“What If it’s smart fungus?”
Jadzia Dax – Children of Time
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“Sweet dreams, Odo!”
Julian Bashir, Children of Time
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Tag Archives: Crew
DS9 Stories/News: The Federation Leaders In the Dominion War (2)
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Constable Odo
One of the hundred Founders sent out to collect data on the rest of the galaxy before returning to the Great Link, Odo was taken in, held captive, abused, and generally emotionally and psychologically battered by the Bajoran people. Left only dimly aware of his extraordinary potential, Odo spent many years wasting his talents as security chief of Terok Nor/DS9. After learning of his true heritage, Odo attempted on several occasions to fulfill his destiny by rejoining the Link but was thwarted by fiendish emotional manipulations perpetrated against him by the crew of DS9, most notably the reviled Colonel Kira. Odo at one time stood accused and convicted of killing another Founder and was punished for this transgression by being transformed into a solid. However, he serendipitously recovered his abilities by merging with an infant Founder and was permitted to keep them as the gift of providence. Following the Dominion’s strategic withdrawal from Cardassia Prime, Odo at last escaped Colonel Kira’s fiendish grasp and returned to the Great Link, bringing with him the cure to a minor ailment which had been troubling the Founders.
Garak
Notorious criminal, wanted for crimes against the Romulans, Cardassians, and Dominion, Garak is a cruel and unfeeling individual who has been cast out by his own people, the Cardassians, for high crimes against the state. Garak played a pivotal role in the failed Tal Shiar/Obsidian Order strike against the Founder’s home world and at that time, further distinguished himself in the annals of infamy by torturing Odo to whom he had formerly pretended friendship. Rumors also suggest that Garak may have played a part in convincing the Romulans to abandon their non-aggression pact with the Dominion, though, reports concerning this operation are sketchy. Garak is most recently placed on Cardassia Prime in the company of Colonel Kira and the traitor, Damar.
Chief O’Brien
Former Chief Petty Officer aboard the USS Enterprise and later Chief of Operations aboard DS9, Miles O’Brien’s technical acumen is much vaunted throughout the Federation. This reputation not withstanding, the Chief is a dogged, plodding, uninspired thinker, well suited for his latest post as an instructor at Starfleet academy.
Dr. Julian Bashir
Chief Medical Officer aboard DS9, the otherwise insignificant Bashir is credited with obtaining the cure for a Federation engineered disease with which the Founders were infected. Though of little consequence to the invincible Founders, Bashir is respected within the Dominion for this small service and is considered a possible ally within the Federation. Formerly held captive at a Dominion internment camp while replaced at DS9 by a Founder, Bashir may have learned to feel the proper awe and respect for the Dominion during this time.
DS9 Stories/News: Reason #20 Why I Love DS9 – Our Man Bashir
Source: http://www.xplosionofawesome.com/2011/01/20-our-man-bashir.html
There are many reasons why I love Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and why it remains my favorite of the Star Trek franchise.
Reason #20: “Our Man Bashir”
Unlike Star Trek: The Next Generation who seemed to have a couple “something goes wrong on the Holodeck” episodes every season, for the most part DS9 characters stayed out of the Holodecks, at least while on-camera. “Our Man Bashir” is one of the only episodes of the series built around the Holodeck, and as a longtime James Bond fan it remains one of my favorites.
The episode begins with Garak (Andrew Robinson) interrupting Dr. Julian Bashir’s (Alexander Siddig) new Holoprogram where he plays a British spy during the height of the Cold War. Things get serious why a transporter accident stores the patterns of several crew members inside the Holodeck (transfomring them into characters in the program) forcing Bashir and Garak to play out the scenario.
Avery Brooks is terrific hamming it up as the typical Bond villain, Nana Visitor has all kinds of fun as Russian spy Col. Anastasia Komananov (complete with bad Russian accent), and Terry Farrell has a terrific moment as the mousy Dr. Honey Bare finding her sexuality thanks to our hero just in time to help him save the day – by destroying the world!
Great fun all around, especially for fans of Bond. And for fans of the show this is another episode further cementing one of my favorite relationships, that of Bashir and Garak.
DS9 Stories/News: Memorial Day-Players: A Tribute to TV’s Fallen Heroes
Source: http://www.ugo.com/tv/tv-fallen-heroes?page=4
Remember the honored dead this Memorial Day and celebrate the good old US of A with UGO’s list of some of TV’s Best Fallen Heroes!
