Appreciation Post For All The Beginner Artists Who Work Hard Despite The AI ​​looming Over Us. You

“return to old trek,” but it’s the return of 20+ episode seasons, of bringing contemporary scifi writers to write episodes, of doing social commentary so acute it blasts the “it’s just escapism” argument to bloody bits, and most important, the return of silly costumes and camp

Do not doubt my power

[thank you @greggslife for knowing me, knowing I would know this, and for also recognising it]

Deep Space Nine and U.S.S. Defiant NX-74205 General Plans, from Doug Drexler's Facebook.

This plays like a really nice ending at first like "aw yeah Garak's a good guy in his own way after all :)" and then you rotate the events of the episode in your head a minute and realize that the only way any of this makes sense is if he was genuinely ready to turn them over to the military dictatorship and only changed course after Gul Dipshit was like "we can murder them and it will be epic and based" and Garak's mental calculus was "the terrorists are less of a threat to the military dictatorship alive than they would be as martyrs".

The quadrant's most charming and affable spook.

And here we see baby Julian definitely not checking out the weirdly forward alien Miles just brought past the infirmary:

Look at him! The way he does a little double take. The look of wonder in his eyes. The surrepititious down-up glance as Tosk walks away :3

but what if i read one of your fanfics and then went to your ao3 accounts and read all of your fanfics and left a comment on every single chapter of every single one and you got spam emails from all of my kudos and comments and it made you smile, what then? what if i brighten your day with my words like you did mine, what then???

I'm crying this is SO GOOD AND CUTE

someone was promised a jumja stick before transporting back to the station (at the end of a very long day attending the peldor festival on bajor)

Is that a valid argument in your pants or is it just a phallacy?

What makes Garak's estrangement from his father even worse is when you take into account how important family is for Cardassians. Garak never got to be with his father, surrounded by a culture where children are the most precious thing to the culture.

Does Dr. Julian Bashir from Star Trek DS9 eat pussy?