#Cmdr. Benjamin Sisko

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Keiko O'Brien ~ Fascination

#Keiko O'Brien #Rosalind Chao #Star Trek Deep Space Nine #star trek: deep space nine #Star Trek DS9 #DS9 #Star Trek #Chief Miles O'Brien #Colm Meaney #Armin Shimerman #Quark #Cmdr. Benjamin Sisko #Avery Brooks #Star Trek Babes #stedits #my gifs #my edits #tv edits #tv : Star Trek #Star Trek Deep Space Nine Episodes #Fascination #stds9edits #I Love Keiko!

[lonelymoonrambles]

I have now finished season 2 of ds9 and here are my thoughts a first time viewer:

- when does a government stop being provisional and just become real

-damn Kai Winn is a villain VILLAIN! I hate her (character)! I love her (actress)!

- Kira having her fleabag/hot priest moment

- Dr. Julian "I can fix them" Bashir

- seriously Nog needs to go back to the school, I wasn't joking

- fashion spotlight: Jake's brown onesie

- Quark is canonically attracted to men and you can't change my mind

- Dr. Julian "Tennis" Bashir

- Cmdr. Benjamin "Baseball" Sisko

- Jadzia, babe, you'd bang literally anyone wouldn't you? You sick lil freak, we love you! 🥰

- Odo's scientist "father" 100% tests on animals

- O'Brien, dude, just admit you have a crush on Julian - we all know 🙄 (Your wife told us)

- Dukat is OBSESSED with Sisko... 😏

- UM HELLO 2x22 THE WIRE?!!!?? I have many comments and feelings on this ep specifically

- *opens incognito tab* Ao3 search: kira/mirror kira

- ok but seriously that mirror universe ep was wildly horny

- Jem'hadar is a very cunty name for an alien and honestly? They were serving (queer/military way)

- everyone on this space station is gay and polyamorous

#Star trek #ds9 #star trek deep space nine #First watch #Julian Bashir #Disko #Keiko O'Brien you will always be famous #Quark x Odo #Seemed like the main ship this season #Garashir #julian bashir x elim garak #Julian Bashir x Miles O'Brien #Star trek ds9 #star trek mirror universe

[best-star-trek-character]

Official DS9 Character Bracket

And here’s the final bracket! Round One will go live tomorrow, 4/13 at 10 am EST!

Full List:

Round One:

Left Side:

Alexander Rozhenko vs. Keiko O’Brien: poll here

Mora Pol vs. Lwaxana Troi: poll here

Vedek Bareil vs. Captain Benjamin Sisko: poll here

Sirella vs. Molly O’Brien: poll here

Mirror! Garak vs. Gilora Rejal and Ulani Belor: poll here

Curzon Dax vs. Quark: poll here

Martok vs. Ishka: poll here

Brunt vs. Maihar’du: poll here

Kai Winn vs. Chief Miles O’Brien: poll here

Rom vs. Mila: poll here

Joseph Sisko vs. Joran Dax: poll here

The Klingon Chef vs. Mirror! Kira: poll here

Elim Garak vs. Jennifer Sisko: poll here

Goran’Agar vs. Weyoun: poll here

Enabran Tain vs. Shakaar: poll here

Sarah Sisko vs. Vic Fontaine: poll here

Right Side:

Leeta vs. Female Changeling: poll here

Solok vs. Dr. Julian Bashir: poll here

Natima Lang vs. Legate Damar: poll here

Grand Nagus Zek vs. Keevan: poll here

Sarina Douglas vs. Gul Dukat: poll here

Admiral William Ross vs. Lt. Commander Worf: poll here

Kasidy Yates vs. Pel: poll here

Nog vs. Morn: poll here

Michael Eddington vs. Tora Ziyal: poll here

Jack, Patrick and Lauren vs. Constable odo: poll here

Tekeny Ghemor vs. Lenara Kahn: poll here

Dr. Elizabeth Lense vs. Jake Sisko: poll here

Luther Sloan vs. Counselor Ezri Dax: poll here

Major Kira Nerys vs. Kor, Kang and Koloth: poll here

Mirror! Worf vs. Grilka: poll here

Baby Changeling vs. Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: poll here

Round Two:

Left Side:

