Garak: I Have Killed Again

happy trans day of visibility!

Lower Decks really missed a golden opportunity to travel back in time to not The Trouble With Tribbles, but to Trials and Tribble-ations, where live action Boimler and Mariner would've had to avoid not only Kirk's crew, but the copy-pasted crew from Deep Space 9.

Just keep seeing how many layers you can pile on top of the original episode.

Avery Brooks deliveries that make me smile every single time I think of them.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S06E14: One Little Ship

what strikes me about “Far Beyond the Stars” is how they cast Odo as the one who upholds oppression through complacency. because Odo’s been shown to be very beholden to the status quo - he prides himself on his neutrality, sees himself as only being subject to justice and truth. That was the thrust of “Things Past” - he doesn’t feel guilt over collaborating with the Cardassians, but over the fact that he failed at properly exacting justice under the premises of their rule. He tries to be benevolent from within the system, but doesn’t consider the fact that the system itself might be flawed (though he arguably starts to reconsider this at the beginning of S6). So his AU role here made a lot of sense for him, tbh.        

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

never getting over the way the very second episode where garak appears establishes immediately that julian is an absolute ride or die idiot for this man.

interrupts his commanding officer in a tense meeting with dukat on the basis of garak alluding to something. wakes his commander up at like 3am to request a runabout without even having asked garak why. only pushes back properly exactly once and then immediately goes back to solving whatever puzzles come out of garaks mouth.

absolutely pathetically infatuated to the point of just tossing all higher brain functions in the bin except interpreting riddles.

I really want Seven and Odo to be friends and bond over the difficulties of constantly imitating humanoid body language and following social rules  

ST@CEC 4: Deep Space Nine; In Charles’s Shadow

His way!!