#Beste Kanar

[andromedaexile]

Are They a Stoner? DS9 Edition:

Captain Sisko: Being raised in the south means he has most definitely lit up, and I refuse to believe otherwise. However, after his father caught him smoking and he got stuck on clam duty for a month, he learned his lesson.

Jadzia Dax: Let’s be so real, if she played Tongo with a bunch of Ferengi why would she not own a Betazed bong??? She definitely begged Worf to try it but after his experience with Deanna he only fucks with Blood Wine.

Kira Nerys: OH 100% she was a stoner during the occupation. How would you even attempt to relax in that situation WITHOUT weed? Once the occupation ended Kira stopped messing with weed, but Kira would often hangout with Jadzia, who no doubt brought something to share with Nerys on multiple occasions.

Worf: Blood wine and prune juice.

Dr. Bashir: Before knowledge of him being an augment was made public he never touched anything that could potentially make him not in full control of himself (he did drink a little though). After the knowledge was made public Dr. Bashir and O’Brien definitely were lighting up in the holosuites. That’s why they don’t remember the Alamo.

Erzi Dax: She was straight edge through and through before she was joined with Dax. However afterward…Let’s just say Dax would never turn down an edible.

Odo:

Elim Garak: After the wire was removed Garak decided to stay relatively sober. However, for harm reduction reasons, and to help him cope with his headaches Dr. Bashir prescribed him some medical gummies. He eventually waned off of them completely once Erzi started helping him (he still some times smokes and sews which is why sometimes your trousers don’t always fit right).

Miles O’ Brien: He swore off the “devils lettuce” when he first came aboard the Enterprise. But once stationed at DS9 he quickly realized he would need some of Keiko’s supply of Cannabis-infused tea to remain sane.

Quark: Being a bar owner (best bar on the promenade btw) he is not a big supporter of weed because his main source of profit is alcohol. However, Nog explained to him what a cart is and how you can make a profit from selling them to hoo-mans so he is looking into that as a possible new business opportunity.

Rom: You can’t be a leftist and not have at least tried weed. Also an engineer, so yeah.

Leeta: Oh 10000%. In fact, she’s the plug for the other dabo girls. She even bags her “merchandise” in handmade baggies she makes from recycled textile/fabrics from Garak’s (he owes her because she gave him boy advice).

Nog: No. He follows the rules of StarFleet academy to a T.

Jake Sisko: Hes going to school for writing so yeah. Definitely an edibles kinda guy. His dad has yet to find out despite how many times Jake has come home and slammed an entire pot of jambalaya in 10 minutes.

Keiko O’Brien: Who do you think on DS9 is growing it in the first place?

Gul Dukat: No, he is a snitch who hates fun.

Weyoun: Yes, he is a snitch who loves fun.

Kai Winn: She gives me cop vibes more than Odo does so I’m saying she is a snitch who also hates fun. She also unironically calls weed the Pah-Wraiths Herb or something like that.

Kasidy Yates: Yes, but stopped after jail.

Ziyal: Art school attendee/ art school drop-out. You tell me.

Damar: He’s only a fiend for Kanar (someone help that dude).

[a-planet-around-procyon]

A painting of some Kanar being poured in Quark’s bar (with plenty of creative liberty taken).

This is my first Star Trek watercolour so it’s not the best, but I quite liked it and it was fun to paint.

🪐

[eggsploded]

HOMESTUCK AND STAR TREK? :O

oh baby this posts gonna be long

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most)

HS: aradia and sollux. aradia is my favorite forever as my patron troll and sollux is just fun to draw because whys he look like that

ST: all the cardassians in general. garak is the best, im honestly more fascinated with andrew robinson himself and his dedication to the character. also damar who doesnt get much presence until later seasons and gets crushed by actually giving a fuck about his position. i took a shot of kanar (maple syrup) for his honor and it was agony.

dukat is excluded from this because he managed to curse the show into buffering on his face everytime i watched.

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped)

HS: probably the beta kids before playing sburb. theyre all just little kids and best friends forever and it makes me tear up- in pesterquest dave literally talks about jade like shes his girlfriend that goes to a different school. all the kids were more than eager to see eachother in person and it sucks that it happened under the circumstances of.. homestuck

i dont have cuteness aggression for them theyve been through enough :-(

ST: in TNG's the enemy geordi helps out this genuinely pitiful romulan dude thats shaking like a chihuahua and i felt so much for that guy i wish he came back

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave)

HS: i think people are finally past portraying kanaya as a nothingburger, it was kind of funny 10 years ago that people were falling into her flimsy veil of Perceived Normalcy, like she doesnt regularly bite her friends and wasnt unforgivably delulu about vriska when they were moirails.

truly underrated might be the felt? their designs tickle me

ST: damar? maybe hes got more content now idk. honorable mentions are: keiko obrien, worfs parents (my favorite tng ep), hugh, the cardassian scientists that hit on obrien that one time, lwaxana troi and keevan.

