Pride & Representation In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ft. The 7th Rule Podcast

I love how cirroc still calls him Mr Brooks. So much respect

Avery Brookes had me from day one. That view with cirroc…I was hooked

I never got into this show back when it aired even though i was obsessed with voyager. But later on when it showed up on Netflix I binged the whole series. Its now probably my favorite of the 90s trilogy of shows.

Thank you all! I couldn't watch this live, but I love the way you approached this. I'm old enough to remember watching the very first broadcast episode of Star Trek, "The Man Trap", in 1966. I lived in lower Manhattan and went to school right around the corner from The Stonewall Inn. I remember the 1969 riots and the first, radical proclamation of Gay PRIDE, without a hint of apology or self-abasement. This pride did not come from the "straight acting and appearing" men, who took off as quickly as possible. It came from trans women and drag queens! For a gay kid who grew up feeling as if I always had to hide my true feelings, it was tremendously empowering. I didn't start coming out myself until a few years later, around 1974 or so, but I always associate Star Trek generally with this spirit of Pride and Empowerment, even if it had to be toned down for TV sensibilities in the 1960s. DS9 has been my favorite Star Trek show since it started airing, because it was the first Star Trek show that really waded into all the messy crap of life. Thank you Sean, Ryan, and especially Cirroc for sharing your time and your stories of that time! And, of course, massive thanks to the creators and all the actors, living and dead, who brought these stories and these characters to life.

Garrak & Bashir is one of my oldest ships.

Dude brings up flying cars and all I can think about are all of the shuttle crashes in Star Trek that characters just happen to survive without injury...

Long island to Ticonderoga is around a 6 hour drive. How did that take two days lol. But I get it, I'm a Nutmegger born and raised. Done 26 hours home from Illinois. Non stop, straight driving.

I was in LA for an entire summer, and the traffic was not bad at all, until it was. I.e. everyone is trying to get where they're going as fast as possible, and it is happening until one idiot screws everything up and traffic comes to a halt. Contrast that with Miami, where you have a bunch of retirees doing 45 on their way to lunch in one lane, and their grandkids doing 85 in another, and there's no safe speed to travel.

All this talk of traffic makes me wonder how more ships don't just come out of warp and collide with other ships leaving the area? I know they have said that you shouldn't be in warp approaching a star system, but that never stopped them before.

Had to rewatch this again and I always love your insights, Sean. So great having Ryan and Cirroc on - thanks @TrekCulture ! ❤💛💙🤓🏳‍🌈🏳‍⚧🖖🏾

I am so sorry I haven't been able to comment until now, but I'm actually helping to organize a float in my city pride parade this year and it's taking a lot more work then I thought it would lol. Star Trek has always been at the forefront of diversity and inclusion and Deep Space Nine certainly holds to that. Dax's relationship with her previous host may not have been meant as a queer pairing but the effect it had and what it meant to the queer community is what matters. And tbh I always took that episode as a kind of stand for seeing beyond gender itself and loving someone for the person they are rather then their biology. Star Trek is the future we should want. Where no one cares about the colour of your skin, or who you love or what gender you identify as but as the person you are underneath. And thats something we can definetly cheer for. So well done DS9 and everyone who worked on it. 🍻

Love this so much!!!! Happy Pride!!!!! ❤

Thanks Sean!! This is the best interview of the T7R hosts that I've ever watched. The hate in the comments are baffling

2 of the best Trek podcasts in the same vid?? Yeeees.

Just funny coincidence I'm re- watching DS9 on DVD, halfway through second season. Happy Pride momth all

Interesting how this video has way less “likes” compared to other videos? DS9 was very much ahead of its time! I watched the pilot episode with my Dad. He was Avery Brooks and (Hawk) fan. I was the Trekkie in the house. But he absolutely had to see Mr.Brooks in the roll of Sisko in Trek. Love this video and the platform! Thank you 🙏🏼

Wait!? Cirroc is Jake Sisko? Guess I missed that?

A shocking amount of negative comments. I guess for some people Star Trek is too much diversity, not enough space Pew Pew. Unfortunate.

Bunny boi is such a whining coward...

The state of Tennessee is bigger than your whole country. But it doesn't have water all around it we're here to talk about flying cars and pride month, maybe something else 🤔, 😂😂😂