Name one hero who was happy

Today marks 30 years of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine! Here's an appreciation post featuring some more episode artwork I've made over the past few years.

People only like the idea of trickster spirits. "Oh, I could deal with them, easy." But once they meet one in person it's suddenly "wow, this guy sure is annoying."

One of those 'Oops we got blackout drunk and got married in Vegas' trope fics but it's Julian and Quark waking up married at Vic's

@youngpettyqueen omg yes 🤣

Julian’s husband act keeps accidentally saving his life. He tries to had feed him his (poisoned) food and Quark throws it at the wall. He calls him a pet name he learned in ferengi and Quark spits out his (poisoned) drink. Garak tries to throw a poisoned dart at the little fucker but he’s running so fast away from Julian that it misses and hits another customer, who Garak has to then secretly give the antidote. I’m trying to figure out how Quark avoids the bomb.

Never mind i think the episode should end with Garak asking Quark how he avoided the bomb and then every in the room (for the divorce) goes “the what?” And you just hear a large BANG from down the promenade.

at the risk of sounding like a raving lunatic, i think one of my favorite trekkie memes/posts is that one where someone comments on a screenshot of tos and asks if sulu is texting, because it PERFECTLY encapsulates star trek's strange little place at the intersection of pop culture and the tech world:

like listen... 55+ years ago a bunch of actors had to use a mix of existing habits and wild imagination to come up with what they felt would be believable movements and muscle-memory for someone using completely unbelievable tech a few hundred years in the future. like tv had less than ten channels and the screen was a foot across, and they had to go "ok how would someone who's used to a tiny wireless gadget with a screen hold it and use it? how would they talk to a computer? how would the computer sound when she talked back?"

and over half a century later our own tech has surpassed the clunky retrofuture gizmos in so many ways, no doubt inspired by it, that now someone two decades into the 21st century sees an actor in the 60s holding some tiny rectangular plastic prop in both hands and immediately recognizes it as "oh, sulu's texting!" now THAT is a called shot. hell, that's putting your money on a roulette wheel in a casino that hasn't been built yet. i LOVE it. it's so star trek. sulu is absolutely texting.

Amok Time being Chekov's first episode will never not be funny to me. It's his first day on the job and the first officer is in heat

STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (1993–1999) ⤷ Rejoined

This clip 😭😭😭🩷

Behind the scenes GOLD 😂

JdL forgetting which Star Trek set he was on.😉

Inspired by @spacefroggity post here

im sorry but this is so precious i am sobbing rn

mr spock in the middle sighing at kirk’s illogical request is perfect lol

do NOT watch star trek. you'll get a disease where you see any post and think oooh i can make this about star trek :3 no you CANT!!!

stealing a cloaked cloaking device

STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE · 3.16

be sisko. wake up. cook a delicious breakfast for your family and pack lunch for your partner. get caught up on unanswered communications on your PADD. have a morally questionable figure become psychosexually obsessed with you, chasing the thrill of corrupting you while also desperately craving to earn the benediction of your approval as a Good Man. add them to the spreadsheet. look into starting a community baseball club. call your dad. schedule senior staff meeting to address the issue of the local bartender being split into good and evil halves due to touching an ancient relic he was trying to sell on space ebay. break up argument between two ambassadors from warring factions on the precipice of nuclear war. give them both a jumja stick. blackmail the evil half of the bartender into letting them have it on the house. add beets to your grocery list. write letter of recommendation for junior staff member. message your favorite worm to get the station gossip while you cook family dinner. go to bed. try your best to interpret prophetic dreams from sacred aliens beyond your understanding. wake up.

Andrew Robinson on playing Garak for the first time. 

star trek heritage post (June 2nd, 2023)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S04E01: The Way of the Warrior, Part 1

Translation: "Yeah, but I'm a lot better looking than he was."

HA

I can not stress enough that in Star Trek, Amanda Grayson being an incredibly loving wife AND shitty parent is a feature, not a bug. She loves Sarek with her whole heart. And as much as she loves Spock, every single time she has to choose between them, she'll back Sarek. Spock grew up knowing his mom loved him, but that she also did not understand him and would never have his back.

Before people in the mainstream even had the vocabulary to describe what they were seeing, they understood on a gut level that Spock was a neurodivergent, mixed race adult son of two incredibly charismatic and successful parents.

There are so many layers of relatability here.

A surprising lot of people in very loving and devoted marriages aren't great parents. An unsurprising lot of powerful people with prestigious careers also aren't great parents.

Folks who grew up with parents who were great at their jobs and devoted to one another but who just couldn't relate to or understand their kids could see themselves in Spock. Moreover, he demonstrated that if they took a path radically different from what their parents wanted, they could become incredibly successful and even well liked in a whole different sphere.

Most of all, for folks who could see how much their parents adored one another but never felt like that love extended to them, there is something profound in the way Kirk looks at Spock like he hangs the stars in the sky. He's a source of hope that even if you grew up as your family's ugly duckling, if you get out from under their influence you can find someone who will perceive you as a swan.

My Star Trek friends, reblog with your favourite most ‘out of context’ Star Trek image

I’ll start:

here ya go

Oh my time has COME >:D

Excellent post everyone

star trek heritage post (April 8th, 2020)