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First time you felt seen by Star Trek?
The episode: DS9-- ‘Rejoined’
What I knew: I knew I was queer, had since I was four years old.
What I saw: A trans person! Who wasn’t a psychotic criminal! who had a lover of the same current gender. And her friends were fine with both of these things!! They loved her anyway!! On tv!!!! On my favourite Star Trek show, with the character I understood the most. I’d never seen that before!! I’d never seen someone talk about gender so fluidly as Jadzia. I’d always felt represented by Dax, but seeing her wlw relationship accepted by everyone around her blew my mind. Many things clicked into place for me the night of 30 October 1995. I cried. Teenager me was in puddles. Adult me puddles every time.
Director: Avery Brooks
Writers: Ronald D. Moore, René Echevarria
Story by: René Echevarria
Thank you for that moment, DS9. You made me felt seen for the first time, possibly ever.
#ds9#rejoined#the first time I saw a trans person on tv and one who had a lover of the same sex and they weren't criminals or crazy#terry farrell#was phenomenal#Avery Brooks#Ronald D. Moore#René Echevarria#I always knew I was queer but because of Rejoined#I realised I was trans#queer#gay#lgtbqia+#star trek#Jadzia Dax#that episode changed my life#what was the episode of Star Trek you felt truly seen?#please reply with gifs if possible I really love gifs#and her friends were there for her and accepted her so you know what that felt like#teenager me was in puddles#adult me still puddles#you have to understand up until that time every time a trans person was on TV they were psychotic criminals#when was the first time you felt seen by Star Trek?
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Idly thinking about the brilliance of TNG's Lower Decks, so please do bear with me for a little while here... The show's seventh season often gets a not entirely unjustified rap as being a piece of filler while various parts of the writer's room were off shepherding the launch of Voyager and the transition to film with Generations, but here at last the season manages to attain the lofty heights of exactly what we expect from the "final season" of a show like this, in a fashion far more satisfying than simple continuity references or closure to running plot threads could ever be.
What I mean is that it demonstrates the inherent perks of the writer's room as a model of television production, something that has kind of been lost in the age of streaming and micro-writer's rooms. There isn't enough space for someone like, say, Brannon Braga with his weird exploration of body horror and/or temporal fuckery, or Ronald D. Moore with his cynical realpolitik.
Lower Decks very much hinges on René Echevarria's proven talents as one of the strongest writers in the TNG stable when it comes to intimate, character-driven pieces. The pitch came from outside the writer's room, but that hints at the real function of the room as a machine, whereby an abstract idea is subjected to a very particular finesse that helps bring out particular facets of a given script.
Ironically, Echevarria's own Star Trek career is another instructive proof-of-concept in this regard. His first script was The Offspring, but it was given an extensive do-over by Michael Piller and Melinda Snodgrass to better fit the aesthetics of the show. And here, his talents have developed far enough that he's effectively put on the other end of the process.
And it works. The script is beautifully constructed, with so many clever bits that invite the audience to become an active participant in the very procedure of watching Star Trek. The Alaska/Canada screw-up from Lavelle and Ben, the decision to cut away from the transport of Joret Dal and only show the hint of a Cardassian uniform, and of course the central set piece of the intercut poker games. (Here, for the visual triumphs, we should also commend director Gabrielle Beaumount.)
The episode derives its power from the audience's understanding that there were 165 episodes before this one, with their own rhythms and cadences. It disrupts it, but ultimately, in Worf's mutual connection with the lower decks personnel at the very end, collapses the narrative back into its familiar form. Of course, like all good narrative collapses, it comes at a cost, namely that of Ensign Sito.
It's brutal, and soul-crushing, to have spent so much time with this character only to have her swept away by the vicissitudes of fate, but it never feels cynical.
(In fact, one of the more bitterly memorable moments in watching the episode with my parents tonight - who had not seen the episode, or at least not recently - was my mother worriedly voicing her suspicions that Sito was not slated for a happy ending, and my father noting how bleak it would be for them to bring back this character to tell such a story. Crucially, he did not say this to disapprove, and I think it speaks volumes to how much Echevarria's script relies on the audience applying the televisual grammar of Star Trek to the episode.)