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week)

HS: any of signless' crew. like. we got shafted so hard with the dancestors its crazy. in my wildest dreams psiioniic didnt get utterly crushed by the vast glub and somehow escaped at the ripe age of 2000 sweeps and is now overgrown and too old and ancient for his own good, squatting in solluxs hive. we didnt get much content about how signless did his recruiting- did he just do speeches and demonstrations? did he fuck nasty? i know for sure it wasnt the cringe dialogue they strapped kankri with. same goes for dolorosas life before she raised signless, she should be at the club.

ST: background vulcans. especially in TNG when they just stopped giving a fuck about them, thank god tuvok exists or i wouldve had no incentive at all to actually watch part of VOY.

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave)

HS: equius. its really a special day when a character cant be quantified with a simple archetype like the rest of the trolls. theres something so deeply strange and wrong with him that its captivating, i chalk it up to being the horse guy in a insect body.

hussie also just like, had it out for him at day one. gamzee got beaten to a pulp narratively but equius didnt even get a chance. its sad, and im more interested in what he couldve been rather than someone like eridan or meenah.

ST: kai winn. shes literally an alien white woman and its fantastic. she did her role so good that the poor actress got hatemail, and her insidiousness is just so well done. the final season of ds9 isnt that good but it was fun to see her go off the rails with dukat.

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason)

HS: what do i look like? hussie? in truth when it comes to being a flop i like seeing kanaya flounder. shes weird guys. she is so fucking weird and she doesnt really know because her friends are Weirder. we dont always need her to slay, atleast in my book.

ST: riker. no further notes

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell)

HS: jake. if he has a deeper character i havent noticed because my eyes glaze over trying to read through this dialogue. he feels like a leftover shitpost character hussie couldnt fit on the dancestors. i havent reread act 6 yet, but i remember such a large chunk being some strange love triangle-square surrounding jake and i did Not Give a Fuck, and salt in the wound was dirk and janes friendship being so fantastic but overshadowed by jakes unceasing sex appeal cursing them.

ST: obrien because it was be a standard episode plot for him, i think hed come out fine

[marymoss1971]

Tag Game--First lines

Thanks for the tag @curator-on-ao3

Rules: Share the first line of your last ten published works or as many as you are able to and see if there are any patterns!

1)      Sending a Message (Star Trek: SNW)Christopher Pike/Admiral Marcus

Captain Christopher Pike was alone in a shuttle bound for Earth trying to process what had happened.

2)      The State of Security at Starbase 25 (Star Trek: LD)

The best day of Bernie Lebrowski’s life was when he was hired to head up security on Starbase 25.

3)      Trying to Talk Through the Issue (Star Trek: TOS)  former Capt. Ron Tracey/his counselor

As usual, he sat there in silence, just glaring at her. ‘You know, you won’t get anything out of these sessions if you don’t talk.”

4)      Her Secret Life (Star Trek: VOY)  Kathryn Janeway

Kathryn stood, naked, in front of her mirror.

5)      A Friend’s Betrayal (Star Trek: VOY)  Owen Paris

Admiral Owen Paris was combing through reports when his secretary commed. “Admiral, Admiral Hayes is here to see you.”

6)      Light at the end of the Tunnel (Star Trek: TNG) Capt. Robert DeSoto

“So, how are repairs going?” DeSoto asked his first officer, Hiroshi Murakami during one of his regular visits to the Joseph M'Benga Medical Center.

7)      A Brief History of the Trill Joining (Star Trek TNG/DS9)

Ever since the Trill symbiotic relationship was made public with the death of Ambassador Rozna Odan in 2367 there have been many questions and misconceptions regarding the Trill host-symbiont relationship.

8)      Trying to Make Peace (Star Trek: TNG/VOY)Owen Paris/Edward Jellico

Owen Paris was in his office looking at reports regarding the Romulan evacuation when suddenly his secretary chimed in over comms “Admiral Paris, Admiral Jellico’s here to see you.”

9)      The Trifecta (Star Trek: TNG)Robert DeSoto/Will Riker

Robert DeSoto packed up his quarters on Starbase 80.

10)  The School of Kanar (Star Trek: LD)  Mariner & gang (will be published tomorrow)

The gang was in the Cerritos bar hanging out, when suddenly Mariner arrived. “Okay, all. School’s in session!!” she said as she set down a large tray containing five liquor bottles and glasses for each of them.

Pattern analysis: 

The first lines introduce the character and the setting. Most of the time, I state what the person is doing just so the reader doesn’t think the character is just standing there doing nothing (though I have Janeway doing exactly that in Her Secret Life) Sometimes I start the fic off with a quote.

