Odo and Quark NEVER looked more married than in this episode!
They’re the total opposites of their DS9’s selves:
Odo is a big submissive to hierarchy twat who doesn’t care about what’s right, almost actual fascist, who let himself getting fucked by bigger fascists cause they have more power than him,
Quark is a revolted, almost up in arms, and progressive as fuck electric battery who can’t stand any kind of injustice, like not letting women be published writers or impeding Black people from writing.
Btw, I suspect these 50’s New York Odo and Quark are an actual gay couple, that no one except their colleagues know, and while Quark wants to yell it on the rooftops, because GAY RIGHTS, Odo refuses at all costs to let the world know. Maybe that’s why he’s so bitter, so submissive and so pessimistic.
While his cute social justice warrior is combative and unyielding. X)
Also that end, wow! Such a meta end!
“What if Benny exists and we are the dream?” says the guy who actually wrote that episode.
In 1998 we first got to see the ds9 episode “far beyond the stars”, in which Sisko experiences violence and racism through the life of a black sci fi writer in the 1950s. 22 years later it is absolutely unacceptable that the story could have been set in 2020 and he would still have faced racism, hatred and injustice. We don’t deserve to look back at it as a “lesson from the past” because he would still have had to fear for and fight for his basic human rights – that is the reality of being black in 2020. Racism and police violence isn’t a story of the past, this is the reality we are living in right now, this is the reason why its important to fight and speak up. (This is also obviously about more than just star trek, I just wanted to make my stance clear and show my support in a way that was authentic to the content I post here. I want to make it clear that if you like my art and disagree with black lives matter, then my art is not for you.) Â
In 1998 we first got to see the ds9 episode “far beyond the stars”, in which Sisko experiences violence and racism through the life of a black sci fi writer in the 1950s. 22 years later it is absolutely unacceptable that the story could have been set in 2020 and he would still have faced racism, hatred and injustice. We don’t deserve to look back at it as a “lesson from the past” because he would still have had to fear for and fight for his basic human rights – that is the reality of being black in 2020. Racism and police violence isn’t a story of the past, this is the reality we are living in right now, this is the reason why its important to fight and speak up. (This is also obviously about more than just star trek, I just wanted to make my stance clear and show my support in a way that was authentic to the content I post here. I want to make it clear that if you like my art and disagree with black lives matter, then my art is not for you.) Â
