Holosuite date night except it turns into a three-hour lecture on the history of the Cardassian spy fiction genre.
Honestly I just wanted to draw Garak in his Our Man Bashir outfit, and Gracie Anne has had them on my mind lately. <3
Kira: Aren't you a woman? Jadzia: I'm Trill so I can't answer that without five historians and an anthropologist present.
Lower Decks really missed a golden opportunity to travel back in time to not The Trouble With Tribbles, but to Trials and Tribble-ations, where live action Boimler and Mariner would've had to avoid not only Kirk's crew, but the copy-pasted crew from Deep Space 9.
Just keep seeing how many layers you can pile on top of the original episode.
There's something so charming about a stack of PADDs in star trek because you know tablets didn't exist yet back then but they didn't want to use paper because it's not futuristic enough but they also want to show that they have a lot of paperwork to do thus the stack of PADDs which presumably was like a hybrid of stack of paper + floppy disks of the future. The retrofuterism of it all, I love it.
some fake screenshots from the deep space nine dating sim that lives in my brain