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Highlights of todays abdication and accession to the throne.
Queen Margrethe II leaving the Kingdom in the hands of her son after signing her abdication and giving the seat at the end of the table to his majesty King Frederik X.
"Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II has abdicated. Long live his majesty King Frederik X" - Mette Frederiksen, prime minister of Denmark. There are no coronation in Denmark. Instead, the prime minister will make a proclamation on the balcony of the Danish Parliament, Christiansborg. She will say the words three times before the entire kingdom will shout "Hurra" (Hurray) nine times.
The police of Copenhagen had estimated that about 150.000 people would make their way to Copenhagen where most of them would be at Christiansborg Castle to witness the proclamation
The Royal family from left to right:
Princess Isabella, Crown Prince Christian, King Frederik X, Queen Mary, Princess Josephine and Prince Vincent.
The King receiving applause and thanking the Danes by putting his hands on his heart.
The King and Queen receiving the love from those many thousands of people who celebrated and congratulated them on this historical day.
The King and Queen leaving Christiansborg castle and making their way to their home at Amalienborg Castle in the carriage Queen Margrethe II arrived in.
Ring ring ring. Take your seats. The first period school bell just rang, and that means weāve got to talk about Star Trekās botanist-turned-school-marm: Keiko Ishikawa OāBrien. Sheās another character that bridges both TNG and DS9, the former cementing her mostly in the role of Milesās wife and the latter taking every opportunity to give her the week off. Keiko never really gets a fair shake on either show, which is a shame because she has so much potential. So A Star to Steer Her By is going to give her some time in the sun this week to see how she grows! Like a plant⦠because sheās a botanist⦠Moving on.
Amusingly, even though last week we joked that all of Garakās moments should go on BOTH his Best and Worst Moments lists, itās actually Keiko for whom weāre seeing the most simultaneously good and bad arguments! So grab your pruning shears and ring your school bell with us as you read on below and listen to us argue with Miles on the promenade on this weekās podcast episode (jump to 59:28), or else youāll have to stay late for detention!
Try to touch the cup
Introduced halfway through The Next Generation, Keiko mostly seems to be around to support other characters. So in āViolations,ā sheās there to help with the investigation into the mind-probing Ullians. She doesnāt do much, but sheās there. And weāve got to admit that her scene remembering her childhood with her grandmother is rather sweet.
I would die to save the life of my child
Keiko shows some badassery in āPower Playā when Miles is possessed by a being who seems to relish the idea of tormenting its hostās significant other, really twisting the knife and making things personal. Keiko bravely demands that the being let baby Molly go and even expresses she would rather die than let this thing survive. This all to the face of the man she loves!
So easy a child could do it
I shit on āRascalsā a lot (and rightly so), but one thing it actually succeeds in is giving Keiko something to do. Even if it is the child form of Keiko, and not that great a child actor to boot. But she does get to help foil the Ferengi takeover of the ship, which somehow the adults on the ship are unable to do. So, uh, low bar but she and the other kid-crew leap over that sucker.
Children are the future
By the time Miles and Keiko have moved over to Deep Space Nine, the little missus is looking for some way to contribute now that her botanying is basically on pause, and she leaps feet first into taking on the education of all the children on the station in āA Man Alone.ā Itās a commendable endeavor since, even in the future, teaching is drastically underappreciated.
Separation of religion and station
We also have to stand up and applaud Keiko for standing up to Vedek Winn in āIn the Hands of the Prophetsā when the Bajoran leader wants her to stop teaching the science of the wormhole and instead enforce their backwards religion. Keikoās spot-on response āI don't teach Bajoran spiritual beliefs; that's your jobā is the secular philosophy Star Trek is all about.
You know, that was a very ugly thing you just said
We give Miles shit for his anti-Cardassian racism, so itās refreshing to see Keiko do the same and call him in on his dog whistling in āCardassians.ā Miles tries to insinuate that Cardassians had gentleness bred out of them, and Keiko wonāt hear it. She lets Rugal stay with them, she encourages him to play with Molly, and she even tries (and fails) to feed him like she would any kid.
It keeps him up all night!
Keiko later foils the Kellerunsā plan in āArmageddon Gameā when she sees through their doctored recording of the harvester-deactivation team getting wiped out by some failsafe or other. The whole thing, of course, is a lie. Without Keiko insisting that the thing is a forgery because Miles wouldnāt be drinking coffee ends up saving the lives of Bashir and OāBrien.
We call it Voight-Kampff for short
Viewers at home donāt even realize it until the end, but Keiko does a great job not rumbling the game for Milesās replicant in āWhispers.ā The twist at the end reveals that sheās been hiding from him that everyone on the station knows heās not the real Miles, but she manages to keep him from fulfilling whatever his directive and treats him like the actual deal as much as she can.
I have no intention of testifying against my husband
Even while cemented into the limiting role of āMilesās wife,ā Keiko gets some moments to shine. Ostensibly, she attends Milesās trial in āTribunalā just to be the face of the defendantās family (and to give Miles the chance to blame domestic abuse if he wants), but Keiko never gives the corrupt judiciaries what they want, pushing back against their legal system the whole time.
Be the best damned botanist in the galaxy
When Keiko is forced to close down the school when the Bajoran kiddos leave the station in āThe House of Quark,ā sheās back to where she started in the premiere. So itās great to have her go back to her roots and agree to join the agrobiology expedition on Bajor rather than wallow in despair. Was it just to write her out of episodes? A little, but at least itās in character.
