#like how fucking BORING picard is next to sisko

[pissfaggit]

I just gotta say. After watching tng and moving on to ds9, I can't speak for any of the other captains but. Any of the scenes with Picard that are supposed to be moving or inspiring or emotional- ain't shit compared to the fucking HEART that Avery Brooks put into playing Captain Sisko

[sapphosewrites]

Sapphose's Gigantic 2021 Fanfiction Roundup

Tales of Symphonia

A Chosen Zelos AU featuring Sheena and Regal accompanying him on the Journey of Regeneration. Series includes...

Salvation (889 words)

Fame is a fickle food (820 words)

Faith (931 words)

Shelter in the Storm (2120 words)

Apologies (1912 words)

Queen's Thief (King of Attolia)

What dreams may come (239 words): Gen's nightmares.

Bedtime Stories (774 words): Costis tries to keep the still-recovering king in bed.

Captain Marvel

Everything That Feels Like Flying (489 words): Before leaving, Carol spends one last night stargazing with Maria and Monica.

Good Omens

That Nice Mister Fell (1195 words): Ticket-taker Grace reflects on her long-time season subscriber Mr. Fell and his guest.

Crowley Contemplates Falling (585 words): Crowley thinks about Falling and other F-words.

What Men Know of Heaven (8446 words): A human AU. Gay Christian Aziraphale meets a beautiful man in the park and must grapple with his evangelical employer.

The Nice and Accurate Performance Report of Shoshana Freeman, Stage Manager (617 words): Crowley and Aziraphale go to a play, but they forget just how much their own emotions affect the world around them.

Fringe Benefits (1596 words): A theatre human AU- Crowley approaches an angelic actor at a fringe festival.

A Little Outside Push (2994 words): A theatre human AU- Crowley and Aziraphale work for competing organizations, and The Them play matchmaker.

It Isn't Perfect (But It's Ours) (2115 words): Aziraphale and Crowley go to couple's counseling.

All's Fair in Love, War, and Show Business (15521 words): A theatre human AU- Aziraphale and Crowley are exes cast as lovers in a new musical. Ongoing WIP.

Star Trek

26 Hours (1840 words): Part 4 of the Terok Nor AU. One day in the life.

This Nasty Habit of Surviving (8072 words): Part 5 of the Terok Nor AU. The Day of Withdrawal is announced, and Garak's future changes.

Deep Space 9 (13932 words): Part 6 of the Terok Nor AU. The Federation arrives.

Pandora's Box (2060 words): Part 7 of the Terok Nor AU. Julian has a conversation with the new CMO, his former peer Elizabeth Lense.

Spies Seduce, Lovers Sleep, We Argue (3626 words): Julian and Garak's plan to sleep together is complicated by cultural differences and Garak's past.

How Long Has It Been? (1269 words): Garak and Julian are captured by an unknown enemy. Told in snapshots of before, during, and after, in no particular order. Part of the Star Trek: Just in Time Fest.

The Concept of Time (1141 words): A station slice of life inspired by the Gallipotans. Part of the Star Trek: Just in Time Fest.

The Beast With Two Backs (2789 words): Inspired by an idea from Kaelio: "changeling!julian submitted the paperwork to sisko for fucking an alien, specifically garak."

When All Kindness Has Gone (574 words): Garak tries to come to terms with exile, and calls Mila.

The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known (1657 words): A weekly counseling appointment with Ezri's most difficult patient, Garak.

Especially the Lies (13019 words): Something is going on with Garak, and no one knows what, except for possibly Julian Bashir. Mind the tags.

East of the Sun, West of the Moon, and Somewhere on DS9 (647 words): Julian and Garak argue about an old Earth folktale, and it might be an argument about something else.

Little Mysteries (273 words): Julian finds a device he doesn't recognize while bored in Garak's shop. Inspired the very fun Pass the Vibrator collection.

Personnel Review (1299 words): TNG crossover. Picard, Riker, and Troi meet post-canon to discuss the possible transfer of Dr. Bashir and his twice-exiled spy husband to the Enterprise.

Rumor Has It (694 words): LD crossover. Everyone's favorite ensigns discuss rumors that Garak and Bashir might come to the Cerritos.

Not all towers are stone (984 words): Julian and Garak discuss the story of Rapunzel.

Made to Measure (3094 words): A fic about gender identity, the J'naii from The Next Generation episode "The Outcast," and Julian Bashir's spy fixation.

Contingency Planning (667 words): Garak has hidden an isolinear rod with important information in case of emergency. Julian has questions.

Del Floria's Tailor Shop (336 words): A space tumblr conversation about the tailor shops on Deep Space 9.

Pour Some Sugar On Me (2204 words): Julian learns that he is Garak's sugar daddy.

The Human Condition (734 words): A theatrical review of Chapter 15 of latent attraction by plain_and_simple_tailor (ectogeo).

Predetermination (22199 words): An exploration of nature, nurture, and why the mirror Julian Bashir show up in the doctor's quarters with a phaser.

Push Me Till I Break (4653 words): The scene they’ve set for themselves is simple: Garak will try to get Julian to confess, and Julian will try not to.

