this is so great to know and so funny because as I have been making my way through the treks, I pretty much always googled a ‘best/worst episodes of season x’ and skimmed them all just for titles. not so I could actually skip anything but so I had a heads up and neither accidentally used a real fuckin clunker as a nice relaxing break after a tough day nor like tried to do major crafting during one of the best episodes of tv of all time yanno. now I can just look at this one !!
Ok heart eyes emoji for new ds9 fans forever -- but now you're in the lurch and wanting more!! There were great comments about Stitch in Time and other post-canon works from cast members but I'd also highly recommend the post-canon DS9 novels in general beyond Stitch in Time. Memory Beta has very clear listings and some titles are available on Internet Archive.
For stuff beyond DS9, there's oodles of Star Treks (which I love) but if you want a space station I'd recommend trying Babylon 5 (you can skip to season 2). It's a different world -- more capitalistic, a lil more nasty -- and there was controversy over similarities between B5 and DS9, but the tones and settings feel radically different to me.
noted about the post-canon novels!! stitch in time was ABSOLUTELY already on my library holds waitlist, but that's great to know I can get some of them on internet archive...
and I've been eyeing babylon 5, I know Jessie Gender's been doing some watchthroughs of it. tbh tng was my home trek from years ago, and I think now that I've wrapped ds9 i wanna tackle voyager while I'm still in the groove so I can say I've done the tng/ds9/voy trilogy!!! plus I want to Lower Decks but I know since it's so predicated on references, there'll be even more to love if I do voy first!!
and hi ty for inbox sliding c:
do you think that a certain genre of queer person is so obsessively weird about pride flag discourse becuase their flags fill the gaping hole in their personality where a hogwarts house used to be
> learn of the show “deep space nine”
> set aboard a stationary station that doesn’t move
> watch first episode
> it moves
where do the lies end
on my (scarse) free time I’ve been watching a lot of DS9 and of course he is my favorite
okay but there is something disquieting about this urge to cast fan writers as altruists. they give us all this for free!! well, no.
they’re sharing
it’s a key difference in perception. fic isn’t given. it’s shared. it’s part of a fandom community— in which readers are also an integral part.
it’s probably inevitable mission creep from the increasingly transactional nature of the internet and fandom-as-consumerism, which was always gonna happen after corps worked out how much bank there is to make from those weirdo fan people
but like. fandom is sharing. i think we’ve lost that somewhere.
Omg we like your autism, is that a reference to Lieutenant-Commander Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation which aired from 1987 to 1994 and was a successor to the beloved then-30-year-old "Star Trek", created by Gene Roddenberry
She flies the ship! (Shes pretty sure she does anyway)
Stupid doodles and a regular one cause I love her
Not pictured: quark watching rom do this and lining up an all-time sibling roast