Tagging anyone who's interested

[angelofthewaterss]

The Jack Crusher Damar Reincarnation Theory

Here I propose: The Jack Crusher Damar Reincarnation Theory:

- Jack Crusher is 20-25 years old in 2401. Damar died in 2375. That’s 26 years. Minus a year or so of the Damar spirit hanging about Cardassia, then Beverly being pregnant, that’s about 24 years. Perfect coincidence, eh? but it gets more interesting:

-Jack Crusher drinks a lot. Who else drank a lot? yeah. Damar.

-The voice calling Jack is actually that of a bottle of kanar. A great big bottle of kanar. Possibly the best bottle of kanar ever, actually. YEAH.

[smowkie]

finished my third bingo card from @ficreadingchallenge, woo! thanks again for such a fun challenge 💖

list of fics under the cut

1 pets

like a boat at sea by coffinbirth

Will & his dogs, Hannibal, 926 w, rated teen

summary:

“It’s all right, Harley,” Will murmurs, as the dog peers up at him intently from beneath her heavy brow. “I’m all right. We got all we need, don’t we? Just us.”

2 under the influence

Pass the Kanar by Fanfic_For_The_Void

Garashir, DS9, 6,592 w, rated teen

summary:

After a long day at work, Julian shares a deeply discounted bottle of Kanar with Garak.

3 secret identity

Iron Man: Unavailable, Tony Stark: In Trouble by navaan

Stony, MCU, 40,779 w, rated teen

summary:

After what happened in New York the Avengers with the help of Tony Stark are trying to become more independent. The team has grown together and for Steve Iron Man is a big part of that, although he has some trouble getting along with his employer. Then Steve faces a bit of a mystery when Tony Stark gets kidnapped – and Iron Man, who is supposed to be the man's bodyguard when he's not an Avenger, is nowhere to be found.

4 author's oldest fic

A Friend in Need by AuroraNova

Julian & Jadzia, DS9, 1,833 w, rating teen

summary:

“Drinking alone isn’t any fun.”

5 new author (< 1 year)

Late One Night by uv_DatLakeLady

Sam & Dean, SPN, 666 words, rated gen

summary:

Sam and Dean have a silly chat on a serious matter, while grave-digging.

6 angst

Far From Home by cucumbermoon

Garashir, DS9, 47,041 k, rated teen

summary:

Julian had always longed for adventure. More than that, he’d longed for a desperate adventure, the kind where all the odds were stacked against you, and every step was a struggle, and every breath a victory. He probably would have come to Cardassia even if he hadn’t missed Garak. He hoped that was true. He couldn’t touch it, really, couldn’t scrape the dust away from his thoughts enough to name it, but Garak was different.

7 future AU

call me by the old familiar name by simplyprologue

Garashir, DS9, 40,359 w, rated mature

summary:

Fourteen years after the end of the Dominion War, Bajor and Cardassia are finally poised to enter the United Federation of Planets, together. But when Castellan Garak and Military Minister Kira find the body of Julian Bashir—with a heavily encrypted datarod containing the last fifty years of covert operations by Section 31 in his hand—on the eve of the treaty signing on Deep Space Nine, negotiations fall apart. There is some nuance to it, of course, but what is nuance when your friend’s dead body has been found in a stasis container in Cargo Bay Four? Or, Julian dies in the name of service to the Alpha Quadrant, but does a poor job staying dead. It does get his friends back together in one place, though.

8 secret relationship

Quintessence by mrbarbacarisi

Garashir, DS9, 11,832 w, rated teen

summary:

“So, to recap,” Garak said, “you have a stranger’s soul living inside you that could take over at any minute. It caused you to be in shock for two days, lose time, and then breakdown with a migraine less than an hour ago. And now, we may have to go all the way across the Alpha Quadrant to participate in a religious ceremony to get rid of it.” Julian laughed. “That sounds about right.”

9 holiday fic

The Best Part of Waking Up by entropic_saudade

Wincest, SPN, 799 w, rated mature

summary:

Dean is home for the holidays. Based off the infamous Folgers Christmas commercial from 2009. You know the one.

10 happy ending

Penultimate Rites by ro_moray

Garashir, DS9, 15,975 w, rated teen

summary:

Julian Bashir returns from a five-year mission in the Gamma Quadrant and is greeted by some distressing news from Cardassia Prime. Garak is dying, again—and it seems like there might not be anything he can do about it this time.

11 road trip

running into the sun by kiden

Stony, MCU, 3,267 w, rated teen

summary:

There are other people Steve could ask. Sam or Nat. Even Clint would make more sense. It's not that they aren't friends - they are, they're good friends, hard won, fought for, worked on - it's just weird. They can live together and fight together, but Tony's not so sure a few weeks with just the two of them in a car is a good idea. It's definitely not a smart idea. "Can you repeat that, please?" or: tony and steve go on a nice, soft road trip that brings them closer together.

12 bodyswap

Bodyswap by thisroadsofar (orphan_account)

Wincest, SPN, 130 w, rated mature

summary:

Shortest bodyswap fic ever, pretty sure.

free space

A Civil Death by Regann

Garashir, DS9, 13,896 w, rated teen

summary:

Coincidence brings Garak back to Deep Space Nine where Bashir is determined to save him from an ominous threat, even if he doesn't want to be saved.

