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A Star Trek side blog for a main blog of no importance. Ao3 is TiredofOldUsernamesMF

[abilugarak]

An interesting thing about Star Trek to me is it's lack of prison abolition or any sort of critical nature towards prisons puts a weird light on a lot of its post-scarcity politics.

[emstrekblogfun]

It kinda started out with some implied prison abolition in The Dagger of the Mind. Criminals are apparently in mental institutions, though the one we see is portrayed as corrupt, with Spock commenting that humans glorify group violence but imprison those that employ it privately, sort of going after the state monopoly on violence. It's at least a bit ahead of its time for the 60s. Then after that prisons got written back in.

[spandexual]

just remember, if you think you are hornyposting too much about Star Trek,

no you aren't, keep posting and stop holding back. Roddenberry Wants You (To Write Yaoi Fanfiction)

[lilacs-in-space]

I think about this image at least once a day.

[askcosplaysenpai]

Considering that in the prime universe, Zimmerman submitted a report to Starfleet disqualifying Julian Bashir from his hologram program due to his augments.

Considering Julian mentions his height specifically when he’s detailing the extent of his genetic enhancement to Miles O’Brien.

Considering that hologram Julian Bashir is noticeably shorter than Garak’s surgeon counterpart.

We can conclude that hologram Bashir is from a universe where Jules never underwent augmentation.

Discuss.

[headofhermes]

[section-69]

Robert Hewitt Wolfe's drunk answers about DS9 sex: a highlights reel

[blanc-ci]

Dr McCoy has diagnosed that Mr Spock needs a prostate massage, and must have it.

- Theodore Sturgeon, for some reason

(more lewd pt 2 under the cut)

Totally normal things to want to include in your sci-fi show, Sturgeon

[tokidokifish]

i think i've said it before but i can't find the post so i'll SAY IT AGAIN: people who downplay the age difference between julian and garak are COWARDS

[milesobriensrolledupsleeves]

i genuinely thought the fact that julian is 30 and garak is like 54 is part of the draw

[tokidokifish]

it’s part of the appeal!!!

[phoannix]

thinking how lower decks could easily make any star trek almost canon queer ships canon.

spirk? already close enough to being canon.

garashir? we are getting cardassians this season… you can have garak appear and say something like “my husband’s a doctor” or make them appear in their background handholding and BOOM ITS CANON

quodo? this person on twitter had a great idea

any other ship ideas? i’d be glad to read them :))

[phoannix]

BIG GAY ALERT THEY FUCKING DID IT GARASHIR IS REAL FUCKERS

LOWER DECKS I LOVE YALL

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x9 - GARASHIR SUPERCUT

[knivesandteeth]

So like Garak left his pretty doctor a hint to his location in the form of one of the amino acids which enable the viability of cardassian and human mating.... Which could mean nothing

[knivesandteeth]

Given what we see of the other augments in ds9, it's p clear that augmentation is represented as inherently traumatic whether they were going for that or not. Of the other augments you've got the characters: hypersexual trauma response, extreme anxiety, distrust of any authority/PTSD-related paranoia and Ms Depressive-Catatonia. They say Bashir is different because the Bashirs got a "better" Doctor but Bashir with his saviour complex isn't any better, he's just useful whereas the others responses are inconvenient.

[hingabee]

...so why is the lower decks mobile game putting julian bashir and bradward boimler on risa?

[hingabee]

NOT TUVOK TOO

[hingabee]

uh

[foone]

So, Bashir and Garak from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, won't you?

Bashir is the man who has one big secret and it's his entire life, and he has always assumed it will destroy him if it gets out.

Garak is a man made of fractal secrets. The cast-out student (and secret son) of the head of an empire-wide spy agency. He's stolen secrets from every power in the alpha quadrant. His own personal history is nothing but lies, possibly even to himself. He lies so completely it took Bashir visiting GARAK'S DAD to figure out that "Elim" is his first name.

If truth was a river, Bashir's is wide and free-flowing, with a real big meander where it goes kilometers out of its way to avoid a huge rock that we don't ever talk about.

Garak has dammed his river with endless pebbles of lies. There's no truth there, only more lies. This is a man who lies reflexively, who once claimed (in one of the few true things he ever said) that lying is a skill you must practice constantly.

Garak is such a liar I don't think he really understands how to tell the truth. When he was dying from his addictions, instead of admitting the problem he made of stories to try and scare his doctor off, to let him die. When an assassin showed up to kill him, he got the local police involved by attempting to (almost) assassinate himself first. Garak carries a big hammer labeled "lying" and every problem is a juicy nail.