Keiko O’Brien vs. Lwaxana Troi: poll here

Captain Benjamin Sisko vs. Molly O’Brien: poll here

Mirror! Garak vs. Quark: poll here

Martok vs. Brunt: poll here

Chief Miles O’Brien vs. Rom: poll here

Joseph Sisko vs. Mirror! Kira: poll here

Elim Garak vs. Weyoun: poll here

Enabran Tain vs. Vic Fontaine: poll here

Right Side:

Leeta vs. Dr. Julian Bashir: poll here

Legate Damar vs. Grand Nagus Zek: poll here

Gul Dukat vs. Lt. Commander Worf: poll here

Kasidy Yates vs. Nog: poll here

Tora Ziyal vs. Constable Odo: poll here

Lenara Kahn vs. Jake Sisko: poll here

Ezri Dax vs. Kira Nerys: poll here

Grilka vs. Jadzia Dax: poll here

Round Three:

Left Side:

Lwaxana Troi vs. Captain Benjamin Sisko: poll here

Quark vs. Martok: poll here

Chief Miles O’Brien vs. Mirror! Kira: poll here

Elim Garak vs. Vic Fontaine: poll here

Right Side:

Dr. Julian Bashir vs. Legate Damar: poll here

Lt. Commander Worf vs. Nog: poll here

Constable Odo vs. Jake Sisko: poll here

Kira Nerys vs. Jadzia Dax: poll here

Quarter-Finals:

Left Side:

Captain Benjamin Sisko vs. Quark: poll here

Chief Miles O’Brien vs. Elim Garak: poll here

Right Side:

Dr. Julian Bashir vs. Lt. Cmdr. Worf: poll here

Constable Odo vs. Jadzia Dax: poll here

Semi-Finals:

Captain Benjamin Sisko vs. Elim Garak: poll here

Dr. Julian Bashir vs. Jadzia Dax: poll here

Finals:

Captain Benjamin Sisko vs. Jadzia Dax: poll here

#best ds9 character competition #st #ds9 #deep space nine #deep space 9 #star trek deep space nine #star trek deep space 9 #star trek #best star trek character competition

[sapphosewrites]

Trektober Day #25: Stranded on a Planet

RE: UPCOMING CEC & PDP OPPORTUNITIES

All Enterprise staff are reminded to complete any required additional training for Continuing Education Credits before crew evaluations commence, at which time Professional Development Plans will be revisited. While we are stationed at Deep Space 9, the officers have thoughtfully put together the following options for professional development:

Mok’Bara and You: A Beginner’s Guide to Klingon Meditation and Martial Arts. Instructor - Lt Cmdr Worf Rozhenko of the House of Martok

Stranded on a Planet: Crash-Landing and Survival Protocols. Instructor – Lt Cmdr Jadzia Dax

More Than Friends: Navigating Intimate Relations with Fellow Officers. Instructors – Lt Cmdr Jadzia Dax and Lt Cmdr Worf Rozhenko of the House of Martok

Beyond Replicators: A 24th Century Guide to Cooking. Instructor – Captain Benjamin Sisko.

Security Protocols: There is No Subtitle Why Does the Form Require One? Instructor – Constable Odo

Triage with Tricorders: An Introduction to Field Medicine and Emergency First Aid. Instructor – Dr. Julian Bashir

Self-Sealing Stembolts and Reverse-Ratcheting Routers: How To Make Your Engineer’s Life Easier. Instructor – Senior Chief Petty Officer Miles O’Brien.

#trektober 2020 #star trek #deep space 9 #star trek the next generation #this is so off-prompt it's not even funny #my mom is presenting at a conference this week and I have it on the brain #My writing

[jadzia-suggestions]

It's understandable that Sisko would hate M.E. after being fooled by him but is this all just "a personal vendetta"? I mean, he's Starfleet. Wasn't his reaction part of Starfleet's, and /what/ was Starfleet like about the replicator incident? Wasn't there an investigation and a lot of unpleasant questions, like hey, your girlfriend is a Maquis, your ex-officer is a Maquis, wanna tell us something? If Sisko blamed those unpleasant moments on Eddington, his "obsession" would look so much clearer.