13 podfic

[Podfic] Trade-offs by Philosopher_King read by DevilWithABirdDress

Garashir, DS9, ~1 min, rated gen

summary:

Julian reflects on what he has sacrificed to be with Garak.

14 lyric title - listen to the song too!

Love is a Burning Thing by Fanfic_For_The_Void

Garashir, DS9, 2,015 w, rated teen

summary:

After their first night together, Julian wants to make something special for Garak. What could go wrong?

15 werewolf AU

Kindling the Hearth by KandiSheek

Stony, MCU, 2,044 w, rated teen

summary:

Transforming on the new moon can leave werewolves pretty damn sore. Steve is no exception, despite the super soldier serum. So Tony takes it upon himself to keep his boyfriend warm, fed and happy in the aftermath.

16 hurt/comfort

End Racism in the OTW || Trust Fall by treepyful (treeperson)

Garashir, DS9, 13,089 w, rated teen

summary:

So Laurel, how did you spend your shore leave? Oh, you know, just helped hold down the CMO while his terrifying Cardassian husband stabbed him in the chest with a giant skewer – the usual. * A shuttle trip gone awry leaves Ensign Hart and Mr. Garak to tend to a gravely injured Dr. Bashir.

17 BFFs

A Body, In Parts by RocksInMyShoe

Robin & Steve (background Steddie), Stranger Things, 2,096 w, rated gen

summary:

“Hey Steve,” she starts, her eyes brightening as she wiggles her toes. “We made it.” And he sees the relief, palpable in the exhale of her breath. He gently reaches for her ankle and squeezes. He opens his mouth to answer and he- or; Glimpses of Steve (and Robin) learning how to live after the spring break of 1986.

18 vampire AU

The Cure by gladdecease

Garashir, DS9, 1,175 w, rated gen

summary:

"You have two options," the doctor said. "Well, three, but I don't approve of the third option and will probably ask you to reconsider if you choose it."

19 crossover fic

new york, new york by givebackmylifecas

Buddie, 911 & Barisi, SVU, 5,793 w, rated teen

summary:

Eddie turns to look at Buck, squished into the middle seat of the cab and smiles. On Buck’s other side, Chris is pressed to the dirty window, staring out at the city. “You okay?” Buck asks quietly. Eddie nods. “Yeah. Just wish we didn’t have to go to give witness statements on our vacation.” “I feel you,” Buck says, bumping his knee against Eddie’s. “But hey, we’ll wrap this up quickly and then we can go see the Statue of Liberty.” Buck, Eddie, and Chris take a trip to New York and accidentally become witnesses in an SVU case. Helping out the detectives leads Eddie to learn some things about himself and his relationship with Buck.

20 gen fic

One Cube, Two Cube, Red Cube, Blue Cube by Fanfic_For_The_Void

TOS, 1,272 w, rated teen

summary:

It’s lunchtime on the Enterprise, but a member of the bridge crew is missing. A little vignette about colourful food cubes, the dangers of the job, and the taste of home.

21 short fic (<1000 words)

Plant Friends (Or: Garak's Second-Favourite Lunch Companion) by ConceptaDecency

Garak & Keiko (background Garashir), DS9, 585 w, rated teen

summary:

Garak's second-favourite lunch companion grills him about the changes in his relationship with his favourite lunch companion.

22 domestic/curtain fic

Cards on the Table by fictionallemons

Wincest, SPN, 3,385 w, rated mature

summary:

After Jack leaves, it’s just the two of them left in the bunker. Dean realizes what he wants next, and decides to put all his cards on the table at last.

23 unfinished/in progress

Archimedes Snippets by AuroraNova

Garashir, DS9, 2,771 w, rated gen

summary:

Glimpses of Julian and Garak's new life on the USS Archimedes, featuring Starfleet Spouse Garak.

24 multichapter fic

The Book Club is a Lie, and Bashir, a Liar by Cosmo_is_Beink_Melon

Garashir, DS9, 21,928 w, rated teen

summary:

Julian tells a lie. It has unexpected consequences. Garak hears a lie. Lies do not bother a liar. Usually.

[sshbpodcast]

Top 3 Star Trek Deep Space Nine villains

By Ames

We’re still enjoying our stay on Deep Space Nine after a great week of chilling with our favorite DS9 minor and one-off characters last week. This week, there’s a tussle at Quark’s as we’re about to go toe-to-toe with the best villains, antagonists, or general scallywags of the station-bound series. We did it before with our favorite baddies from TOS and from TNG, so who are the biggest bads this time around?

There’s a lot of competition for this one, but some of the picks are obvious because Deep Space Nine just put so much time and effort into making its characters believable, motivated, and always incredibly well developed. So see if your favorite villains match those of hosts of A Star to Steer Her By as you read on below and listen to our banter on this week’s podcast (discussion starts at 1:11:11) which features some bonus, podcast-exclusive picks from guest star James Rossi. Scroll on, my child.

