i look pretty good for a dead bitch.

clio. 27. they+she. queer. star trek sideblog. mostly tng/ds9 but with bits of others reblogged every now and then.

[stra-tek]

Poorly aged things.

[aryasrandomthoughts]

IF BUYING ISN'T OWNING

PIRATING ISN'T STEALING

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1h-I3udUxdjoo43NWBVyLDr-iSj_KPzC-?usp=drive_link

[plainsimplegay]

[1trilliongrams]

[garaks-padded-bra]

most dysfunctional therapist/patient relationship everrr

[ihappentobedead-deactivated2026]

POV: you're a cardassian space vole and the twink doctor is tryna grab you with his little grabbers

[just-an-evil-immortal]

Does anyone have a little rundown of like commonly accepted/headcanon cardassian physiology because I've been reading a bunch of garashir smut as ✨️research✨️ and I still have no idea whats happening most of the time 😭

[ectogeo-rebubbles]

Some common headcanons:

-Speculative Cardassian Reproductive Anatomy by @tinsnip (the sacred texts!)

-basically the same as above, but use slightly different words (e.g. @conceptadecency ’s word sotl instead of prUt, or all the different terms in Black Ink by xorabbit)

-basically the same as above, but give them hemipenes (two dicks side by side, still retractable). I’ve also seen a fic or two where they have no dicks

-Pon-Farr-inspired elements (going into heat in a fuck-or-die sort of way) and/or what I think must be omegaverse-inspired elements (e.g. knotting) (not all that common)

-Cardassians have a regular human set of cock and balls, but gray (rare these days, but used to be the standard in the first decade of garashir fic. will still inevitably jumpscare you in recent fics at amusing intervals lol)

-btw everyone say “thank you, Natima Lang <3” for making it not a headcanon but CANON that the Cardassian shoulder/neck ridges are an erogenous zone

-there’s plenty of other variations and customization options I’ve seen out there: phallus size, nipples or not, exact placement of the slit and whether it’s horizontal or vertical, properties of the cum (quantity, color, taste, etc.), properties and presence of self-lubricating fluid, who can get pregnant (it’s easy to justify mpreg scenarios), presence of a spermatheca (long-term sperm storage organ - a very rare headcanon but one that entertains me), oviposition (my beloved)…

For non-sexual (or at least not solely sexual) physiology things, some stuff I’ve seen (not all in the same fics, and not utilized in the same way between fics):

-scent-marking

-additional scent-detecting organ on the roof of the mouth

-lizardy features that are not seen on the show (e.g., claws, tails)

-the spoons are a sensory organ of some kind (electricity, light/dark…)

-some people give cardassians bad hearing and think it’s canon, but that idea is really only based on something that the imaginary Garak in Julian’s Distant Voices coma said, so like, I really don’t think this idea NEEDS to be taken as canon lol, be free

-okay, there’s truly so many other physiology ideas I’ve seen, but I just ran out of energy and I’m blanking on everything, haha, so other people will need to pick up my slack and add more! and of course I’m also certain that I have NOT read/seen everything

I swear I meant to cite a lot more fics as examples/sources… maybe I will do so in a followup reblog?

[antagonistic-sunset]

yo I think THIS is the new sacred text

[oudenonoma]

Also need to include @apolesen's Cardassian Reproductive Anatomy

[tinsnip]

Courtesy of @dreamerdrop

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63018640

Oh!

*blink blink*

Oh my!

[bagheerita]

Also recommend:

Comparative reproductive anatomy and physiology and its relationship to gender, sex, and sexuality in modern Cardassian society by chrofeather

[wanderingwriter87]

@lorenzobane and i watched a bunch of DS9 this week and something i had totally forgotten is how cardassia is described as already being decimated by the Klingon war (and presumably the Bajoran resistance and the Federation pitching in before that) before the dominion even targets them. based on what the gul in TNG chain of command says, there was widespread famine before the occupation due to over farming and various unsustainable practices, and in the ds9 ep where Eddington is revealed to be maquis they are trying to hijack a shipment of replicators that the federation was sending to cardassia. so even pre dominion, they were desperate enough to accept federation aid. like. shaking my head to indicate i don't agree with fascism but no wonder they are Like That

[m0rbs]

This is my primary ds9 takeaway

[prawnlegs]

we think of this comic so often in my household that we knew what we had to do for the next birthday that was coming up

[trekacrosstheuniverse]

[quodo-gaysex]

Cardassian Fashion Magazine

[hooved]

[brynthatalien]

THRESHOLD UPON YE!!

[qussymagnet-deactivated20251015]

This image of Quark is so iconic and I desperately need everyone to remember that this is the expression he makes immediately after being divorced and bitch slapped so hard he gets knocked over. (He also gets kissed but that's not important.)

[trektown]

Deep Space Nine is thirty two years old today! Happy birthday to the show that fixed me AND made me worse

[trektown]

If the space station wore a party hat would it wear it like this:

Or like this:

[hawkp]

I was listening to an interview that Alexander Siddig did with Trek Geeks and this man said that he stayed up so late playing video games in the 90’s, and was so tired all the time on set, that the producers staged an intervention and were like “We’re going to support you no matter what your answer is but: are you on drugs?”

[gracieanne]

Me and my partner recreated the iconic ds9 scene to promote my quarks bar song hehe we had so much fun doing this

[thebluestcowboy]

Interpersonal conflict on TNG: Worf has a professional disagreement with Data, he sincerely apologizes and they have a healthy discussion where they promise to remain friends

Interpersonal conflict on DS9: Worf walks into Quark’s while the workers are on strike so O’Brien beats him up. Julian watches.

[garaks-padded-bra]

MINSK

[benchofindigo]

[VD: Fanvid done via drawings of the conversation in Star Trek Deep Space Nine where Jake asks O'Brien where O'Brien's family is going to live on Earth. The other characters offer suggestions - Sisko says New Orleans, Kasidy says Paris, Ezri offers Rio. Worf keeps on saying Minsk and maps/photos of Minsk keep popping up as Worf gets more and more threatening in his suggestion of Minsk ending with him squeezing O'Brien with a final declaration of Minsk. End VD]