I remember reading this story of this guy who met his wife at a Star Trek convention but she spoke Portuguese and he spoke French but they both could speak Klingon and that’s how they communicated through the first few months of their relationship until they learned each other’s languages
forgot to post this yesterday because I kept getting swept away by her writing on every page, but. Nana Visitor the woman that you are
from Star Trek: Open A Channel: A Woman’s Trek by Nana Visitor
“haha odo is so beige and bland and boring despite being a literal shapeshifter” like ok yes I laugh at those jokes too and find them funny I literally have no issue with them but sometimes I also wanna talk about how that’s kind of the whole point of his character.
like odo’s abilities and way of being is so unlike any other known species in the alpha quadrant that it’s shown to be disturbing and off-putting to a lot of people — or at the very least that’s what he was led to believe. like we see this in the alternate where mora tries to convince him he’ll either be locked up in a prison or put in a zoo to gawk at if he’s perceived to have committed any sort of crime or transgression.
so despite being able to literally become anything he can think of, he chooses his default presentation to be as standard, bland and uninteresting as he possibly can. male, always in a beige uniform, very standard hair cut.
odo is so plain because he was made to be afraid of being literally anything else
POV: You're on a fetch quest for Kira and you give her a jumja stick instead of the 85645 self sealing stem bolts she asked for, forgetting that she doesn't like them.
I love when a DS9 character gets stuck in a situation with Dukat where they have to work together and then Dukat thinks they're friends now and at the end he's like "so glad we're cool now" and the other person looks at him like he's insane and is like "bro I fucking hate you" it's so great to see him put down over and over
It takes 430 crew to run the Enterprise. A landing party is sent out. It takes 429 crew to run the Enterprise.
Everyone keeps saying that your ship’s first officer is the best first officer in the fleet. It’s true that he’s very good at his job, but you’ve been keeping track and he’s tried to hijack the ship on at least three separate occasions so far. What the hell is going on with all the other first officers in the fleet, you wonder.
You order a chicken sandwich and coffee. You receive a plate of tribbles. This is different from every other time you’ve ordered a chicken sandwich and coffee, when you’ve received a plate of Play-Doh cubes.
Another landing party is sent out. It takes 428 crew to run the Enterprise.
You don’t even remember what chicken sandwiches and coffee taste like, and yet you keep ordering them anyway. One day, you hope, the replicator will deliver. Something other than those cubes. Something other than tribbles. You hope.
You wonder if it’s a sin against god to eat a tribble.
You wonder if god could even find you in space.
You find god in space.
The landing party fights him.
It takes 427 crew to run the Enterprise.
The first officer and the ship’s doctor are insulting each other on the bridge. This is how you know you’ve made it to safety.
The first officer and the ship’s doctor are working together as a coordinated team. This is how you know there is an imminent threat of absolute destruction.
There have been so many imminent threats of absolute destruction.
You find a chicken sandwich and coffee. It is almost definitely a mind trick conjured by an incredibly intelligent race of aliens millennia beyond human development.
The aliens want you to stop fighting. They do not give you the chicken sandwich or the coffee.
You’ve been en route to shore leave for six months. Strange things keep urgently diverting the ship along the way. You worry that you’ll be sent out in a landing party before you ever get your leave.
It takes 426 crew to run the Enterprise.