[images © CBS/Paramount] 

Chris – Bring out the big guns

Kai Winn

Dukat

Garak

Chris is highlighting the heaviest hitters of all of Deep Space Nine, and for good reason! We get the most of these frequently recurring guest stars, and every time we see them, they are consistently compelling and compellingly consistent. From the deliciously acerbic religious leader who serves only herself, to the utterly deluded leader in the Cardassian ranks who is convinced he’s always in the right, to the simple tailor who is capable of some really, really diabolical stuff, these three are examples of how to write naughty characters well.

—

Caitlin – Scum of the earth… er, space

Kai Winn

Keevan

Gowron

On Caitlin’s list, we’re going to get some characters who just leave a nasty taste in your mouth, but you’ll keep coming back for seconds. These three are just slimy individuals who commit some really atrocious things and all get exactly what’s coming to them. We see the kai who takes out her irritation that the prophets don’t talk to her on an entire people, the Vorta middle manager who gleefully lets all of his troops get slaughtered as long as they saved him first, and the megalomaniacal Klingon Chancellor who started rewriting history in his favor.

—

Jake – Same face, different day

Intendant Kira

Gaia Odo

Admiral Leyton

Jake went with some characters we see a little less, though we see some of their faces pretty much every week. Let’s start off with the mirror universe equivalent of Major Kira, who may not be the best villain, per se, but she is the most entertaining to watch. We also see a slightly different take on Odo from an alternate timeline, with a slightly more believable face and much more capacity for freakin’ genocide. Finally, a familiar face from Jake’s Top Ten Worst Admirals blogpost who seems to love declaring martial law… when he’s not a Changeling, that is.

—

Ames – Be you friends or foes?

Dukat

Kilana

Third Remata’Klan

On my list are three villains whose side you can almost convince yourself to take, if it weren’t for all the constant murdering. My love for everyone’s favorite swaggering lizard man is well documented, but it’s so easy to be taken in by all that charisma, confidence, and neck. I have to share a little love for a Vorta who just seems so reasonable while she’s negotiating with you… until you realize she’s absolutely not to be trusted. And finally, my favorite Jem’Hadar who, in a different reality, we could have called friend, played by Phil Morris to boot!

— We’re putting our bat’leths and cloaked mines away for now and calling it a truce over a nice bottle of kanar. Make sure to come back here next time for one more visit to the promenade when we wrap up our spotlight series on Deep Space Nine. You should also keep following along with the last few lightyears of our journey through Voyager on SoundCloud or wherever you get your podcasts, consider us allies over on Facebook and Twitter, and stop summoning Pah-wraiths already!

[hovfire]

not even lying the kanar bottle is one of the best things i own

[jellydishes]

It ended the way it had begun, with his hands folded in the spaces between himself and Ten Lubak, lips curled in a faint mockery of a smile as the seconds ticked away into silence. Small infinities spun into creation and died as he held his breath, waiting for something, anything, to break it. Cardassians did not sweat, but Elim fancied he could feel a trickle chill down his spine. The walls seemed to breathe in time with the gentle tilt of his axis, primed to fall, but not yet. Not yet.

Tearing his gaze from the slow advance of metal, he looked into into eyes as flat and unyielding as his own that watched his every movement with nary a twitch. Or so it would seem to the uninitiated observer. He had long known the intricacies of fear fueled desperation, but not lately from this angle, and he noted his own panic with a distant, clinical detachment. How, after the first minutes had dragged by with nothing to mark it but the rise of gorge in your throat, that very expression became your clock. Your only hope for escape. And so it was. He studied every minute flicker, noted the changes as a gardener would approaching thunderheads. Read the distant amusement in the clasp of familiar, unfamiliar hands. Eagerness in Ten's slight shift where he sat, and still, there was silence, damning and damned all at once, weighing the air heavy with words left unsaid.

He lifted a shaking hand to grasp at his hair. It lay plastered to his scalp in the dry heat of his room. What had felt comfortable, soothing, when he had sequestered himself in here only a few short hours ago now felt too close, too thick, acrid on his tongue and only growing more. He did not attempt to break the silence himself, knew from experience that at best it would be met with more silence, and at worse...

Swallowing hard with an audible click, he tried to distance himself from the rising tension in his belly, cold and tasting like guilt. He failed. Briefly wondered if this was what it had felt like for Parmak before shoving that thought away with a violent wrench echoed in the twist of the ceiling as he sagged on the table, one hand snapping out to grasp the edge of the table. He missed. Had a moment of pure, mindless shock --him, caught unawares, and by something so ridiculous as silence, by his own room-- before he managed to catch himself a bare inch from knocking over the bottle he'd brought here from Quark's as soon as he'd understood what was happening outside. Imaginations running wild, Quark had said, watching him from beneath lowered lids and a subtle tilt of the head when Quark asked what delights his own mind would bring up. He had laughed and thrown out a line for Quark to follow and chase and catch only to find that there nothing at the end, not even bait, because.

