I've started watching Deep Space Nine with some friends this morning. You have to admire the confidence of a franchise where, after Wesley Crusher, the people in charge were, like, "Nah, we're gonna have another kid." (Jake Sisko is great tho.)
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Deep Space Nine is my favorite Trek, but I probably haven't seen it since... it came out on DVD? So it has to be almost 20 years.
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This premiere is very long, but not in a way where I mind. I find the relaxed pacing of '90s shows incredibly soothing.
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A very good premiere -- nicely sets up that this Trek is going to have a more forthrightly emotional core than the two series that went before it and gets at the show's whole "St. Elsewhere in Space" vibe.
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Also: Is DS9 the most trans Trek? y/y? (Like Discovery has canonically trans characters, and I'm STILL tempted to pick DS9 for its very '90s gender fuckery.)
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Replying to @sepinwall
The Changelings! And Kira is beloved of many trans women. We claim her as an honorary member of the community.
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On the other hand there's the "Quark turns into a woman" episodes Both of them
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Profit and Lace is easily the worst episode of the entire series, which I think everyone involved with it will readily admit. Not sure what the other one is. There's the one in Season 2 where a female Ferengi poses as a male and crushes on Quark?
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The first time Quark "turns into a woman" is when he's possessed by Audrid Dax in "Facets" (S3E25) This is an unfortunate result of the fact that they'd previous established Dax's past hosts were gender-balanced but their own cast wasn't even close to being gender-balanced
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This part of "Facets" was the inspiration for "Profit and Lace", where they wanted to, for some ungodly reason, revisit the idea of Quark cross-dressing but "do it right" this time and make a feminist point with it
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