Tales of an Injured Fog Rat

because I’m upset we didn’t get to see an alternate garak in far beyond the stars: julius eaton with elmer jurák… the senior editor of galaxy magazine, and staunch rival of incredible tales of scientific wonder

i don’t know what the ds9 writers were going for here, but having julian flounce around, with a posh attitude, and a pipe constantly in his mouth did not read to me as umm straight.

HEY, WHATEVER YOU DO DON’T THINK ABOUT JULIUS EATON GOING OUT ON HIS LUNCHBREAK TO HAVE A QUEER RENDEZVOUS WITH ELIS GARRICK, AN OBVIOUS TRUMAN CAPOTE OR TENNESSEE WILLIAMS EXPY.

You wrang?

(Also maybe Elis was a war vet as well as a writer and has some scars to prove it. Maybe he was a cynical and torn up and thought no-one could love him and then he met Julian and it all changed)

In 1998 we first got to see the ds9 episode “far beyond the stars”, in which Sisko experiences violence and racism through the life of a black sci fi writer in the 1950s. 22 years later it is absolutely unacceptable that the story could have been set in 2020 and he would still have faced racism, hatred and injustice. We don’t deserve to look back at it as a “lesson from the past” because he would still have had to fear for and fight for his basic human rights - that is the reality of being black in 2020. Racism and police violence isn’t a story of the past, this is the reality we are living in right now, this is the reason why its important to fight and speak up. (This is also obviously about more than just star trek, I just wanted to make my stance clear and show my support in a way that was authentic to the content I post here. I want to make it clear that if you like my art and disagree with black lives matter, then my art is not for you.)  

Main cast + Kasidy in Far Beyond the Stars