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i think objectively one of the funniest things about sisko as a character is that he often fulfills the “straight man” role in a lot of ds9 episode plots but also in comparison to like, ANY other starfleet captain he is just as off the walls as the rest of the ds9 crew like imagine you visit ds9 for the first time and you meet the captain and hes like a pretty nice normal-seeming guy and then you start to hear things wbout him and you’re like. “hes the bajoran emissary???? he did- he did what to a viable colony planet???????? he what?????????? okay this dude has to be like, the weirdest one here” and then you meet the nice humble not-at-all-a-cardassian-spy tailor and the twink chief medical officier who is like, obviously in love with him but despite that tries to flirt with you and their first offiicer who tried to commit mutiny multiple times but the captain trusts her with his life and their security officer is just a fucking pile of goo in a bucket for some reason but then the ferengi dude who just tried to scam you into overpaying for your drinks at the bar tells you that no that’s normal he just has to do that every day to regererate his ability to mantain a solid form and you’re like “yeah maybe the captain is the normal one after all”
i love you fictional vehicles that become a main character in the story by extension, i love you ships with iconic names that turn into a home for the characters, i love you humanized modes of transportation with imagined personality quirks, i love you sapient starships with real personality quirks, i love you inherent human ability to emotionally bond with literally anything
Hey so can we talk about the implications of Benny Russell being a real person in the Strange New Worlds universe?
Does it means Sisko lived in someone else’s life for a while?
Does it finally cement that this is in fact a different universe than the one occupied by the older shows?
Was this even the same Benny Russell?
Does this mean he got out of the hospital? Or was he never there?
Did this Benny Russell write Far Beyond the Stars, and did it mimic Ds9? How would he know?
According to Odo in 2.10, the station’s maximum occupancy is seven thousand. It’s unclear what specifically this number refers to but based on the wording, likely something like number of people life support can handle being on the station at once.
In more specific numbers at any given time:
1.03, Kira says there are hundreds of Bajoran civilians aboard the station.
1.06, O’Brien tells Tosk that the number of people living on station is three hundred, more or less.
2.03, Quark mentions that hundreds of people need to evacuate the station. Sisko later says that they have more than two hundred people who want to get off the station. Bashir also says that they have twenty people who’ve stayed to fight the takeover (excluding Quark). Except for Odo and Li, these are presumably mostly Starfleet officers and implied to include all of the Starfleeters who had been assigned there. (Kira and Dax are off station.)
3.03, Quark says fewer people are on the station now since they’re all afraid of the Dominion. Keiko mentions the last of her Bajoran students have moved back to Bajor and that families are moving away.
3.07, Kira says there have to be hundreds of people trapped in their quarters in the habitat ring. Dukat later mentions that there are two thousand people on the station.
3.13, Odo mentions there are over twelve hundred people living in Shakaar’s section of the habitat ring. (Presumably the station must be able to house at least twice this.)
7.13, Odo says there are over nine hundred Starfleet officers posted on the station.
Also worth noting, there are large swaths of the station continually uninhabited and unused. By 3.07, the old ore processing areas still haven’t been cleared out, the computers still contain the files to run the processors, and there’s piles of uridium ore lying around. In 3.03, they have enough cargo bays (there’s at least 21) open to convert one into an arboretum and again in 6.24, they have enough to convert one to house Molly.
