spiders-hth-is-an-outlier:

thegaymccoy:

Representation matters.

Happy Star Trek Day!

I was at DragonCon one year when Avery Brooks was on a panel, and a Black dude stood up and talked about how the year DS9 came on, he became the sole custodial guardian of his small son, and he was *terrified* and felt helpless, because he hadn’t really had a father himself, and he didn’t really know any Black fathers he particularly wanted to emulate, and no Black single fathers at all.  He talked about how every week he’d put his kid to bed and sit down and watch Deep Space Nine, and think to himself, “Okay, this, I want us to be this kind of father and son,” and how, silly as it might sound, the idea that Ben could be there for Jake, all the time, successfully, and earn his admiration and trust, was the only source he really had of inspiration, the only voice that was telling him he could handle this job. 

I swear to fuck there was a whole auditorium of people in tears by the time he was done, including both him and Brooks.  It was one of the most beautiful moments I ever saw about the sometimes bloodless-sounding term “representation,” and about fandom in general, and I will never forget it.

primatechnosynthpop:

daisy-deedle:

Part 1/ 3 of Deep Space Nine Crew

[ID: three bust drawings with starry backgrounds. The first is of Sisko, the second is of Odo, and the third is of Kira. Sisko and Kira are both smiling, whereas Odo looks somewhat displeased. End ID]

nerys-kiras:

favorite kira nerys moments (in no particular order) 21/?
I have the bad habit of telling the truth. Even when people don’t wanna hear it.

nerys-kiras:

Star Trek Deep Space Nine’s FAR BEYOND THE STARS aired 23 years ago today, FEBRUARY 11, 1998

I am a Human being, dammit! 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.

garlandsjudys:

AVERY BROOKS and TERRY FARRELL on Star Trek DEEP SPACE 9

garlandsjudys:

[Start ID: 2 gifs of Kira Nerys from Deep Space 9. First gif Kira and Sisko are walking down the promonade. She looks at him and says, “I’m always diplomatic. Next image is a bright colored Spongebob title card that reads “Twelve seconds later”. Second gif is Kira in a conference room talking to off screen Romulans. Clearly annoyed, she says, “That is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard!” /End ID]

wocscifi:

STAR TREK DEEP SPACE 9

My father used to say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I laid the first stone right there. I’d committed myself. I’d pay any price, go to any lengths, because my cause was righteous. My intentions were good. In the beginning, that seemed like enough.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - In The Pale Moonlight

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dantooiine:

when the first episode of deep space nine has sisko explaining linear time to aliens and then it turns into an examination of how trauma manifests as a disturbance of linear temporality you know youre gonna be in for some Good Shit with this show

“Trauma manifests as a disturbance of linear temporality” is maybe the most validating sentence I’ve ever read