What would constitute a "perfect" evening for you?Taking for granted no work, no crisis on the station, no hostilities breaking out in the quadrant, no sudden Starfleet initiatives ( Read more... )

It has been a rough week at the station. I know I owe a great deal of correspondence; I have missed you, and will try to get to it tomorrow.

In the meantime, this amused me.

Who is your personal role model?I very nearly said "my mother," unthinking, as I would have once, long ago, when I believed her to be an icon painter martyred by the Cardassians; then I very nearly said "Kai Opaka," whose faith was a beacon of hope for us all, because I have a selective memory where she is concerned as well. After that I thought of ( Read more... )

What is good and what is evil?There was a time when I had a very simple answer to this question. Bajorans were good, Cardassians were evil. My parents were good, anyone called "legate" or "gul" was evil. The Prophets were good, the Pah-Wraiths were evil. Things were terrible, but that much, at least, made sense ( Read more... )

What would your life be, if it were a movie? Comedy, horror, drama, sci-fi? And who would play you?*laughs softly* My life? Which week? Most of my childhood during the Occupation was a horror, yet there were good times, a lot of laughter, with my brothers, my father...and my mother, back before I knew enough not to want those memories. It's ( Read more... )

Which is better, democracy or monarchy?I've seen few aristocracies of any sort that were sustainable in the long run. Sooner or later, those not born to power learn to resent it and rise up to take it. I suppose that there are probably exceptions in the universe, but no matter how imperfect a system may be where the leaders are chosen by popular ( Read more... )

If you could live anywhere, where would you and why?I'm tempted to say in a holosuite, so that I'd never be bored and I could visit the mountains in the summer, the shore in the winter...but it wouldn't be real. And I can't think of any single physical location that would give me everything I want, otherwise...so I suppose it doesn't matter where I ( Read more... )

Why do I do these things?

What is the oddest gift you have been given?Gul Dukat gave me a dress. It was one of the lowest points of my life; the Dominion-Cardassian alliance had just taken Deep Space Nine from Starfleet, renaming it Terok Nor, and Odo and I had just agreed that although I knew he loved me, it was not a time to try to sort out our feelings for one another. ( Read more... )

How do you handle confrontations?Better than I once did. *wry smile* To some extent I haven't had a choice in that. I was a Bajoran Resistance fighter. Now I'm the senior officer on a space station where conflicts over minor cultural differences break out daily ( Read more... )