*realizing I haven’t drawn a single decent background recently* huh

((Very small apologetic voice: also I have a print shop))

Garak for mermaid_2_3 (Instagram)

johannestevans:

mycenaae:

bodyslammed once again by the emotion specific to julian bashir, age 5, doing surgery on kukalaka to repair his stuffing, before his parents forced genetic augmentations on him because they felt he wasn’t smart enough, his interest in medicine and helping people going so far back and being so enduring and such a core foundation of who he is that it even overcame all the very understandable medical trauma forced upon him as a child, julian keeping kukalaka with him as a reminder of that very interest and as a tangible reminder of his own childhood which he lost too fast to his own parents’ eugenics-based fears. i’m going to walk into the sea.

catboy-julian:

it’s very cool that he’s compassionate and a caring doctor and everything but I think it’s also very neat and cool, and “sexy”, even, when Julian implies he wants to do experiments on somebody. He can be little a mad scientist as a treat because being a scientist is all about being just a little creepy sometimes. I say this as “something of a scientist myself” who loves to drop little hints that I have control over wasps. #girl

a-stitch-in-time-and-space:

nana visitor in s1 of ds9 was like “I’m gonna have butchhair, I’m gonna stomp,I’m gonna cry,I’m gonna repress massive emotions but then allow them to shine through when I’m overwhelmed, I’m gonna act like I’m in a fucking harrowing post-war drama!” and she was right and it was good

ezrisdax:

deepspacevoyagers:

Psst consider: Tal Celes/Ezri Dax

ohhhh, this is such a cute idea and pairing!!!

like nervous rambling girlfriends who try to ask each other out at the same time, start back pedaling, and then somehow realize the other just asked them out and blurt out ‘yes’. Ezri encouraging Tal to be more confident in her work and Tal listening as Ezri sorts out her life stories and own personality and just in general being happy as the other grows more comfortable in their own abilities.

carrot-tin:

Garak’s tail this, Garak’s tail that. You are all sleeping on the possibility of spoon-shaped lizard tongues that can “mlem”

odetodata:

kaelio:

I would have liked a Translator Breakdown episode where it turns out some of the characters do know one another’s language but only at like a “two years in highschool” level.

O'Brien: Tá an ríomhaire briste. Tá fadhbanna againn.

Sisko: The WARP CORE is *points to his own face, frowning* ??

Kira: Fuck! Fuck computer, fuck! *hand gestures* Computer is fuck!

Dax: “Com… computer…” *rubs temples* Ordinateur? Parlez plus lentement s'il vous plaît…. 

Worf: Я раздражен….

my favorite part of this is the implication that apparently by the 24th century the prevalence of the irish language will be such that a man from dublin will speak irish as his first language.

*side eyes tng “irish reunification of 2024″ screengrab and whispers* don’t mess this up for us.

Translator Breakdown is my favorite fic trope! Yes yes all of this. Also I want Dax to know like five dialects of Standard, plus French, Klingon, and also Bajoran because she likes to flirt with Kira when it’s slow in Ops

S01E08 - Dax

• Most DS9 episode titles are thoughtful or clever but they got bored with this one and just named it after a character.
• Oh man I will never get tired of the “entire station falls apart without Miles at the helm 24/7” trope
• Ah! The first mention of the existence of the infamous raktajino! Love seeing the first time things get introduced that become such a show staple.
• I’m laughing so hard at Dax not even deflecting, just flat out ignoring each line of flirtation Julian tries on her.
• Dax always walks with her arms folded behind her back and I’ve tried this and it is uncomfortable
• Kidnapping! Punching! No, Julian! Eek! Intense!
• “Which not only compromises Bajoran security but also… *makes a crazy face* annoys us.” I luv you, Kira. Marry me.
• I can picture it, as soon as Sisko said they needed a place to do the hearing, Odo leaped at the opportunity to run to Quark’s and inform him they would be commandeering his holosuite. It’s the biggest joy in his life.
• I am also in luv with Anne Haney’s performance as the snappy Bajoran arbitrator, Renora. Marry me. (She played on an ep of TNG too!)
• Ahhh another Space Mystery™. Why won’t Jadzia explain? Who was the real murderer? How will this be wrapped up in a neat package in just 40 short minutes!?
• “If this is true I’d hang Curzon Dax up by his heels myself.” “Thanks for the confidence.” Odo and Sisko dry-sarcasming to each other makes my day.
• This makes me realize how carefully the DS9 creators worked to create unexpected characters for this show. The two ‘warrior’ types, Dax and Kira, are beautiful young women, not typical beefy men. The doctor is brilliant but socially awkward to the extreme. The commander is as unlike Picard, the captain of the previous show, as they could possibly make him. With each character they tried to take what we would expect and turn it on its head. (These were the days before 'subverting audience expectation’ was abused so much that it’s become almost a stereotype of bad writing, today.)
• They did a good job balancing the ep, it’s an entertaining murder mystery plot but also lets us learn about Dax’s character and Trills in general
• Julian getting all indignant when Tandro interrupts his testimony hee hee. Aww but then he gets distraught when the questioning turns against him and he walks right into it! He baby…
• I like that Odo is the one to interview Enina Tandro. He sees things in such black and white, the truth is the truth, that’s all there is. But then he gets exposed to this culture that won an entire war based on a lie, based on the person they thought this general was, but he wasn’t. Sometimes there’s more to truth than just facts.
• “Live, Jadzia Dax. Live a long, fresh, and wonderful life.” Wow. The last lines of this ep turned out to be heavily ironic…

• Moar TNG cameoooooos! Let’s go! *clap*

• Julian’s a dork, we all know this and love him, but I want to give an Emmy to Colm Meaney for the faces he’s making during the whole scene of Julian’s academy finals story. Miles never says a word the entire scene, his face says it all for him. Just puffs out a tiny sigh as he walks away. It’s perfect.

• Kira: Finally, a chance to shoot through a runabout door like I’ve always wanted!
  Sisko: Major. No.

• Miles only exists in episodes like this to identify who the TNG cameo characters are.

• I admit, as a kid I tried to convince myself I didn’t like Q much because he was such a popular character and I was one of those kids who felt threatened if I liked popular things, like it would erase my own identity to go with the crowd. Regardless, as an adult I love Q. I am so glad he gets a DS9 ep. And VGR eps! And yeah, throw him in a MLP cartoon, why the hell not!
  

• I think it’s kinda weird Vash was in the Gamma Quadrant for two years and her accumulated wealth for that whole time is just like five things? That’s the whole auction? Maybe Q took the rest of her stuff.

• Promethean quartz. Yes, Star Trek writers, that is totally an alien gem stone you got there, I can now tell. Thanks.

• “The captain likes a good challenge, sir.” Miles gossiping about Picard’s sex life to Sisko. Just DS9 things.

• Hahaha the dresser drawer makes a little electronic hiss as Vash puts her clothes away. Because it’s a space dresser, you see. This is the future.

• “What did they call you, the god of lies?” “They meant it affectionately.”

• Oh to be a fly on the wall when Sisko attended the official Starfleet briefing on Q!

• The entire boxing scene. Enough said.

• They ran out of prosthetics for some of the auction aliens so they decided blue fabric wrapped around the head was good enough

• Oh I love it when the A plot and the B plot come together so perfectly in the end! And hey, a space moth! Love it. Spaaace mooooth.
  

I agree with Tosk. The fact that I, as a human, need to spend one third of my lifespan unconscious in order to properly function is just ridiculous.