House of Memories (1133 words): Being back in his childhood home brings back childhood memories. Garak helps Mila clean.

What gifts our fathers leave us (1230 words): Kira, Damar, and Garak in Mila's basement.

Of Augments and Androids (222 words): TNG crossover. Exploring what Julian and Data have in common.

And finally...

Necessary Storms (12540 words): An ongoing work in progress. Post-canon Julian and Starfleet Spouse Garak get caught up in a revolution on Trill.

[invisiblefoxfire]

Season 1, Episode 7

We open on my favorite boy, Baby Bashir, the world's horniest and most arrogant nerd, seducing a woman by telling the riveting story of his final exams and how they were real, real hard, though, and he almost got a question wrong, but then he didn't. For some reason this is working when he's interrupted by Sisko calling for him and Miles.

And oh no! Emergency! Dax and some rando are trapped in a ship! And it turns out Vash, a character from at least one episode of TNG, is in there too! And uh-oh, she's been hanging out with discount Tom Hanks Q!

This is not one of my favorite episodes. I did watch at least one episode of TNG with Q in it, so I'm vaguely familiar with the character. Basically a trickster god who's gay for Picard, I guess. I don't really get it, and I could just never get into it. He's all-powerful and the best use he can think of for his time is to mess with lesser beings, like a teenage outcast locking their Sims in the swimming pool. Anyway the episode is mostly about Q trying to convince Vash that she'll be bored without him then eventually relenting and letting her go despite being, from what I can tell, a literal god who can do literally anything.

There's one thing I cannot let slide though: the first item that Vash puts into the safety deposit box is a statue and the soft-looking guy running the depository takes it from her and declares it "EIGHT KILOGRAMS" before passing it off and I'm SORRY dude, but that actor does NOT know how much a kilogram is. 8 kg is a decent amount of weight and that fella is not exactly hitting the gym every day, I guarantee it. He should have staggered a bit when he grabbed that thing with one hand. I can't help but wonder if this line was written by someone who knew full well what 8 kg was and expected the actor to as well and they were supposed to be surprised by the weight of that little statue and nearly fall over or something, but instead he just tosses it aside like it's made of the polystyrene it was almost certainly made from.

Also Vash has got an artifact that's going to suck the entire space station into the wormhole but eh, they figure it out in the nick of time and everyone is saved, and Capitalism Goblin doesn't get all those bars of latinum. Good. FUCK that guy.

Basically, Vash and Q are both thoroughly unlikable characters just like every single character on TNG, which is why I never liked TNG. I'm glad they didn't do this again.

Q does ruin Baby Bashir's date by making him just real real sleepy, though. I have to admit that's at least mildly amusing, despite the super icky "abusive ex-boyfriend who won't leave" vibes.

Probably the best part of this episode is Odo's brief speech about how stupid it is that people accumulate material goods and wealth, then die, and their relatives just sell it all off. Truth.

ON to the next one.

[eric-coldfire]

Star Trek Binge is Finished

On August 1st 2016, I started my Star Trek binge, marathon through every episode of every season, no matter what the collective fandom deemed good or bad. Having never seen anything related to Star Trek, beyond the first two Abram’s movies, I was going into a new series completely blind. On February 1st 2017, I finished.

Star Trek TOS/TAS: Despite dated 70′s cheese, overacting, hour and forty minute long episodes, and goofy plots. TOS/TAS hold up pretty well.

Star Trek TNG: Despite a rocky first two seasons, the pointless fucking death of Tasha Yar, and gawdy spandex uniforms, The Next Generation is pretty damn good and can easily be seen as the “definitive” or “modern” Star Trek.

Star Trek DS9: This series can eat a dick and suck a butt, or eat a butt and suck a dick. The worst series of the franchise. More than half its main characters are morally backwards assholes, the setting is dull, and the heavy handed religion and political focuses episodes are a bore.

Star Trek VOY: Biggest surprise, not only was it not as bad as the Star Trek collective lead me to believe, it was pretty damn good. Minus three bad episodes and two stupid ideas, Voyager shows how great a Starfleet Captain can be even they’re truly left alone on the frontier.

Star Trek ENT: Like Voyager, Enterprise was also a big surprise on how good it was. The first half of Enterprise shows how Humanity treats exploring the galaxy with the enthusiasm of a puppy (might be why Archer has a beagle) while also dealing with the positive and negative consequences. The second half of Enterprise shows how DS9 could’ve been done correctly, by showing Humanity at war and showing continuing stories.

Now for the big question that fans like to ask, “Best Captain” or “Kirk or Picard”? I say it’s a tie... between Picard and Janeway. They represent the very best examples of what Starfleet Captains can be. Both have overcome great odds, stuck to their personal codes and managed to uphold Starfleet principles and Federation beliefs (fucking take notes, Sisko).

So there we go, finished every Star Trek series, even went through the ten movies prior to the reboot. All that’s left is to wait for Star Trek Discovery... whenever it plans on coming out and hope its not as big of a trainwreck dumpster fire as it sounds.