Loves and stratagems

scientific-tricorder:

apolesen:

apolesen:

the-last-dillpickle:

Besides the more obvious things, I think one of the things that really bugs me about how Keiko and Miles’ marriage is written is that we never really find out why they’re married. What do they have in common? What do they do on dates besides eating? Like we can make guesses (based on Miles’ holoprogrammes and Keiko’s outings to Bajor, I like to think they’re both very adventurous, active, outdoorsy people who might like hiking, camping, etc) but we never really see an example of a happy, normal, good day together. Not even in snippets like Kira/Odo and most other relationships on the show. It’s all marriage problems or life or death situations.

I actually really like the way Miles and Keiko’s chemistry is written. We may not learn about any hobbies they share, but they are clearly very into each other. They are very loving, and what’s more, it’s made clear that they have a sex-life. I’m thinking particular about Rivals (’win or lose, tonight we celebrate’), Tribunal (the bit where they tip back a chair accidentally and end up laughing and making out), Fascination (’so you’re not latently attracted to me?’ ‘there’s nothing latent about my attraction to you’) and Looking for par’mach (cuddling up on the sofa after O’Brien gets back from work). It’s pretty uncommon to have a married couple with kids be written as having an active sex-life. 

Now that I think of this, I think that there’s one thing you could argue they canonically have in common, and that’s music. They both play in quartets on the Enterprise, and in Tribunal, when Keiko gets exasperated at the fact that Miles brought work with him on their holiday, he distracts her with what I imagine is one of her favourite composers (making out ensues - and then Miles gets arrested by Cardassians, because O’Brien has to suffer…)

#Although this does make me wonder now about the whole music thing#Since Miles’s playing cello is almost never addressed except for that one complaint about his father wanting him to go to Julliard’s#And Keiko doesn’t exactly do a lot of music stuff in DS9 either (admittedly she doesn’t do a lot period but that’s another thing)

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We see O’Brien play in a string quartet on the Enterprise (TNG 3x02), so he clearly keeps it up.

(Screencap from Trekcore) 

As for Keiko’s clarinet playing, I think there is the potential for some interesting stories. On the Enterprise, she plays with other people, and then suddenly, she’s stuck on DS9 and she has no one to play with. She plays on her own, but she misses the others, and doing it at home is hard with Molly around. Data sends her a holo-program so she can play with people. She tries it, but you can’t make friends with holograms programmed only to play in a quintet. Besides, she doesn’t much like the holosuites and dealing with Quark. It all adds to her frustration of living on DS9 - without friends, without means to pursue her hobbies or her academic career, often without her husband, as the station is falling apart and he keeps having to put it back together again. 

Perhaps she stops playing. Or perhaps she finds a work-around: one day on the promenade, she notices some Bajorans playing music together. She hesitates, but decides ‘here goes nothing’ and approaches them. They strike up conversation, and she asks if any of them might be interested in playing. Perhaps they can do a kind of musical exchange, play pieces from both Earth and Bajor, mix instruments and melodies from both traditions? A couple of the Bajoran musicians seem excited about the idea, and they decide to meet up. A few other music-starved Federation people tag along too. It doesn’t always work, but often it does, and they all learn from each other. They create music that the Alpha Quadrant has never heard before - a fusion of music from Bajor, Earth, Vulcan, Andor, a kind of music that could only happen on that strange, run-down space station. 

I was thinking of Miles on DS9, but we do definitely see him a few times in TNG. Maybe keeping the station together just takes up all his time and the poor cello is left to sit in the corner and gather dust?

Keiko starting an intergalatic station orchestra playing music from all sorts of different worlds would be amazing, and I love the idea.

I was actually just thinking that the cello gathered dust, in those exact terms. It’s one of those things where he thinks ‘I really need to do that tomorrow…’ and then something else breaks, and when he’s off he’s tired, or he’s larping with Bashir, or tinkering with something or other. 

This makes me imagine imagining O’Brien trying to smuggle his cello case into a holosuite to play with Vic’s band without Quark stopping him to ask annoying questions. He really doesn’t want Quark to start referring to him as ‘the musical mechanic’ or some shit like that. 

apolesen:

the-last-dillpickle:

Besides the more obvious things, I think one of the things that really bugs me about how Keiko and Miles’ marriage is written is that we never really find out why they’re married. What do they have in common? What do they do on dates besides eating? Like we can make guesses (based on Miles’ holoprogrammes and Keiko’s outings to Bajor, I like to think they’re both very adventurous, active, outdoorsy people who might like hiking, camping, etc) but we never really see an example of a happy, normal, good day together. Not even in snippets like Kira/Odo and most other relationships on the show. It’s all marriage problems or life or death situations.

