#sisko day

[tuttle-did-it]

Ira Steven Behr on 7th Rule talking about the great Avery Brooks. As always, Ira has some really great insights about DS9 and the evolution of writing for Avery as Sisko. Really, really enjoyed this interview. Sisko was such a ground-breaking character, and Avery is such a phenomenal actor. It hurts me so much that Hollywood has not valued his talent.

Touches lightly on Sisko's PTSD, his evolution and disconnect between the way the show originally envisioned the way they saw Sisko and the way Avery's performativity, Sisko as a loving single Black father (which was a really rare thing on television at the time), the tone of DS9, found family, differences between DS9 and other Treks, Avery approaching the producers/writers asking for his quarters to have a more African/Black theme and off-duty clothes, experience with Network/Studios regarding Black characters in the show, Avery's similarity to Benny Russell, Avery's impact on Ira as a person.

[obrienmustsuffer]

On this #TheSiskoDay, listen to 'Ave Emissário - Hail Emissary,' a tribute song to #TheSisko.

[great-and-small]

My proposed bumper sticker design in honor of Threshold Day

[trek-tracks]

And if I had to do it all over again...I would.

[ihaveaweirdidea]

Star Trek Meme Dump for your First Contact Day. 🖖🏻

So....

[ktempestbradford]

A Story for Star Trek Day

I've told this story on Twitter before. I tell it every Star Trek Day and whenever a Deep Space 9 anniversary rolls around. It's about me and Avery Brooks (aka Best ST Captain Benjamin Sisko).

The college my mother went to specifically started recruiting top Black students in the 60s. Due to this, the Black kids all mostly knew each other as they were in that same program. Avery Brooks went to the same college and they were good friends.

(She once told me he had a huge crush on her and I was like MOM. MOTHER. WHAT. HOW COULD YOU HE COULD HAVE BEEN MY DAD.)

Anyway, many of the students in this program remained friends long after college. So over the years as Avery was getting TV gigs & such we would all watch cuz he was my mom's friend & I thought that was the coolest. There was one particularly fun night when my best friend's uncle, Frankie Faison, guest starred on A Man Called Hawk. TWO people we know on TV!

When I was in middle school Avery was touring his production of "Paul Robeson" and it came through our town, so I got to see him perform in person (awesooooome) and meet him for the first time since I was a baby (which I did not remember, of course).

Now, backing up a little bit: I am a Star Trek fan because of my mom. She loved the original series and I remember being a wee Tempest in front of the TV watching The Wrath of Khan and us excitedly going to see Star Trek IV together.

I watched TNG from the instant it appeared on TV because of her. I watched all of The Animated Series even though everyone looked "wrong". (Man... it took me 4 months to realize that dude in the red shirt was Scotty cuz I'd only ever seen movie Scotty.)

Then... they announced Deep Space 9.

We heard Avery Brooks would be the commander and there was MUCH rejoicing around our house. DS9 turned out to be the best Trek ever and, of course, Avery was awesome. This was around the time my mom dropped that "he had a crush on me but I wasn't interested" bombshell.

I'm still bitter.

I mean, I love my dad he's great. But SISKO COULD HAVE BEEN MY DAD.

I lost my mom in 1999. She was--and I'm not exaggerating--an extraordinary woman and beloved by many. I received so many beautiful messages of condolence from her friends all the way back to those college years, including Avery. So many people remembered her fondly. <3

I kept watching Star Trek and often talked to her as if she was there during episodes. She would have LOVED Discovery. Especially since she took me to RENT the year I started college. I'm sure she would have shared my opinion of Enterprise as well. But she loved her some Scott Bakula, so she would have watched, anyway.

I got the chance to interview Avery Brooks at DragonCon back in 2013 (jeez, it's been almost 10 years omg). Before the interview, I went up to him on the Walk of Fame and I said:

Hi, I'm (name K stands for) Bradford, I don't know if you remember me...

And he looked up and said: Of course I remember you.

We talked for a bit and I asked if I could come back and interview him later and he said yes (he wasn't supposed to; his handler had A LOOK). I didn't want to hold up his line, so I said I'd see him later.

Before I could go, he reached out for my hand and squeezed it before saying: I loved your mama, you know.

And we just stayed like that for a few seconds, missing her together.

...I might have been trying very hard not to burst into tears.

That DragonCon was the last time I saw Avery. Barring an extraordinary circumstance, that's probably the last time I'll see him in person. I'm glad we got to have that moment together. And we had a great conversation!

His contribution to Trek has meant so much to me. SISKO4EVA

And I'm glad that it's another tie between me, my mom, and Trek. I can't watch DS9 without hearing her voice giving color commentary. Even the episodes she didn't live to see.

I think Star Trek is part of what gave her hope for the future. She passed that on to me. ❤️🖖🏾❤️

Happy Star Trek Day to all who celebrate.

