DS9 Polycule Tales

My 11-month male cat lets my foster kittens nurse on him.

it's about the incredible violation of autonomy he experienced as a disabled person under the knife of a eugenicist society. it's about the need to reclaim some, any, of the agency that was so completely stolen from him by his parents.

it's about discovering that his entire self was deconstructed and reconstructed, without his knowledge or consent, for the express purpose of being less of a burden on his parents.

because let's not forget that the death of julian's old self was not his decision. it was his parents who killed the old self and created a new one.

let's not forget that human society in star trek is still recovering from the eugenics wars--that just because it's post-scarcity doesn't mean it's a utopia.

let's not forget the multiple episodes where bashir is forced to confront the fact that his "success story" is truthfully a gross reminder of how deeply his society (and his family) hates disabled people, not only shown in how they tried to fix him, but also in the fact that the process so rarely works as intended, yet is still done anyway--and the failures and the ones too far gone to save are locked away! with no connection to general society, and only the bare minimum provision for their physical needs, with no privacy and no autonomy!

Picard

Data

Geordi

Riker

Deanna

Sergey and Helena Rozhenko ( Worf's adopted parents)

Nikolai Rozhenko (Worf's adopted bother)

Any of Jadzia's family

I know the in universe explanation for them not being there is because of the war going on and in RL they probably weren't able to get all the actors, but I think it would have been cool.

Seeing Geordi, Data, and Nikolai participating in the Kal'Hyah with the other would have been fun. Data having no trouble with any of it, Geordi and Data reuniting with Miles, and Nikolai telling them stories from Worf was a kid.

Helena and Sergey meeting Jadzia for the first time. I think they'd like her.

I could see Sirella and Helena butting heads over a couple of things.

It would have also been nice if they could have incorporated some Trill and Human customs into their wedding. Maybe a Trill vow and an exchange of rings.

Tweet by Heather Hogan:

Straight friend: Will you sensitivity read my book for my lesbian best friend character?

Me, two weeks later: The lesbian best friend is absolutely perfect. Here's 16 pages of notes detailing the incorrect things you said about Star Trek.

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she takes the father's place, again and again and again. she takes her first father's role in the bajoran resistance, she takes her cardassian father's role in the cardassian resistance, she takes command of the station when sisko is gone.

dukat took her mother, stole the place of a father in her life and ate it, and kira denied him the role of father-suitor when he demanded it of her--

and kira then stole his place as ziyal's father, giving ziyal space and resources and support that directly mirrors what ben provides for jake.