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Benjamin Sisko & Julian Bashir Talk About The Political Climate of the Early 2020′s in Past Tense, Part I
Original Dialogue:
SISKO: Don’t be so sure. One of the main complaints against the Sanctuary Districts was overcrowding. It got to the point where they didn’t care how many people were in here. They just wanted to keep them out of sight. BASHIR: And once they were out of sight, what then? I mean, look at this man. There’s no need for that man to live like that. With the right medication, he could lead a full and normal life. SISKO: Maybe in our time. BASHIR: Not just in our time. There are any number of effective treatments for schizophrenia, even in this day and age. They could cure that man now, today, if they gave a damn. SISKO: It’s not that they don’t give a damn, Doctor. It’s that they’ve given up. The social problems they face seem too enormous to deal with. BASHIR: That only makes things worse. Causing people to suffer because you hate them is terrible, but causing people to suffer because you have forgotten how to care? That’s really hard to understand. SISKO: They’ll remember. It’ll take some time and it won’t be easy, but eventually people in this century will remember how to care.
For further context: through another character, we saw that tech millionaires/billionaires were living wonderfully comfortable lives elsewhere in the city. Meanwhile, Sanctuary Districts had been set up to keep homeless and mentally ill individuals contained, so those millionaires (and wealthier people in other cities, as well) would never have to think about them.
The episode first aired in 1995. They’re walking through San Francisco, 2024.
Fic idea:
AU where Tain exiles Mila along with Garak
Tain states in The Die is Cast that he’s thinking about killing Mila because she knows too much. He knows he needs to get rid of her soon after Garak’s betrayal and him retiring so he sends her away with Garak. So instead of being the suave, mysterious spy on the station, Garak is labelled as that one Cardassian guy that lives with his Mom and might also be a spy. Garak will insist living with several generations of family into adulthood is perfectly normal on Cardassia (it is). Buts its not on Bajor or in most Federation cultures so he just gets labelled as that guy. They open Garaks’ Clothiers together and both work the shop (who do you think taught him to sew??). Cue Mila trying to set him up with ‘that nice young man’ Dr Bashir and her publicly scolding Dukat for his poor manners
Addition: Joseph Sisko eventually comes to the station to visit his family. He and Mila hit it off and after that Garak and Ben Sisko are both lowkey worried that they’re going to be step-brothers soon.
Yes!!!
Ben Sisko and Garak adventures in their attempts to spy on Joseph Sisko and Mila in order to find out “what’s really going on”
Crazy hijinks that ensue when they try to “break them up for the greater good”
In the end it turns out they were just swapping recipes or something equally banal.
Meanwhile, Jake hasn’t seen his grandfather this happy in ages and is disappointed to learn that they were just swapping recipes and playing cards (and doesn’t really believe that’s all there was to it anyway) and starts encouraging Joseph to take it further. Ben Sisko finds out and is dismayed, but Jake’s like, Dad, what’s the problem? Garak would be a cool uncle.
It all ends up going very well between Mila and Joseph Sisko.
Mila: Elim, pack your bags. Joseph and I are getting married and we’re all moving to Earth. Joseph says you can have Benjamin’s old room.
Garak: Why do I have to go to Earth and Captain Sisko gets to stay here?
Mila: Benjamin’s human and they can do what they like, but we’re Cardassians and it would be positively indecent for an unmarried child to live away from both his parents.
Garak: Fine. I’m marrying Doctor Bashir, then.
Everyone is secretly relieved. Except Julian, who didn’t even realise Garak was interested, despite years of Cardassian flirting.
Sisko frankly isn’t sure which is worse, Garak living with his father, or Garak marrying his CMO.
Let’s be honest, the proposal will be something like this:
I was just thinking about this the other day, especially @agrippaspoleto’s drawing, and thought I’d re-blog it. I love it.
Mila of course is monitoring the relationships progress via absolutely ‘legal’ means and thus is always informed about the latest hot gossip and spilling the tea to all of Cardassia.
Aka Agrippa stumbled over another Mulan Scene… (Not sure if this unfolds on Cardassia or DS9, you decide).
Happy new year everybody! I love the Garashir/DS9 Fandom and the wounderful people in it, so have one last shitpost comic before we enter the roaring twenties!
Transcription:
Panel 1:
Julian, peaking out the door: Ahem, Garak?
Garak, outside the panel: Yes, dear?
Julian: Seems your mum invited a few people to help us celebrate our engagement. Which we just decided on I might add…
Panel 2:
Garak walking towards the door: What? Who?
Panel 3:
Garak and Julian peering out the door together, there’s a crowd before the door.
still thinking about the fact the first thing ezri did when she got out of the institute was find sisko. she was overwhelmed and she had never met him before, the memories all jumbled in her head, but her memories of him were clear: trust him, you can count on him.
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Dukat (Star Trek), Rom (Star Trek), Benjamin Sisko Additional Tags: Original Character(s), Occupation of Bajor, Dominion War (Star Trek), Dominion takeover of the station, Bajorans, Violence, Dukat getting what he deserves, Fictional Religion & Theology Summary:
It was common knowledge that the Emissary left his baseball on his desk when he was off the station, as a signal that he intended to return. Bevan Hari only hoped that the office’s new occupant didn’t know that the Emissary had also left the bat.
