lesbianquark:
Avery Brooks in the DS9 What We Left Behind documentary.
“One of the things that attracted me about Star Trek was that I’d be human. Completely human - and brown, too.”
ncc-1907:
startrekds9:
Come on, Nog, tell me. Why is it so damned important for you to get into Starfleet?
requested by bengiyo
One of the best moments in DS9. Hell, one of the best moments in Star Trek.
logicheartsoul:
Benny Russell Talks Truth About Racism in 1950′s America in Far Beyond The Stars (2/2)
Original Dialogue:
BENNY: You’re firing me?
PABST: I have no choice, Benny. It’s his decision.
BENNY: Well, you can’t fire me. I quit. To hell with you, and to hell with Stone.
JULIUS: Try to stay calm, Benny.
BENNY: No. I’m tired of being calm. Calm never gotten me a damn thing.
PABST: I’m warning you, Benny. If you don’t stop this I’m going to call the police.
BENNY: You go ahead! Call them! Call anybody you want. They can’t do anything to me. Not anymore. And nor can any of you. I am a human being, damn it. You can deny me all you want but you cannot deny Ben Sisko. He exists! That future, that space station, all those people, they exist in here. In my mind, I created it. And every one of you know it. You read it. It’s here. You hear what I’m telling you? You can pulp a story but you cannot destroy an idea. Don’t you understand? That’s ancient knowledge. You cannot destroy an idea. That future, I created it, and it’s real. Don’t you understand? It is real! I created it and it’s real! It’s real! Oh, God.
logicheartsoul:
Benny Russell Talks Truth About Racism in 1950′s America in Far Beyond The Stars (½)
Original Dialogue:
BENNY: No, it’s about my story, isn’t it? That’s what this is all about. He didn’t want to publish my story and we all know why. Because my hero is a coloured man.
PABST: Hey! This magazine belongs to Mister Stone. If he doesn’t want to publish this month, we don’t publish this month. End of story.
BENNY: That doesn’t make it right and you know it.
logicheartsoul:
Benjamin Sisko & Julian Bashir Talk About The Political Climate of the Early 2020′s in Past Tense, Part I
Original Dialogue:
SISKO: Don’t be so sure. One of the main complaints against the Sanctuary Districts was overcrowding. It got to the point where they didn’t care how many people were in here. They just wanted to keep them out of sight.
BASHIR: And once they were out of sight, what then? I mean, look at this man. There’s no need for that man to live like that. With the right medication, he could lead a full and normal life.
SISKO: Maybe in our time.
BASHIR: Not just in our time. There are any number of effective treatments for schizophrenia, even in this day and age. They could cure that man now, today, if they gave a damn.
SISKO: It’s not that they don’t give a damn, Doctor. It’s that they’ve given up. The social problems they face seem too enormous to deal with.
BASHIR: That only makes things worse. Causing people to suffer because you hate them is terrible, but causing people to suffer because you have forgotten how to care? That’s really hard to understand.
SISKO: They’ll remember. It’ll take some time and it won’t be easy, but eventually people in this century will remember how to care.