Yes, the issues between Michael Eddington and Captain Sisko are numerous and complex. I find Eddington’s repeated profession that “it’s not personal” to be not only ludicrous, but deliberately disingenuous. It’s very simple for the party who was never the target of personal attacks to claim “it’s not personal”, but that overlooks the fact that Eddington consistently used deeply intimate and personally significant information against Benjamin. Manipulating @kasidy-suggestion and specifically targeting her — out of all the other freighter captains he might have turned to if what he really needed had been food and medical supplies — solely because her involvement would prove the greatest distraction to the Captain is only the beginning. Throughout their encounters, Eddington never hesitated to wield whatever emotional and psychological weapons came to hand: the more personal, the better. His motives might not have been “personal”, but his methods unquestionably were.

Consider his assertion that the Federation is “worse than the Borg”, made to Benjamin after Eddington’s theft of the industrial replicators. He compared the Federation — the peace-driven and peace-keeping body of planets united by a dedication to freedom, civil rights, diplomacy, and exploration — to the brutal, conquering, monolithic enemy that killed Benjamin Sisko’s wife. Jennifer’s death is a matter of public record, and of common knowledge on Deep Space Nine. Eddington knowingly and deliberately ripped open that wound in a moment of triumph, simply to do more damage to a man he had already gored by manipulating the woman he had just learned to love. It was an incalculably cruel remark, and served no other purpose than to harm Ben more deeply than he’d already been harmed.

Another deeply personal, profoundly manipulative tactic Eddington used was the appeal to Benjamin’s love of children, forcing him at gunpoint to look at the displaced colonists in the caves on Marva IV. These colonists were driven from their by Cardassian forces, rather than evacuated with care and compassion by Federation vessels, because Eddington deluded innocent people into believing they could stand and fight against improbably odds. They were the victims of his grandiose fantasies, not of Starfleet, and yet Eddington attempted to twist that in order to strike at his former captain in yet another emotionally significant way — once again using knowledge of Ben’s nature that he’d gained under the guise of a subordinate and friend. Can anyone honestly say that’s not personal? Of course they can’t. It is.

Later still, Eddington deliberately brought up Cal Hudson in “casual” conversation, simply so that he could wound Benjamin with a barbed and accusatory account of his death at the hands of the Dominion. The implication was clear: that it was Ben, not the Jem’Hadar, who was in fact responsible. What kind of soulless person would bring someone news of a friend’s death in that way? And how, exactly, is that “not personal”?

Addressing your question more specifically, yes. Both Starfleet Intelligence and Internal Affairs investigated Captain Sisko thoroughly after Captain Yates’s conviction, weighing his involvement with the Maquis. Benjamin was already being watched closely because of his friendship with Cal Hudson and his expressed sympathies with the plight of Federation colonists in and near the Demlilitarized Zone. Kasidy’s involvement and the ease with which Eddington was able to deceive him (and by extension, all the rest of us) absolutely brought Ben under considerable scrutiny. He was ultimately absolved, but the gruelling nature of such an investigation always leaves a mark. I was interviewed three times myself in the course of this investigation, and those who testified to Benjamin’s loyalty and fitness for duty included First Minister Shakaar, Admiral Whatley, and the entire senior staff of Deep Space Nine. Though the investigation was closed and charges were never made, it remains a blight on Captain Sisko’s record, and a deep professional humiliation for an exemplary and loyal officer.

Furthermore, Starfleet Command was just as motivated to bring Michael Eddington to justice as anyone aboard the Defiant who hunted him down. There have been dozens of key Starfleet defectors to the Maquis — Lt. Cmdr Hudson, Lt. Paris, Ensign Ro, and others. But Lt. Cmdr. Eddington was of particular concern because of his close ties to Admiral Toddman, his position of considerable trust within Starfleet Security, and his charismatic influence that extended far beyond his single Maquis cell. He was a dangerous agitator, and did not represent the needs of the most vulnerable colonists. Ask @kira-suggestion how well the Maquis represented the interests of their Bajoran members, for instance.

