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Reminder that Garak's outfit in Our Man Bashir was based on Pussy Galore.
p.o.v. you walk into a dimly-lit room, full of discarded soda cans & candy wrappers & takeout containers. the only light in the room is a single very bright lamp near a frantically-assembled corkboard full of thumbtacks & pins leading to various pictures and newsclippings. at the center of this web of strings is a printout of this post on which is written "GARAK IS A LESBIAN" in sharpie. it is underlined & circled several times. i am alternating between pointing at it frantically & pacing wildly. you are a little scared.
[ID: 13 gifs from season 3, episode 1 “the search, part 1” from the tv series “star trek: deep space nine”, the gifs show benjamin sisko and jadzia dax in the wardroom. jadzia is seated while sisko is standing in front of a monitor.
1st gif: “you know, after jennifer died, i never thought i would see you this passionate about something again.” jadzia tells sisko.
2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th gif: the camera shifts to sisko, who has his arms are crossed in front of him and takes a couple of steps forward, the camera moves with him, “two months ago, i would have agreed with you.” he takes a seat, and the camera focuses on him. “then i went back to earth and i spent all those weeks debriefing at starfleet headquarters. and i… i used to get a thrill just walking into that building. i'd look around at the admirals and think, "one day, that's going to be me." "one day, i'm the one that's going to be making the big decisions."” sisko is slightly smiling at the end.
7th gif: jadzia laughs as she recalls, “curzon always thought that was very funny.”
8th, 9th gif: the camera cuts to sisko, “did he?” then back to jadzia as she explains, “what i mean is he could never see a set of admiral stars on your collar. he thought that just making the decisions would never satisfy you. you had to implement them – “
10th gif: a shift to show sisko listening to jadzia, “see the results, face the consequences.”
11th gif: “curzon always thought you were the kind of man who had to be in the thick of things -- not behind some desk at headquarters.”
12th gif: “he was a smart old man, wasn't he?” sisko gets up and returns to the monitor.
13th gif: “he'd like to think so.” jadzia confirms. /end ID]
You know, it's funny that Enterprise basically equates a mind meld to sex, in regards to the intimacy. (Because they wanted to do an HIV analogy). I'm watching "Repression" now and I think Tuvok end up mind melding with half the ship.
He mind melds with Janeway in Flashback, Paris in Ex post facto, B'Elanna in Random thoughts, Suder in Meld, Kes in Warlord, Seven in Infinite Regress and Chakotay/Tabor/Jor and a bunch of others in Repression.
I don't remember if he had a mind meld with Neelix at some point but they definitely melded.
What I'm saying is Tuvok is a bit of a mind slut and you can't stop me.
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Picard fucked that old man.
You know, it's funny that Enterprise basically equates a mind meld to sex, in regards to the intimacy. (Because they wanted to do an HIV analogy). I'm watching "Repression" now and I think Tuvok end up mind melding with half the ship.
He mind melds with Janeway in Flashback, Paris in Ex post facto, B'Elanna in Random thoughts, Suder in Meld, Kes in Warlord, Seven in Infinite Regress and Chakotay/Tabor/Jor and a bunch of others in Repression.
I don't remember if he had a mind meld with Neelix at some point but they definitely melded.
What I'm saying is Tuvok is a bit of a mind slut and you can't stop me.
Me voting for Shrek and Fiona when they're already ahead by 97.2 percent:
I see this pop up in my notes on capsfromtrek often and I've figured it was just relatable.
But I just realized I posted this in December 2019, so now I get why people have been reblogging this post with "mood" for 3 years straight lol.
IIRC, it had something to do with the fact that Seska was using shoddy Kazon medtech to change herself back to her true appearance.
I know Seska said something once about "Being in the process of retaining my Cardassian appearance" but then she continued to look like this the whole time.
My guess is that Martha Hacket didn't want to be in the heavier makeup, that is cumbersome and uncomfortable to work in and also adds many hours on already long work days. So this was their compromise when she returned to the role. The line alluding to some sort of process, which was never mentioned again, always sounded to me like a way to explain a way a practical issue rather than something based in character or story.
Tom because we all know how Chakotay reacted to them getting together in the season 2 episode Threshold.
but if you think that becoming a demigod-like entity that exists beyond time will stop sisko from enforcing regular family dinners, you're dead wrong
Latest bot wave are just untitled blogs without content and they're getting blocked and reported, which is unfortunate for anyone new to this platform I guess. Better get that real profile picture on pronto.
Robbie & Garrett shipping J/P in the middle of an episode about which RDM had almost nothing else positive to say
We pile on Spock and Chakotay but none of the main 4 first officers have normal relationships with their bosses
Spock - time and death defying life partnership
Riker - won’t accept a command due to his weird old man crush
Kira - thinks her gods talk to him
Chakotay - keeps two files open on his desktop; one a detailed log of the boss’s perceived mental health in hope of tracking when she’s gonna get itchy to go on a suicide mission, the other is basically a Pinterest board planning their wedding
Anonymous asked:
There's been a lot of talk over the years about whether Ferengi are a antisemitic stereotyoe. Given that DS9 had more Jewish actors and creative staff, what do you think of that discourse?
Was this something that was kept in mind when reinventing the Ferengi from how they were in TNG?
I can tell you the INTENTION of the Ferengi was to satirize capitalism and the West. Ferengi derives from the Persian "Farangi," i.e. Franks, people from France. More broadly, it came to mean "Western European." Hence "Farangistan" = Europe. Farang/i spread to other languages, notably Thai where it now means "foreigner."
So, the Ferengi are intended to be us. Westerners, even more specifically Americans. The original TNG bible compares them to 18th and 19th century Yankee traders. Sexist and greedy, patriarchal and dishonest.
I'm pretty sure this was the intention of their look too, especially the noses. Big noses are common in Asian caricatures of Westerners. Check out the Thai sculpture in the link above. According to my father, for example, the Rhade tribe from the Vietnamese Highlands called Americans "big noses" and when he was their military advisor, he was Captain Big Nose.
And then TNG cast a ton of Jewish actors as early Ferengi, and a lot of people saw them completely differently. (Aside, I've heard from some Asian fans that they perceive Ferengi as caricatures of the Cantonese, which speaks to how different cultures see them.)
We were definitely aware of this issue when DS9 came along, and I largely followed the lead of our Jewish-American showrunners on how to handle it. Generally, by digging deep into three different main Ferengi characters and several recurring, I hope we transcended the stereotypes.
We showed Ferengi not as whip-wielding pirate/raiders (not a Jewish trope btw, see Yankee traders), but as a small business owner, a handyman/engineer, and an aspiring Starfleet officer, all struggling with issues of cultural assimilation and grappling with their own culture's shortcomings when it comes to women and greed.
When writing the Ferengi, I drew from my own (white bread, Catholic, Army brat) background, so for example, I saw the Rules of Acquisition not as some kind of take on the Talmud, but as a satire of Western self-help business books, a kind of "How to Win Friends and Influence People," meets "The Devil's Dictionary." The Ferengi afterlife is based on my vague understanding of Chinese traditions I grew up around in San Francisco, etc.
I'm not sure we fully separated the Ferengi from the baggage they came to us with, but we definitely tried.
