I've been watching A LOT of DS9 for the past couple of weeks and look Ma! I'm not even tired of it! Man, this is a *great* show.

Just today, I watched the episode where Kira gets transformed into a Cardassian then the two-parter where Sisko and Odo go to Earth and uncover a plan for a coup by Sisko's old commander. Lots and lots of shades of gray in these episodes. Short of the early season The West Wing, I've never seen any show that dealt with political conflicts of its universe in such a consistently engaging and intriguing manner. Color me impressed.

On a shallower note, Bashir has suddenly grown into his boyish good looks and reached, "oooh, check out the smokin' hottie" stage. I'm watching the beginning of the ep where he pulls a phaser on Garak (err... "In Purgatory's Shadow", says my TiVo--somewhere in S5, which is making me massively confused time-line wise, since I'm only up to early season 3 in the regular weekday episode run; like dude! Odo was a solid? Since when? and so forth.) and... humina, humina. Dark-eyed, calm-voiced man with yummy accents, pulling a weapon on his boyfriend err, lunch partner... what's not to love?

Also, I fear I've become a bit of an Odo/Kira shipper. I am so ashamed. ::hangs head::

Vonnie, I still have an ep on tape somewhere. I think it's called "Heart of Stone", and it's very shippy. I'm shameless.

Also, Garak/Bashir. Mmm-hmm.

Dude, the writers sure pushed the whole unrequited love thing on Odo's part, didn't they? Another ep I watched today was the one in which Jadzia falls in love with this guy on a planet that shifts through dimensions like some Brigadoon in space (yeah, much with the wtf-ness there), and it opened with the scene that had Kira declare that Odo was her lover (!) to shake of some creep. After she left, Odo looked at his hand, which she had clutched in her masquerade, with this sad little face of longing. Poor Odo.

(If I didn't dislike the word so much, I'd totally have said Odo was rapidly becoming my woobie.)

I think it's called "Heart of Stone", and it's very shippy. I'm shameless.

Oooh. From later seasons, I presume? I know there is an episode where Odo confesses his feelings to a Kira-imposter or some such thing. Uhm... yeah. I've been reading O/K fic. Sadly, they are mostly spectacularly mediocre.

Also, Garak/Bashir.

They are great together, aren't they? There also seem to be a good deal of Bashir/O'Brien, which frankly makes me scratch my head, because Miles O'Brien--not exactly pinging my slash-o-meter. Plus, he's kind of...married, and seemingly devoted to his wife, at least so far.

I recently ran across a fic called Cardassia Sutra, which, despite its rather hokey title, is pretty darn well-written for a PWP. Good character voices and some interesting sex there.

Kira and Odo got together romantically in the final season .

Okay, here's a Stargate question that has me baffled. What did they do with Daniel's stuff when he was dead? What about his apartment?

And why on earth did they decorate the place like an exhibit room in the Met? Why did he have a piano? And when would he have had time to get all this stuff after coming back from Abydos?

Did the set decorators just have no frelling clue what kind of life many archaeologists lead? Especially someone like Daniel, with no set position? He had to have been living grant to grant, subletting apartments, moving frequently, and not buying pianos!

Okay, here's a Stargate question that has me baffled. What did they do with Daniel's stuff when he was dead? What about his apartment?

His apartment presumably was let go--he's not living in it in S7. (We see his house in Chimera. It's not as nice as the apartment.) All we ever hear about his stuff is from Jack in that one scene, where Daniel's all "um, I was dead and you kept all this stuff?" and Jack's all "well, we threw out a ton of junk." And then the line about keeping some of his personal things alive.

Fanon differs on how much was kept; I tend to assume that Jack kept a very limited amount of stuff that he thought Daniel would want Just In Case, because I am a big softy and it's not like the guy hadn't been dead before, you know?

On the other hand, I've got to assume they executed his will, so presumably all of the stuff that wasn't SGC-related, specifically bequeathed to someone, or snuck out the back door by Jack is gone.

And why on earth did they decorate the place like an exhibit room in the Met? Why did he have a piano? And when would he have had time to get all this stuff after coming back from Abydos?

Psst. You're thinking. Stop that.

(Though there is a piano-fanwank I like that says it's his grandfather's; we don't see it in the apartment he's in as of Fire and Water, I don't think, but it appears in The Light.)

There's a truly appalling series of stories where everyone in the SGC turns out to have wonderful musical talent (including Daniel on the piano) and they all have music nights. Teal'c plays the harp, or something. I think there's also pot involved.

I think there's also pot involved.

Heee!

Hmm. Well, you may have killed my drabble, then. Cause I was seeing Daniel walk into the apartment after coming back, and going, "I have a piano?"

Eh. t deletes file

Heh. Well, I'm sure you could come up with something else odd that they do still have lying around. I mean, poor guy; assuming he gets it all back, he's got a whole bunch of artifacts and a few personal mementos, but does he have a microwave or a toilet brush? No.

I am convinced, for no particular reason, that Jack has his rice cooker and isn't giving it back. I think mostly because I'm amused by the idea of Lost City Jack tying up loose ends by leaving Daniel a note admitting that he stole his rice cooker.

I am convinced, for no particular reason, that Jack has his rice cooker and isn't giving it back. I think mostly because I'm amused by the idea of Lost City Jack tying up loose ends by leaving Daniel a note admitting that he stole his rice cooker.

Bwahahahaha!

Okay, after the zombies are done, you have to tell that story. Or at least a drabble.

There also seem to be a good deal of Bashir/O'Brien, which frankly makes me scratch my head, because Miles O'Brien--not exactly pinging my slash-o-meter. Plus, he's kind of...married, and seemingly devoted to his wife, at least so far.

I never thought of them as slashy, more comrades in arms/remnants of the empire mates. Also, dart buddies, and I so don't mean that in a porny (heh, typed pony first) way.