[frogayyyy]

“sisko would love his lizard child”

HE ALREADY DOES

[jvlianbashir]

be sisko. wake up. cook a delicious breakfast for your family and pack lunch for your partner. get caught up on unanswered communications on your PADD. have a morally questionable figure become psychosexually obsessed with you, chasing the thrill of corrupting you while also desperately craving to earn the benediction of your approval as a Good Man. add them to the spreadsheet. look into starting a community baseball club. call your dad. schedule senior staff meeting to address the issue of the local bartender being split into good and evil halves due to touching an ancient relic he was trying to sell on space ebay. break up argument between two ambassadors from warring factions on the precipice of nuclear war. give them both a jumja stick. blackmail the evil half of the bartender into letting them have it on the house. add beets to your grocery list. write letter of recommendation for junior staff member. message your favorite worm to get the station gossip while you cook family dinner. go to bed. try your best to interpret prophetic dreams from sacred aliens beyond your understanding. wake up.

[comradekira]

thank you please come again ⚾️🌀

[redcheekdays]

—You trying to scare me? —I'm trying to save your life, and the lives of every hostage in that room. And mister, you are not making it easy.

a.k.a. yes Yes the captain is Out

[vasquez-rocks]

ds9 characters ranked from least to most likely to have a youtube channel where they do obviously staged creepypasta vlogs for 8 year olds in the most annoying voice you’ve ever heard

8) worf – beneath his honor 7) o’brien – he lived it when rumplestiltskin moved into his house, no way he’s doing that shit again 6) odo – he IS the creepypasta monster the annoying person would find in the obviously staged vlog, which might complicate matters 5) kira – not something she’s likely to do, but, eh, if it’d make kirayoshi happy, she’s the fun aunt, right? unfortunately her vlogs always end with her shooting the evil ronald mcdonald or whatever with the “disintegrate” setting of her phaser, which frightens the little ones 4) sisko – the man will do anything to make his son happy, and jake is a writer which suggests his little nine-year-old self was probably obsessed with videos about mothman or whatever 3) quark – surprisingly, not the most likely on this list! it’s a little beneath his dignity to do the kicked-in-the-head-by-a-mule voice and pretend to be scared of a puppet or whatever. but there’s latinum in children’s entertainment, and he DOES need some way to win back the station’s parents after he accidentally sent a bat mitzvah party into a holodeck playing Vulcan Love Slave IV 2) bashir – would it be in his nature? no. of course not. he is sensitive and fussy. but like. look at him. his twinkish build. the pallor of blue computer light on the bags under his eyes. this man was bred in a lab to sit in a gaming chair and lie to children about creepypasta monsters 1) dax – “oh my gosh, guys, it’s 3 am and look what just snuck into my apartment” [turns camera around and it’s captain boday naked in her bed]

[softcthulhuwu]

kirk is like your cool gay uncle in a longterm situationship and pike is your cool ally dad who doesn't always get it but still gets you your first binder send tweet

[obrienmustsuffer]

Happy #TheSiskoDay!

[tea-earl-grey]

i had an itching for comfort media so i went back to watch some s1 voyager episodes and s1 is soooo much better than i remembered. the later seasons appeal to my tastes a bit more but all the characters in s1 are so earnest and hopeful even when they butt heads and disagree and i'm just sitting here like "oh god they don't know what the next 7 years have in store..." i doubt it was that purposeful on the writers' part but it's so compelling how all of the characters have pretty open insecurities and are clearly people with lives and dreams beyond Voyager and bit by bit that's chipped away in later seasons. yes everyone becomes more confident and competent but is that really who they are or are they just losing themselves along the journey? (unfortunately the Doyalist explanation is just that the writers stopped putting focus on like. half of the main cast but shh i'm here for Watsonian analysis.)

like it's particularly noticeable with Janeway. she's definitely always been written as a strong leader but i forgot how much in early seasons we get to see her insecurities and vulnerabilities, how different she acts from when she's acting as captain to when she's alone, how often she questions her morality and whether she has the right to make decisions for her crew (and how often others questioned that right). then in the later seasons (around s3 and definitely by s4), she almost never questions her moral decisions, she rarely shows doubt, she plans heists on Borg cubes without a second thought, she dispenses her justice to the Equinox crew without really considering their position, she regulates others' autonomy (especially with Seven and the Doctor) without seeming to realize how easily that can go wrong. and don't get me wrong i love this development and think it's incredibly realistic for Janeway to deeply internalize her role and authority as a Captain and for it to permanently change her sense of self. Endgame is the perfect closure for Janeway's character because her future self exerts that same authority that she's been practicing over herself (also Janeway gets to live out her martyr complex one last time). i just wish the show was a little bit more self-aware that it was writing Janeway (and other characters) like this because there could be so many more interesting character conflicts.

anyways rewatching early ds9 made me say "aww these characters don't know that one day they'll all grow together and basically become family" and rewatching early voyager has me saying "uhohhhh these characters don't know the unhealthy relationships and neuroses they're going to uncover and develop". toxic found family for the win.

[fandom-march-madness]

Propaganda

Ben Sisko: #Y'ALL SISKO#a black man literally went up to avery brooks at a con and told him he learned how to be a black single dad by watching sisko with jake#<- please use as propaganda

[sopheadraws]

Why would a 17-year-old boy know cursive in the 24th century; THEY WRITE EVERYTHING DIGITALLY??

Cursive seems like something Kirk and Spock (history nerds) would teach themselves for fun, but I don't know why Jake Sisko (not a history nerd) would pertain this knowledge??