Cheer him up a little
This one probably belongs on Milesās Worst Moments list, so letās cover it now. Miles spends āAccessionā moping that he canāt hang out with Bashir anymore now that Keikoās back from her botany assignment, even though she never once gives him any indication he canāt still have fun. So she tricks him into going to play with his friend like setting up a toddler playdate.
Youāre family now
More on this in the Worst Moments section, but first letās praise Keiko for how she treats Kira, who is surrogating Yoshi after the events of āBody Parts.ā The OāBriens have Kira move in with them during the pregnancy, and Keiko is super progressive during āLooking for parāMach in All the Wrong Placesā about how Miles takes care of the Major. Itās sweet, right? Rightā¦?
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Worst moments
Runabout Bride
I griped about this in both Dataās and Milesās spotlight posts as well, but really Keiko is the one who started it! In her series debut āDataās Day,ā she continuously tries to call off her own wedding on the day. And even worse than that: she makes poor Data (of all people!) do it for her! The franchise really starts off this character as demonstrably unlikeable. But donāt worry, thereās more!
Plankton loaf du jour
Chris put this on our Miles list as well, but it bears repeating. In āThe Wounded,ā immediately after their marriage, Keiko makes them breakfast of kelp buds, plankton loaf, and sea berries, which to my Western palette sounds awful. And then turns up her nose at Milesās food culture. Did you two never eat together before this or did you go straight to the āI doās with a stranger?
Is our marriage over?
So Keiko and the kids outsmarting the Ferengi in āRascalsā made the good list, but the rest of her behavior while a child is just WEIRD. As a twelve-year-old, she tries to act like her relationship with Miles should remain the same. Excuse me? Itās one thing for him to be supportive of you in a crisis, but your life is entirely upended. Do not put this man in this position.
This garden transplant didnāt take
Another element of the Keiko character that we brought up before in the Miles post comes when they transfer together to DS9 and Keiko effectively loses her job as botanist. How this wasnāt a conversation between the two of them is beyond me, as they spend all of āA Man Aloneā publicly fighting at Quarkās and on the promenade about their terrible life choices.
School is now in session
The writers strangely decide to make Keiko a school teacher in āA Man Aloneā just to keep her character relevant to the new show. Itās a good thing for someone to do, as we mentioned in our Best Moments list, but frankly it feels like a disservice to her character, who already had a life before this. It just didnāt fit the Frontier Station⢠setting, so Keiko gets a personality overwrite.
No more pencils, no more books
Standing up to Vedek Winn in āIn the Hands of the Prophets,ā it turns out, is a terrible idea, as Keiko essentially stirs up racial tensions all across the station, resulting in most of the students pulling out of school, which ends up getting blown up. Coincidence? Oh definitely not. And shame on the writers for not giving Keiko another line after the destruction. Boo.
The best part of waking upā¦
Weāre still not sure what we think of the reveal that Miles does indeed drink coffee whenever the hell he pleases in āArmageddon Game,ā as it negates the insight that Keiko had earlier brought to the episode (and to this blogpost!) when she saves the day. It feels like the writers are saying ānyah nyah!ā because it turns out Keiko doesnāt know her husband as well as she thinks.
I donāt even want to sit at the same table with you
More fighting in public with Miles. We loved Keiko getting back to her botany roots, but springing on her husband in āFascinationā that her survey expedition was going to take seven months longer than planned is an argument that should not have been happening at Quarkās in the Gratitude Festival. The writers made any excuse they could to not have her on the show!
So you wish Keiko was a man?
Keiko is upset at Miles at the top of āHippocratic Oathā for putting a workshop in the bedroom during one of the myriad times sheās away, and clearly there was another argument about it in which Keiko accuses him of living like a bachelor again. Bitch, youāre not even there 90% of the time. No wonder Miles admits to Julian he wishes she were more like a man.
I think sheās actually enjoying it, Miles
We talked in both Kiraās and Milesās posts about how ridiculous their B-plot was in āLooking for parāMach in All the Wrong Places,ā but Keiko is so naive that she keeps forcing them together by accident. Whatās even worse: this whole surrogacy plot was a fabulous opportunity to have Keiko and Kira bond instead, as two women who rarely have scenes together. What a ripoff.
Whereāre Baloo and Bagheera when you need them?
I will never stop giving Miles and Keiko (and to some extent Odo!) grief about how they send feral Molly back into her cave in āTimeās Orphan.ā How anyone can neglect their child this blatantly and then be rewarded for it by the episodeās intent is just terrible. Keiko doesnāt even resist the idea when Miles shares it, but is onboard immediately to give up on their child rather than get her actual help.
But the cat came back the very next day
A smaller detail in āTimeās Orphanā hints at how Keiko doesnāt like Chester, the cat that OāBrien takes in after he absolutely gets Bilby killed in āHonor Among Thieves.ā Keiko strongly insinuates that sheād be happy if Chester ran away, never to return, if they brought him on their picnic. How this woman cannot love this poor orphaned cat is beyond me and deserves some hate.
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Aaaaand weāre all suspended for setting off stink bombs on the promenade. Weāll be back next week though to highlight Keikoās arch nemesis. No, not Miles. Kai Winn Adami! Look forward to that, keep up with our trip through the Delphic Expance with us on our Enterprise watchalong on SoundCloud (and the other podcast places), pass notes in class to us on Facebook and Twitter, and no fighting on the promenade!