"But he wasn’t a good man, was he? Bad men did good things all the time, most often to distract from the worse things they were doing."
—Katherine Pulaski about Elim Garak on the Deep Space Nine novel “Enigma Tales” — Una McCormack
frontier001:
Likely one of the most-wanted pieces of music from “Deep Space 9” is this 6-minute track from the series finale. Entitled “Finality” it’s one of the many, many gems from the recently released 4-disc set of music celebrating the shows 20th anniversary - and I might add, the first release of DS9 music sans a compilation album since the pilot episode score in 1993.
The track begins with Sisko and Kassidy Yates’ farewell, and ends with the “Just the Way you Look Tonight” jazzy montage played over the flashback memories and good-bye scenes.
Enjoy, Niners!
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.
