sense of wonder

main @knittinglizards

[isthereintruthnobeauty1968]

hello! new fan here, this is a sideblog for liveblogging/various commentary/occasional reblogs that are a bit too in-the-weeds for main

seen: all of tos, deep space nine, lower decks, all of the tos movies

watching: voyager, enterprise, tng slowly and out of order, tas in theory

planning: discovery, prodigy

[letseyx]

Jake & Nog + their fathers

[respocked]

sex pollen and starfleet captains:

kirk: happens every other week on that ship. there is no need to theorize, we know

sisko: he has mutually enjoyable sex with dax and they laugh it off the morning after and there is some regret but like they both admit it was kind of good because they would spent this whole time wondering about the what if if they didn't. they don't talk about it but they exchange a knowing smile in the morning

janeway: she doesn't even notice it happened at first because she has such an iron grip on her own desires. then she sees chakotay and has sex with him however somehow it leaves chakotay with the distinct impression they didn't, or maybe he just imagined it very vividly or something. life goes on, we have a ship to get home

picard: has sex with riker but it's honestly a bummer because he earnestly contemplates suicide after. can no longer look himself in the face in the mirror. the relationship never recovers but he was so stingy with his affection towards riker in the first place it doesnt really make much of a difference.

[onetobeamup]

It’s important to me that Dukat is one of the ultimate failures of cardassian masculinity. He is NOT militarily competent, he is NOT charming, he is NOT a good liar, he is NOT loyal, he is Not actually ruthless, he is NOT a commanding father, he is NOT filial, he is NOT even good at his own agenda. He is the Andrew Tate of cardassian men. Emulates it without executing it or understanding it

[maroonedtoon]

Cardassian men who say they would “die for their family” when asked to take their son the Lakarian City Fun Fair

[frogayyyy]

#myship

[respocked]

star trek loves having characters get cold feet before their weddings/ponder a break-up but they never get a good enough job of convincing me back again that the characters should actually be together. every single couple who doubted their relationship was lowkey right. miles and keiko. b'elanna and tom paris. jadzia and worf. guys i'm bored let's have a stay apart saturday

[thecommunityoftrustworthysinks]

b’elanna is actually such a great female character because so much of her character is about how she’s “short tempered” and “angry a lot” when in reality she’s not actually any notably angrier than an average mildly irritable person, especially including her future husband

[thecommunityoftrustworthysinks]

someone’s like “b’elanna i accidentally set the warp core to explode” and she’s like “you fucking what??? you WHAT??? we will Talk About this Later”

but someone is in a poor mood around tom and he’s instantly pulling out the “well SOHrry i just don’t think-“

[andyoullhearitagain]

There are a lot of Jake Sisko and Quark scenes in the later seasons and I couldn't figure out why until I realized that adult Jake Sisko is too much of a Bohemian artsy layabout to hang out with the Starfleet folks, so all his scenes are him loitering in the bar all day.

[thoughts-i-have-had-in-passing]

Jake should have gotten a part-time job working there for experience with talking to different types of people. The Jake-Nog expected future switcharoo would have been fun.

[nothingbeforenothingagain]

I love this idea so much it’s unreal

[goodsongnever]

here's what I imagine: one day jake is just hanging around and quark is like "can't believe the new springwine delivery is all messed up, the bottles should be sorted by year and season, good grief" and jake is like "oh, I'm not doing anything..." (he is procrastinating on writing his novel) "need some help?" and happily spends the afternoon sorting bottles. he can probably also fix various glitches in the computer systems just from basic knowledge & interning briefly with o'brien & hearing nog complain about the problems over the years, etc. etc.

it never occurs to him to ask for payment because... why? he doesn't need it... but he still works there part time. :D no one wants to ask him if he actually knows what's going on in case he doubles down and is like "yeah, I *DO* work here now!"

[iscariotism]

my little kitty meow meows

[lostyesterday]

Star Trek women who like women.

[emilinqa]

ziyallllll

[respocked]

bajoran government campaign showcasing the diversity of the bajoran people

[respocked]

keiko o'brien finds this poster looking for classroom decor. "what a lovely message!" she says, and puts in the center spot on her classroom bulletin board. she's so glad that the bajoran national media is doing such amazing campaigns. the next day kai winn mails her a dead rat. i mean an anonymous person mails her a dead rat with a message protesting the spread of blasphemy (some of the models posed without earrings)

[raisinchallah]

the sisko kirk hero worship homoeroticism would be entirely reversed if kirk ever showed up on ds9 thru his own time travel circumstances because the first thing that would happen is he would meet quark and the thing about kirk is there is nobody in the entire space and time of the universe that would annoy him more than quark it would immediately be like the worst day he ever experienced it would be like nonstop torment trying to understand why these things keep happening to him and then he would see sisko tactfully handling quark or god forbid see him getting quark to kiss the nagus scepter and like it would be over for him like sisko handling quark related paperwork would be the single most heroic thing hes ever seen like he would become immediately obsessed and bewitched

[letseyx]

Revolutionary Rom

[small-delta]

together we are deep space nine

[garaks-padded-cell]

If i won the lottery i would give it all to u thats how much i fw this

[exlibra]

ziyal survives the war -> is unofficially adopted by both garak and kira separately (Very Separately.) -> asks to spend time on cardassia during the reconstruction -> kira comes along because it’s a disaster out there and she’s not letting ziyal go by herself -> comedy of errors where kira keeps getting mistaken for garak’s quite young wife (but what a lovely daughter you have together! she looks so much like you! divorced, you say? what a shame…) -> kira’s head explodes. the end

[theathenachild]

I need to literally study Star Trek lower decks to figure out how they made Mariner so likable. Like she is so insane but also has literally never done anything wrong ever. She makes so many mistakes but they are all so true to her character AND she’s pretty self aware about them so it’s not frustrating. Every action she has is so believable and reasonable, but she’s still insanely entertaining and interesting when those actions could make her boring. Like lower decks in general is a master class in creating great characters, but Mariner is particularly insane