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AMAZING Star Trek turnout for the 2026 WhumpEx Fic Exchange! We’ve got VaRiEtY:
DS9 Sloan-Induced Julian Whump:
Julian-centric: Ant Farm
With Garashir: Paramnesia
TOS Gen:
How They Love Life, To Struggle So
TOS Kirk/Spock/McCoy:
We’ll Always Come for You
Good ol fashioned torture: To Light the Way Home
Musing Bones: The Bends
Making tough choices: Stabilization
Spock perspective: Unlikely Escape
Taking care of Kirk: A Vulnerable Moment
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I got a lovely comment on vestige and now I feel guilty + sad that my writing inertia dried up over night
I have to be so honest with everyone: I have really complicated feelings about the Dominion War as a storyline. Don't get me wrong, DS9 is my favourite Star Trek hands down no contest. And it would be inaccurate to say I dislike the Dominion War storyline overall. I think it produced some of the greatest episodes of Star Trek that I've seen. I think the inclusion of a colonial force and a broad scale conflict allowed DS9 to explore really interesting, hard-hitting themes and ethical questions. The arc with the Cardassians become colonized victims, Kira helping lead the Cardassian revolt, and Damar's growth is extraordinarily well done, the introduction of Section 31 is an excellent introduction of nuance into the Federation and a solid condemnation of the CIA, etc, etc. But. I also think that by introducing an armed conflict as a primary throughline, DS9 emphasizes and valorizes the military nature of Starfleet, rather than portraying it as a primarily scientific and administrative body, therefore feeding into "military = good" propaganda. The Jem'Hadar are flattened into a mindless automaton warrior race. Leaders of the troops are isolated on homeworlds far from the actual warzones, with the planets being attacked and overtaken being treated like just names and points on a map, no consideration for the people living there. I guess my point is that although DS9 does really remarkable things with it at times, the premise of waging noble war to protect the homeland is an inherently flawed, very USAmerican fantasy, and it's something to be deconstructed and thought about critically
Star Trek mental health counselors at a conference trading horror stories realize they’re all talking about Miles O’Brien.
Kira, her goofriend and the homoerotic tension between him and his archnemesis
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What's your favorite Garak relationship (excluding Bashir)?
Garak and whatever is going on between him and Benjamin Sisko
Garak and whatever is going on between him and Kira Nerys
Garak and whatever is going on between him and Odo
Garak and whatever is going on between him and Dukat
Garak and whatever is going on between him and Tain
Garak and whatever is going on between him and Quark
Garak and whatever is going on between him and Miles O'Brien
Garak and whatever is going on between him and Ziyal
Garak and whatever is going on between him and Damar
Garak and whatever is going on between him and Ezri Dax
Garak and whatever is going on between him and Nog
Garak and whatever is going on between him and Mila
Okay so this post about Amok Time is making the rounds again, which reminded me I never finished reading that magazine. So I kept reading and...
Remember how the Amok Time script that aired was a "tame" version of the original script?
WELL that's the original one. How I wish they would have left this in. I have so many thoughts that I can't put into words correctly. So they were aware of SOME of the homosexual undertones of the K/S relationship? Did they leave the rest on purpose, or did they just notice this one?
So is that why he's called Stonn or...?
I'm glad they changed this part but it would have been hilarious
This article is so short (I'm pretty much uploading everything but a paragraph and a half lol) but it's a ride. T'Pring who is gaslight gatekeep girlbossing Stonn. The invitation to the Enterprise which can't be regulation. Spock crying again!! But also so fucking rude of Chapel, if she knows about the paralyser, not to say anything lol. I'm glad they changed all of this (except, maybe, for Spock crying).
So yeah. Spirk neck touching communication being pleasant. And the catastrophic failure of removing one scene that could imply a homosexual relationship in the "Spock jizzing his pants" episode that originated slash and modern fandom. Iconic
Star Trek: Enterprise writers: and you're sure? You've checked everything?
Some poor intern or something, eye bags darker than the dried coffee stains on their shirt: Confirmed. There's no mention of it in any existing Star Trek franchise. Across 25 total seasons of 5 shows, and 10 movies, over the last 40 years, there is absolutely zero conclusive evidence that Florida survives to see the founding of the Federation
ENT writers: excellent. Fkin send it.
Been thinking about his eyeshadow
Watching Ds9 before TNG and having Quark be a fav - just to see the origin of the ferengi is … off putting
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i just think he’s neat
Whatever Garak's sexuality flag is, its being flown upside down to indicate distress
"There was no culmination to Julian Bashir's arc outside of getting together with Ezri" incorrect! He got to kidnap the man who tortured him and force him to commit suicide ✌️
I know this is an ice cold take but watching TOS was shocking because I thought Kirk was a womanizer before going in and no it turns out he just loves falling in love.
I blame the 80’s.
The original series came out in the late 60’s and early 70’s during civil rights and the whole hippie free love movement. It was deemed sexually liberating and empowering to be free of judgement and have as many partners as you want. Believe it or not but things like Playboy used to be considered progressive.
But then the 80’s came. And so too did the aids crisis. And suddenly all that free love felt dangerous and reckless. There was strong pushback against women’s rights and conservative values skyrocketed. Moral panics ran rampant.
So all that free love and progressiveness got reframed as womanizing and misogynistic. Even TNG, which started under Gene Roddenberry’s thumb, struggled because it was too much like the original show and people were uncomfortable with how much sex and sexuality was infused into everything (Season 1 was very horny). So all of that got stripped away in later seasons.
There are so many episodes where Kirk defends his female crew mates from the dirty looks and anti-women jabs from unprogressive aliens. It’s almost quaint now because all of that would be labeled as “woke” if it was attempted today…
I'm probably going to finish a big and serious empok nor art soon, and well, uh. while drawing the serious one i had an epiphany and it looked like this.
GO MILES GO flirt them *cardies* to death
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Dr Bashir I Presume is sort of the quintessential DS9 episode in how it casually drops a world shattering character reveal as just one element of the A plot. It’s like
Bashir has been chosen to be the model for a holodoctor!
They need to interview people who know him well to create a psychological profile for the program but - uh oh - he doesn’t get along with his parents because
They had him genetically engineered when he was six to “fix” the perceived flaws in their perfectly healthy child in his natural state which is highly illegal and stigmatized and he’s lived in fear of being found out since he was 15
he considers himself a fraud and a monster and in all the years we have known him he has been stifling his abilities to appear more normal. he has carried this secret for so long it is almost a relief to be free of it and when he walks to his captain’s office to tender his resignation it is not with anger or sadness but rather a weary resignation.
Will Leeta and Rom get together?
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