I'll admit I haven't seen any of the more modern Trek shows beyond Season 2 of Discovery - not out of conscious choice, mind you, I just have only so many hours of the day to watch Star Trek - but I can absolutely understand why this was the episode that got to pretty much single-handedly inspire the concept of an entire show, even if only in spirit.
For a show that can often feel rather formulaic - which isn't a problem, because the formula is a very, very good one that leads to some fantastic episodes - Lower Decks is proof that TNG wasn't *entirely* content to just coast by and rest on its laurels. It would have been justified to do so, but it still threw in the odd stylistic leap here and there.
And in so doing, it inadvertently prefigures more experimental modern television techniques - and contrasting against some of the more frustrating tendencies of the streaming era - all amidst a genuinely heartfelt and moving story. With all due respect to The Pegasus, Parallels and All Good Things, for me I think Lower Decks has now emerged as the champion of Season 7.
It's just that fantastic.
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Raunch Review: Carnival Row
Raunch Review: Carnival Row
Raunch Reviews is a series about profanity. Not real profanity, but speculative swearing. Authors often try to incorporate original, innovative forms of profanity into our own fantastical works as a way to expand the worlds we build. Sometimes we’re successful. Often we’re not. In this series, I examine the faux-profanity from various works of sci-fi and fantasy, judge their effectiveness, and…
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ever think about how ficcy ds9 is
#the sheer number of these robert hewitt wolfe and rené echevarria wrote#ds9#deep space nine#garashir#daxworf#kiraodo#kiracest#quodo#and i didn't even do heart of stone#or waltz#or change of heart or fascination or penumbra or or or
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TNG 3x16
#it is for this and many other reasons that data is a patron saint of this site#rené echevarria writing this episode: tumblrinas in thirty years are gonna love this one
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🖖 and ❤️ for the ask game?
🖖 First Trek media I encountered?
I found Trek all on my own through syndicated TV. They replayed TNG every night at 11, and for the longest time, TNG was my only Trek. I didn't really know anyone else who watched it until about a year or so ago. Now I own René Echevarria's script from the episode that hooked me for good, which is completely insane to me.
❤️ Your Star Trek comfort character?
Hands down its Captain Kathryn Janeway of the Federation Starship Voyager. I don't know if I can fully put into words what Janeway means to me...
For this ask game
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Star Trek Historical Event HAPPENING THIS YEAR
Star Trek predicting the future again?
The conceptualization of the Bell Riots began after Robert Hewitt Wolfe suggested doing a DS9 episode about homelessness. Even though he and Ira Steven Behr tried several ways of doing the story, they were particular about what form the protest against homelessness would take. René Echevarria recalled, "We certainly didn't want to do a Martin Luther King, which would have been an obvious way to go. We didn't want to have Sisko leading a march or a protest." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 89)
Ultimately, the writers based the Bell Riots on two historical incidents, both of which took place in the early 1970s: the Kent State shootings of anti-war protesters in 1970 and the Attica Prison riot in 1971. Whereas the reactions to the former event had had a major impact on Ira Steven Behr, his idea of basing the protest on the Attica Prison riot was also a major influence on the DS9 story itself. Behr stated, "I was driving home one evening, and I suddenly thought, 'Attica.' I came in the next day and told Robert, 'I hope you like it, because I think this is the way we have to do it – we're gonna do concentration camps." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (p. 196)) Of the Kent State shootings, Behr remembered, "Once they started shooting down American college students, everyone I knew who was still pro-war said, 'Maybe we should just end this damn thing.' And many of the counterculture kids, ironically, said, 'If they're gonna shoot us, screw the revolution. Let's become accountants.' It had a big impact on me, and I got the idea of doing a combination of Kent State and an Attica [prison]-type siege, starting with the question: What would happen if the government started putting these people in camps? How would society deal with that or rationalize it? How would the homeless people deal with it?" (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, pp. 89-90)
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CARNIVAL ROW (2019-2023)
created by travis beacham and rené echevarria
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“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” s6e15 (1998)
Honor Among Thieves, teleplay by René Echevarria.
DS9 does Wiseguy! With Nick Tate and Colm Meaney, two of my favourite actors, as in the equivalent of the Sonny and Vinnie roles.
For me, it's a terrific take on the idea. No surprises, because we've seen it done on many cop shows before, but it's great to see this story done so well in Star Trek.
My 785th episode of Star Trek, out of 893.
