We Gotta Talk About The Best Moments In Low Decks This Week

There’s a lot to like this week’s episode about The Lower Ground. The first episode of the show set the stage for what would be one of the best finales of a Star Trek show, one full of potential across the board to give an exciting voice to many of the things that have made the show so great over the past five years. But even if the show were to make it to the finale, I will always be grateful for what this week’s episode gave me a little heart.

“Fissure Quest” immediately hits you with a boat A journey geekery, even if it’s within the mythology of The Lower Ground itself (the return of Boimler’s pilot similar to William, who is now part of the 31st crew of his starship on a multiversal rescue mission!) William’s crew of multiversal A journey characters include Harry Kim’s legendary army (including one lieutenant, all voiced by Voyager‘s Garrett Wang), Curzon Dax version from Deep Space Ninewhere the Dax symbiont had not been given to Jadzia as it would have been in the past. A journey time, etc. in the form of Companies‘s T’Pol (Jolene Blalock) makes a rare return to the game and a rare comeback Star Trek great) who found his happy ending with Journey.

But the biggest surprise for me were William’s doctors: Elim Garak from the reality where he contacted Starfleet and put their surgical hands on, and Julian Bashir’s Medical Hologram, probably from the reality that happened. Deep Space Nine“Doctor Bashir, I Presume” played well. This is already exciting, especially as Andrew Robinson and Alexander Siddig return to reprise their first TV roles in years. But it’s also interesting how William describes them in his blog: they are married. Finally, even with other types of them, there is a piece of Star Trek TV show with Garak and Bashir as husbands.

Deep Space Nine fans have been shipping for a long time simple, simple tailor and DS9’s CMO—the climax of their relationship on the show was electric from the moment Julian and Garak met, the secret attraction of Garak’s past and Bashir’s desire to provide important material for fans to read. unusual interpretation to. Although Deep Space Nine never textually went there, even though it brushed up against the perceived-taboo of queer relationships in some areas, there was always something in the couple that caused that romantic relationship. It’s one that Robinson and Siddig have been keen to help themselves to ever since Deep Space Nine he concluded, talking about relationships at fan meetings and how they, sometimes, try to push their performances if there is the possibility of something between the two there, even if the text does not go that far. Robinson continued to write several Star Trek books about Garak, affecting the queerness of the character-although not clearly with Bashir.

The Lower Ground I would just leave it at that. “Fissure Quest” is happening enough that it could have succeeded in summoning Garak and Bashir’s men and continued his many worries, but instead it gives the couple a chance to be two. They find time to connect and be kind to each other. Hell, without a doubt he finds one of the sweetest qualities of the episode, playing with his more thoughts on the thoughts of different people to clearly emphasize that regardless of the difference they come from, and wherever they settle after their work is done, the house is inside each other. It is again perfectly Garak and Bashir saying that this point comes after the former spends a lot of time arguing with the latter about whether to stay in his universe or Julian’s – because, as Garak lovingly explains to his husband in the climax, he always likes to argue. with him.

It just makes everything I’ve seen in these characters since watching it DS9 is as a queer teenager myself really part Star Trek in some small way, years later I wonder what could have been. For all the interest in the past Star Trek it has had in its revival -from tasteful appeals and tie-ins in series like. Wonderful New Worldsto Picard‘s to continue about The Next Generation‘s stories and characters, to The Lower Ground‘own nerdy love for what Star Trek it’s in and without its script-the idea of ​​using this to give fans of a strange family that didn’t exist (even if it’s not “our” Garak and Bashir) for a short time was something I didn’t expect, though The Lower Ground he looked down at the end of it. There’s a lot I’m glad the show has accomplished in its five years, but no matter how it ends next week, I’ll always be glad it dedicated itself to one of them. Deep Space Nine‘s better relationships, and did queer justice always deserved.

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