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why are there no star trek rpg games?? why is it all "tactical battle sims" "fleet command" "war stuff" like thats literally the exact OPPOSITE of star trek?? lemme talk to worf.

Fun fact!

According to ‘Terok Nor: Night of Wolves’, while Odo’s first words were repeating Dr. Mora’s sentences (“My name is Mora”), the first sentence he came up with on his own (like, independently constructed) was “Men don’t make good scientists”, which he picked up from Dr. Mora’s Cardassian supervisor, Dr. Yopal.

watched chimera..... i get it now #whatever

unreasonably funny. the sudden yell. the actual creature itself looking like a fucking muppet. jadzia's "whatsthatisthataspideroradog..!?"

how... does odo see? when changelings morph a form that has eyes, do they create the cellular structure necessary for their function? or can their goo perceive light without ocular structure? maybe each of their cells can function as an eye on its own?

Season 2 Observations - What the DS9 crew call each other

I'm back with my spreadsheet and armed with new facts. Let's go! (For Season 1 Observations, see here.)

This is a bit longer and there was still more I wanted to include - if you want to check out the raw data yourself, you can view the spreadsheet here!

Sisko

Is slightly more likely to introduce himself as "Benjamin Sisko" (6x) than "Commander Benjamin Sisko" (5x) - though this is often followed in both cases by "of the United Federation of Planets" or something similar.

Kira, Odo and Quark mostly call him "Commander", and rarely "Sir" - all are extremely consistent with season 1. (37:8, 16:2 and 11:0 as compared to in s1 35:8. 15:2 and 9:0)

Miles and Julian are more likely to call him "Sir", but use "Commander" often as well. How often has changed for them both since Season 1: > Julian has moved from using both equally, to using "Sir" twice as often. > Miles has moved from using "Sir" three times as much to almost using both equally (40:35)

Dax still uses Benjamin almost exclusively (24x), although she will use "Commander" on occasion (2x).

Is most often referred to as "Commander Sisko (22x), followed by Sisko (12x) - O'Brien is the only one to use "Sisko" more frequently.

Kira

Most often calls herself "Major Kira Nerys" (4x).

Everyone, apart from Dax, almost always calls her "Major".

Dax exclusively calls her Kira (2x) - Bashir and Sisko have both also called her this (2x and 1x respectively).

Is most often referred to as "Kira" (13x), followed by "Major Kira" (6x) - a change from Season 1 where the "Kira: Major Kira" ratio was 5:18 > Odo bucks this trend: as in season 1, he refers to her as "Major Kira" 2 times and "Kira" only once.

Odo

Introduces himself as "Chief of Security Odo" (2x).

Is called "Odo" by everybody; Kira (7x), Dax (7x), O'Brien (4x) and Quark (24x!!!!) will use this most often.

Sisko and Bashir are more likely to call him "Constable" - 13:8 and 2:1 respectively. > Kira and Dax never call him "Constable" > Miles uses it almost just as much as "Odo" (3:4) > Quark calls him it twice

Is almost exclusively referred to as Odo by everyone - Kira referred to him as "Constable Odo" once, and O'Brien as "the constable" once.

Trends are consistent with Season 1, apart from Kira stopping using Constable entirely, and Bashir, Dax and O'Brien actually speaking about/ talking to him more than two times this season!

Julian

Refers to himself most often as "Julian" or "Julian Bashir".

Sisko, Kira, Odo and Quark exclusively call him "Doctor" - apart from Kira calling him "Julian" once, on his request!

Dax and O'Brien more often call him "Julian" (9:1 and 12:5 respectively) > After Armageddon Game, O'Brien only calls him Julian.

He is still referred to as "Doctor Bashir" most often by Sisko, Kira and Odo

Jadzia still refers to him mostly as "Julian".

O'Brien now refers to him mostly as "the doctor" or "Bashir" (2x each), as opposed to "Dr Bashir" in S1 (2x) > Quark similarly uses "Bashir" most (3x), followed by "the doctor" (2x)

Jadzia

Refers to herself as "Jadzia" most often (5x), but 4 of those times are in the episode Playing God where she is talking in the third person about herself. > She also calls herself "Dax" (2x), "Jadzia Dax" (2x) and when talking to Klingons in Blood Oath, "I who was Curzon Dax" and "You knew me as Curzon Dax".

