chacusha: (quodo2)
chacusha ([personal profile] chacusha) wrote in [community profile] quodo 2024-09-23 12:53 pm (UTC)

Random thoughts:

- This episode is great. Dukat and his "Attention Bajoran workers" announcements are just so funny, and I love the little subgroups here. I especially like Kira + Dax + Bashir trying to problem-solve from Ops (Kira's form of problem-solving: shoot the computer). It's also so funny to me that everyone who comes in trying to help just makes things worse. I also like how determined everyone is to survive throughout this, even when their actions make things worse! Also, I love how Quark and Odo have NO contribution to the problem-solving here. Everyone else is plot-relevant; meanwhile Quark and Odo are just chilling in Odo's office as a treat, I guess!

- I love Quark having access to higher level security clearance codes than Odo.

- Love Kira with a gun telling people to move away from computer panels she's about to shoot. XD

- Everyone's reaction when the self-destruct sequence is announced. XD

- Oh snap, a red shirt died! I think of this as a fairly lighthearted episode but... RIP that guy, I guess.

- Dukat is so smug here that I'm glad he gets a comeuppance.

- Love all the explosion and fire effects in this one.

- More Quark family members in this one -- Uncle Frin and Cousin Gaila. I just love Quark's faux-surprise when he's like, "Gaila? The one with the moon? :O" at the end. They're so cute.


Thoughts on Quodo potential:

I... am honestly surprised there isn't a fic for these two set in this episode?? How is that possible? Am I missing some fic that isn't tagged? I do know there's this chapter of [archiveofourown.org profile] cool_ha_ha's ghost!Odo fic where Quark and Odo sleep together for the first time during "Civil Defense" but it probably wouldn't count because the fic as a whole isn't about this episode and I don't think the chapter is standalone.

But yeah, here are some ideas for this episode:

- I mean... Quark and Odo are trapped together in Odo's office while the station is set to explode... This is just asking for a fic where they confess their feelings before they die and/or they bang in the office while no one is paying attention to them.

- I feel like Quark and Odo's dynamic in this episode is wonderfully... ambiguous... It seems like it would be possible to write a fic featuring one of many different reads on their relationship: one where they're enemies, one where they're secretly close friends, one where they're crushing on each other but not in a relationship, one where they're in a new relationship, one where they're an old married couple, one where they're divorced, etc...

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