Deep Space Nine Portrait Commission for Renae
Process posts for each character:
Paramount signs-off on your design. Four weeks later, they un-approve it.
September: “Your design is approved as is.”
October: “You can’t use the Borg and you can’t start the game on the Saratoga.”
Your game has been in production for almost two years. You fight. You get to keep the Borg, but the Saratoga goes from being the action packed introductory stage to a flashback near the end, and the whole game balance goes down a wormhole.
Maurice Molyneaux: Deep Space Nine (Genesis/SNES)
Entire page is a fascinating little snippet of what it’s like to work on a licensed Star Trek game; in this case, the DS9 game, Crossroads of Time.
- peach: this is not how i wanted to spend my evening
- peach: crying like an asshole
- Lady Yate-xel: You run that risk, with DS9.
- Lady Yate-xel: It's like, 'Yay, space show~'
- Lady Yate-xel: and then an hour later you're in the fetal position with a pillow over your head
It’s really something to see Benjamin Sisko’s interaction with his family and think about how differently he treats family, compared to other captains.
I mean, I’m watching “Far Beyond the Stars”, and already his dad’s chatting with him in Ops and has rested a hand on his shoulder - in full view of the crew. Now he’s walking down the corridor with Kasidy Yates and they’re completely wrapped around each other, arms around waists, faces inches apart, clearly involved, having an emotional discussion.
I can’t even imagine Picard doing anything like that. Command is all. He could never lose face in the eyes of his crew that way.
And Kirk? Hmm. Nope. No pretty yeomen. His true love is Enterprise.
And sadly, neither one had a dad around to hug ‘em, I think. But in both cases, I can’t imagine them allowing it publicly.
Janeway? Didn’t she have a fairly firm “no romance” policy? And Archer… well, I really have no idea…
But Sisko lets his dad scold him, and hugs his girlfriend, and kisses his son, and loses not one whit of authority.
It’s really something to see.
By Guest Contributor Kendra James Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is like The West Wing. But in space. With a Black president. Kind of.
This is a great piece reflecting on the importance of Benjamin Sisko as a black man and a black captain. There are a million reasons to love DS9 and to love my fave captain, THE SISKO, and Kendra James brings being a person of colour into the mix and does it in a wonderful and thought-provoking reflection.
DS9 has your aliens and spaceships, and characters do occasionally say things like “set phasers to stun,” but theTrek cheese-factor is more often than not outweighed by the political storyarcs covered over six out of the show’s seven seasons, its criticisms of 20th century history, race relations in America, and lead actor, Avery Brooks, who stars as Captain Benjamin Lafayette Sisko–the first and only African-American captain to lead a televised Star Trek franchise.
Fic: Addendum [2-1/?]
Title: Addendum: 2x23 “Crossover," Part 1
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Genre: Angst
Rating & Warnings: PG (references to torture, death, slavery)
Words: 3738 this part, approximately 8400 overall
Disclaimer: I don’t own Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Summary: Additions, expansions, and rewrites to various DS9 episodes, eventually with chapters as wide-ranging in topic as darts with Garak to Kira coping with the reality of herself as Intendant of Terok Nor. This chapter: Julian and Kira return from the Mirrorverse physically in one piece. Their mental and emotional recoveries, however, aren’t so straightforward. (Part 1: Julian reconciles the roles the different versions of his friends play and comes to terms with one Mirrorverse death in particular.)
Author’s Notes: So this got long. Really long, which is why I haven’t updated this fic since it was posted. Originally, this was supposed to be a single chapter, but there was just so much awful thrown at Julian and Kira in this episode that I ended up just writing and writing and writing the fallout. So it’s now in three parts, one of which is very short, but, well, it made more thematic sense to divide it up that way.
This three-parter brought to you by "Have You Ever" by The Offspring, which turned up on my mp3 player the moment I began my planning.
Have you ever been at someplace
Recognizing everybody’s face
Until you realized that there was no one there you knew
Crossposted to AO3 and my writing journal.
Deep Space Nine Season 1 Extra - Julian Bashir (by Hiide666)
Alexander Siddig, aka Siddig El Fadil, discusses his casting as Julian Bashir. Filmed Sept. 18 1992.
god you guys he is so cute “los angeleeeees”
And also I love how halfway through Sid switches from describing Bashir in the third person to being him. “They think I’m going to say something wrong, so they say ‘shut up!’”
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