mooonpie:
Under-rated ST characters: Kassidy Yates (DS9)
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.
At oh eight hundred hours, station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion.
leonimoys:
In The Pale Moonlight | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Computer - erase that entire personal log.
abydosarchives:
deducecanoe:
mrsbenevolent:
kaitg:
Reason #1,324,789 of why I love this show.
This was a casual side conversation between Bashir and Sisko about a fellow crew member, completely unrelated to the episode’s plot, and its just so sweet.
It’s nice to know that if you’re a pregnant father-to-be on DS9, your buddies Julian and Miles will build you a hatchling pond, buy you baby clothes, and throw you a shower eagerly attended by the station’s commanding officer (who was practically beaming with joy when he found out that you were expecting).
How wonderful.
And they speak of it so casually with no judgement! Love this!
Aint nothin’ like a baby shower run by dudes. No really.
This scene is just so sweet. It adds nothing to the plot, but it brings the whole “real life” feel of DS9 out really well. Plus, it’s always wonderful to see Sisko going all gooey and adorable over babies.
spockvarietyhour:
I can live with it.
I can live with it.