Because his imagination was nothing he wished to expose any he cared about to.

He had laughed, his hand lingering a tad too long on Quark's shoulder before he pulled away. His hands had felt cold and empty on the long walk back, filled only with glass that was warmed only reluctantly, that now chilled him nowhere near so much as the quiet, as the building pressure in the back of his head that spoke of a nameless, gibbering dread. Should he so choose to look closer, he knew it had a name. Four of them. But he did not, never had, and shoved himself upright. The shapes of the room were playing tricks on him, now, because for a moment he could have sworn that- but no.He had been confined too long, that was all.

And he supposed he had been, or not at all. If he'd gone by the stiff crawl of his shoulders towards his ridges, it could have been days later, but he knew better. Knew that exactly one hour had passed, down to the minute, when Ten Lubak stirred. "Tell me," Ten said, pouring himself a finger of kanar into Elim's own glass before he took it from his unresisting hands, "was it worth it?"

He scrubbed a hand down his hair, lingering at the puckered rise of scales that was all that was left of where the wire was surgically implanted, and said, "Of course it was." But his voice came out a hoarse rasp that scraped his throat raw. If his mouth had tasted of coins and a moisture that this room had bled away, he would not have been surprised.

What was a surprise was the sound of footsteps outside the door, and whatever bare relief he had managed to scrape up gave way completely. It was impossible to tell if they were coming or going. The cadence, though, was the young doctor's, with that slight hitch to every third step that translated to a bounce when you could see him. Without that visual confirmation, it was worrying, as was the gentle chime of an incoming message from the intercom. "Garak?" Julian. He could say that here, in the silence of his own head, but he didn't have to look at Ten to see his smile. He could feel it.

Ten Lubak's long braid slithered down his shoulder in a fall of black on grey as he bent to brace an elbow on the table, eyes bright. Without the strain of passing years or the weight of pain adaptations lingering in the crinkle of his eyes or the too careless wave of a hand, you could have thought they were two different people. "You can leave any time you wish," Ten said, and it was true. The only thing that kept him trapped in the close (and growing closer with every shuddering breath, eased out easy enough, but there never seemed enough air to refill his lungs on the inhale) confines of his room was the knowledge that with him would come Ten.

"Ah, doctor," he said aloud as he stumbled to the door. "Please do remove yourself before I or, indeed, I, begin the tumbling blocks that will lead to-"

"Garak? Are you there? You would not believe what is going on outside. I thought we could talk it over at our lunch date. Garak?"

"My apologies, doctor," he said smoothly into the intercom. There was that distant clinical observation again, that sensation of watching himself lean against the wall in a faux casual slouch as, beyond him, Ten prowled like a caged beast, all eyes and long legged strides and the glint of a toothy smile. Is it worth it? "But I do believe that I have no imagination at all, save for my bed. A very late night, or, hmm, several. Perhaps we should have one of those charming human constructions. A rain check?"

"Do you really think," Ten said with that soft smile he so remembered from the last time he had seen Parmak before leaving planetside for what he had not known would be the last time, "that this will change anything? This struggle? We both know that all that separates you from me is a few inches and one word from a smiling mouth."

And so it began the way it had ended, with his hands folded in the spaces between himself and Elim, lips curled in a faint mockery of a smile as the seconds ticked away into silence.

[deepspacedukat]

😂 so now that I’ve pestered you and unloaded an entire story of my evening-by the way thank you for everything best friend. I mean it!!! Your getting a virtual hug (if you don’t mind)

picture this so you know how it’s typical that the bulk of cardassian men have military based lives or jobs and the women go towards the sciences (as a standard not requirement I know everyone has their own jobs and their are exceptions you still need…a good tailor 😶) anyway a cardassian maybe damar or garak someone seeing a sweet small human reader who likes wearing flower print and is all soft spoken. During the time they meet the reader is off duty and has decided to work (help out) in the stations cafe (making this up pretend the readers friend has a cafe). So since she doesn’t mention an other career they assume that’s what she does. Until one day one of the federations best squadrons (making this up) the Phoenix squadron shows up and it’s turns out soft little reader is a commander-the commander of the squadron, is an ace, and has a metal of valor under her belt for leading them to win a seemingly hopeless battle. Now they see reader show up in uniform a squadron specific flight suit with built in armor and is stern (but still cares about the people under her command) and has a loud commanding voice that you can tell demands respect.

Just imagining the faces of especially damar (maybe damar drops his kanar *wink wink nudge nudge* no? Alright 😂)

it makes me think of that b99 episode where Amy takes command and starts giving orders because everything is going nuts and jakes like “wow look army wife taking command I don’t know whether to be scared or turned on”. “NOW JAKE!”

