Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine Star Trek: Voyager I The Haunting of Deck Twelve
I would've thought that there'd be more Cardassian wannabes on this, the weird Garashir website
Someone remind me to look at this after sleeping, please.
Lost DS9 season 8 episode plot : Quark becomes a rainbow capitalist
And we wouldn’t wan’t to disrespect tradition, would we ?
janeway lounging on couch + looking up at seven
bonus:
commission for @mylittleredgirl :)
everybody PLEASE look at this IMMEDIATELY and let the b’elanna/kes love into your HEART
trekkie blinkies from geocities archives
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I don’t know why anyone doesn’t notice that Enterprise rooms without any people there look liminal AS FUCK
First two are scene redraws, and the last one is a “what if the orchid hybrid that Suder made and named after Tuvok survived the exploison and Tuvok kept taking care of it?” scenario (there’s actually a touchy-glowy panel where I put the orchid but shhhh)
I’m dedicating these to @ds9shameblog yet again, or still, whose superb fanart introduced me to this rareship, hope it’s not a bother! ^—^””
the most fascinating and realistic thing about Quark’s misogyny is that it benefits no one, not even himself, and he’s still ludicrously invested in it
“Ferengi women should be submissive! Sexual objectification is good for business! Also on an unrelated note here are my twelve alien ex-girlfriends, all of whom can pound my ass, the one Ferengi woman I had a crush on because she was cross dressing that one time, and my constant, debilitating anxiety about me & Rom’s relative failure to live up to arbitrary measures of masculine success. This is working great for me.”
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I think this is a really good point- is he a gross misogynist? Yup. Is he a character feminists can love? Yup.
Why? Because his misogyny is shown to be harmful, to himself and all his relationships and goals. To the extent he has moments when he is behaving contrary to it, things are better. For himself, for those he knows, for his overall existence as a person who is capable of being healthy and happy and good.
It is all done with exaggeration and a layer of “look at this alien nonsense”, but it is also one of the most realistic depictions of how misogyny plays out in real life. It is a dysfunction that makes everything worse, but often doesn’t shatter connections between people.
Jadzia is genuinely friends with Quark. Kira sees him as an ally during the Dominion occupation and other Station crisis. Neither women are interested in letting his bullshit dictate squat. His romances follow similar patterns. He behaves appropriately or gets shit, loses things that he can barely acknowledge to himself that he values. They lose patience with him. He does better and earns some respect. Does worse and loses some.
That is what actually happens when men espouse or behave in misogynist ways. We all live in a patriarchal world. Every relationship struggles with it in some way– but media almost never portrays it that way. “Bad men’s” misogyny is extreme, and punished with absolutes. “Good guy’s” misogyny is excused (even when it is also extreme or blatantly immediately toxic) or permitted or even framed as good itself and they are rewarded regardless.
With Quark, you have a man capable of being terrible and being decent and the people around him respond to his behavior and it in turn influences what he does. It shows the actual connection between the social reality of patriarchy and individual relationships– rather than attempting to HIDE patriarchy behind a individualized coding of “good guy/bad guy”.
Oh lord this was so long and probably should be edited, but I am on mobile so sorry…
I love how NOT ONE of Quark’s romantic partners or crushes are ever submissive and servile.
“Ugh, you people don’t appreciate how much better it is when your females are unclothed and submissive. Now meet my ex-girlfriend Natima, a Cardassian political radical and dissident who’s looking to overthrow the totalitarian government in favor of equality. Also, here’s my ex-wife Grilka, a Klingon warrior whom I married so she could lead her house with honor and defeat the schemings of general douche D’Ghor.”
Quark is also a great deconstruction of the “product of their time” mentality that gives so many older people the pass for their bigoted views. While he’s never objectively progressive, early-seasons Quark is almost radical by the standards of Ferengi society. By the end of the show (spoilers, I guess. Does it count, show has been out for twenty years) while Quark’s political views have not changed appreciably, Ferengi society has moved past him. Quark essentially turned from a liberal to a conservative by standing still, and it’s painted as his failure to learn and change. He explicitly doesn’t get a pass because “that’s just how he was raised”
Love both TNG and VOY. But Voyager has that lil' strain of "we're almost certainly going to die out here, but at least it'll be rad" that's just so appealing to me
Captain Kathryn Janeway
Star Trek: Voyager - Shattered
It should also be recognised that Lucille Ball helped advance the medium of television as a whole by, more or less, inventing the idea of reruns. This was, in large part, what drove the success of non-serialised shows such as Star Trek, but also paved the way for extremely popular television genres like the sitcom
every time she mentions then she’s on the verge of tears laughing so hard. I’m so in love with her.