My 690th TV episode of 2023. Averaging 1h57m of TV every day.
9/10
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The Wake, Neil Gaiman 1996// Afterimage, René Echevarria 1998
Bonus: the kindly ones/rejoined
#its messy but i made the post it was making me too crazy#daniel hall#sandman comics#sandman spoilers#sandman comics spoilers#ds9#ezri dax#ds9 spoilers#while were tagging spoilers for things that came out in the 90s#DOES THIS MAKE SENSE AM I MAKING SENSE HERE#that last one especially may be TOO galaxy brained#daniel
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like im not gonna do it but i still do think it would be kinda funny to message rené echevarria on linkedin to be like hey man i wrote your episode
#tbQh I regret not writing it in screenplay format I think the pacing comes off as weird for prose#but I could tell you where the opening credits roll yknow#anyway whatever not the point#personal#ish#every couple weeks I just rotate los in my head again he is so dear to me
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“Carnival Row (Saison 2)” série créée par René Echevarria et Travis Beacham avec Caroline Ford et Arty Froushan dans Orlando Bloom, Cara Delevingne, Karla Crome, Ariyon Bakare, Tamzin Merchant, David Gyasi, Jay Ali, Andrew Gower, Simon McBurney, Jamie Harris, Jared Harris, Waj Ali, Arty Froushan et Alice Krige, mars 2023.
#films#Series#fairies#Echevarria#Beacham#Bloom#Delevingne#Crome#Bakare#Merchant#Gyasi#Ali#Gower#McBurney#Harris#Froushan#Krige
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Well, I guess if Lower Decks represents a case study of how well-served René Echevarria has been by TNG's writer's room, Journey's End just kind of serves to show that Ronald D. Moore has really reached the point where he would be much better served by writing on Deep Space Nine...
Which fits, I suppose, since this is his penultimate writing credit on the show, with the last one being the literal series finale.
Like, it's surreal to think that the Maquis storyline started on TNG, the show that was arguably least well-suited to this kind of fundamental distrust in Starfleet and the Federation. That is, of course, Deep Space Nine's ballgame - Sisko pun definitely intended - and even though Moore feels like the TNG staff writer most in tune with that ethos, he has yet to make the leap.
This sense that he's fighting an uphill battle against the very character of the show is reinforced from a very early stage, with Picard's attempts to offer up canapés and tea as a peace offering to Admiral Nechayev serving as an effective microcosm of why this kind of story won't work on TNG.
No matter how far Picard gets pushed away from his faith in Starfleet, that faith is too unswerving to ever allow him to make a speech like Sisko's from The Maquis, Part II - the two-parter that is, of course, effectively the direct successor to this story some four weeks later, and does a much better job at handling these themes.
Picard is a great protagonist, and Patrick Stewart does a frankly incredible job selling him as a character who incrementally and almost imperceptibly opens up over the course of the show, to the point where Moore's eventual decision to close on the poker game in All Good Things... has much more weight than it might otherwise, but this is largely a tacit and unspoken evolution in comparison to Sisko's more material growth.
On top of all of this, there is of course the stuff with Wesley and the Traveller which... well, whatever can be said about Where No One Has Gone Before's suggestion that Wesley was an amazing wunderkind, at least it didn't see the need to heap on a weird, appropriative New Age treatment of Native American belief systems and culture a la Dances with Wolves or The Last of the Mohicans.
(Then again, this is all really just hearkening forward to Voyager's woefully ill-advised treatment of Chakotay's heritage as a generic hodge-podge of crude and stereotypical pop cultural depictions of Native Americans, but I'm sure I'll get into that if I ever do a similar write-up like this for a Voyager episode. Maybe Tattoo...)
And don't even get me started on the way the episode just kinda throws in a blood-stained past for the Picard family in such a cursory way that it really just feels like a means of reassuring the audience about their own white guilt...
Anyway, I don't much like Journey's End. Exceedingly controversial take, I know. Maybe some day I'll do some proper reviews of Star Trek episodes, people seemed to like the Lower Decks piece.
(TBH, I mostly just felt a bit guilty over giving so much focus to DS9, so I wanted to get some TNG pieces in before the close of the show. Hope you liked this nonsense, Trek seems to be what most people are here for anyway, but I like talking about it, so I ain't complaining at all.)