“Oh my God it’s both!” then he just runs off to do what she told him to do 🤣

(I don't mind at all, friend.)

OH MY GOD, I absolutely love that idea! Sweet little cutesy reader turns out to be a secret badass. I can totally imagine Damar's glass absolutely slipping from his grasp and his jaw dropping. He is definitely both scared and turned on. Like... "wow...she can give me orders any day."

[aykutiltertr]

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[aliferousdreamer]

Sena in fight mode (ง'̀-'́)ง

[marymoss1971]

Admiral Edward Jellico poured himself a tall glass of kanar. This had been a clusterfuck of a day and he needed it.

Like many officers who'd served on the Cardassian front during the Federation-Cardassian War, he'd developed a taste for kanar--the v'lal version which was favored by the Cardassian military. "How could you drink that stuff?" people would ask him, and, yes, the thick, syrupy-sweet liquor did take some getting used to. But he always felt one could better understand a race through the food they ate and liquor they drank.

Of course, with Cardassia decimated at the end of the Dominion War nine years ago, exportation of the liquor was rejuvenating the planet’s dire economy. 

He took a large sip of the liquor. It was almost hard to believe, hundreds of ships were lost today. It was like Wolf 359 all over again. And who do they have to thank for getting them out of this mess? The best minds that Starfleet has to offer? No, they owe their salvation to a bunch of teenagers. 

He took another large swig of kanar, downing it. A part of him wanted to blame Commander Tysess for this--HE was the one who recommended the blockade to begin with! “Send all available ships” he said. But that wasn’t fair. After all, how could he know what kind of weapon was on that ship? Besides, Jellico himself signed off on the plan.

All that destruction-on HIS watch! The folks at Utopia Planitia were going to be working overtime to replace the ships lost--not to mention all the repairs that'll need to be done at Starbase 1. It was going to take everything Starfleet had to clean up this goddamned mess. He sighed heavily and poured himself another glass of kanar. Yep. a goddamn clusterfuck of a day.

[deepspacenightshift]

It’s a Deep Space Nine joke to claim you’re an undercover agent instead of whatever low-level position you actually have.

After you say you’re an agent, you pause. The person talking to you asks what kind of agent. There are some choices:

“I’m from The Office of Temporal Investigations” always gets a laugh. Start badgering people immediately: “Have you noticed any suspicious temporal phenomena lately? Have you been tampering with space-time? Have you? Have you? Tell the truth. That is very illegal. No, I can’t show you my credentials, they’re from the future.”

You have to say this one straight-faced, reverently, with your best Vorta or Jem’Hadar impression: “I serve the Founders.” This is genuinely concerning, but it makes people laugh to hear it out loud.

Smoothly, charmingly: “Oh, you didn’t know? I’m a Cardassian sleeper agent, actually.” Again, this makes people laugh but is just a bit terrifying for everyone involved. The fear makes it funnier. You will be challenged to prove it by ordering kanar at Quark’s. Do not try kanar unless you actually are a Cardassian.

“FCA. This is an audit.”

[cipher-fresh]

Blood is Thicker- a Federation Gothic

(Federation gothic is the name for my short horror stories that take place in the Star Trek universe- check me out on AO3 under the same name for more!)

That blasted Federation subspace blockade should have been the first clue. It had been a rude awakening that one morning- well, if you could consider it morning on Altempkin IV. The miserable hunk of rock. An impressive piece of wartime real estate, through. Close to the Bajoran wormhole- but hidden enough that yet-again Terok Nor couldn’t see them. Right there to watch new Dominion troops exit the wormhole.

Her squadron had found the perfect spot. The Dominion troops already there welcomed friendly faces with replicators, even if they only made Romulan ale. Her troops and the Domion forces got along, and waited to strike any incoming Federation ships. They'd send Jem'Hadar and Romulan soldiers in shuttles, and sometimes, they even came back. She was worrying, though. That morning, she was worrying about the war. If the Romulan government found out what they were doing, they'd recieve discipline of the highest order. Or become planet-wide heroes. Who knows?

She was still in the bed in the compound in Altempkin, and a bellowing SCREECH shuddered through the compound. She shot up, and looked around for an intruder. Nobody. A Vorta at the compound told her everyone heard it, it was the aftershock of a Federation weapon going off nearby. It was fine, though. It knockedout some of the functions of technology on the compound. She sat with the Vorta and had a glass of Romulan ale to calm her nerves. She appreciated the silence. She hated that stupid Vorta, though. Ever so annoying. She'd kill him one day, and enjoy the sound of his neck snapping.

