[parkayquarts]

quodo amv

[obliviousmelon]

headcanon that a ferengi tradition is putting your new baby up for sale at a ridiculous price to show how valuable they are to you (everyone has to be polite and not actually buy them or hands will be thrown, people will be sued, etc etc)

[libraflyter]

I love the idea of Ferengi traditions that are both ha-ha capitalism but also create a functioning culture that’s more than a metaphor.

[thecottageinthedark]

[datasoong47]

So, this is related to a headcanon I have. There's a kind of ritual sale of childhood goods as part of the Ferengi coming-of-age, which was featured in an episode of DS9. The ostensible purpose is to raise capital for the young Ferengi male. But, like, if the Ferengi were approaching this in their usual capitalistic mindset, you wouldn't really get much from what's basically a glorified garage sale

My headcanon is that it is the accepted practice to buy those goods at much higher prices than you would normally pay, serving as a culturally acceptable way of effectively giving financial support

[shiroikabocha]

Oh I love these, especially because of the spoken and unspoken meta-traditions around the tradition! Maybe they work similarly to the “speak now or forever hold your peace” thing in human marriage ceremonies. Everyone at a human wedding understands you’re not actually supposed to say anything at that point, it’s just a formality—but you see characters do it all the time in literature and entertainment, because it makes for such a juicy plot twist.

I bet “newborn gets purchased by evil jealous ex-business partner” is a classic plot hook in Ferengi soap operas. It’s their version of getting sold to One Direction.

[sirnoblesquid]

Mr. Princess

I have nothing else to say

[televisionenjoyer]

CAPTAIN JANEWAY JUST SAID RPF IS FINE???

[televisionenjoyer]

I'm crying she basically just said

[forecast0ctopus]

bones liker disease still tearing my life apart

[spaceclown-fromouterspace]

This frame actually actually makes me want to rip my heart out holy shit.

Was it casual when i literally carried your soul in my body and once you got it back you walk straight towards my best friend and you barely even look at me?

[unamccormack]

[4.30am] definitely the best thing to do right now is give up on sleep and go and watch “Doctor Bashir, I Presume” so I can spend the rest of day vaguely disgruntled at the absence of Garak.

[unamccormack]

[5.30am] definitely the best thing to do right now is give up on sleep and go and watch “Inquisition” so I can spend the rest of day vaguely disgruntled at the absence of Garak.

[unamccormack]

[5pm] definitely the best thing to do right now is give up on work and go and watch “Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges” so I can spend the rest of day vaguely disgruntled at the comparative absence of Garak.

[unamccormack]

[5am] definitely the best thing to do right now is give up on sleep and go and watch “Cardassians” so I can spend the rest of the day vaguely disgruntled at something or other.

[unamccormack]

[6am] I can do something productive with the next hour or I can watch “The Wire”…

…when do you think that Galipotan freighter finally turned up? I think while the station is under Dominion control and it can’t be delivered so it gets sent back.

[unamccormack]

[4.30pm] popped on “Tribunal” as a Heartstopper Forever chaser. Yes, you could definitely shove Garak in there as part of the process of working out (spoilers follow)

Boone’s identity and have some shenanigans there.

I don’t like the performance of the guy playing Kovat; too broadbrush and tonally at odds for my taste. I think the word “gurning” should only very rarely come to mind, even when watching Star Trek.

[unamccormack]

[7.45am] I have a whole PhD to read today and tomorrow so let’s start early and pop on “Things Past”. Why the hell did Sisko even say yes when Garak asked to come along to that conference?

Garak: Can I come along to that conference about the Occupation? I promise I’ll be good lol

Sisko: Absolutely the fuck not.

Obviously not much on an episode but still.

[unamccormack]

I’d love to see that conference. How the hell is he playing it? Is it all, “oh I am but a plain and simple tailor” with an occasional “perhaps we have met!” thrown in? Is he turning up to revisionist history panels going, “well how about this for revisionist?” Is he going, “it’s more of a comment than a question…” at every available opportunity?

Is he giving a paper? Does he heckle the keynote?

Do the organisers come over to Sisko and say, “With the greatest respect, Emissary, why have you brought a fucking Cardassian to our conference?”

[unamccormack]

Over by the posters with a felt pen making little amendments. Looking through the tote bag complaining about the quality of the freebies. You know, he’d actually fit in pretty well at some conferences I’ve been to.

[unamccormack]

Passing his empty cup over to a very eminent professor doing the “Bajorans are more suited to servile work” line.

[unamccormack]

I wonder what’s in the tote bag. Last conference I went to went well beyond the usual pen and paper, there was a little pad of post it notes in the shape of ivy leaves and specially made badges and all sorts of little treats.

I like to think there’s flyers for the meditation circle and one with times for temple services, and a couple of mini jumja sticks and a “sights not to miss while you’re in Ashalla” booklet. He’s ticking these off, going, “I never did see the hot springs last time I absolutely wasn’t in Ashalla.”

[unamccormack]

The experience of working for Quark is so miserable that for a month after this episode the bar is plagued with all kinds of minor systems failures. Odo knows Garak is behind them but leaves him to get it out of his system.

[unamccormack]

I hope Garak sends his conference expenses to Sisko and asks for them to reimbursed from the “outreach” budget.

[unamccormack]

I keep all my conference badges and lanyards, I hope Garak did too. On the bookshelf next to a vase of dried flowers and a couple of empty hyposprays and the postcard Bashir sent from Risa and the souvenir spoon (yes, spoon) from Ashalla that the conference organisers gave him as a special thank you for coming to their conference and the little picture showing a panoramic view of the capital at sunset that he sometimes has to lie flat on its face and the thimble Ziyal gave him as a present that’s far too nice to use.

[onetobeamupart]

Kiss your Klingon comrade in arms

[bubert]

first I take you, then you take me

[georgiedoodles]

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[tanthius]

The scene near the end of Lower Decks season 4 where Mariner confides in Ma'ah why she's so disillusioned with Starfleet is one of my favorite scenes in Star Trek; maybe in all of television. Not only is it a very emotional scene on its own but it's such a perfect capstone to Mariner's character arc because it contextualizes and explains everything that's happened up until that point.

She acts like she hates Starfleet and everything is stupid, but she is also an incredible officer and the two things seem to be in conflict. Every time people think she's a model Starfleet officer she finds a way to sandbag herself.

She knows all the Starfleet regulations, but claims it's only because "there's a ton that let you slack off." She has an encyclopedic knowledge of alien cultures and starship operations but casually attributes it to just being experienced. She acts like she doesn't take her duties seriously but never fails to carry them out. When asked why she doesn't just quit Starfleet and go home she deflects by saying Earth is boring.

And then after her confession to Ma'ah everything makes sense. Because deep down Mariner does love Starfleet, and she does share its ideals and believe in its mission. But she struggles to reconcile that with the fact that Starfleet got her friend killed. Starfleet is where she saw the horrors of the Dominion War. Starfleet is where she had to bury her friends time and time again. Every time she's promoted she's reminded how she might be ordering people to their deaths.

It's an incredible moment in an incredible character arc. Please let Tawny Newsome do whatever she wants forever.

[hagfishslime]

Almost forgot to post this Kira

[artaudmatic]

It was fascination, I know ♪〜

Seeing you alone with the moonlight above ♪〜

inks ;)

[taya-ki]

Anotha

[the-technicolor-whiscash]

"Can you imagine? A mind emptied by that thing, without even a tormentor for company."

Star Trek, 01x09 - Dagger of the Mind

[emilinqa]

ziyallllll

[attic-bird]

“What kind of biology”