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Jadzia Dax |
Brave Soldier: Jadzia Dax of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Killed in Action: By Gul Dukat’s…Pah…Wraith…beam
Lots of great Star Trek deaths to choose from, between Tasha Yar and Christopher Pike (hey, that ain’t livin’) but none so heartbreaking as watching Jadzia Dax struck down by Gul Dukat while the rest of the crew fought off the Cardassians.
Wait, we can just replace her? And the new Dax is even cuter? Huzzah!
DS9 Stories/News: Some ‘Deep’ Talk with Alexander Siddig (3)
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Cairo Time
Jordan Hoffman: So let’s talk about the new movie Cairo Time, which I think is the first time you’ve played a romantic lead, is that correct?
Alexander Siddig: It is indeed, it is. Since I was at school, that’s the first time I’ve played a romantic.
Jordan Hoffman: How much fun is it to woo the hearts of audiences like that? To lay on the charm thick for the sake of the audience?
Alexander Siddig: It’s pretty great. It wasn’t so much, I have to confess I wasn’t really thinking of the audience when I was in Cairo but I – to gaze into that lady’s eyes [Patricia Clarkson] is quite thrilling.
Jordan Hoffman: Your character sort of welcomes this woman into the Egyptian culture and the city of Cairo; how much familiarity did you have with Cairo prior to making the film?
Alexander Siddig: Well, you know it’s one of the places that’s sort of been in my reference library all my life in the sense that I was born in the Sudan which is the neighboring country and up until – I mean forever we’ve had a treaty with Egypt and immigrants come and go; my whole family lived in Cairo for years. And so it was a familiar place and I’d been there in the 80’s as a kid really, so I knew my way around and I felt very comfortable and relaxed there. So it was easy to make the little leap from a Sudanese man to and Egyptian man which I had no problem doing.
Jordan Hoffman: So you didn’t have to think it too much.
Alexander Siddig: No, I really didn’t. It’s a really honest city for all its evils. It can be quite filthy – that’s not exactly an evil is it by world standards. But it lays itself out to you as a tourist. London for example, is an impossible city. You need to know people in London to find out where things are and what’s going on and you can’t make friends here unless you were kind of born here. So, Cairo is much more friendly and available to people.
Jordan Hoffman: So when you were shooting this film, it was a Canadian production, but it’s still a large western production and there isn’t too much of that on the streets of Cairo. How were you treated by the general population?
Alexander Siddig: They were completely puzzled by us. They were like, ‘what the Hell is that?’ they just couldn’t quite make out what weirdness we were doing. This was bigger than an ordinary video camera, we weren’t just saying hi in front of a landmark we were doing scenes, so when they could they would sort of jostle into the frame to get involved. Which was fine on some levels, but as soon as they started looking into the camera and stuff it was a total nightmare.
Jordan Hoffman: So that shot of nearly getting hit by a motorcycle, was that actual?
Alexander Siddig: We really did – well it was a stunt, but the interesting thing was that the stunt guy had never done a stunt in his life – was not a stunt man. He literally tried to run her over. And I must have buried my nails deep into her arm to get her out of the way she was absolutely – she was shaking afterwards. She wasn’t used to that.
Jordan Hoffman: Was it all Egyptian crew? Or was it Canadian crew?
Alexander Siddig: It was a beautiful mix actually. It was a whole jumble of different people. The Egyptians were brilliant, I mean really brilliant; and kind of cool and cosmopolitan and wanted to take us all out to cool places to hang out in the evenings. Egyptians – thank God you know Cairo is not a dry city and is not massively fundamentalist. It’s got fundamentalist aspects, but you can still have a really swingin’ time.
Bashir and O’Brien
Jordan Hoffman: Who from the old days that you don’t get to see do you like to hang out with the most at conventions?
Alexander Siddig: You know I love hanging out with Nicky deBoer.
Jordan Hoffman: I see.
Alexander Siddig: She is just hilarious; great, great girl. And um if I see Colm Meaney we’ll have a drink and bitch at each other. That’s all we do. I realize looking back at my history with him, I went out with him twice a week every week for seven years – drinking. Boy, he can pack em away.
Jordan Hoffman: I would imagine.
Alexander Siddig: And all we did was fight. And I guess that’s what they did on the show too. But we fought in real life all the time. He would set me up, he’d take me to Irish bars where they hated English people. I would think they were being racist about the fact that I’m black and they weren’t. The just hated the English people, they would just hear my accent and they’d – and he just laughed his head off.
Jordan Hoffman: Did you ever actually play darts, though, is the real question.
Alexander Siddig: No. No. That would be very weird.
Jordan Hoffman: There needs to be a separation between art and life.
Alexander Siddig: Yes, because that was the only separation, the dart game.
