#lane posts

This isn’t unique to Star Trek of course, but I do think it’s so funny how the normal amount of time it takes to respond to a comm or a hail from someone else is entirely dependent on whose perspective we’re seeing it from. If someone tries to use their combadge to contact someone else and they don’t respond within 2-3 seconds, that’s immediate cause for alarm. If, however, we’re watching a character who receives a communication from someone else, they’ll often finish up whatever they were doing before responding and no one will be alarmed at all. Or sometimes when our protagonist ship hails another ship, they’ll say “no response” approximately three seconds after sending out the hail. But if another ship hails them, they’ll often have a whole little debate before responding. Obviously this is necessary for pacing (who wants a twenty second pause of complete silence waiting for a response in the middle of a scene), but also it’s just one of those fun, charming things about Star Trek that makes no sense whatsoever.

I think it would have been pretty funny if 90’s Trek had done one singular major gay relationship that lasted over multiple episodes, but it was one that nobody wanted. Like what if Harry and Neelix suddenly got together in season 7 of Voyager.

Jake Sisko is such a good character. He loves his friends and family so much. He taught his best friend to read. He has literally zero interest in joining Starfleet. He introduced his dad to his future wife. He’s often experiencing writer’s block. He isn’t some grand hero, he’s just a person – a deeply kind, compassionate person whose presence in the show echoes with simultaneously grief and joy. Grief for who he has lost, for the tragedy that defines the beginning of his character arc as much as it does his father’s, and for the constant lingering threat throughout DS9 of future grief, of losing what he has now. Joy for the happiness of the present – spending time with his friends, drawing artistic inspiration from the world around him, fully and completely enjoying life.

People are technically lying when they say DS9 is in any way significantly about baseball. There is one (1) baseball episode. However, I do think Sisko himself would be absolutely thrilled that people say this. He would love it if the show based on his life was entirely about baseball.