A DS9 x Flight of the Conchords mashup

Trektober Day #26: Meet Ugly

(I've been toying with a second installment to Stand Beside Me In The Mirror, aka the one where Julian is kidnapped by Garak's creepy transporter clone. So here's an excerpt of that!)

"You'll forgive him, for whatever it is he did, but you won't forgive me?"

Julian stared flatly.

"You kidnapped me. He didn't."

"Ah, but he would have, in my circumstances."

"If you don't understand the difference between being kidnapped and not, I'm not sure I can explain it to you."

"Why must you make everything so difficult, Doctor?"

Julian leaned his head back and reminded himself that the argument was the goal. Elim was deliberately trying to be provoking, and so the best thing to do would be to not give him what he was looking for.

"Hm," Julian said, as neutrally as he could manage.

"I must say Doctor, I am finding you to be something of a disappointment," Elim observed.

Julian couldn't quite keep the sarcasm from his voice. "I'm so sorry to hear it."

hey guys... long time no spaceman yaoi...

designated drink holder at diplomacy events

Trektober Day 25: Post-Apocalyptic

Julian surveyed the neat, orderly line with a furrowed brow. Younger citizens politely stepped back to let older ones ahead; neighbors joked quietly to each other and gossiped about shared acquaintances.

It seemed... well, disturbingly normal.

"They're all taking this very well," he commented.

"Given that Cardassians do need to eat in order to survive, ration distribution is rather welcome, Doctor," Garak said.

"I suppose people can adapt to anything given the right motivation." Julian tapped his card against his thigh as he spoke, then paused as a thought occurred. "How did they get the ration cards distributed so quickly, anyway?"

"Oh, most of us had them to begin with."

"These are better than the ones when I was little," put in an old woman behind them who was shamelessly eavesdropping. "Ugly things, those were."

Julian turned around.

"There was rationing when you were young? But the Dominion-"

"Abundance is the exception on Cardassia, not the norm," Garak cut in, and bobbed a polite bow to the woman. "My friend hasn't been living here for very long."

"Obviously!" she said, with a gesture to her forehead that indicated the remark was more about Julian's species than his manners.

Julian lowered his voice, trying to cut her from the conversation. "They never mentioned this in any of your Cardassian literature."

"Ration cards are hardly a glory of service to the state."

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ipad broken so you already know I'm drawing garak traditionally and taking a picture of it in the dark with an android camera 🔥🔥

Trektober Day #21: Fake Dating

"Why would you tell Dukat you were dating his daughter?"

"My dear doctor, even I would never lie about such a thing."

"Why did you let him believe it, then?"

"I've found it impossible to convince Dukat out of anything he believes. It didn't seem worth the effort to try."

"So you let him nearly throw you off the second level of Quark's."

"I had every confidence that either I would get myself out of it, or you'd restore me to health."

"Have you ever considered not provoking someone more when they're already threatening you?"

"Is there a different time I should be provoking them?"

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got distracted while going through my ds9 screencaps and had to draw this contemplative and sensitive sisko slay

bonus sketch version because i like him

Inktober Day 19: Ridge

Had to redraw this pic when i saw it Immediately (ref below cut)

Trektober Day 14 - Thrift Shopping. I continue to maintain that a) Keiko and Garak would be buddies and that b) a lot of Garak's designs are motivated purely by spite, since the examples of his work we see range from 'tasteful and attractive' to 'you would only wear this if you lost a bet'. Piss him off? Your next shirt is the ugliest upcycling he can think of. And the murder lizard is pissed off a lot.

The two of them are going to hunt out maybe one nice thing each and then fill a bin bag with the most rancid patterns they can find :)

Trektober Day #19: Decontamination

"Don't think of it as interrogation," one of Garak's instructors had advised them. "Think of it as decontamination."

The point was rarely the information. What information could the Obsidian Order, that colossus of surveillance, fail to have? The point was power. The point was loyalty. The point was finding where in someone's spirit the seed of treason had taken root, and ripping it out. It was, in its own way, a practice of rehabilitation, however vehemently the Federation might disagree.

Another reason why exile stung, in the end. That Garak was considered too far gone to be decontaminated, and had become instead the thing to be excised.

Love that this was posted *before* the new species were described. Great minds flock together!

gently shakes these sketches out onto tumblr at 2 AM like a ramen flavor packet

1) Agent Enabran Tain and a mistake! The mistake’s name is Elim. Look at him! So cheerful, so full of crushable innocence.

2) Director Tain, some years later, doing paperwork. Being at the pinnacle of his career is nice and all, but sometimes being stuck behind a desk can be so dull compared to the excitement and variety of fieldwork. He hasn’t gotten to stab anyone in ages.

since PADDs are supposed to be fun futuristic advanced tablet computer things, it cracks me up whenever Trek shows a desk just littered with them. How much data can one of those things hold? Is it like one thing each, like Hit Clips? Amazing.

Inktober Day 17: Journal

So… I lied. I cheated. I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all… I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again - I would. Garak was right about one thing: a guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant. So I will learn to live with it… Because I can live with it… I can live with it… Computer - erase that entire personal log.