"The 132 times Garak says 'Doctor'" or also known as "seven years in one minute and thirty-one seconds"

you just don't get shit like this with 8-episode streaming seasons

imo the big thing that would most improve ds9 is if, whenever garak first appears in an episode, a live studio audience goes wild, like a 90s sitcom when a celebrity shows up

There should have been an episode where Odo gets zapped while shifted into an object and the zap does something to his morphogenic matrix so he's stuck like that and the whole episode is everyone doing their best acting scenes with a mug or perhaps a bag

bonus if the station crew know it's happened, but don't know *which* suspicious object Odo is stuck as. So they're going round talking to whatever object seems out of place trying to find him.

By the end of the epsiode they deduce he's this one odo ass looking bottle at Quarks Bar (because of course he's there) and bring it to the infirmary. You get a scene of Bashir and Dax leaning over this bottle lain delicately on a regular sized bed in the infirmary with tricorders debating how to turn Odo back.

And then Odo walks in and asks what they're doing.

he's so fucking dramatic oh my god. 'im so fucking normal. also you couldnt stand an hour in my sick twisted #Normal mind...'

made it worse fixed it 😇

ID: op and the reblog both have the same screenshots from a scene of DS9 featuring Garak and Ezri Dax. Ezri maintains a serious expression with intent gaze as Garak sneers, "Spare me your insipid psychobabble. I'm not some quivering neurotic who feels sorry for himself because his daddy wasn't nice. You couldn't begin to understand me."

The only difference in the second version is in Garak's last sentence, which has been edited to read, "You couldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me."

Podcast episode discussing DS9 "Past Tense" & "Far Beyond the Stars"!

My friend Laura invited me onto their podcast to unpack Deep Space Nine episodes 3x11 & 12: "Past Tense" and 6x13: "Far Beyond the Stars," using them for a broader discussion on the role of science fiction in dreaming better futures into reality.

In our conversation, we:

Give "Sanctified Imagination Far Beyond the Stars" a listen wherever you get podcasts — or read along with the transcript!

(CW: Christianity) — please do go in forewarned that Laura's Autistic Liberation Theology podcast centers around reinterpreting the Bible from a trans & disabled lens. If you skip to 44 minutes in you'll miss most of the religious commentary, except for when it makes sense to bring it up re: Joseph Sisko's 1950s incarnation as a street preacher.

happy fuck or die 15th of september to all who celebrate. on this day, a bajillion years ago, amok time served the most cunt no one has ever served before. and then slash fanfiction was invented. it is the sacred texts 🙏

ID: gif from the iconic "wrestling" scene in Star Trek: "Amok Time." Kirk straddles Spock, who is on his back in the sand; they are both wriggling in a very suggestive manner, groin to groin.

I love it when odo drops a line he's clearly taken wholesale from one of his hardboiled detective novels fjdksah. 'you'll find I'm a man who... collects on his debts' yeah okay you embarrassing beige nerd

nog and jake is such a good friendship/character arc because it’s like ok two goofy kids. jake is the Good One and nog is the troublemaker bad influence. then in a very gradual understandable way, jake becomes this journalist humanities slob kid who’s the only person on a ship full of teen starfleets who’s like ‘uh you are all playing at being adults with lasers and it’s going to get us killed, and i’m not intimidated by your make-believe federation shit my dad is a captain. you are 19. idiot.’ and nog is a straight-a kiss-ass who cleans everything and wants to be on the honor roll and gets PTSD and then lives with an older bachelor vegas singer and runs a casino for a few months as therapy. and they’re best friends.

And he was allowed to cry!; to sob even. With palpable grief. In an early 90s production.

[ID: Tweet by @ Lots47 that reads: In the first episode of Star Trek Deep Space Nine, we saw a black man gain a powerful command position, respect the hell out of a religion he didn't understand, respect three different races he didn't understand, accept his friend's gender change and tell his son he loves him. /End description]

Randomly obsessed by how in sync they are in this scene tapping the table:

ID: DS9 gif of Julian Bashir and Garak walking past their table in the replomat, one on either side. Each one taps their side of the table as they pass.

u guys were so nice about my last Bashir + Obrien post, heres more! lads day out tennis & a pint wheeeey

ID: two fanart illustrations of Julian and Miles on white backgrounds. In the first, they're both wearing their tennis outfits; Julian stands with one hand on his hips, tennis racket at his side smirking at the viewer, little sparkles all around him to signify how fabulous he is. Miles stands next to him, holding a tennis ball up near his chest, one bead of sweat rolling down his face as he stares at Julian questioningly.

Second image shows them in their starfleet uniforms side by side at a table, possibly the bar at Quark's, Miles sipping from a glass mug of liquid and Julian nursing his, smiling with his eyes closed.

inspired by @joshuaalbert's shirt

[ID: two drawings on the same canvas of Ben Sisko, shown from the waist up wearing sunglasses and a black t-shirt with white text. The front of his shirt says "So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to the cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder", in all caps with no punctuation. The back of his shirt says "...And all I got was this lousy t-shirt!" End ID]

imagine if instead of garak, ziyal would’ve had pursued jake. how insufferable dukat would have been. ahhh commander sisko, it appears your son and my daughter are embarking on a rather interesting relationship! correct me if i’m wrong, but by human standards, wouldn't that make us somehow related? i’m now—how would the terrans consider it—your wife?

we could have had it all!

My biggest regret is that we never did this.

ID: deep space nine fanart of Jake and Ziyal kissing. Ziyal is leaning on one of those round hallway windows as Jake, standing, leans in for the kiss.