Later, she would find herself thinking about how many of her squadron had died. It seemed like more were missing than those who had died, the empty halls of the Altempkin IV compound. It was the isolation, just the idiot Jem'Hadar and that awful Vorta. She cared for her soldiers, and they wanted to go home, too. But they were going to win the war for Romulus, carrying out discreet missions near the wormhole

Every night, she buried her grief at the death of those loyal Romulan soldiers with a bottle of Kanar, and in the morning, gave strategic ideas to the Vorta. She cursed the malfunctioning technology, and shared another bottle of Romulan ale with that Vorta. She *would* kill him one day. Again and again, Romulan ale at night, strategy in the morning, empty halls of the compound. It was lonely. She knew one day she'd probably sacrifice her life in a blaze of glory, but she didn't want to do it now.

...Euck. Was Romulan ale always this thick? It tasted awful. When she was a girl, she'd had a glass of vintage kanar from Cardassia, and when her motherfound out, she had- she didn't want to dwell on it. But there'd been blood, and her mouth had welled up with it. She didn't ever want to taste blood in her mouth again. And she was tasting it now.

A realization came to her.

The replicators still couldn't make anything, they were fried by that Federation-weapon signal. And the Romulan ale had been coming from the replicators, which wasn't possible, and her soldiers were disappearing at a higher amount than those who died during missions. And the Romulan ale was thick, like blood.

A chill went up her back.

The Vorta sitting next to her watched her drop the bottle.

"Ma'am?" he asked. He saw her shudder, and the bottle drop, and watch the 'Romulan ale' pool on the ground.

"Oh. You've figured out where the ale comes from." he said nonchalantly. "It's for the best. You're the best strategist the Dominion has ever seen. And you only make good plans when you're hungover. Only the Founders know why." he smiled.

He watched her expression change. He looked down from his information display, and leaned to look at her, and give her a stare that bore into her soul.

"Would you like to keep working with us? Or, you can take a shuttle and leave. Your choice."

She thought about it.

Then, she grabbed the other bottle of Romulan ale, and chugged the rest of it.

The Vorta grinned.

[sshbpodcast]

We flatter you, sir, we flatter you!: The best Cardassians in Star Trek

By Ames

We’re wrapping up our series of alien species discussions with one of our favorite Star Trek races: the Cardassians! These are a people that are so varied that it’s a relief from more monocultural societies. Instead, we get to see all kinds of individual motivations that make our reptilian friends tick. Whether they’re fascinating villains, redeemed heroes, or (more likely) a little bit of both, these are the best of the best that A Star to Steer Her By has compiled for you!

Cardassians concoct some of the best-laid schemes of the show, even outdoing the best Romulans we discussed previously. Check out our favorite spoon-headed friends below, listen to our discussion on this week’s podcast episode (Cardi chatter at 1:00:08), and pour yourself some kanar as we toast the Cardassian Union!

[images © CBS/Paramount] 

Ames – You knew I was a snake…

Dukat

Mila

Madred

How could I not pick some of the most villainous, secretive, manipulative characters we’ve met in all of Star Trek? I’ll start things off with our favorite gul whose layered portrayal, self-serving motivation, and sexy swagger drive him head, neck, and shoulders (but especially neck) above the competition. Let’s also give some praise to Tain’s housekeeper who has hinted depths that Andy Robinson makes canon in A Stitch in Time, and to the nefarious Orwellian agent from TNG who had Picard seeing who knows how many lights?

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Chris – Shades of obsidian

Garak

Damar

Marritza

We see in Chris’s favorite Cardassians how a character can go from toady in an evil government to rebel for a good cause on their way to redemption, or at least as close as they can get with the number of literal skeletons in their closets. There is a thick grey area for characters like the former Obsidian Order operative turned simple tailor, for the right-hand man to a tyrant turned revolutionary leader, and to the file clerk turned martyr for the people his kind nearly obliterated, and we salute them!

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Jake – A few good lizard men

Marritza

Damar

Ghemor

Jake’s picks turn out to be good people at heart, contrary to the totalitarian nature that drives most Cardassians. Early in DS9, we were fans of the lowly file clerk who concocted a needlessly elaborate scheme to bring about some much warranted justice. Later, we got to watch the full realization of one character who sees the Dominion for what they truly are and sacrifices himself for the cause. And pour one out for the rebellious father who tries to save his daughter only for someone who looks like his daughter to save him.

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Caitlin – Wanna spoon?

Ghemor

Rejal

Garak

Caitlin put together a list of Cardassians who follow their hearts and do what they do for the love of family, romance, and maybe just some lunch with a cute Starfleet doctor. We were fully sympathetic to the secret rebel who formed a fatherly kinship with Kira through their couple episodes together. DS9 gave us some great awkward tomfoolery when a young Cardassian scientist got the hots for O’Brien of all people. And what else can we say about Gar/shir that slashfic all over the internet hasn’t already planted in our wildest imaginations?

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Those are all the alien races we’re covering for this blog series, so thank you for taking this trip through the galaxy’s family tree with us. There will be plenty more topics for us to explore as we get through more Trek, so continue following along here, keep up with our trip through the Delta Quadrant on SoundCloud, hail us on Facebook and Twitter, and count how many lights you see. We’ll wait…