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i don't think this is that hot of a take but Odo and Lwaxana are so queer platonic to me.. like yea.. marry her as a friend to get her out of a shitty marriage but halfway through your speech realize you really do love but not. Like that. If you know what I'm sayin

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Deep Space Nine 2x5, “Cardassians”

Keiko does not have time for your space-racism, Miles.

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thinking about the effects of Kira being raised in a refugee camp and never (as far as we know) having a formal education never being addressed on the show properly. she's obviously not a scientist or an engineer but her position as first officer still means that she has to supervise all of the engineers and scientists on ds9 to some degree. and as much as the Starfleet characters are uncomfortable with roughing it and the terrorist tactics Kira still needs to use every once in awhile, i think it's a really underrated idea for Kira to be just as uncomfortable with a lot of the high-concept science thrown around between the Starfleet people. she knows all of the practical stuff she needs to – how to repair essential technology, how to fly ships, how to use weaponry – but i could imagine her being really insecure about not fully understanding the underlying concepts the way everyone in Starfleet does.

anyways, i think Jadzia would pick up on Kira's insecurity eventually and would start giving her secret math lessons to get her up to speed so she can join in on all the Science Talk.

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When Mila was flirting with Damar, it's very different from what we know about Cardassian flirting.

Is it different because she's in a lower class? Because she's older? Is the flirting more direct and complimentary because it would not be with the intention of securing a partner? (Or did the writers just forget?)

Regardless, it makes me read those Season 7 scenes a little differently. Like she has the veneer of a "typical" housekeeper when that's not the truth. While the way she gripes with Garak seems to be doting, worried matronly figure, but...hmm it makes me wonder.

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having many many thoughts about major Kira / Bajorans having a tail :)

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Miscellaneous sketches, that don't really go well together aesthetically for your viewing pleasure? :D 🫰

Ref I

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DS9 | 2.03

Just when I think I've found a new home and a new friend, it always seems like I gotta leave.

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was thinking about Julian "Jules Bashir died, you killed him!" Bashir and Elim "I once had a friend named Elim" Garak again and eventually got to thinking that Julian at least has Kukalaka as a tether to his child self, to "Jules." It's like the one facet of his past identity that he really holds on to and how it's kinda sad that Garak doesn't have something like that

And then I got to really thinking about it. Garak's Kukalaka is just the entire concept of Cardassia, isn't it? His dedication and constant praise to Cardassia as this idealized version of his home is the thing that he holds on to from his days as "Elim." I mean you can argue that the persona he puts on with the whole "A spy???? Who, meee????? Noooooo ;)" bit is his tether to his "Elim" identity but those two things are linked. The idea that Garak holds onto the concept of Cardassia the same way someone holds onto their childhood teddybear is just very striking to me. Except he can't literally hold onto it and take comfort in it the same way because. It's a concept. You can't hold a concept. It's not real.

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ID: painting of Julian and Garak in a bed with big fluffy pillows and thick blankets; only their heads peek out of the blankets. They face each other, eyes closed and faces content. Julian's teddy Kukalaka is on the blanket next to him. Below is the original painting, which is similar except with two humans with pale skin.

Garashir illustration based on a piece from Henri de Toulouse-Lautrecs series “In Bed” ! Reference is below! :-)

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So I was reading Siddig's biography on his fan page and it struck me that this guy was a small-gig theatre director in London before he did any acting. And he said he was fully planning to go back to it after any acting gigs because he didn't "trust acting–not for an exotic actor" like him (1990s? So fair). But y'all don't understand how funny this is to me.

Imagine you're desperate stage actor in an equally desperate production with an equally desperate director. You're all working for pennies. It's cool stuff, very free-spirited. But, y'know. Bills. Your director is also stupidly handsome. And apparently he's gone to acting school so it doesn't suprise anyone when he announces that he'll be gone for a few weeks to do a small acting gig. It's chill, the business is tough so good for him. He comes back and fully intends to just continue the pennies-work you've been doing. Then he's like "there's this other gig and the only other person in the running isn't even an actor so I might be cast lmao" and everyone gets a laugh and then he actually gets cast in this miniseries. And you're like 'damn my director is landing some acting on the side, if these huge brown eyes get snatched up we don't have a director anymore' and THEN

this BITCH get's talent-scouted by some dude from some hotshot American production company and everyone has heard of Paramount Television so next thing you know your director is throwing a farewell party with cheap cake and everyone's making jokes about how he'll be earning big bucks for a season or two and he better buy them better cake when he comes back because HE'S ALWAYS PLANNED ON COMING BACK

and for the next six years you watch your director slash mensware seller (he also takes shifts at the local bar) who lived off welfare like all of you did slide into The Star Trek Collective and prance around the screen in a tight little suit with blue shoulder pads. And sign autographs at conventions. There's even a fan magazine.

So what I'm asking is at what point was someone like "we should probably hire a new director"

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simple id: watercolor illustration of Jadzia Dax, Bashir, Benjamin Sisko, Kira Nerys, and Miles O'Brien in their outfits from Past Tense.

Welcome to the twenty first century, Doctor.

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ID: digital drawing on a white background of Garak and Bashir from the shoulders up, standing very close, Julian is smirking down at Garak asking "What do you think?" Garak glares upward, responding "I think it was a ploy, and not a very good one, Julian."

