Quodo in Every Episode discussion: "The Visitor"

[chacusha]

This week we're discussing... episode 4x03 "The Visitor"!

Episode synopsis: An elderly Jake Sisko receives an unexpected visitor in his home and tells her the story of a scientific anomaly that has affected him and his father for his entire adult life.

What The Boys are up to in this episode: Not much -- they both appear briefly at Sisko's funeral. Quark has a brief scene where he gives Nog extra work but then, realizing it would interfere with Nog and a grieving Jake spending time together, he takes it back. Odo has an even briefer scene where he's helping people evacuate DS9 in advance of the handover to the Klingons.

One screencap from this episode:


Transcript: http://chakoteya.net/DS9/476.htm

Quodo fics tagged with this episode: None (https://archiveofourown.org/works?work_search%5Bsort_column%5D=revised_at&work_search%5Bother_tag_names%5D=Episode%3A+s04e03+The+Visitor+%28Star+Trek%3A+Deep+Space+Nine%29&work_search%5Bexcluded_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bcrossover%5D=&work_search%5Bcomplete%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_from%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_to%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_from%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_to%5D=&work_search%5Bquery%5D=&work_search%5Blanguage_id%5D=&commit=Sort+and+Filter&tag_id=Star+Trek%3A+Deep+Space+Nine)

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- What did you think about this episode?
- Have you written a fic set during/after this episode?
- Do you know of any other fics set in or that build off this episode that weren't linked above?
- What do you see as the Quodo potential for this episode?

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[chacusha]

Random thoughts:

- I love how mysterious this opening is.

- The Jake/Nog height difference again XD

- And another Ba-JOR, from Old Jake this time.

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So many feelings about this one. It's obviously very feels-y by itself, but it also is feels-y knowing the DS9 ending, knowing that Jake does end up losing his dad. Seeing Dax and Kira being more parent-like here and remembering the last scene in DS9 with Kira and Jake staring up at the wormhole. ;_;

- Good for Quark getting his own moon in this timeline, lol. And Morn getting the bar. XD

- Oh yeah, I forgot Jake's wife was Bajoran, or maybe I just never noticed the first time I watched this one?

- Lol, love the old people makeup in this.

- Nog and Jake BFFs for life.

- Ben consistently wanting to just hear updates on Jake's life while Jake consistently just not wanting to say goodbye to his dad. 😭 Both of them having to see each other die in this episode 😭 My heart is not okay.

- Regarding Ben knowing what Future Jake did for him: You're gonna carry that weight.

- Quark is not in this episode much, but I love him being actually kind of sweet and caring toward Jake here. In fact, I just like how Jake's sadness brings out the parental instincts of everyone on the station. XD

Overall, not a very Quodo episode, but a very emotional episode, one of DS9's best.


Quodo potential:

While Quark and Odo are barely in this episode, I feel like the future timeline setting very much lends itself to AU versions of Quark and Odo living their lives post-canon. You could so easily write about Odo visiting or living with Quark on Future Quark's moon, for example! Or how their lives/timeline would have been affected by the Klingon DS9 handover mentioned in this episode or how they felt about the loss of Sisko, etc. The possibilities are endless!