hello! I’ve finally got round to looking through my archive and rediscovering everything that’s on this mess of a blog, so here’s a (somewhat) comprehensive overview!
☆ currently: star trek! (tos, tng, ds9) ☆ ~ my thoughts under sakaar watches [tos/tng/ds9]
other things (active): the old gaurd (hence the username), bbc merlin, dan and phil, xmen (specifically xmcu), various sci-fi, films, and literature
other things (dormant): doctor who, good omens, star wars, arcane, frankenstein (book), attack on titan, hunger games, IT, sherlock holmes
other things (extinct): mcu, stranger things
rogue original posts (from now on) tagged under sakaar yaps (sakaar being a reference to thor: ragnarok and was my username for years), original art tagged my art, my (scant few) edits tagged sakaar edits
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i love this scene so much in general charles is being all cool and has just successfully hidden them and he’s giving that cunty look and erik has probably never been more turned on in his life and doesnt know what to do with it
(also to double down on this when charles sits down again erik pats his thigh, charles licks his lips, and erik’s hand does not in fact leave his thigh before the scene cuts away)
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Thinking about how even though most people draw (understandable) parallels between Spock and Data, going by family dynamics Deanna Troi is a notable parallel to Spock.
-Half human/half psychic alien species
-Both's non-human parents were specifically famously effective Star Fleet diplomats
-Whether real or perceived seen as lacking in a lot of the qualities prized/specialized in by the non-human parent's culture. This is brought up untactfully by said non-human parent
-Nevertheless the field they went into heavily relies on said trait they allegedly don't have
-So much family drama
-Shenanigans related to betrothals that neither of them goes through with
Which is to say Spock deserved a moment similar to Deanna Troi where she got to storm out of a dinner where her mom was being particularly belligerent and smash a vase on the way out.
if there's one thing the ds9 finale did, it was completely convince me that the only satisfying conclusion to julian bashir's arc would be him eventually ending up on cardassia
a small disclaimer: despite believing in garashir wholeheartedly and adoring the romantic undertones that would accompany julian's moving to cardassia, the narrative elements are the things making me so insane about this, and so convinced there can be no other fate for julian.
the focus on the characters who moved on (sisko, odo, o'brien, worf) made it all the more stark just how unmoored julian is in the wake of this episode, and how much of his connection to the station as home was based on the people around him rather than the physical location. he looks absolutely gutted with each departure and, unlike kira with sisko's baseball, he doesn't really have a moment of acceptance or get to fill a role that was left. in fact, the conversation he does have with ezri just emphasises how, for julian, things are never going to be as good as they used to be.
with this in mind (as well as the likelihood of things calming down professionally for him due to the war being over), it would make much more sense for him to leave the station either after helping with war casualties or staying on for longer. so the question is: where would he go?
given what i've argued about his sense of belonging being strongly tied to people, it stands to reason that the places he would feel drawn to would be the places his friends live. o'brien, of course, is on earth, but considering his tenuous relationship with his parents and his past trauma, and how much he has been able to let go of all that and actually be himself on ds9, i can't imagine it being a place he would be drawn to return to long term. what's more, a human dominated post-scarcity planet would hardly be a challenging environment for him medically. turning to his other strongest relationship brings us to garak on cardassia.
i think cardassia itself would appeal to julian somewhat after spending years slowly learning about their literature and culture through garak. i also think an alien planet would be oddly freeing for him, giving him a chance to live among a population who consider him strange by virtue of being human rather than because he's an augment or because he is (unbeknownst to them) quite an odd human so to speak. I've always seen julian and garak as providing each other a space free of the typical judgements they face from everyone else, and i can totally imagine julian having that association with the planet because of it.
my favourite reason, however, goes back to the ds9 pilot and julian's infamous 'frontier medicine' line. because post-war cardassia, with its bombed out infrastructure and millions dead and displaced, is exactly the kind of situation that would challenge him in that way. except now, julian is older, wiser, and has years of combat experience under his belt. his time on ds9 is what changed him into the person he dreamed of being, and while the reality is much grimmer than he ever imagined, he's now ready to be the person who can go to this devastated planet and help them rebuild from the ground up. in the Our Man Bashir episode of the Delta Flyers podcast, alexander siddig mentioned how the show watches julian grow up over its course. ds9 was a transitional period for julian, and moving on to cardassia is exactly the sort of thing that would allow those changes to be put to use.
i haven't properly got into beta canon (yet), but based on watching the show and the vision of bashir and his arc i've been slowly developing over these past 4-5 months of watching, i can't believe there's any other end for him. his professional satisfaction, social liberation, and emotional fulfilment all point in one direction. and if there's anything i've learnt about julian bashir, it's that he has never been put off by 'uncertain times'.
Comments on this lovely post remind me that I did pitch a book taking Bashir to postwar Cardassia, but Control was already commissioned. So we did Enigma Tales instead.
It never got much more beyond a “this is what I’d like to do next”, “sorry, there’s a story ahead of you”, but I imagine I would’ve done something with the plot of Enigma Tales (but Bashir instead of Pulaski) and many of the emotional beats of The End of This Day’s Business.