As a Starfleet Captain, Benjamin Sisko had a duty to bring Eddington in before his dangerous and delusional behaviour sparked a war with Cardassia. The Central Command and later the Detapa Council did not diffferentiate between rogue humans, Vulcans, Betazoids, and other species from Federation worlds who had renounced their citizenship to persist as Maquis, and the Federation itself. They would have gone to war against all the worlds represented among the Maquis, Bajor included. Eddington had to be stopped. Captain Sisko did his duty in stopping him. We all did. The emotional and psychological cost of that mission weighs heavily on the crews of the Defiant and the Malinche, but we did what had to be done in an attempt to avert a war that would have cost millions, even billions of lives — all for the sake of one man’s ego.

So I have little patience for the argument that Eddington’s actions were justified, and NONE for the argument that they were not personal. They absolutely were. I don’t know why he chose to target the Captain so precisely. Perhaps to him, that was only a tactical decision, and a means to an end. But if he cannot see how his actions, his tactics, and above all his hateful words could be taken as personal by his victim, then there is certainly some merit to the JAG psychiatrist’s assessment that Eddington shows troubling signs of psychopathy. His continued assertions that his actions were “not personal” reflect more gravely upon him than upon any of us.

[startreknextgenreboot]

David Harewood / Cmdr. Benjamin Sisko

[best-star-trek-character]

Mega Bracket Round Two

#mega bracket #st #tng #geordi la forge #geordi laforge #Geordi #la forge #ds9 #captain benjamin sisko #Captain Sisko #Benjamin sisko #Sisko #best star trek character competition

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Official MEGA BRACKET!

And here’s the Final bracket for the Best Star Trek Character! Round One will go live tomorrow 7/24 at 10 am EST!

After asking a poll, I’m including both participants from the finals of each show’s poll! There’s a total of 22 characters in this round, which means everything’s a little awkward with the number. I took the ten characters with the highest number of votes from each final, and they will be introduced into the bracket in Round Two to hopefully give everyone else a fairer chance!

Full List:

Round One:

Left Side:

Rok-Tahk (PRDO) vs. Lt. Erica Ortegas (SNW): poll here (winner vs. Commander Data (TNG)) 

[Round Two: Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge (TNG) vs. Captain Benjamin Sisko (DS9)

Ensign Hoshi Sato (ENT) vs. Dr. Leonard McCoy (TOS): poll here (winner vs. Mr. Spock (TOS))

Captain Michael Burnham (DISC) vs. Lt. Saavik (Films): poll here (winner vs. Captain Kathryn Janeway (VOY))

Right Side

Hologram Captain Janeway (PROD) vs. George & Gracie (Films): poll here (winner vs. Lt. Cmdr. Jadzia Dax (DS9))

Ensign Sylvia Tilly (DISC) vs. Subcommander T’Pol (ENT): poll here (winner vs. Seven of Nine (VOY))

[Round Two: Ensign Beckett Mariner (LWD) vs. Elnor (PIC)]

Ensign Brad Boimler (LWD) vs. Cadet Nyota Uhura (SNW): poll here (winner vs. Geordi La Forge (PIC))

Round Two:

Left Side:

Lt. Erica Ortegas (SNW) vs. Commander Data (TNG): poll here

Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge (TNG) vs. Captain Benjamin Sisko (DS9): poll here

Dr. Leonard McCoy (TOS) vs. Mr. Spock (TOS): poll here

Captain Michael Burnham (DISC) vs. Captain Kathryn Janeway (VOY): poll here

Right Side:

George & Gracie (Films) vs. Lt. Cmdr. Jadzia Dax (DS9): poll here

Ensign Sylvia Tilly (DISC) vs. Seven of Nine (VOY): poll here

Ensign Beckett Mariner (LWD) vs. Elnor (PIC): poll here

Cadet Nyota Uhura (SNW) vs. Geordi La Forge (PIC): poll here

Quarter-Finals:

Left Side:

Commander Data (TNG) vs. Captain Benjamin Sisko (DS9): poll here

Mr. Spock (TOS) vs. Captain Kathryn Janeway (VOY): poll here

Right Side:

Lt. Cmdr. Jadzia Dax (DS9) vs. Seven of Nine (VOY): poll here

Ensign Beckett Mariner (LWD) vs. Cadet Nyota Uhura (SNW): poll here

#final st bracket #mega st bracket #mega bracket #star trek #tos #tng #ds9 #voy #ent #disc #pic #lwd #snw