#emissary

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Enterprise-D, Defiant, and Voyager departing from an Upper Pylon

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There's been something I've been meaning to gif for a really long time and I figured the 32nd anniversary of the DS9 premiere was an appropriate time to finally do it. 30 years ago, there was a short TV series called Movie Magic that detailed how FX were done for both movies and TV. And one of the episodes focused on the model work for the first DS9 episode Emissary.

In the BTS, they showed the moment when Sisko and Jake get their first view of the station. And I had noticed the way in which Avery Brooks had to step over something on the floor. Whether it was the track for the camera or the wiring I don't know. But whenever I rewatch Emissary I notice the way Brooks moves in this scene as he steps over something.

IIRC, this episode of Movie Magic talked about how expensive it was to make Emissary because of all the motion control work necessary to shoot the battle with the Borg. And they were really anxious not to screw things up when they filmed the explosion of the Saratoga as there wouldn't be a second chance.

And speaking of filming models of spaceships exploding, Trek at least always did it right with the cameras pointing straight up at the model as it exploded so that as debris fell towards the floor it would be falling towards the camera. When you watch an exploding spaceship in classic Who, you see debris tumbling downwards after the explosion as they didn't bother to do this.

[tarakanpaintedpurple]

Floaty lady🥹

[4threset]

'mirror mirror'

[divinemachina]

sorry guys all i do is draw Her all day its an obsession

(Emissary doodles i made while sick)

[blue-leviathan]

Here is a little emissary for you, he reminded me so much of tiny groot so I just needed to draw a sort of chibi version of him and here we are! I just want to hug him and tell him everything will be alright <3

[r0larens]

no but can we talk about ds9 & its depiction of black fatherhood on tv in the 90s? in its first 5 minutes it establishes ben and jake's relationship as the most important in the show and never minimizes it. it is beautiful and powerful and we don't talk about it enough!!!

[fatalism-and-villainy]

mmm I’m thinking about Kira in Shadows and Symbols, and how in many ways her blockade against the Romulans mirrors her stand-off against the Cardassians in Emissary. In both cases, Sisko’s away from the station, and Kira deals with an adversarial situation by bluffing her way through it. (The parallel is very apparent in O’Brien’s “remind me never to play Roladan Wild Draw with you” versus Admiral Ross’ “remind me never to play poker with you”.) But there are subtle differences that show how she’s grown more comfortable in her position over the course of the show.

In both situations, she displays a lot of the same scorn that she so often uses as a weapon when backed into a corner. But she comes across as more angry and desperate in Emissary, whereas in Shadows and Symbols she conveys a more relaxed, confident affect when negotiating with Ross and Cretak. And this distinction comes through largely in body language. In Emissary, when she confronts Gul Jasad (with “I am just a Bajoran who’s been fighting a hopeless cause against the Cardassians all her life”), she takes a very assertive, aggressive pose - standing rigidly upright, then leaning forward with her arms braced in front of her - compare that to the strutting around and slouching in chairs she does with Cretak and Ross, combined with the playfulness of her delivery of “we’ll just have to find out, won’t we?”

And her delivery of the latter line honestly reminds me of Mirror Kira, who dials that playful, flirty vibe up to eleven at all times. And the similarities are partly because Kira/Cretak is Real, but also because Mirror Kira is a version of Kira who’s long been comfortable in her power, and who exudes that confidence even in situations where she’s been stripped of that power. Kira naturally comes to embody that same affect imo because she’s become much more settled in the position of authority she holds, in contrast to the scrappy desperation that drove her while she was in the resistance.

And the situations are also different in ways that reflect the shifts in Bajor’s status. In Emissary, Bajor is still vulnerable to being retaken by the Cardassians, and - as Kira begrudgingly admits - dependent on the Federation’s protection. In Shadows and Symbols, it’s Federation bureaucracy that Kira is going up against, and she’s able to assert Bajor’s status as a political equal by holding her own against Ross and forcing his hand with the Romulans. Bajor is better able to stand alone, and that’s mirrored in Kira’s development.