Sisko and Kira call her "Dax" most often, followed by "Lieutenant" (22:11 and 7:5 respectively). > No change from S1 for Sisko, but Kira only began to call her Dax this season. > Kira also first calls her Jadzia - unprompted! - in Blood Oath. > Sisko only calls her "Old Man" once.

Odo, O'Brien and Quark exclusively call her "Lieutenant".

Julian exclusively calls her Jadzia, but only twice.

Sisko, Kira and O'Brien usually refer to her as "Dax" - the latter two exclusively. > Sisko uses "Jadzia" just as much (6x), but only in the episode Invasive Procedures, when talking about her as opposed to Verad Dax who has stolen her symbiont. > Once again, this is same as S1 for Sisko, but a change from exclusively "Lieutenant Dax" (1x) for Kira.

Julian most often refers to her as "Jadzia" (4x), followed by Dax (2x).

Miles

Calls himself "O'Brien" most often (4x) - "Miles O'Brien" (6x) is skewed because of his repetition of it (4x) under torture in Tribunal.

Everyone most often calls him "Chief". > For Odo, this is equal with "Mister O'Brien" (2x each), and for Quark this is equal with "O'Brien" (1x each).

"Mister O'Brien" is still used at a similar rate by Sisko, being used about four times less frequently than "Chief" in both seasons. Kira only uses it once, in early s2, compared to "Chief" 14x - she used both equally in S1.

Sisko, Bashir and Dax most often refer to him as "Chief O'Brien", a change for all of them from S1. > For Sisko, this is followed by "Mister O'Brien", his most common use in S1. > For Bashir this is followed equally by "O'Brien", his most common in S1, and by "the chief".

Kira and Quark refer to him as "O'Brien" more often.

Odo uses both "Chief O'Brien" and "O'Brien" equally (2x each)

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the garashir pipeline

what strikes me about “Far Beyond the Stars” is how they cast Odo as the one who upholds oppression through complacency. because Odo’s been shown to be very beholden to the status quo - he prides himself on his neutrality, sees himself as only being subject to justice and truth. That was the thrust of “Things Past” - he doesn’t feel guilt over collaborating with the Cardassians, but over the fact that he failed at properly exacting justice under the premises of their rule. He tries to be benevolent from within the system, but doesn’t consider the fact that the system itself might be flawed (though he arguably starts to reconsider this at the beginning of S6). So his AU role here made a lot of sense for him, tbh.        

the thinggggg the thing about kira and jadzia is that. jadzia is so so so full of joy and the measured, steady, unshakeable optimism of someone much older than she is. but she wasn't always like that, she was a lonely, anxious, nerdy kid who "grew up" 300 years in the span of a single medical/spiritual operation. and a big part of that experience was the dedicated training she got towards knowing herself, knowing her needs and desires and how to meet them, so that she wouldn't get drowned out by the rest of dax. right

and she comes to ds9 and she meets kira, a lonely, anxious fighter who was an adult by the time she was 10, who never had the opportunity to know more about herself than what was strictly necessary--that she is strong, that she makes a good leader, that she can do anything she sets her mind to. but she never figured out what she might like to set her mind to, because freedom was the only thing it was possible to want.

and jadzia sees her old self in kira's face, in the bowstring-tight lines of her, and jadzia takes her by those aching shoulders and says Hey. do you want to know yourself? do you want to know what joy is? do you want to play?

Sometimes Star Trek is just a guy gentle parenting a jar of slime.

sorry. cant stop thinking about this

bonus stupidity round:

Odo’s morality

I was talking with @weaver0fwords about why it is that Odo never acknowledges Quark’s more good deeds, like the food/supply smuggling he did for Bajorans during Terok Nor, or why Odo, someone who is concerned more with justice than law, strongly disapproves when (for example) Quark arms the Maquis and similar groups. It’s very likely (given Odo’s close monitoring of Quark) that Odo knew about Quark’s smuggling during the occupation and yet he never mentions or acknowledges it at any point in the show, and when you do have Odo finding out about Quark’s illegal activities that seem to be for a good cause, he’s usually annoyed/disapproving in a way that indicates that he still very much has a low opinion of Quark. This got me thinking about how I think Quark’s morality has been very influential on Odo and that Odo and Quark have a kind of symbiotic relationship when it comes to moral action. There’s less evidence of it in canon, but I also think Kira had a similar influence on Odo’s morality. Both Quark and Kira through their contrast with Odo’s values help define for Odo what he is willing and not willing to do.