I actually really like the way Miles and Keiko’s chemistry is written. We may not learn about any hobbies they share, but they are clearly very into each other. They are very loving, and what’s more, it’s made clear that they have a sex-life. I’m thinking particular about Rivals (’win or lose, tonight we celebrate’), Tribunal (the bit where they tip back a chair accidentally and end up laughing and making out), Fascination (’so you’re not latently attracted to me?’ ‘there’s nothing latent about my attraction to you’) and Looking for par’mach (cuddling up on the sofa after O’Brien gets back from work). It’s pretty uncommon to have a married couple with kids be written as having an active sex-life. 

Now that I think of this, I think that there’s one thing you could argue they canonically have in common, and that’s music. They both play in quartets on the Enterprise, and in Tribunal, when Keiko gets exasperated at the fact that Miles brought work with him on their holiday, he distracts her with what I imagine is one of her favourite composers (making out ensues - and then Miles gets arrested by Cardassians, because O’Brien has to suffer…)

#Although this does make me wonder now about the whole music thing#Since Miles’s playing cello is almost never addressed except for that one complaint about his father wanting him to go to Julliard’s#And Keiko doesn’t exactly do a lot of music stuff in DS9 either (admittedly she doesn’t do a lot period but that’s another thing)

(from @scientific-tricorder​)

We see O’Brien play in a string quartet on the Enterprise (TNG 3x02), so he clearly keeps it up.

(Screencap from Trekcore) 

As for Keiko’s clarinet playing, I think there is the potential for some interesting stories. On the Enterprise, she plays with other people, and then suddenly, she’s stuck on DS9 and she has no one to play with. She plays on her own, but she misses the others, and doing it at home is hard with Molly around. Data sends her a holo-program so she can play with people. She tries it, but you can’t make friends with holograms programmed only to play in a quintet. Besides, she doesn’t much like the holosuites and dealing with Quark. It all adds to her frustration of living on DS9 - without friends, without means to pursue her hobbies or her academic career, often without her husband, as the station is falling apart and he keeps having to put it back together again. 

Perhaps she stops playing. Or perhaps she finds a work-around: one day on the promenade, she notices some Bajorans playing music together. She hesitates, but decides ‘here goes nothing’ and approaches them. They strike up conversation, and she asks if any of them might be interested in playing. Perhaps they can do a kind of musical exchange, play pieces from both Earth and Bajor, mix instruments and melodies from both traditions? A couple of the Bajoran musicians seem excited about the idea, and they decide to meet up. A few other music-starved Federation people tag along too. It doesn’t always work, but often it does, and they all learn from each other. They create music that the Alpha Quadrant has never heard before - a fusion of music from Bajor, Earth, Vulcan, Andor, a kind of music that could only happen on that strange, run-down space station. 

(via scientific-tricorder)

the-last-dillpickle:

Besides the more obvious things, I think one of the things that really bugs me about how Keiko and Miles’ marriage is written is that we never really find out why they’re married. What do they have in common? What do they do on dates besides eating? Like we can make guesses (based on Miles’ holoprogrammes and Keiko’s outings to Bajor, I like to think they’re both very adventurous, active, outdoorsy people who might like hiking, camping, etc) but we never really see an example of a happy, normal, good day together. Not even in snippets like Kira/Odo and most other relationships on the show. It’s all marriage problems or life or death situations.

I actually really like the way Miles and Keiko’s chemistry is written. We may not learn about any hobbies they share, but they are clearly very into each other. They are very loving, and what’s more, it’s made clear that they have a sex-life. I’m thinking particular about Rivals (’win or lose, tonight we celebrate’), Tribunal (the bit where they tip back a chair accidentally and end up laughing and making out), Fascination (’so you’re not latently attracted to me?’ ‘there’s nothing latent about my attraction to you’) and Looking for par’mach (cuddling up on the sofa after O’Brien gets back from work). It’s pretty uncommon to have a married couple with kids be written as having an active sex-life. 

Now that I think of this, I think that there’s one thing you could argue they canonically have in common, and that’s music. They both play in quartets on the Enterprise, and in Tribunal, when Keiko gets exasperated at the fact that Miles brought work with him on their holiday, he distracts her with what I imagine is one of her favourite composers (making out ensues - and then Miles gets arrested by Cardassians, because O’Brien has to suffer…)

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