These are not two different people, this is the same person at different scales. Bashir is one big lie in a Star Fleet uniform, Garak is a multitude of tiny lies in a lizard suit and a very fashionable outfit of his own design.

In Ancient Greek Mythology*, humans were single souls split into two bodies, male and female, forever searching for their other half so they can be whole again.

They may have been wrong about the gender and species, but Bashir and Garak are definitely two parts of the same original material. They were chiseled from the same piece of marble, cut from the same cloth, split from the same soul. They deserve to be together, not because they'd be good for each other (dear God, no. They are terrible for each other in many ways!) but because they're incomplete without each other.

* not to be confused with Star Trek, which is Ancient Geek Mythology.

[emstrekblogfun]

Fun Fact about the Greek Mythology bit: The two halves weren't always male and female.

The story comes from Plato's Symposium, so it might not be a typical myth, but the story goes that humans used to be two people joined together, as if chest to chest: eight limbs, one head looking each way, with genitals on the backside. There were three types. There were people from the earth, who had two female halves, people from the sun who had two male halves, and people from the moon that were one male and one female.

These people were considered too powerful and the gods felt threatened, so they were all split in half. This led to them all being obsessed with finding the other half they'd been severed from. When they found each other, they'd embrace and refuse to move until they both died. In order to fix this, their genitals were moved to the opposite side of there bodies to allow them to merge temporarily from time to time, but to easily separate and not die.

So, two men as each other's other halves actually does fit with the myth. Two men in the Symposium, characters with speaking lines, are said to be people who found each other as their other halves. It was very much allowed and even considered more desirable, because of misogyny.

Sorry, I just had to be a gay nerd about this lol.

[hingabee]

...so why is the lower decks mobile game putting julian bashir and bradward boimler on risa?

[hingabee]

NOT TUVOK TOO

[hingabee]

uh

[captainsblogsupplemental]

[captainsblogsupplemental]

[reginaldqueribundus]

I literally cannot stop laughing at this

[captainandtheircorgi]

IT GOT BETTER THAN WHAT I SAW ON TWITTER

[hipeerpressure]

@perditious

[taraljc]

I laughed way too hard at myself for bristling at the description of kal-toh like my dude, just cos Tuvok is the best Vulcan since Spock does not mean Vulcan Jenga is cool

[coraclavia]

POGS omg how long has it been since I thought about those

[thetaoofbetty]

very sexy indeed

[unrealromance-deactivated202311]

Just saw an AU where Garak got taken to the internment camp first, like Odo left he and Tain behind and he was in there for a year before they brought Julian in and replaced him at the station.

Several things have occurred to me because of this.

Tain might not think there’s anyone out there to call out to, but Garak would know exactly how to get a message to Julian. And he knows that Julian would come. Not because he cares, no, but because the doctor still considers himself something of a ‘hero’ who has to go riding off to save everyone he possibly can.

So Garak would get Tain to do most of the work and then crawl in himself, hoping to send a message to Julian, using references to books they’d read together.

When Sisko brings the message to the senior staff, Julian shoots to his feet at the ever-changing numbers and letters and is like ‘shit that’s books that I made Garak read!’

Everyone thought Garak was dead and had already dealt with a mourning Julian, and this threatens to get his hopes up and he’s working on it round the clock so everybody just pops their head into his Quarters like…

Hey bud… how’s it going?

Of COURSE! He’s telling me he’s in a prison camp! Of course, but what about this next part. Something about yearning? Oh, a request to be rescued, probably. Of COURSE I’m going to rescue you, you absolute git.

…alright then, we’ll just check back later….

And after they’ve completely deciphered the message, Julian is vibrating to get to where Garak is. Sisko has to send both Worf and Jadzia with him to make SURE he doesn’t just run straight into danger after his maybe-not-dead friend and so that his expectations will be curbed and if he finds out it ISN’T Garak, he isn’t too badly disappointed.

They’re attacked and taken to the camp and Julian gets to stand there grinning at Garak as the man berates him for being taken captive and Jadzia and Worf have to do the actual talking because Julian is just ‘heart eyes’ and ‘You’re alive’ and he’s trying to contain the hug he wants to give because he knows Garak hates public displays of affection-

And so when Garak takes him aside to talk alone in an empty barracks, Julian just gloms onto him like an octopus and Garak stands there, completely dumbfounded.

Like, this gives me fic possibility ideas like you wouldn’t believe, but I might not write all of them. So if this fires up your imagination, PLEASE write the thing!