Basilisk
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| Star Trek DS9 Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Basilisk |
| Author(s): | Carolyn R. Fulton |
| Date(s): | 1996 |
| Length: | 27,692 words |
| Genre: | Het, Kira/Odo |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine |
| External Links: | Archived on AO3 Formerly available on Renefiles.com |
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Basilisk is a Star Trek: DS9 story by Carolyn R. Fulton. It is a sequel to Dreams Into Waking.
It was posted to alt.startrek.creative and printed in Love and Justice.
Reactions and Reviews
Nice look at old nightmares and living evil. More of our favorite couple, of course. That final, er, *climactic* love scene got a bit weird for my tastes. Lot of fun for Odo to go running around in Kira's shape -- and that's just the kind of thing he *would* do, had he the capability. I don't know about the part where he's appreciating the use of his "new, more flexible mouth": I don't think it's just a matter of his face not being designed for expression, I also don't think he really has the *habits* to be smiling without even noticing like that. It always strikes me as a deliberate, conscious effort when he smiles on the show, to let Kira know he's joking or to put some at ease -- or to be intimidating, depending on context. Admittedly, a deliberate effort precisely *because* his mouth really doesn't handle smiles well -- but a few minutes with a more user- friendly face wouldn't change a lifetime of habit, I think.[1]
As I've indicated before, I am not a fan of the Kira/Odo pairing. I'm afraid I belong in the category that firmly believes Kira and Bareil belong together -- and TPTB screwed up royally be killing him off (okay, I hold a grudge). Based on some recommendations, however, I sat down and read both "Basilisk" and "Dreams Into Waking." They were wonderful.With these two stories (and I'm afraid I can't separate them in my mind) Carolyn created a very believable couple -- one I actually found myself rooting for. Perhaps my favorite aspect of these stories is the way she deals with Odo as a changeling -- she has incorporated it extraordinarily well into the story. Odo is still *alien*, but his alienness (is that a word?) is treated very naturally; he's not a oddity nor is he made over into a pseudo-human.
Perhaps the best example of this is in "Basilisk", when Odo is forced to deal with the aftermath of a vicious attack. I won't supply details here, as I don't want to ruin the story for anyone, but it is truly a wonderful sequence. Kudos to Carolyn for both these stories. [2]
The sequel to Dreams into Waking that surpasses it in many ways. It deals with a *very* ugly time in Kira's past in a gripping, brutally honest story that brings her and Odo together as fellow survivors. *Read* this one. *Now*. [3]