Ds9 - Blog Posts
The biggest suspension of disbelief DS9 requires is that Kira Nerys would shave her legs or her pits
one of the things I think about a lot with dukat is the way he pronounces the word "bajoran"
pretty much every other character on the show (including the overwhelming majority of actual bajorans) pronounce it with a hard j sound. but marc alaimo nearly every time says it with a much softer consonant, closer to bazhoran or even bashoren.
it's such immaculate flavor that dukat of all people doesn't just mispronounce the name of the people and planet he's subjugating out of like laziness to use vowels/consonants that are closer to his dialect, but that he instead opts for a pronunciation that makes it feel like he's overcompensating. using the zh consonant over the j consonant is honestly less congruous with common patterns in american english of voiced vs unvoiced consonants. he makes the word 'bajoran' feel more exotic and foreign, not less. it gives dukat the flavor of someone who tries sooo hard to pronounce something ~authentically~ that they end up completely missing the mark and sounding totally detached from reality. but of course in his case it's purposeful.
this is why dukat goes so hard as a villain, because yes his text is hyper un-subtle about how much he's the living embodiment of colonialism and racism, but marc alaimo is regularly serving us these acting choices that just take it to the next level. that man and his neck really found his calling huh.
our man bashir is also garak and the terrible horrible no good day. like he shows up clearly intending to fuck julian in the holosuite and immediately he has to put up with julian’s hot lady assistants being in his way. THEN his plans are further ruined by a transporter accident (ofc) that lets julian hit on not only kira but also dax. he is trying SO hard to be bond girl, elim gardick, and is thwarted at every turn. plus he gets punched in the face by someone who is not even julian. like his day literally only turns around when he gets shot in the neck.
Something something big embarrassing crush on Jadzia Dax as evidence that Julian has always been into older men something something
so... i lied 🤫 i cheated 🫣 i bribed men 💵💵🧑🤝🧑🧑🤝🧑 to cover 🛌 the crimes 🚔🔍🔗 of other men 👨🧔♂️🧔 i am an accessory 💍👑👛🪭 to murder 🗡🗡🗡 but 🍑 the most damning 👿💀👹👺 thing of all 🤷♂️ i think 🤔💭 i can 🥫 live with it 🥱💅 and if ❓️❔️ i had to do it all over again ⌛️⏳️⏱️ i would 😤 garak 🦎🧵🪡 was right 💯💯 about 1️⃣ thing 👏 a guilty 😰 conscience 🧚♀️🧚♂️ is a small 🔎🔬 price 💰 to pay 💸💸 for the safety 🏥🛟 of the alpha 🐺 quadrant 🌌 so 🤷 i will learn 📚✏️to live with it 😒 because I can 🥫 live with it 😣 i can 🥫 live with it 😔🥃 computer 💻 erase 🧼🧽🚮 that entire 🌎 personal log 📖❌️👋👋
i am obsessed with this moment from what we left behind. ira steven behr is basically like, "yeah so were they buddies? ^w^" and andrew robinson in a completely deadpan, 100% serious tone just says "they fucked." he doesn't hesitate, he doesn't miss a beat. he believes in garashir with his heart and soul and that is just so incredibly awesome
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finishing my first ever watch through of ds9 tonight (on the last three episodes) and I just... I don’t want it to end. I want more ;;
the only good news is after tonight I can dive all the way into the fandom without spoiler dodging o7
My favorite part of Deep Space Nine is Jake and Nog just chillin on the promenade.
Garak was late to lunch that day because he was building a bomb to destroy his shop. He was eating Delavian chocolates while he made it. He saw an assassin and knew for whom the bell tolled, but he still ate his chocolates, and he still went to lunch, just a little late. Because he was making a bomb to blow himself up with.
Beach vacay old men Bashir and Garak commission for Nat! An absolute blast to draw. But also while drawing I googled "nude Cardassian" and I should not have done that. One of life's many lessons.
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starting a whole new blog instead of just an alt on my ancient old account! I had 27 alts on that one, it was untenable.
I'm a transmasc 33yo trying to get back into like... idk the interactive community part of fandom instead of just posting/consuming. I'm trying to find people who like trek/ds9 in a god-dishonoring way please, and boy it is tough to find that for an older fandom.
not to clog these tags but if you spend a lot of time here and have recs for who to follow lmk c:
**edited to add more info: I'm here for the garashir first and foremost, plus anything abotu the two of them individually, don't know the ship names but definitely quark/odo, kira/jadzia, odo/kira, in tng it's all data all the way down and also data/geordi, also v interested in the cardassians and dukat. truthfully tho I am open-minded and low on squicks so the sky's the limit