the 2000s-era movie reboot of DS9 where an admiral asks sisko who he’s going to appoint as his chief science officer and he smiles and says ‘an old friend of mine… almost a second father figure to me, you could say.’ and the admiral is like ‘excellent idea. an experienced, level head is incredibly important in times of crisis.’ ‘he certainly has… experience. i don’t know where i’d be without him’ ‘he sounds very mature.’ ‘i… suppose you could say that’ as ben smiles wryly to himself and the camera slowly pans to a framed photo of him and curzon dax as the guitar to a song starts playing, the audio continuing over to HARD CUT to a packed club where a sweaty jadzia is just absolutely grinding and having a great time

big brain time