*waves* May I present Incredible Tails. It’s a DS9 story… with spoilers, particularly for In The Pale Moonlight. It’s on archive of our own: https://archiveofourown.org/works/12536532/chapters/28548828
I wrote it because “Far Beyond The Stars” is one of my favourite Deep Space Nine episodes… and it just turned twenty years old. And it kind of got me thinking about how much the world has changed since 1998… but then also how a lot more has stayed the same.
Summary:
O’Brien and Bashir are caught up in the events of In The Pale Moonlight. And there’s nothing they can do about it.
Somewhere, Sisko is losing sleep over the finer points of morality. Somewhere, someone is telling Garak he can have a data-rod but only for eighty-five litres of bio-memetic gel. And far beyond all that... Benny Russell is dreaming about what people do when time rolls on, but change never comes.
I wrote it because “Far Beyond The Stars” is one of my favourite Deep Space Nine episodes… and it just turned twenty years old. And it kind of got me thinking about how much the world has changed since 1998… but then also how a lot more has stayed the same.
Summary:
O’Brien and Bashir are caught up in the events of In The Pale Moonlight. And there’s nothing they can do about it.
Somewhere, Sisko is losing sleep over the finer points of morality. Somewhere, someone is telling Garak he can have a data-rod but only for eighty-five litres of bio-memetic gel. And far beyond all that... Benny Russell is dreaming about what people do when time rolls on, but change never comes.