Oh, To Peacefully Rest One Againts Another After A Particularly Bad Defiant Mission. I Really Like How

the first episode of star trek tng:

hi everyone! meet the crew! wow, this guy's got a temper. this one's an android! uh-oh, a spooky alien has appeared!

the first episode of star trek ds9:

post-traumatic stress disorder

thank you for lesbian slimesmooch kiraodo, that's gonna keep me going through the day

thank YOU for the kind ask!! here's another one

People joke about DS9 A and B plots but this cut was bonkers

Rewatching ds9 and I love how they'll refer to aliens that exist on the station that are far, far weirder than anything their budget could ever show.

Odo emerging from his bucket to shame Ferengikind (specifically Quark)

y’all so i knew about garak and bashir like peripherally right? BUT NOBODY PREPARED ME FOR HOW OUTRAGEOUSLY QUEERCODED THEY BOTH ARE????

like?? garak literally just checked sisko out?? i know he’s supposed to be vaguely threatening in this scene! but! i completely understand why the actors literally performed fanfiction 20 years later. i would be sick of producers’ bs too if THIS WAS MY FUCKING CHARACTER.

also i saw a post that said siddig just “played along” like NO WHAT there were several scenes where bashir VERY OBVIOUSLY checked out men too. this feels like a very deliberate writing AND acting choice.

and, despite what y’all may believe about me (see: fandom participant), it actually takes quite a lot for me to truly believe that characters are queercoded, especially in more recent history. sure, i like a good romance-y fanfic as much as the next person (sometimes i just think characters would make an interesting couple without respect to canon, sue me!), but in terms of ACTUAL characters that i think were written with intentional subtext? there’s very few.

all of this is to say: holy shit. i knew they had some subtext, but i wasn’t prepared for it to be like THAT.

edit: this is S2E18 by the way!