Return To Terok Nor: Emissary Parts 1 & 2

Liveblog & analysis of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine S1:E1–E2.

Ben Sisko with his hand on Jake Sisko’s shoulder, the two of them looking out of a viewport at Deep Space Nine. Via Memory Alpha.

This is a new format I’m going to be experimenting while working my way through Star Trek: Deep Space Nine over the next few months — I’ve seen the whole series many times before, and it’s my plan to do these write-ups which will be a mix of blog and live-reaction, character and story analysis and commentary, and other ephemera and thoughts on the show and the episode itself.

I don’t know yet if I’m going to be doing every single episode in chronological order, but I’ve been liveblogging through a lot of episodes recently while watching latter season episodes on Twitter, and I thought it would be fun to do these entries where I can delve more deeply into whatever analysis I’m most interested in for each episode.

Effectively, the purpose of this and the other entries going forward is to do close-readings of each episode I have in front of me.

My main interests in watching Deep Space Nine are typically in queer-coding, the depiction of neurodivergence, mental illness, and disability, and in the Cardassians and the Ferengi.

Spoiler Notice: I have seen every episode of Deep Space Nine, The Original Series, and The Next Generation multiple times, and I have seen most of Voyager…