Wee christmas gift for @wanderingwriter87 - a line from their fic ‘a slight complication’ :)

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Knickknacks sold at Quark’s gift shop

Keychains in the shape of the station

Pictures of the wormhole with Sisko’s (forged) signature

Socks patterned with Cardassian voles 

T-shirts that say “I went to DS9 and all I got was this lousy shirt”

Emissary bobble-heads with Sisko’s (forged) signature

Fried tube grubs

Freeze-dried gagh (Worf does NOT approve)

T-shirts that say “I went to DS9 and all I got was a vision from the Prophets”

Culturally insensitive replicas of Bajoran earrings, but with DS9-shaped ornaments

Glittery postcards of the wormhole with Sisko’s (forged) signature

Containers of goop labeled as “Changeling Tears” (it’s just cornstarch and water)

T-shirts that say “I went to Terok Nor and all I got was aggressively corrected on its new name by a Bajoran Resistance veteran”

Trading cards of the senior staff (Nog secretly collects these)

T-shirts that say “I went to DS9 and all I got was my back blown out by this sexy beast” with a picture of Morn

Baseballs with Sisko’s (real) signature 

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ID: fanart of Nog in his starfleet uniform, leaning back against a wall with a "hang in there!" poster of a cat hanging from a tree branch. Nog is saying, "Oh motivational cat poster, we're really in it now [frowny emoji]"

i like to think rom got him a whole plethora of different motivational animal posters for moral support

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ID: gifset of Julian Bashir and Miles O'Brien in baseball pants and shirts, walking through the promenade chatting.

Julian: What are you eating?

Miles: I'm not eating. I'm chewing.

Julian: Chewing what?

Miles: Gum. It's traditional. I had the replicator make me some.

Julian: They just chewed it?

Miles: No, they infused the gum with flavor.

Julian: What did you infuse it with?

Miles: Scotch. Here, try some.

Julian accepts a piece, pops it in his mouth, and chews thoughtfully. Then says "mmmm" while nodding at Miles; then they continue walking

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S07E04: Take Me Out to the Holosuite

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Transcript because everyone deserves to enjoy this

(some ums, cut-off phrases etc. are edited out)

Siddig:

Stories about Andy Robinson. Ahh, god! *crowd laughs* Everyone thought Andy Robinson — the Garak character — and Julian Bashir for years were possibly a homosexual couple. *crowd laughs* And he actively encouraged that! That was actually all right! That was all right. Except it didn't leave much room for Bashir to do any stuff, you know?

But I don't really have many stories about Andy —

Nana Visitor:

You know, you just made me think, "I've gotta bring this bit" —

Siddig:

You got a good story about Andy?

Visitor:

No, I got a clip, an outtake that they sent me from one of the last shows we filmed of me not being able to keep a straight face —

Siddig:

Ohhhh, Andy's speech!

Visitor:

And Andy saying some waaay over-the-top line, saying it in typical Andy fashion. And it was too much for me. We were in the Cardassian hell(?) chamber and you know all of that, and I laughed.

I laughed take after take after take and he kept saying "Come on! Pull it together! Pull it together!"

And it was something like "We'll cut off the worm's head!" and it was like, it was really like —

Siddig (being completely wrong lol):

Ohh yes, I remember this scene! It was the scene where he was explaining how to eat worm!

Visitor:

No no no

Siddig:

Ah *crowd laughs*

Visitor:

About a time in the Cardassian thing, and —

Crowd member:

"Cut off the snake's head and the body will die."

Visitor:

*gleeful* "Cut off the snake's head and the body will die." Thank you very much, that's exactly the saying. In typical Andy, you know, really big — and he was committed to that line, both feet in, and it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard in my life. *crowd laughs*

Siddig:

To add one thing: people had to be really careful working with Andy, you always had to keep him in a good mood. Not because he was naturally an angry man, never! You meet him generally and he's like the sweetest guy you could ever meet. He's like a teddy bear, you push it over.

But once he's in that stuff — he's in literally a wetsuit glued to his body...he gets hotter and hotter. Andy has no heat retention capability whatsoever. *crowd laughs* Two minutes in that suit, he's like, *impressively good Andy impression* Okay, I'm gonna blow......Let's get this over with... *jerking his head back and forth in rage* Cut! Cut! *enraged sounds* *crowd laughs*

Every day, he's like a little powder keg, you gotta be a little careful with Andy; you can ask him about that. I think Wednesday I'm doing something with Andy and I don't know if you're gonna be there but if you are, ask him that. *clenched teeth* "Andy's gonna blow...Andy's gonna blow everybody" — and he did, often.

Visitor:

Oh yeah.

Siddig:

*pretending to be Andy "blowing" again*

Visitor:

And when he blows, he blows big-time — but a lot of people did, in the makeup — it gets to you after a while. When I was a Cardassian for twenty hours, I was in this makeup, I started to say to the director — I do not do this, I am professional — I started to pull at it and say "That was it, that was your last take"

This is a clip from a YouTube upload by Mary Knasinski of Sid and Nana in Missouri in 2000. They are asked about working with Andy and Nana recounts an outtake of being unable to stop laughing to get a scene done with Andy that then irritates him because (as Sid says) for Garak he was “in a wetsuit glued to his body” and he can’t stand the heat, thus he wants to get his scenes done as soon as possible so he can get out of costume. Sid then goes on to give THE best impersonation of an angry and irritated Andy that only a best friend can do so wonderfully.