ST@CEC 4: Deep Space Nine; In Charles’s Shadow

Home, on Cardassia

This is my love letter to Elim Garak.

i finally started listening to alone together and realized i miss my boys so much [twitter]

I INTERRUPT YOUR DASH WITH THIS IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Christopher Eccleston ships McSpirk, I repeat, Christopher Eccleston ships McSpirk! 

I had to see what Tain looked like with Kingpin shape. Tain the unit. Oh! When he died did anyone think he look he was melting?

I just wanna say I am LIVID with Andrew Robinson and Alexander Siddig for this 😤

I'm one of those lesbian who had a yaoi/mlm obsession as a teenager (embarassing, but also both hilarious and validating that this is a whole thing?), and y'know I thought I got over that and could try to be a half-normal person?

Y'know I went into Star Trek fully aware of it's gay communist tendencies, but y'know I thought I'd be safe (I watched Voyager when I was a kid and I'm convinced it's at least 30% why I'm as gay as I am). After re-watching Voyager and watching the Next Generation (I know weird order), I decide to naturally give Deep Space Nine a try.

And then HERE COMES THESE TWO.

I'm on AO3 again.

I made a playlist.

I HATE how obsessed I am with them.

They're so perfect 😭💖

And then Lower Decks (with Andy and Sid of course) basically says "their love transcends the boundaries of space and time."

Obviously congratulations to the OG shippers of this pair.

But I'm still pissed

hmmmm want to write something about the way Julian's really tactile but also incredibly uncomfortable around touch. because I'm certain the Bashirs would have hated it if Jules was touch-averse and refused their hugs and so that would be another thing to fix on Adigeon. but while Adigeon changed lots of things it didn't make him less uncomfortable, just better at masking...

but then like with friends? with people who he likes and who have sent his trust? he discovers touch can actually be a comforting and good sensation so long as he feels like he can back away from it at any time and the other person will actually let him?

idk there's something incredibly manipulative and possessive about the way that Amsha is constantly reaching out for him and holding him in DBIP and in the aftermath of all that? I just see a Julian who is desperate for comfort from his friends but whose skin recoils at the thought of being touched for a good while after his parents have left the station and maybe he can't even quite put his finger on why. and he's just completely torn between wanting a hug but being entirely unable to accept one.

I'm learning about the "Type B" Cardassian uniform, and-

and I just-

Why

Why are they trying so hard to be sexy and covering themselves in Cardussys?

... Oh

I see

Cant stop thinking about how odo having marathon sex for 3 days was enough for quarks 5’4 self to snap and attempt to body slam a 500 pound jem hadar soldier

I love when the star trek alien actors decide to give their characters traits that they personally think of as the respective alien species influence, because they never line up with other actors decisions. Like we have early seasons Nog, who has that very particular Ferengi accent and vocal rhythm, and then his uncle Quark shows up and he just sounds like a guy who owns a bowling alley. Garak, who moves in this strange reptilian fashion, has his eyes wide open, and then his dad shows up. And its like. Yeah thats just Paul Dooley. Hes not even acting thats just Paul Dooley right there. What we learn from this is that Garak is just a freak.