#star trek#star trek tng#star trek ds9#maquis#ronald d. moore#jean-luc picard#wesley crusher#chakotay#star trek voy#journey's end#but not the doctor who one
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Carnival Row VFX Breakdown By UPP
Carnival Row is an American neo-noir fantasy television series created by René Echevarria and Travis Beacham, based on Beacham’s unproduced film spec script, A Killing on Carnival Row. The series stars Orlando Bloom, Cara Delevingne, Simon McBurney, Tamzin Merchant, David Gyasi, Andrew Gower, Karla Crome, Arty Froushan, Indira Varma, and Jared Harris. The series follows mythological beings who…
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Friday Releases for February 17
Friday is the busiest day of the week for new releases, so we've decided to collect them all in one place. Friday Releases for February 17 include Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, Hello Tomorrow!, Quest For Fire, and more.
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, the new movie from Peyton Reed, is out today.
In the film, which officially kicks off Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Super-Hero partners Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) return to continue their adventures as Ant-Man and the Wasp. Together, with Hope’s parents Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), the family finds themselves exploring the Quantum Realm, interacting with strange new creatures and embarking on an adventure that will push them beyond the limits of what they thought was possible.
Emily
Emily, the new movie from Frances O'Connor, is out today.
EMILY imagines Emily Brontë’s own Gothic story that inspired her seminal novel, “Wuthering Heights.” Haunted by the death of her mother, Emily struggles within the confines of her family life and yearns for artistic and personal freedom, and so begins a journey to channel her creative potential into one of the greatest novels of all time.
Pacification
Pacification, the new movie from Albert Serra, is out today.
On an island in French Polynesia, the Haut-Commissaire, a man with a turbulent naturalness and high diplomacy, lives between the highest echelons of politics and the lowest social stratum of his co-citizens. Conflict as a way of life will lead him to take reckless decisions against his political status.
Tell It Like A Woman
Tell It Like A Woman, the new movie from Silvia Carobbio, Catherine Hardwicke, Taraji P. Henson, Mipo Oh, Lucía Puenzo, Maria Sole Tognazzi, and Leena Yadav, is out today.
Tell It Like a Woman is a feature film comprised of 7 short stories whose common denominator is the representation of female protagonists. Each of these very different women face a particular challenge in their life with extreme determination and courage that makes them stronger and more self-aware.
Unlocked
Unlocked, the new movie from Tae-joon Kim, is out today.
Your phone has all your secrets
Someone is pretending to be you
Who’s the stranger inside your phone?
Hello Tomorrow!
Hello Tomorrow!, the new TV series from Amit Bhalla and Lucas Jansen, is out today.
In a retro-futuristic world, charismatic salesman Jack Billings (Billy Crudup) leads a team of fellow sales associates determined to revitalize their customers’ lives by hawking timeshares on the moon.
Carnival Row S2
The second season of Carnival Row, the TV series from René Echevarria and Travis Beacham, is out today.
Love. Murder. Conspiracy. Revolution. When mysterious killings inflame tensions between the Faefolk and their Human oppressors, each denizen of Carnival Row must choose who they are and how to act.
Animaniacs S3
The third season of Animaniacs, the TV series from Wellesley Wild and Steven Spielberg, is out today.
Yakko, Wakko and Dot return with big laughs and the occasional epic takedown of authority figures in serious need of an ego check. The new season of the Emmy award-winning series is packed with enough comedy sketches, pop culture parodies, musical comedy, and self-referential antics to fill a water tower.
Wild Hearts
Wild Hearts, the new game from KOEI TECMO GAMES and Electronic Arts, is out today.
No one remembers why the Kemono began their rampage through a once-prosperous Azuma. Fueled by desperation, they wield the power of primal nature at its most destructive. For a while, it seemed that none could stand against their overwhelming might. But hope arrives in the form of a formidable hunter armed with deadly weapons and ancient technology called Karakuri that could turn the tide of battle.
Quest For Fire
Quest For Fire, the new album from Skrillex, is out today.
LVL5 P1
LVL5 P1, the new album from Bktherula, is out today.
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SLYTHERIN: “The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination.” –René Echevarria (Garak: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Improbable Cause)
#harry potter#house quotes#slytherin#star trek#deep space nine#garak#improbable cause#rene echevarria#rené echevarria#hphq
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