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elainemorisi · 3 years

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so obviously it's impossible to divorce this point from shipper googles, and I realize that none of what's happening in this episode is in fact intended to investigate any sincerely-held suspicions, but good lord my dudes, if the doctor's working for an enemy organization, there's a Really Obvious First Guess, even and especially including the prison camp as central supporting evidence, and the aaaabsolute silence on that front is peculiar af. and not for the ship's sake really at all: are we at no point going to refer to who he spend those five weeks imprisoned with?

#ds9 tag #like the ship could be the chilliest most platonic non-relationship you care to imagine and could in fact always have been that #and he could still be his HANDLER #you know! on behalf of the man with whom he has a lifetime's close working relationship with doing shit exactly like this??#like even if Sloan's trying to assess loyalty #(though I do really like the 'S31 is made up and he's... something else' theory I've seen floating around)#do we have no interest in disproving that Very Obvious Guess?#like that'd sure still end up at the Dominion my dudes #indeed it is a little suspicious that he got out? isn't it also a little suspicious the circumstances and parties involved? just a smidge?#doesn't that five week period not even a tiny bit smack of making a fucking deal??#or like... what. what. it's just. so. it makes the end so weird #IS he in fact loyal to the Federation?#because you just... left... the very very very plausible actual counterargument to that hypothesis... entirely... untouched #I mean it really BEGS the damn question #anyway my increasingly already intensely enthused er... Tarashir? self is delighted by all this #but ffS people #I mean I guess as with the actual ship stuff I am gladder they were too chicken to touch it in any way #because it means they didn't paste some stupid but canon bullshit explanation on it #but like good GOD talk about unutilized plot elements #and tbh shipwise it honestly is another big character wtf re: Bashir #in that afaik this impeccable loyalty yadayada gets treated as like... true and a character trait #certainly in beta stupidity right but in alpha too?#and it's just... the evidence is not there #because they're too cowardly to address the elephant in the room #could it be true? absofuckinlutely of course #but for it to be convincingly true... the elephant my dudes #think of the elephant #anyway the presumably verbatim bit from his report is ridic too #like I'd love if he were lying but everyone knew the transmitter already existed so...?#and unless Martok was lying about the time it took

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