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I have a gripe about the Star Trek mugs...

Picard's teacup is a delicate, fragile little thing held by a strip of plastic and a dream. That thin glass will break if you look at it sideways. And where do they put that ridiculous tiny cup? On the Enterprise, which is always being dragged into conflict

The DS9 raktajino mugs are hefty, wide-based things that are meant to not tip over. They're called no-spill mugs. They have a foam piece on the bottom so they don't slip. They're incredibly sturdy – meant for ships and traveling! Where do they put them? At the station, which is arguably the most stable place they could be cause DS9 rarely gets knocked about.

Far as I'm concerned, Janeway's the only one doing practical space mugs correctly. Come on, a metal travel mug that's as strong as her coffee is black? Takes a beating through 70,000 light years of bridge shakes fighting off the Borg and the Hirogen and still holds a hot drink? Now that's a space mug

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instead of kurn coming back to get worf to honorably murder him we should have had a ds9 episode where kahless 2 comes to ds9 in the same "woe is me, everyone hates me now" mentality but he gets put with alexander, jake, and nog for the B story of the episode and they start a youtube channel where they feed him food he's never tried before (ancient mythical hero reincarnated into a clone body) -> "we gave KAHLESS THE UNFORGETTABLE a plate of REALLY SOUR GRAPES and this CARBONATED MILK that's ILLEGAL on qo'nos" and jake and nog are doing the clickbait thumbnail 😱 face and alexander does a kind of "whaddaya gonna do about it" shrug to the camera while kahless is in the background looking sad but ready for a new adventure

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Also please tell me your favorite femslash rarepairs in the tags!

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I think we all forgot about Bashir wanting to fuck his grandma a little too quickly

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STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - S5E16 Doctor Bashir, I Presume

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Jadzia dying was definitely sad (in the sense of unjust and poorly done) but, if I'm being honest, I went into DS9 with vague half remembered recollections of reading its tvtropes page once, misremembered it as being Kira who died, and was immeasurably relieved to be wrong

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I think we all forgot about Bashir wanting to fuck his grandma a little too quickly

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Post-canon Professor Miles O'Brien adventure story where all his students are crushing on him just like with Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

(Keiko is teaching botany down the hall and she has her own admirers.)

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talking about ds9 is so brazy bc it’s always like. remember when jake chased that psychic cougar so hard that he died. and it was the b plot. bc odo had to legally marry his pregnant best (only) friend in order to gain custody of her child.

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Curious what you disagree with Sid on in that interview! (I mean this in a genuine way, I don’t agree with everything he says and I always love to hear your thoughts) (for instance I agree with the OP of that post that the idea that the script in A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia wasn’t also all-in on the homoeroticism between his and Ralph Fiennes’ character is bonkersssss lol)

Hi, anon! Maybe disagree is even too strong a word... I think I don't resonate with his interest in a post-identity future. He feels very strongly and positively about the character of Bashir's ethnic ambiguity, such as it is, and for me personally I think the eliding of cultural specificity is not utopian. At least part of what he's saying is he wants to play characters who are of a certain racial or ethnic background without that having to be treated as a personality trait or the core of their storyline or where all their character's conflict has to come back to, which is certainly fair and I absolutely connect with! But I want Jewish characters in Star Trek in a way that he's not concerned about having Muslim characters Star Trek, and we each have our own reasons for what we want, and it's not really a right-or-wrong scenario.

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I also recommend reading it for his very particular, specific thoughts on race and ethnicity in life and Trek, such as his comment that if DS9 had come after 9/11 he feels certain he would have been cast as the Major Kira character.

So a friend conducted this great interview with Sid, that’s part of why I’m posting it, but I also love this because as a longtime SCSC person I feel like this one really captures more than any other interview what the experience of talking to him is like, especially in how if he’s comfortable with you he will just run his mouth without thinking of what he’s blurting out, haha (so yes, he has that in common with his most famous character) but also be very smart and thoughtful.

There’s a lot of stuff that I think my fellow Garashir girlies will particularly enjoy!

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you must understand that I would do absolutely anything for her

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some garak and bashir studies

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VERY normal about this look on him

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the thing about star trek is i don't watch it to see a group of plucky gun loving cadets save the galaxy or something i'm watching it to see the unlucky nerd of the week face their mortality in a way that is so fucked up and creepy. or to perform in community theater or go to therapy over confidence issues or play trombone or something

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I promise I’ll stop talking about The Wire someday but do people realise that Garak wanted Tain to kill Julian? Like do you realise that?

He gave Julian the-terminally-curious Subatoi Bashir the name and address of the most dangerous man in the quadrant? On accident??? My guy was practically begging Tain to take care of his latest Sentiment Problem for him because he couldn’t do it himself. Do you see??