I don’t know why, but this is my favorite picture of them.
You know what I like about this? It subverts the whole ‘Bashir is fucking clueless’ trope. At this stage he’s doing stuff to make Garak act like a bashful idiot and it’s great. *breaks table in half*.
gif request meme - @philippageorgiou asked star trek + most attractive: colonel & intendant kira
Inspired by the fantastic Garashir fic A Gentleman & A Scholar which is so soft and wonderful and I absolutely enjoyed it.
No Doctor, I haven’t seen your favorite pajamas 🤷♀️
when ur trying to decide if the cardassian alliance is worth another 3 hours of listening to this
3/~78: Garak and Bashir, with champagne. Two of Cups: unity, partnership, attraction, connection, close bonds, joining forces, mutual respect…
🍹🐠🌅waiting for the sun to set, so neon dreams can come to life🌴🍹🍍🏖🌌#QCard #hotqcardsummer
ok so garashir basically
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i still think a ds9 episode we were robbed of was one specifically about all the wacky characters who own businesses on the promenade bc the ones who AREN’T quark and garak are like, kaga the singing klingon chef. you know there’s like one exceedingly normal bajoran who sells used replicators and is like this is a fucking nightmare.
definitely imagining this in inexplicable mockumentary/reality show format so it can keep cutting to talking heads of other characters looking absolutely dead inside every time quark reminds everyone he’s the head of the promenade business owners’ association
Come participate in the Promenade Directory fic challenge!
ds9 episode: o’brien gets sucked into a tricorder while trying to fix it and now has to go through multiple 8bit-style boss battles in order to break free or else he’s trapped forever. quark starts selling bloodwine seltzers. worf pretends not to like them but jadzia eventually finds out he’s been lying when he gets a severe case of the hiccups and she has to take him to the infirmary. jake and nog get caught in a pyramid scheme
Ngl I’m not sure I’ve ever really seen a fic that I would consider to be fully in character for Mirror Garak. There are some that are close but more often than not, he’s ends up being portrayed closer to Order!Garak than himself. And I think to some extent that has to be a conscious, artistic choice (similar to how people alter mirror Bashir) where what they actually want is our Garak but in a mirrorverse setting which is understandable, but the fact that there’s none is kinda disappointing.
Mirrorverse can be touch and go, but one of the gifts of it is the ability to compare and contrast characters. What stays the same about them and what’s different? What in a character is nature, what is nurture, and what qualities still exist but in bent ways?
Like, Mirror Garak is a very different person than our Garak or pre-series Order!Garak. Sure, they’ve both got an appreciation for torture but they’re not the same even in that quality.
I keep getting confused about when Keiko is on the station and when she’s away, and sometimes I get a plotbunny and then realise that she’s not even there at that time. When I sat down to look at it, I realised I have way too much knowledge about this, so here it is - all of Keiko’s known movements during Deep Space Nine. I’ve double-checked everything I remembered on Chakoteya and Memory Alpha. I can’t guarantee I haven’t missed something, but if I have, it’s on the level of going away for part of an episode.
I hope this is useful for fic-writing and other endeavours!
1x01 The Emissary Keiko arrives to DS9 along with the Enterprise. She talks about taking Molly and going back to Earth, but then doesn’t.
1x01-2x202 Keiko is on DS9.
2x03 The Siege Keiko and other civilians are evacuated from DS9, and are to the taken to the Korat system. However, the first shuttle with evacuees comes back at the end of the episode, so they may not even have made it to the Korat system before turning away.
2x04 Invasive Procedures Everyone but a skeleton crew is evacuated due to a plasma storm. She is back on the station by the next episode.
2x05-2x22 - On DS9
2x22 The Wire She is away at a hydroponics conference on Rigel Four for more than a week.
2x23-3x03 On DS9.
Two weeks after 3x03 The House of Quark Keiko leaves for the expedition to the Janitza Mountains, taking Molly with her. Miles tells her in 3x03 that the expedition starts in two weeks. It’s unclear how big the gap between 3x03 and 3x04 is, as neither episode has a stardate, so it’s hard to say if she’s gone by 3x04. However, Miles does not appear in 3x04, so we could theorise that he’s helping her get everything ready and follow her down to Bajor (because you know Miles would fuss over that kind of thing).
3x06-3x09 On Bajor.
3x10 Fascination Keiko and Molly come to visit DS9 for the Gratitude Festival, staying for two days.
3x11-4x16 On Bajor. In Fascination she says she will be away two or three months longer. I lean towards this being longer than that. We know Keiko spends one night at DS9, at which point she gets pregnant. This could be the same time as Fascination, but I don’t think so, as they would have had to decide that they were going to try for a baby, and that is not something they talk about in Fascination (as at that point they almost break up). Furthermore, this must have been something that is planned ahead more. From events in s7, we know that Sisko takes a contraceptive shot once a month, and it seems possible or even likely that Miles is on something similar. That means that he has to go off it, and it also explains why he’s surprised she’s pregnant, because she says “I thought it’d take a couple of nights. To be honest, a lot more nights.” (That is partly just that he wants to have sex with his wife, but if he’s just stopped taking contraceptives, that might explain that further.) On top of all this, I have calculated (from when I wrote my Keiko/Kira fic) that Keiko is eight or nine weeks pregnant in Accession. (This was based on chronological markers within the episodes of s4 and counting backwards from Body Parts. Kira is pregnant for five months, so it’d be logical that Keiko is four months gone in Body Parts, and stuff in the episodes between Accession and Body Parts makes a two-month gap likely.)
4x17 Accession The expedition having ended, Keiko is back on the station.
4x17-4x25 On DS9.
4x25 Body Parts Goes to Torad V in the gamma quadrant for three days together with Bashir and Kira.
4x26-5x05 On DS9.
5x05 The Assignment Goes on an expedition to the Five Caves for five days. (Comes back possessed by a pah-wraith - man, she needs to stop going to places with ‘five’ in their name…)
5x06-5x25 On DS9.
Two days before 5x26 Call to Arms Leaves the station to live on Earth together with Molly as the war is heating up.
5x26-6x24 On Earth. Memory Alpha says she is gone almost a year, and often, a series is about a year, but in 6x16 Miles mentions that she has been gone for six months, so it might be shorter. There is no mention that I can find that she was away a full year.
Before 6x24 Time’s Orphan Comes back to DS9. Considering the conversations in the beginning of this episode, it sounds like they have gotten back the day before or so.
6x24-7x26 On DS9.
7x26 What You Leave Behind Moves to Earth with her family.
BlessedAreTheFandoms (who is not on Tumblr) issued the following challenge:
The DS9 writers had a ball coming up with the shops we may never have seen in the show (there’s an explanation of all the name in-jokes here), so it’s time to give the shops a day in the sun. Pick a Promenade business and write a story around it (check the existing stories to see what places have already been claimed and try to go for a new one–but if you really have your heart set, create a rival tale and we’ll see who knows the business better). Any pairing welcome, though Garashir will likely win the day.
Add your fic to the collection:
The followings have already been claimed:
Cavor’s Gravity Devices
Jacobson’s Used Photons
Pancho’s Happy Bottom Riding Club
Vince’ s Gymnasium
it’s really tragic for garak that he’s the sort of guy who absolutely would put out for “straight” men if they were good looking and nice enough 2 him. in fact i think this is perhaps the primary tragic element of star trek deep space nine.
Shout out to @the-last-dillards for this level of detail!
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