15 DAYS OF DS9
DAY 15: Something you wish would have happened
Again, I’m an indecisive person and it’s my last day, so, four things:
1. I really wish Garak/Bashir was a real thing, for several reasons. Star Trek never had a true and long same sex relationship, and with the writers and actors favorable to the idea, and with the amazing chemistry that Andy and Sid have, it could have been a very beautifully worked relationship.
2. I know she died because Terry was leaving the series and I do like Ezri, but it doesn’t stop me to wish that Jadzia’s death never happened. I wish she had stayed alive, that she and Worf had beautiful hybrid kids and she just… didn’t die the way she did. I wish we had more Jadzia.
3. Speaking about deaths… yeah, I wish Ziyal never died, too. More than that; I wish she had a decent plotline, I wish she had time to explore herself - I would love to see Ziyal exploring her lost teenagehood, having friends and dating people her age, I would have loved if she hanged out with other teens in DS9, to see her discovering her Bajoran heritage - and I wish that her character wasn’t reduced to make us feel sorry for her father.
4. I will have to talk about the same point again; since we couldn’t have G/B, I wish we had a permanent same sex relationship with other characters. It could be with anyone, but sometimes I wonder what would have happened if Lenara had chosen to stay with Jadzia. How they would work her memories and their current lives? And the exile? How they would be treated by other Trills? Like pariahs, like Worf was treated by other Klingons in some episodes of TNG? We know shit about Trill society, so, it was something that I would love to see developing in a real thing.
“I had a feeling he’d become a doctor. He had the hands of a surgeon.”
15 DAYS OF DS9
DAY 08: Saddest Moment
There are many, many, many sad moments in DS9. This show rips your heart out in regular basis; it was hard to choose only one sad moment.
Jadzia’s death wasn’t even the moment I cried more in the show; I cried more in Ziyal’s death, and with Jake and Sisko in ‘The Visitor’, with Odo, in the show’s finale. But Jadzia’s death was… different. More shocking.
Sure, we had deaths of regular characters before; lots of people die in DS9, painfully. But Jadzia’s death was different because she was someone that we always saw; she was a main character, and somehow, even knowing about her death in early seasons, and even knowing that she died because Terry was leaving the show, somehow I felt that her status should have given her protection. That even the war couldn’t touch her like touched the others.
And sure, the fact that her death was so random and meaningless didn’t exactly help.
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Image from Trekcore
I’m suddenly having a lot of feels about an AU Kira and Dax where they’re buddy cops. Dax is gentle and jokey but a stickler for the rules; Kira is tough and passionate and thinks it’s OK to break the stupid rules. Dax is from a very priviledged background, and a long line of cops; Kira hasn’t had the same opportunities as Dax, but she feels like she understands the world much better than Dax does. Dax thinks science and meticulous research are the most important things; Kira likes to work by instinct. They both have a strong sense of morality. Dax thinks Kira needs to lighten up and lay off the local bar-tender; Kira thinks Dax is flakey. They bicker and keep asking Chief Sisko to pair them up with someone else. One day, there’s a huge threat on Kira’s old neighbourhood (maybe there’s a bomb threat from the extremist group, the Cardassians?) and Dax doesn’t think, she just does, and together, breaking all the rules, they save the day.
Then there is kissing.
15 DAYS OF DS9
DAY 04: Favorite Friendship
Jadzia Dax and Benjamin Sisko, the ultimate friendship.
