you, and then as you get to know him he starts inviting you and your coworkers to go watch simulated jousting videos with him. then one day his bitchy rival from college shows up and reveals that he not only learned jousting, but taught it to his employees. like he did this JUST to torment your boss, despite the fact they havent seen each other in YEARS. so your boss challenges the bitch to a jousting tournament and he just??? signs you up??? so you learn how to joust, you joust against the bitch rival and his employees, and then you lose
Odo said he'd always felt an unshakable intrinsic sense of justice, so inherent that it must be a trait of his species as a whole, making it the one thing he could trust, the one thing he knew about himself: that he is just, that there are others like him who are also just. But when he meets the other changelings, he realizes he was wrong, that they don't care for justice. "I've devoted my life to the pursuit of justice, but justice means nothing to you, does it?". The other changeling replies to him that "it is not justice you desire, Odo, but order, the same as we do", leaving there a question. If she is right, then Odo has misunderstood himself completely all his life. If she isn't, then he is different from the people who are supposed to be his equals, his family, his home. This question should tear him apart, but he doesn't hesitate for even a second. He knows the answer, and even if the implications and consequences are bound to be devastating, he replies: "I already have a link... With these people". His family. His home
I have thoughts about that one time Kira and Odo spent hours in a closet together
haven’t watched the star treks in five million years but this is what happened in In The Pale Moonlight right
(credit to @/sweepswoop_ on twitter who drew the original Labru meme!)
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