Ya know

Theres a homosexual on both sides spock

“Spock that’s a mirror”

star trek heritage post (February 4th, 2021)

Nearly time for new Doctor Who you know what that means

Oh i am SEATEDDD

can this be the new aesthetic always

Nothing prepared me for how insane Quark and Odo are for each other. The entire popularion of the deep space nine refers to them as archenmies but when Odo is the last official person left able to operate the during an epidemic Quark shows up immediately like "you need help?" Odo gets falsely accused of murder and Quark starts investigating immediately. Odo's quaters get trashed by anti-shapeshifter racists and Quark is the first person there to be with him. Meanwhile Odo is complaining about Quark's dubiously legal business practice while also spending his entire free time in his bar. Yes what Garak and Bashir have going on is cute but it's nothing on whatever the hell is happening between these two old men. Forget romance true love is about being ride or die for your nemesis.

part of what makes tragedies tragic is the story being preventable from the outside but unpreventable from the inside

If they had done things differently they could have been happy, but to do things differently would require them to be someone else.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHssssssssSSSSSSSSSS

Dukat thinking the baseball is Sisko’s egg is my absolute favourite weirdly specific running joke in all of Star Trek fandom. This idea will never stop being timelessly hilarious to me.

I was scrolling and saw Dukat and egg and went to tag you @void-ranger-vger but you're already here. I love this for the you. Lmfao it's just such a good and amusing idea.

Pros of re-reading your own fic

Cons of re-reading your own fic:

No you don't get it, I'm a Good Person. You don't understand. I'm a Good Person which makes it okay for me to think violently about the Enemy, who is Bad Person. I'm commenting "you should be violently murdered" because I'm Good Person and you're Bad Person. You think saying that to someone is fucked up?? You should be violently murdered, you're probably Bad Person anyway

consumed again by Visions and now I'm love again thousands of words into yet another fic that I probably didn't need to add to my wips but I swear it'll be short. ish.

anyway welcome 2 an amnesia fic wherein Garak forgets, but makes some new assumptions thanks to a fresh perspective on his ""friendship"" with Julian.

link to be added once I finally finish this thing. watch this space.

Oooooh I can't wait I'm so excited!!! I loooove amnesia misunderstandings and revelations lol

ty ty I am very excited for the chaos of Obsidian Order era Garak using his excellent deductive reasoning to accidentally bypass probably like. a decade of Repression :')

I've seen a bunch of fic where Garak doesn't remember the relationship but not where there isn't one but Garak, without the baggage, maybe sees something that's always been there that's gone unacknowledged.

Me reading "sees something that's always been there that's gone unacknowledged" and at this whole premise in general:

I know its a joke but "Poob has it for you" annoys me so much because Poob is region locked. Poob does NOT have it for you if you're outside of the US and Canada. I'm not using a VPN and virtual debit card just to sign up to Poob.

Poob is removing the show in 7 days. Poob only streams 480p if you use a computer. Poob has Season 1 but seasons 2 to 8 require a Gopaz+ account. Poob has it, but not in stereo. Watch it on Poob, but there aren’t any captions. Poob is currently experiencing an issue, try again later.

consumed again by Visions and now I'm love again thousands of words into yet another fic that I probably didn't need to add to my wips but I swear it'll be short. ish.

anyway welcome 2 an amnesia fic wherein Garak forgets, but makes some new assumptions thanks to a fresh perspective on his ""friendship"" with Julian.

link to be added once I finally finish this thing. watch this space.

Oooooh I can't wait I'm so excited!!! I loooove amnesia misunderstandings and revelations lol

i have a theory about why deep space nine feels different than other star treks. i mean, of course there are lots of big obvious differences: the initial premise ("we're not going anywhere, people are coming to us"), to the big recurring cast, and the eventual sprawling war arc ("mods are asleep, post serial storytelling"). you can come at this from a lot of angles.

but to me, on a week by week basis, what makes it feel so different is that they don't have a bridge.

ops is initially the bridge set equivalent, but in practice, it functions more like an open office plan than a unified command and control center. sisko doesn't even have a designated place to stand, let alone a command chair. bashir visits to gossip. odo, quark, and jake rarely have a reason to be there. they have even less reason to be on the defiant, so gaining a bridge set doesn't fully resolve the absence of bridge scenes.

(for comparison, there is only one episode of tng with no scenes on the bridge!)

the lack of weekly bridge scenes means the main cast are essentially never all in the same room at the same time working together toward a common goal. in fact, the only time i can remember right now where all of those things are true is the baseball episode in season seven. (even if you don’t include jake, how often does this happen? i can think of the briefing room scene in “facets”… and???)

this changes the structure of the show on a weekly basis, because they have to rely more heavily on a/b/c stories to get everyone on camera.

voyager had a similar problem to solve in the early seasons, using sickbay b-plots to give the doctor and kes some airtime, but it's not as consistently notable to me as it is in deep space nine, because sickbay is often a natural part of the main plot.

neelix and kes are civilians, but they are still working members of the crew. and while both tng and voyager have plenty of recreational activities, the characters put down their violins and holodeck programs and go to work when the a-plot happens.

i think this is why deep space nine feels so lived-in. the famous tonal whiplash of the a/b plots and the "now for a single scene at the bar to see quark and odo" is this constant evidence that people are still gambling and dating and growing up and sometimes not even noticing the big story of the week.

Candle clocks

same energy tbh