My creation of the day thank you very much. I know I'm so smart and creative that I came up with the entire thing on my own. /j
*Based off this lovely meme somebody made that lives rent free in my head.
And an honorable mention for this attempt . Oh what the shackles Garashir has on my brain do to me.
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#StI’m not normally one to disregard canon, but my biggest disappointment with Deep Space Nine - and largely my only complaint with the show - is its handling of the changelings. Not the Dominion, mind you, just the decisions regarding the physiology of the changelings.
In the first place, we’re told Odo looks like that because he’s bad at faces and that’s the closest approximation he can get. The the changelings show up and they look like that. They mention not having a default solid state, they should have morphed to have the face of whoever they were talking to when they need to interact with the solids but don’t have a specific form they need to have.
In the second place, the changelings have sexual dimorphism. Seriously, what the hell. They have “no default solid state,” and yet there are female and male changelings? They don’t even reproduce through sex (depending on how far you’re willing to abstract the concept of sex), and when they shapeshift they can take the form of a person of any gender. So why are some changelings male and some female? It’s stupid.
What they shoulda done - and this is why they should have hired me, a person who was not yet born when they were writing the show - is they should have had Odo be a man as a result of him growing up in an environment where gender is a concept; where he is the only thing that is neither male nor female, but where he wants to fit in and adopts the label of “man” because it is the best fit. It would have been super interesting for the changelings to be like “you say you are a man? The solids have corrupted you with their limited concepts” and for him to be like “we changelings can choose what we want to be, and I want to be a man.”
star trek actors are so strong for doing technobabble with a straight face. if you asked me to talk about how the technicron particles are mainlining the quantum blorbonator I would fall apart immediately
ANDRÉ BORMANIS (science consultant, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
An important lesson on technobabble came to me courtesy of Terry Farrell. I was at my first Deep Space Nine wrap party at the end of second season, and it’s the first time I’ve ever been to wrap party so it was like a pretty big deal to me. I’m walking around and talking to the people I know. And I see Terry Farrell standing off by herself. I’d never actually met her, so I sheepishly go up and introduce myself to her, and I said, “Ms. Farrell, I’m André Bormanis.” “Oh, nice to meet you. What do you do on the show?” I’m like, “I’m the science consultant. I’m the guy who puts all that technobabble into your dialogue.” And she literally grabbed me by the lapels and lifted me off my feet. She’s six feet tall. She’s a very tall, striking woman. She’s, like, “You fucking asshole!” And she starts shaking me, and I’m, like, “I’m sorry, it’s my job!”
— “The 50 Year Mission: The Next 25 Years” by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman
“I’m the science consultant. I’m the guy who puts all that technobabble into your di-”
[id: 10 gifs from season 2, episode 21 “the maquis part 2” from the tv series “star trek: deep space nine”, the gifs show commander benjamin sisko, and major kira nerys in sisko’s office.
1st & 2nd gif: sisko is standing inside his office, he talks to himself ““establish a dialogue.” what the hell does she think i’ve been trying to do?” kira comes into sisko’s office, she calls out to him, “commander.” but sisko picks up once more from where he stopped with his rhetorical question, “just because a group of people belong to the federation,”
3rd gif: the camera cuts to kira. sisko is still talking, “that does not mean that they are saints.” kira interrupts sisko, “excuse me.” but sisko asks her instead “do you know what the trouble is?” kira shakes her head before replying, “no.”
4th & 5th gif: the camera cuts back to sisko, who walks from behind his office to stand in front of kira. “the trouble is earth.” sisko starts to reply, and kira interjects with a “really?”, sisko continues, “on earth, there is no poverty, no crime, no war. you look out the window of starfleet headquarters and you see paradise. well, it’s easy to be a saint”
6th gif: the camera cuts to a close of kira, she is listening to sisko, “in paradise, but the maquis do not live in paradise.”
7th, 8th, 9th, & 10th gif: the camera cuts to show sisko pacing back and forth, before stopping in front of kira. he is clearly frustrated and agitated by starfleet’s response to the situation “out there, in the demilitarized zone, all the problems haven’t been solved yet. out there, there are no saints, just people – angry, scared, determined people who are going to do whatever it takes to survive, whether it meets with the federation’s approval or not.” /end id]
