#kira queues

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[kira-quartz]

@lizzylizzyinatizzy

[kira-quartz]

Heard a few different HCs about this, so I'm wondering:

[spockvarietyhour]

Star Trek Deep Space Nine "Playing God"

[stilinski-ortiz-dolan]

[fatalism-and-villainy]

First observation about the development of the Sisko-Kira dynamic is that there are several moments in the very early episodes where Sisko extends trust towards Kira despite the friction between them. In Past Prologue, she insists that she should accompany Tahna Los on the runabout for credibility when he goes to make the exchange. Sisko goes along with it despite his reservations, because he listens to her reasoning and realizes she’s right. And this is the same episode where earlier he was laying into her for going behind his back with Starfleet Command, and where he was suspicious as to the extent of her involvement with the Kohn-Ma. In Babel, right when Kira’s about to storm off to abduct Dr. Surmak (insane of her), Sisko tries to stop her, but relents when Odo points out that they’re in a pretty desperate situation.

And I think that pattern really lays the groundwork for her stated willingness to work collaboratively with him at the end of the season. In the pilot, when she’s hostile towards him, he says that he specifically requested a Bajoran First Officer. His later behaviour shows that it wasn’t just a symbolic request, and that he does value her input and shape his approach based on it.

(It’s also interesting that in both those examples, Odo is acting as something of an intermediary between them - the Babel example, and the fact that in Past Prologue, when Kira confides in him about her conflicted loyalties, he gives her a nudge towards telling Sisko everything by calling Sisko to his office, which paves the way for Sisko trusting her to be a part of the plan to apprehend Tahna.)

[kira-quartz]

Tristan is the Earth to Joey's sun and Ryo's moon.

That is all.

[hypogryffin]

p5x log

[kira-quartz]

Why is your pantry so far underground?

offered to let Minecraft Steve couch surf and this motherfucker is strip mining redstone in my pantry

[spockvarietyhour]

Star Trek Deep Space Nine "Rocks and Shoals" & Star Trek Voyager's "Drone"

[autisticburnham]

I don't love when Kira is included in the "women in catsuits getting to wear real uniforms" posts. Like first of all, her catsuit is a uniform. Yeah, it's not great that it's a catsuit, but it's what everyone in the Bajoran militia, including Odo, wears.

But more importantly, the Federation may not be occupying Bajor the way Cardassia did, but they are a superpower who did nothing to help during the occupation, are only offering help now in exchange for access to resources, and are actively trying to assimilate Bajor. Yeah, the Federation is a more rosy eyed view of a melting pot than being conquered by Cardassia or the Dominion would be, but Bajorans are still very much well within their rights to be wary of the Federation and Starfleet and not wanting to join it. And Kira being assimilated into Starfleet when she didn't want that isn't the win for her that Deanna, Seven, and T'Pol getting treated like full members of the crew is for them. She was already fully part of the team, she's just now lost part of what she's been fighting for since she was twelve years old.

[endyillustration]

Odo and Kira have a picnic on the promenade. Doodle request for @saffstardis

[kira-quartz]

#they really need to make a sonic game that is just chao #like its all about chao

-via @bulundu

[fatalism-and-villainy]

I want to talk a bit about Kira’s character in Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night. Before I reached that episode in my rewatch, I’d seen people characterizing it as claiming that the “Bajoran comfort women were collaborators” or otherwise as victim blaming towards Kira Meru. But upon watching it again, I really disagree, and I think it presents Meru and her situation with a lot of sympathy and nuance.

Kira herself characterizes her mother as a collaborator at the end, in her conversation with Sisko:

I’ve always hated collaborators. I mean, what could be worse than betraying your own people? During the occupation, if I ever had any doubt about what their fate should be, I would think of my mother, how she gave her life for Bajor. She was a hero, they were traitors. It was that simple. Or so I thought.

Do you know how many Bajorans died in the labor camps during that time? Died, while my mother sat sipping kanar with Dukat?

But I don’t think we’re intended to take Kira’s judgment of her mother at face value. The episode is pretty clear that Dukat is the bad guy here, and draws specific attention to how he manipulates Meru into trusting him by setting up the scene where he “rescues” her from the other Cardassian (and discloses this to her himself later in a further manipulative cycle of feigned repentance). Not to mention the abundance of food she’s given after experiencing extreme deprivation, another factor in why she’s inclined towards trauma bonding with him. The fact that she is drinking Dukat’s kool-aid a little bit does not take away from the fundamentally coercive nature of their relationship. And the degree to which she’s making excuses for him is pretty clearly a result of his manipulation. He is a manipulator! This is shown both here and in plenty of other places!

Meru even gets a moment where she stands up for herself to Kira and points out that she has very limited options and is motivated in part by wanting to protect her family. And there’s the scene right near the end where she breaks down crying while listening to the message from her husband, which really hammers home that she’s ultimately in an awful situation that she never asked for and will likely never be allowed to see her family again. Also, the episode presents us with an actual collaborator - the man who’s in charge of corralling the captured women is himself Bajoran, and a much more active and willing party to the colonial and patriarchal violence on display than the women are.

Furthermore, Kira frequently falls back onto a very black and white moral framework, and experiences a very strong sense of moral injury when people she cares about or idolizes falls on the wrong side of that. You see this with Tekeny Ghemor in Ties of Blood and Water, when Kira finds it enormously difficult to forgive his involvement in the destruction of Kiessa Monastery - and, just as she saves her mother’s life as a testament to their family connection, she ultimately goes to Ghemor at his deathbed for her own personal closure re: her failure to do the same for her father, rather than because she’s fully forgiven him. Her anger is more comprehensible there, because of course there’s no comparison between Meru’s level of complicity and being part of an occupying army (even if Ghemor’s role was negligible, as Odo speculates). But that’s exactly the thing - Kira reacts to them pretty similarly, and is not really ready or willing to acknowledge different degrees of complicity, or to put the symbolic affront of her mother living in luxury during the Occupation into perspective re: actual material harm (or the very, very limited amount of power her mother actually had within that lifestyle). How Kira reacts to Odo sentencing innocent people to their deaths in Things Past is similar - she was very invested in not categorizing him as a collaborator, even though he literally did work with the Cardassians, and was not prepared to face the possibility that that work might have made him complicit in Cardassian sham justice.

She also has that exchange with Winn in Rapture, where Winn says that people who were in the resistance discount the sacrifices made by other Bajorans, and she honestly does have a point, even if the situations are different. Kira’s answer to injustice is to fight it, at every turn, and that’s one of her biggest heroic qualities - but she also genuinely has trouble comprehending or sympathizing with the mindset of other Bajorans who don’t share that response, even when their passivity is something they’re coerced or railroaded into. She was running largely on survival mode while she was in the resistance, and it prevented her from fully comprehending the complex dynamics of the occupation - and she’s forced to do that quite a bit during the show, once she’s no longer running on autopilot.

And I genuinely think it’s interesting that she doesn’t forgive her mother, and that she’s even a bit victim blaming in how she talks to and about Meru. It’s in keeping with her character, but it’s also in character for her to have genuine blind spots. And given what we’re actually shown of the situation, I don’t think the episode is presenting Kira’s perspective as the final word on how we’re meant to evaluate the situation.

[kira-quartz]

Couple of sneak peeks of the Carryshipping WIP, just to prove that it actually exists XD

[amazingmaeve]

ARDEN CHO as kira yukimura in Teen Wolf (2011–2017)