As much as I can recall from a brief rejected pitch a decade ago, the central story “engine” would’ve been Bashir heading deeper into covert ops while Garak has been heading in the other direction.
(Bashir doctoring on postwar Cardassia is my personal preferred option, for all the narrative reasons in the original post.)
if there's one thing the ds9 finale did, it was completely convince me that the only satisfying conclusion to julian bashir's arc would be him eventually ending up on cardassia
a small disclaimer: despite believing in garashir wholeheartedly and adoring the romantic undertones that would accompany julian's moving to cardassia, the narrative elements are the things making me so insane about this, and so convinced there can be no other fate for julian.
the focus on the characters who moved on (sisko, odo, o'brien, worf) made it all the more stark just how unmoored julian is in the wake of this episode, and how much of his connection to the station as home was based on the people around him rather than the physical location. he looks absolutely gutted with each departure and, unlike kira with sisko's baseball, he doesn't really have a moment of acceptance or get to fill a role that was left. in fact, the conversation he does have with ezri just emphasises how, for julian, things are never going to be as good as they used to be.
with this in mind (as well as the likelihood of things calming down professionally for him due to the war being over), it would make much more sense for him to leave the station either after helping with war casualties or staying on for longer. so the question is: where would he go?
given what i've argued about his sense of belonging being strongly tied to people, it stands to reason that the places he would feel drawn to would be the places his friends live. o'brien, of course, is on earth, but considering his tenuous relationship with his parents and his past trauma, and how much he has been able to let go of all that and actually be himself on ds9, i can't imagine it being a place he would be drawn to return to long term. what's more, a human dominated post-scarcity planet would hardly be a challenging environment for him medically. turning to his other strongest relationship brings us to garak on cardassia.
i think cardassia itself would appeal to julian somewhat after spending years slowly learning about their literature and culture through garak. i also think an alien planet would be oddly freeing for him, giving him a chance to live among a population who consider him strange by virtue of being human rather than because he's an augment or because he is (unbeknownst to them) quite an odd human so to speak. I've always seen julian and garak as providing each other a space free of the typical judgements they face from everyone else, and i can totally imagine julian having that association with the planet because of it.
my favourite reason, however, goes back to the ds9 pilot and julian's infamous 'frontier medicine' line. because post-war cardassia, with its bombed out infrastructure and millions dead and displaced, is exactly the kind of situation that would challenge him in that way. except now, julian is older, wiser, and has years of combat experience under his belt. his time on ds9 is what changed him into the person he dreamed of being, and while the reality is much grimmer than he ever imagined, he's now ready to be the person who can go to this devastated planet and help them rebuild from the ground up. in the Our Man Bashir episode of the Delta Flyers podcast, alexander siddig mentioned how the show watches julian grow up over its course. ds9 was a transitional period for julian, and moving on to cardassia is exactly the sort of thing that would allow those changes to be put to use.
i haven't properly got into beta canon (yet), but based on watching the show and the vision of bashir and his arc i've been slowly developing over these past 4-5 months of watching, i can't believe there's any other end for him. his professional satisfaction, social liberation, and emotional fulfilment all point in one direction. and if there's anything i've learnt about julian bashir, it's that he has never been put off by 'uncertain times'.
my feeling with regards to the billie piper cliffhanger was like 'well it's stupid but i suppose if this is what it takes to secure the show's ongoing existence it will be worth it'. consequently i now feel comfortable saying: that was simply fucking stupid wasn't it
TMOTTH is the ultimate team as family episode. I laughed so much. everyone's gay little exercise outfits. the niners' uniform. rom. literally perfect. AR-558 was such a good episode to actually dig into the war, and basically every character in it had memorable moments. BBBB I feel similarly towards as TMOTTH, that scene where they're all laying around Vic's apartment is actually so important to me. IAESL is my pick for bashir episode of the season, it was lowkey its own contained little thriller and i was obsessed (another one that pulled an essay from me). WYLB I would like to clarify: it's here to represent my love of the cardassian revolution + kira/garak/damar plotline, by far my favourite aspect of the back half of s7 - the episode itself i have more issues with than would usually pertain a top 5 entry.
Honourable Mentions:
5x03 Afterimage (introducing ezri through her endeavouring to give garak therapy?? genius. i love you ezri dax i'm so sorry they wasted you on men)
5x05 Chrysalis (has its issues (and plenty of them) but the augment plot and specifically this episode is so insanely loaded from a julian's character perspective. i also got the augment singsong stuck in my head after rip)
5x23 Extreme Measures (ultimate o'brashir episode. they're so funny. also the culmination of julian's dealings with sloan... i love how dark it is)
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You guys he's fine. Stop asking if he's ok. It's the last episode and all of his friends are leaving, but, you know, he's here at the party which means he's totally fine. Look at him. He's socializing.
i had hoped to have something more substantial to say considering i just finished ds9, but instead i am relegated to losing my mind because PARAMOUNT+ CUT THE FUCKING GARAK/BASHIR GOODBYE FROM THE EPISODE. I HAD TO GO FIND IT AFTERWARDS. WHAT THE FUCK.
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