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Sid City Social Club Script Collection
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2020-08-23
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2020-08-23
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Little Achievements

Summary:

A DS9 story about the everyday things we should be proud of.

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Chapter 1: Embedded video starring Alexander Siddig as Julian Bashir and Andrew Robinson as Elim Garak, performing this Garashir play written by me.

Chapter 2: Script!

Chapter 3: Fic version! (Plus author’s notes about which lines Sid and Andy added themselves.)

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‘Little Achievements’ is a fanfic come to life, written by a queer and neurodivergent fan with other queer and neurodivergent fans in mind. Set 20 years after the end of ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’, it takes a look at where Garak and Bashir are now, and turns subtext into text.

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TUMBLR REBLOG (including links to each chapter here)

 

Video & script contain spoilers for the end of DS9 season 7, and past Julian/Ezri.

(See the end of the work for other works inspired by this one.)

Chapter 1: Video

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

CREDITS:
Writer & Director - Elmie K-E / @almaasi (AO3 and tumblr)
Producer - Melissa Lowery / SidCity.net
Dr. Julian Bashir - Alexander Siddig
Elim Garak - Andrew Robinson
Dr. Renna Illa & Story Contributor - Irena Komunjer / @Syaunei
Colonel Randy & Story Contributor - Randy Roy
Computer Voice & Story Contributor - Prerna Sitomer
Story Contributor - Aoife Murphy / @ConceptaDecency
Script Format Consultant - Giuditta Natale
Video Editor - Talya Sayram
Video Captioner - Savannah Graves

Notes:

NEXT CHAPTER: Script!

In case you’re wondering how the hell this happened:

⋆ May 1st 2020: Elmie attends their first Sid City Social Club.
⋆ May 22nd 2020: Elmie talks to Siddig, audience goes wild. Elmie shows Sid (1) their (2) Garashir (3) fanart (with prior permission from organiser Mel). Sid is intrigued by audience response to Elmie and invites them back next week to talk to readers.
⋆ May 29th 2020: Elmie enjoys a half-hour Q&A session with readers and Sid, ft. discussions about autistic Julian, and characterisation. Elmie wonders if they could write Garak and Bashir accurately enough in a script format that Sid or Andy would not want to change the writing in order to perform it. Sid invites Elmie to submit a script.
⋆ June 29th 2020: Elmie emails Mel a script entitled “Little Achievements”, which takes inspiration from the interests and emotional situation of many regular Social Club attendees.
⋆ July 7th 2020: Elmie’s birthday (the 8th in New Zealand). In the space of a minute, Sid wishes Elmie a happy birthday and announces that he and Andy will perform the script. (Elmie sends two updated versions of the script in the following weeks.)
⋆ August 4th 2020: Elmie offers director’s suggestions. Sid wants to change one line. (“Julian would never say thank you to a computer, it’s an inanimate object.” Elmie disagrees but lets him have that.)
⋆ August 11th 2020: “Little Achievements” is performed live before a Social Club record-breaking 192 people. (In the days after: Elmie emails Mel feedback and suggestions for Sid and Andy, and makes changes with their fan crew to improve the look of the performance.)
⋆ August 14th 2020: Performance 2, live before a second record-breaking 201 people. (Following technical issues during one scene, the final video is cut using footage recorded after the meeting, with audio from the first performance.)
⋆ August 22nd 2020: “Little Achievements” is posted on YouTube. Sid is still enthused about the play (and about Elmie). ♥