This is one of my favorite topics so I decided to expound a bit more on what I think Odo’s morality is as depicted in the show, and how I think Quark and Kira shaped that morality.

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There’s a post about how we need more female characters who genuinely care about people but are really bad at caregiving, and honestly that fits Kira Nerys really well. I’m thinking of Starship Down where she’s tasked with looking after Sisko and keeping him conscious when he has a head injury, and she just starts visibly flailing despite making an effort to hold it together. “Listen up…. because there’s going to be a test later” and then trying to keep him alert by droning on about duty rosters because she gets Task-Oriented when things are in dire straits and does not know how to scale things to a more personal level with someone she has a working relationship with.

Like, so much of how she deals with emotionally fraught situations is by getting up and doing something about them (even so far as traveling back in time) or just keeping busy to avoid dwelling on the matter at hand. When her father was dying, her response was to go out and kill some Cardassians about it, and then order another attack upon his death, rather than sit by his bedside. When Bareil died (pre-resurrection via mad scientist noodling) she went right back to work despite Bashir telling her she didn’t have to. It is a trauma mindset from someone who witnessed a lot of death and suffering and had no choice but to pick up and keep moving and keep fighting. And when she has to sit down and really focus on someone else’s vulnerability, it’s very uncomfortable for her. She cares very deeply about the people around her but she’s clumsy about it.

i made odo.

goo man<3

By popular demand: Avery Brooks (Extended Edition)

gay people never flirt normally its always gotta be shit like this

Controversial, perhaps.

EXPLAIN THIS IMAGE? WHAT? WELL - I think baby harnesses are hilarious. AND ADORABLE? BUT MOSTLY HILARIOUS. 

also as previously explained I like the idea of Odo being a super gung-ho dad. Odo brings this baby around EVERYWHERE. It makes everyone kind of uncomfortable. What do you want me to do, leave it playing around the bizarre vaguely sexual jungle gym that occupies most of my room??? HMPH

Quark is wondering if the baby harness is a harness or an extension of Odo’s terrifying goobody. Quark is wondering if the baby is A PLOY TO RUIN HIM FINANCIALLY. 

and Morn’s there because I just realized I’ve never bothered drawing him before. WHICH IS CRIMINAL, BECAUSE MORN IS FUN TO DRAW

i love you and your ridiculous puffy musclesuit, Morn

So. Nobody was kidding about S02E22 "The Wire".

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

just found some new Nog lore...

Edit: it appears this is an excerpt from Strange New Worlds, Volume 3, an anthology of fan written Trek short stories, which was titled “The Bottom Line”

i just KNOW they would've loved minecraft...

Knickknacks sold at Quark’s gift shop

Keychains in the shape of the station

Pictures of the wormhole with Sisko’s (forged) signature

Socks patterned with Cardassian voles 

T-shirts that say “I went to DS9 and all I got was this lousy shirt”

Emissary bobble-heads with Sisko’s (forged) signature

Fried tube grubs

Freeze-dried gagh (Worf does NOT approve)

T-shirts that say “I went to DS9 and all I got was a vision from the Prophets”

Culturally insensitive replicas of Bajoran earrings, but with DS9-shaped ornaments

Glittery postcards of the wormhole with Sisko’s (forged) signature

Containers of goop labeled as “Changeling Tears” (it’s just cornstarch and water)

T-shirts that say “I went to Terok Nor and all I got was aggressively corrected on its new name by a Bajoran Resistance veteran”

Trading cards of the senior staff (Nog secretly collects these)

T-shirts that say “I went to DS9 and all I got was my back blown out by this sexy beast” with a picture of Morn

Baseballs with Sisko’s (real) signature 

another quark. i just like his attitude

thinking about ‘big shoes’ again

did somebody say compulsory heterosexuality bashir??

garashir / good luck babe / garak pov

this is the first thing i've edited in a very long time (i think it may have literally been over ten years), im planning on creating a full length edit with cropping, effects, colouring, etc, eventually, this is just a preview for now tbh

Textposts from everyone’s favourite space station😽

Shoutout to the Trek ladies who didn't get to wear the uniform often but looked awesome when they did

Modern Star Trek needs to stop being so concerned with looking cool and return to its roots of being about horny nerds doing diplomacy in pajamas.