(Interestingly, she’s also more conciliatory with Ross initially - In Image in the Sand, she makes it clear she’s not happy with establishing a Romulan presence on the station, but accepts she has to go along with it, with none of the volatility that the Kira of Emissary displays. But when she’s pushed, she absolutely stands her ground. But she’s become less of a resistance fighter and more of a politician.)

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Robert Stromberg - Star Trek, Emissary, 1993-1999.

[parrhesiac]

In the DS9 pilot, "Emissary," Opaka has extremely Bene Gesserit vibes. She may be the only one, but when she grabs Sisko's ear, and tells him to breathe—yells at him, urgently—to read his pagh, it's a very "sifting for humans" kind of moment. And he is, in a very real sense, the Lisan al Gaib, the voice from the outer world. But unlike Paul Atreides, Ben Sisko is uninterested in playing messiah.

And Kai Opaka knows this, reads this, has probably gotten intel on it already anyways but confirms it, and immediately takes him to see an orb. These precious, highly controlled things from the wormhole aliens, these things the Cardassians would love to get their hands on in the same way that the Chinese government would love to control the Dalai Lama, and she plops the new Federation commander down in front of one, perhaps as a test, and then sends the damned thing home with him.

Because he has a pagh, possibly uniquely so among humans, possibly it's a feature of exposure to the Bajoran gods/wormhole aliens, and of course he will have been brought into being by them for this purpose after they met him. Because the Sisko is of Bajor, even if he has never been there. Because he has no ambition, because his entire ambition and life revolves around his family, because in spite of his reluctance about the job he will not be reluctant when it comes to saving lives and protecting Bajor and the Bajorans. Because he is the right man in the right place, and it is quickly clear to Kai Opaka that all she has to do is wind him up and let him go.

Also, that moment on the Promenade, right before. The Bajoran priest to whom he gave a friendly dismissal earlier, says it's time, and he gets up and goes ... and Kira just watches after him as he leaves in stunned silence. The little one-uppances in cleaning up debris and feeling one another out, don't get Kira where she lives. But this, gets Kira where she lives. The priest says go, and he goes. That one moment bought him so much and he doesn't even know.

Benjamin Sisko is the anti-Lawrence, the anti-Muad'dib, he absolutely does not go native in the process of trying to competitively turn the people into what his superiors want from them, he absolutely does not grab onto his ascribed status and try to use it; he just respects them, and their religion, and remains himself in adjacency with them. He is a man of no force but personality, when it comes to the Bajorans.

[stopthatbluecat]

Happy 31st Anniversary to DS9!!

[good-morn-ing]

‘Emissary’

The very first frame we ever see of Morn

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"Femme Fatale and Danger Deputy Ep 1"

2024 Reverse @tf-bigbang with @yesnomaybelobster33 !

Femme Fatale and Danger Deputy EP:1 (5689 words) by Bremmatron33 Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers (IDW 2019), Transformers Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Strongarm & Windblade (Transformers), Strongarm/Windblade (Transformers) Characters: Strongarm (Transformers), Windblade (Transformers), Swindle (Transformers), Kup (Transformers), Emissary (Transformers) Additional Tags: Cussing, short fic, Space Adventure, Hijinks & Shenanigans, Ace Attorney reference Summary:

Strongarm looked down the glowing barrel of Lockdown’s gun just catching Windblade and pulling her to safety as she made to dash to Emissary, the minicon screaming in the bounty hunter’s grasp. She offered her hero a quick flashing glance of appreciation as she gave herself room to unsheath her sword, glaring daggers at her twisted once kin. Lockdown’s hook squeezed a little tighter around Emissary’s intake, threatening to decapitate but both knew the taunt held no real danger. Lockdown wouldn’t be so stupid.

He grinned, smugly cocking a hip as he greeted them. “Ladies, and here I thought I’d nailed ya.”

“Will they save the titan master, what in the world happened to Fort Max, did old Kup survive the crash?! Find out next time on Femme Fatale and Danger Deputy! Same time, same frequency!