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[voskhodart]

Congratulations to Julian Bashir for officially fucking that old man. <3

[mortimermcmirestinks]

the best kind of tng scene

[elluendifad]

[id: drawing of picard and riker from star trek tng. picard is gesticulating angrily, text labels him "some bullshit happening to this guy." Riker is smiling with his arms crossed and labeled "biggest shit-eating grin you've ever seen on a human." end id.]

[spockvarietyhour]

Trampoline Day on the Promenade (The Emissary rides free)

[jaimehwatson]

I've been thinking a lot about the little ways we see Garak's character change over time, just in terms of how comfortable he is talking about himself and his past. Like at the end of The Wire, he's saying "haha what's up with Odo thinking I was in the Obsidian Order, that's weird," and he knows Julian knows that he absolutely was, but they basically both agree to pretend he wasn't and not talk about it. But then by Our Man Bashir a couple years later, he's just directly saying "your spy fantasy is stupid and unrealistic and I know because I actually was a spy." At some point in the middle there he got more okay with acknowledging and discussing that.

Similarly, back in Past Prologue, he was responding to Julian calling him "Mr. Garak" with "it's just Garak," as if that's his entire name and not only a last name. In The Wire, he can only talk about "Elim" as if that was a different person. But by "Things Past" in season 5, he's talking about the name tag that said "Elim Garak, former Cardassian oppressor," and you might be distracted by how funny that is and not really think about how that means he told a whole bunch of people his first name! He was walking around with his full name on a name tag for strangers to read! That's so hugely different from a few years ago! It's just fascinating to me how some of these developments sort of take place offscreen, in between episodes, and Garak just shows up again being a little less cagey about his past and a little more comfortable with who he is the next time we see him.

[semibighoff]

Thinking about Garak and his horrible eyes. Imagine being Julian and you wake up at 3 AM and fucking Jeff the Killer is staring at you in your quarters.

[small-delta]

some character explorations! also, thank you so much for the kindness on my previous post. i really appreciate all of it!

[exlibra]

i have this half-baked idea about molly o’brien working on a school project on the different species and cultures on ds9 and she has to go around interviewing people about their home planets and their animals/plants/climate

worf (has barely been on qo’nos): ”the targ is a beautiful and honorable animal.” end of interview. 0/10.

jadzia: in-depth and quite disgusting explanation about how the symbiont works, including the transplantation process. way too many medical details are included but molly seems to like it. 5/10.

garak: in-depth explanation about the different animals and plants on prime with a long detour into what types of poetry have been written about each one. he goes home and drinks himself to sleep afterwards. alcohol poisoning/10.

quark: ”yeah ferenginar fucking SUUUUUUUCKS. write that down, kid. S-U-C-K-S” useless/10.

[exlibra]

odo: slithers into a drain to avoid questions about the founders and also because he’s scared of human children. slime/10

julian: HE’S GOT SO MUCH TO TELL YOU ABOUT EARTH AND ALSO BIG PUPPY EYES. irrelevant to the assignment/10

[unamccormack]

Miles: lovingly prepares a full presentation about the birdlife of Ireland; Molly doesn’t ask him. Sad/10

[elasticveins]

Thinking about them again

[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

[mevil]

[dogpuppy]

[garaks-padded-bra]

[the-maddened-hatter]

I love Star Trek, but I do think the different alien species should get some more weird biology lore sprinkled in from time to time

Andorians/Aenar:

Temperatures run very high due to some chemical heat production in their blood to keep them warm on Andoria

An aspect of their language is a range of insectoid chittering sounds that indicates tone and is a subtle mood indicator (and is not typically audible to humans, though some other species are able to hear it)

Dense protective layer of chitin under the skin that adds a deceptive degree of weight to their frame

Andorian vision being far more sensitive to motion and contrast, but not having very good vision in general and having difficulty processing "warmer" colors visually due to them rarely occurring within their environment evolutionarily

Bajorans:

Respiratory system has regions where it is compressed to filter out debris from the environment (the nose ridges are the most obvious, being external)

Nails are thicker, evolved for digging

Teeth further back in the mouth are dual rowed to crush thick roots

A small coat of short downy hair often coats the torso and limbs as a protective barrier against sand, insects, and certain plants

Betazoids:

Skin is thinner than humans

Joints are weaker due to evolving to live in a lower gravity highly aquatic environment

Blindness, deafness, muteness, or combinations therein are not uncommon due to the evolution of telepathic communication mean that they cause little to no evolutionary issues

When under water they are able to see clearly due to the unique secretions of their eyes and their ears and nostrils shut reflexively.

Cardassians:

Hair is more akin to feathering or quills in texture and evolved to protect sensitive sensory ridges on their scalps

Talons and dewclaws on their feet

Shed their scales every few months (very Inconvenient)

Vestigial venom glands that now serve a predominantly immune system role

Amazing low-light vision, terrible hearing by comparison to other species (they compensate with conductive devices)

[quarkfancam]

yeah i dont know. take these

[fauxtanicals]

i see that the fuck ass bob gene runs in the family

[yaoiblackmold]

Starting a collection called the incredible fighting moves of starship captain James Tiberius Kirk

[dubiouswizard]

Quark is a fashion icon and I think we all need to start dressing like him. The only character with more Iconic™️ outfits is Lwaxana and we should also start dressing like her.

[lady-lazarus-13]

Yes! Whose ready for a Quark Girl Summer?