#ds9 pel

[denahi]

A very late Multifandom Doodle gift -- I started this in 2021. I saw these eight characters being requested and came up with a 4-piece idea themed around pairs of characters in Quark's family celebrating a Ferengi holiday themed around Rule of Acquisition #75 ("Home is where the heart is, but the stars are made of latinum") and the date the Ferengi acquired warp drive technology, but then didn't have the time to actually execute it. I was finally able to finish this up for Late Treat Bonanza. More notes under the cut if you're interested:

Jake and Nog are in charge of cooking. This is post-canon, so Jake has some facial hair, and also can cook Ferengi dishes.

Rom and Leeta are in charge of decorating. I get the feeling they'd both enjoy making things look pretty. I wanted to come up with a holiday that Ferengi might celebrate, so I decided on a commemoration of when Ferengi bought warp drive technology and so were able to travel the stars for the first time (and so engage in many new business ventures!). Traditional decorations are the Tower of Commerce (this one here is an official 1/300 scale model) plus the Ferengi Alliance insignia, stars, and slips of latinum. This one took me forever -- trying to figure out poses and perspective and the background... ToT

Pel and Ishka are making the dough! Pel is on a business call, and Ishka is giving her advice while also doing some stock trading.

Finally, Quark and Odo are doing nothing of value arguing with each other at the dining room table.

[scherzokinn]

now quark and odo is fine but can we please have more of quark and grilka and quark and natima and quark and pel please and thank you

[antisocial-transfag]

Was watching Quark try to give Sisko (I think?) relationship advice, and he was saying that ferengis don’t have these sort of problems, and I had to stop for a moment cause like. He says he wants a ferengi tradwife like he didn’t fall in love with a crossdressing criminal instead. I dunno Quark, seems like ferengi ideas about relationships didn’t work out so well for you

[hypertechnica]

number one obscure ds9 character: PEL!!!!!! AGGHHH 2x07 rules of acquisition my beloved

imagine. you fall in love with your business partner but you’re secretly a woman (your entire society is insanely horrendously sexist) and when you are forcibly outed to him, you think that maybe he might understand, that he'd be different, that you could run off somewhere where people wouldn’t care if you didnt fulfill oppressive gender roles, and he replies that he would care.

i would have done something drastic

she should’ve appeared again just to deck quark in the fucking face

[grouper]

thats pel in the middle there btw.... silly aliens

[keo6323]

trans ferengi representation, woo

[masquerading-man]

WHO WAS GOING TO TELL ME THAT THERES AN ENTIRE EPISODE OF QUARK BEING WHOLE-ASS GAY FOR A TRANSMASC FERENGI

He literally wanted to kiss Pel SOOO many times!!!!! Those looks!!!! Jeesus christ talk about ferengi chemistry!!

[peltigaan]

trials and tribble-ations at quarks!

[thats-it-im-fallingdown]

since it’s been a while, I’ve been rewatching ds9 now that I’m older and.. how dare quark share a taste in women with me. he hits on a lot of women, but I’m specifically thinking of Pel, Natima Lang, and Grilka. Pel, who crossdresses for fun and for profit, Natima Lang, cardassian equivalent of an antifascist, and Grilka the certified girlboss. dream blunt rotation. high efficiency polycule. another rung on the ladder tempting me to write ds9 lesbian fanfic.

[marti-lizzard]

Ferengi are sooo fun to draw. Look at those creatures.

[trekmascing]

Tongue in cheek Ferengi force masc inspired by these posts

[scribefindegil]

tragic that in Star Trek they're constantly doing weird surgeries to make people look like different aliens for one-off missions but this poor little crossdressing Ferengi has to stick her fake ears on with Space Spirit Gum

[writergeekrhw]

so like was quark actually into pel before he found out she was a girl, cause from what I can tell he definitely was.

if so, great bisexual rep for me ♥️

I mean... it's entirely possible.

[filmjunky-99]

s t a r t r e k d e e p s p a c e n i n e created by rick berman, michael piller Pel of Ferenginar [rules of acquisition, s2ep7]

'This is not about profit anymore, it's about love... I love you, Quark, and I know you care about me, too.' - pel [to quark]

[slowdrippingnoise]

^living in the blissful reality where pel was a recurring character