sisko loving baseball is literally so weird. like imagine your boss was obsessed with like jousting or something. he talks about jousting all the time, when you go into his office he picks up his jousting stick and just kind of holds it while he talks to you, and then as you get to know him he starts inviting you and your coworkers to go watch simulated jousting videos with him. then one day his bitchy rival from college shows up and reveals that he not only learned jousting, but taught it to his employees. like he did this JUST to torment your boss, despite the fact they havent seen each other in YEARS. so your boss challenges the bitch to a jousting tournament and he just??? signs you up??? so you learn how to joust, you joust against the bitch rival and his employees, and then you lose
thinking about "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" again, and like... how do the other Vulcans on Solok's team feel about this? Like, do they enjoy baseball? Are they just following orders? Do they think their captain is being illogically emotionally obsessed with this one particular human but they're keeping it to themselves? Do they understand the rituals are intricate? Do they think they're helping their captain get laid?
I re-watched this episode recently and got curious. So I went on here and ao3 only to find out that there are a lot of fics of this obscure character.
Good to know we all had the same vision. Keep up the good work 🫡
Love that we all saw this man (who only appears in this episode and never again in the series) and collectively went: "what if i fixed him/made him worse"
p.s. i'm not that good at editing stuff like this, but someone had to do it
take me out to the holosuite AU where rom decides that he wants to cheerlead for the niners instead and he's so good at it that he somehow still gets them their 1 point ^^
THEY PUT BASHIR AND BASEBALL TOGETHER, I CAN DIE IN PEACE. I don't even care for baseball in real life, but give me a movie or something that revolves around baseball and I go insane. So you can tell how I feel about this DS9 episode, it's one of my favourites just for that reason :(
As comedy episodes go, "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" (S07E04, Stardate UNKNOWN) ranks right near the top. Baseball, genuine humor, character moments, one-liners and some real growth moments for Ben amidst all of the chaos.
I modeled this episode poster after the Niners’ uniforms.
I’m pissed off that we see Solok one time. What the hell. A Vulcan starfleet captain who plays baseball??? For hatred? He’s tall and he’s mean but he’s also beautiful and he has me in a chokehold. So damn it, tell me wtf he’s all about. How the fsjk did he tell his crew that baseball was rational . He can wrestle me all he wants. I’ll help him write his next paper,
Currently watching "our man Bashir" and I'm so glad that I see queer-coding everywhere, because this episode would be so different if I went into this with the conviction that Bashir and Garak are strictly straight