Started Ds9,,,

it’s so charming to me that julian is mostly normal and goofy around people but around garak’s powerful homosexual intrigue proximity radius he he becomes hayes code silver screen dandy. Come now my dear mr. garak

Screaming crying throwing up etc.

never getting over the way the very second episode where garak appears establishes immediately that julian is an absolute ride or die idiot for this man.

interrupts his commanding officer in a tense meeting with dukat on the basis of garak alluding to something. wakes his commander up at like 3am to request a runabout without even having asked garak why. only pushes back properly exactly once and then immediately goes back to solving whatever puzzles come out of garaks mouth.

absolutely pathetically infatuated to the point of just tossing all higher brain functions in the bin except interpreting riddles.

This is maybe the funniest DS9 meme I've come across and I'd love to be proven wrong

Garak: Of course, there’s always Major Kira. I’m being serious. I don’t think she likes me. Odo: She doesn’t. But if she wanted you dead, you would be.

it IS true that deep space nine is very much in conversation with the next generation and you should probably watch the latter before seeing the former to get everything it's trying to get across, but, on occasion, watching ds9 without having seen tng is extremely funny

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.

the way Odo calls the Founders “my people”

Wild crazy bonkers that the most convincing sexual tension in all of DS9 is this fifteen second interaction between Damar and Mila.