midshipmankSo I should really be working on my thesis right now, but I just wanted to pop in here to say that I’m reading this paper called “Far Beyond the Stars: The Framing of Blackness in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” by Lisa Doris Alexander and oh my gosh feelings. So basically the hat Sisko is wearing when he explains how linear time works through baseball in “Emissary” is a Homestead Grays cap, which was a Black baseball team from around 1912-1950s, which is important because it’s not a super well-known team in the 1990s, but it immediately connects Sisko to African American history and culture, which is not something that usually happens with Star Trek’s Black charcters. So this baseball cap is just one piece of how DS9 was sort of revolutionary in the portrayal of Blackness in Star Trek, but also Blackness on television in general. But! But!!!! This hat appears a second time!! In “Starship Down”!!!! Because it’s the hat Sisko tosses to Kira!!!!! And y’all KNOW I have a lot of feelings about their relationship and the intersection of Sisko’s Blackness with his role as the Emissary, and I just have soooooo many feeeeeelingssssss
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Holy mackerel, look what the trailcam picked up at Dogskull Patch! Pink nose and hooves, so I am leaning towards an honest-to-god albino whitetail deer. The DNR says they’re about 1-in-30,000.
It’s not illegal to hunt them in North Carolina, unfortunately, so I hope she(?) sticks around Dogskull, since I’m certainly not going to touch her. I am not terribly superstitious, but I’m pretty sure if you kill a white deer, you get cursed so hard that demons are nervous about standing in the same room with you.
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