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How does Nog’s journey during Star Trek: Deep Space Nine exemplify IDIC?

This is not a deep article, but I do like to share things that point out how DS9 wasn't just the "dark, gritty" Trek before Nu-Trek. It was the Trek that tested Roddenberry's Utopian ideals more than any other series and proved them superior every time.
The Dominion war ended because we saved the Founders, but because we genocided them, for example. Section 31 was wrong.
DS9 is like "The Knights of the Old Republic" in that it understood the source material deeply and made us appreciate it all the more by pushing it to its limits.

Redshirts Always Die · How does Nog’s journey during Star Trek: Deep Space Nine exemplify IDIC?By Krista Esparza

Bashir: They broke seven of your transverse ribs and fractured your clavicle.

Garak: But I got off several cutting remarks which no doubt did serious damage to their egos.

Bashir: Garak, this isn't funny.

Garak: I'm serious, Doctor. Thanks to your ministrations, I am almost completely healed. But the damage I did to them will last a lifetime.

"Overgunned and overpowered"

I converted Chris Kuhns new blueprint-correct U.S.S. Defiant to C4D/Redshift. Since the texture emissions did not work well in Redshift I added some mesh-based area lights, that used the texture emission submeshes as emitting objects, that works far better and also is far more controllable through area light settings.

This is a first quick test render.

#StarTrek #FanArt #USSDefiant #Defiant #DeepSpaceNine #DeepSpace9 #Render #RenderedArt #3DArt #CGI #CGArt #3DArt #StarTrekFanArt #Xanathon #MastoArt #MastoArt3D

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“All variants contain subspace transceiver assemblies (STA) for data transmissions to larger core computers.”

#StarTrek #DS9 #DeepSpace9 #DeepSpaceNine Technical Manual by Herman Zimmerman, Rick Sternbach, and Doug Drexler.

Rules of the game:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Turn to page 42
- Find the 2nd sentence
- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it
- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.

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DANG THAT'S IT

WOW Y'ALL I just watched every fucking Star Trek ever. it's been a wild ride, thanks for following along with me!

as previously discussed, I'm now going to rewatch #TheMagicians for the billionth time, cry a lot, and probably not post about it (and no @serge, I'm probably not gonna watch Babylon 5 anytime soon)

I'll be back with more Star Trek opinions once the new seasons drop, but until then this is it 💜