#garak is the gray

[pon-farr-night]

[misty-feathers]

i think sometimes julian and garak show each other deeply terrible media in their cultural exchange and try to pass them off as classics. just for fun

bc like i was thinking about them watching the greatest movie of our time -- the velocipastor (2017)

and garak is outraged by the stupidly inaccurate depictions of reptilian anatomy and julian's sitting there going "you know, it's a product of its time, you can't fault them for low budget costuming, just look past it to the deeper meaning"

next week garak gives julian the cardassian equivalent of gray's anatomy and tells him it's not about the medical procedures but the symbolism behind them. what symbolism? who knows. not garak bc he is completely making it up

[sebastianmercier]

Fun game: read the first two chapters of The Picture of Dorian Gray while dissecting Dorian, Basil, and Lord Henry’s characters and sorting them into two columns marked ‘Garak’ and ‘Bashir’.

[raurquiz]

#happypridemonth #pride #startrek #georgetakei #thenextgeneration #thehost #odan #theoutcast #soren #deepspacenine #dax #lenarakahn #intendantkira #garak #quark #pel #beyond #sulu #discovery #culber #statmets #adira #graytal #startrekpicard #7of9 #musiker #strangenewworlds #angel

[spocks-kaathyra]

I want to touch saru's face so bad. need to squish those silicone prosthetics

[40cleverways]

Edit: Thank you so much to @siamont for letting me know who the first character was!

First row

Adira Tal (DISCO)

Elim Garak (DS9)

Hikaru Sulu (TOS/AOS)

Soren (TNG S5:e15 "The Outcast")

Seven of Nine (VOY/PIC)

Paul Staments (DISCO)

Second row

Julian Bashir (DS9)

Hugh Culber (DISCO)

Emperor Georgiou (DISCO)

Gray Tal (DISCO)

Jadzia Dax (DS9)

Jett Rino (DISCO)

Did anyone see the "Ambassadors of Queer" t-shirt on the official Star Trek Store!!!!

I'm losing my mind about this!

LOOK AT THEM!!!

It's not even just the "canon" ones! BASHIR IS THERE! LOOK AT HIM!!!

I haven't watched all of the new shows yet so I'm not sure who everyone is.

[atomictourists]

When I grumble about fandom not acknowledging Garak's more problematic elements, that's not me saying oh no morally gray characters are bad and people who love them are also bad. Fuck no. That's me saying Garak is way more interesting and fun as a character when you don't paper over his more unsavory traits. Woobifying him makes him BORING. He's supposed to be scary under all that cheerful, good-humored lying. He's supposed to have an edge to him, giving you the accurate feeling that something more dangerous lurks behind that smile. Like did y'all just forget the episode where he fucking tortured Odo (despite clearly not wanting to) just so he could get back in the Obsidian Order's good graces??? Everyone involved in Garak's character development fundamentally understood that spies are not good people; spies do bad things in service of what they think is a good cause and they destroy their souls in the process and in fiction this makes them deliciously fascinating characters.

[lostyesterday]

I was curious about which Star Trek shows had the most human vs non-human characters, so I made this graph. I counted all major characters plus characters who were in at least 10 episodes of each respective show (with a few exceptions for incredibly minor characters who are technically in more than ten episodes but have barely any/no lines). A full list of characters included is below the cut.

TOS:

Part/Non-Human: Spock

Human: Kirk, Mccoy, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, Chekov, Chapel

TNG:

Part/Non-Human: Data, Troi, Worf, Guinan

Human: Picard, Riker, La Forge, Crusher, Wesley, Yar, Pulaski, O’Brien, Ogawa

DS9:

Part/Non-Human: Kira, Odo, Quark, Jadzia, Rom, Nog, Garak, Dukat, Worf, Weyoun, Martok, Leeta, Ezri, Damar, Female Changeling, Winn

Human: Sisko, Bashir, Jake, O’Brien, Keiko, Kasidy, Ross

VOY:

Part/Non-Human: Torres, Neelix, EMH, Tuvok, Kes, Seven (part Borg counts as not entirely human to me), Seska, Naomi, Icheb

Human: Janeway, Chakotay, Paris, Kim

ENT:

Part/Non-Human: T’Pol, Phlox, Soval, Shran

Human: Archer, Reed, Tucker, Sato, Mayweather, Forrest

DIS:

Part/Non-Human: Saru, Tyler (debatable but I’m counting him as partly non-human), L’Rell, Book, T’Rina, Nhan, Rillak, Linus, Zora, Adira (again, debatable, but they’ve got a symbiont so they’re not entirely human to me), Gray

Human: Burnham, Stamets (complicated case but I counted him as still human), Tilly, Culber, Lorca (mirror universe characters are still human, I think), Georgiou, Detmer, Owosekun, Rhys, Bryce, Cornwell, Airiam (she’s still human), Pike, Jett, Nilsson, Pollard, Vance

PIC:

Part/Non-Human: Picard (for part of the show at least), Elnor, Soji, Narek, Seven, Laris/Talinn (I am just pretending they’re the same character for simplicity), Jack (I guess???)

Human: Musiker, Jurati, Rios, Adam, Riker, Crusher, Shaw, Sidney

LWD:

Part/Non-Human: Tendi, Shaxs, T’Ana, Barnes, Kayshon

Human: Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford, Freeman, Ransom, Billups

PRO:

Part/Non-Human: Dal, Gwyn, Zero, Rok-Tahk, Jankom, Murf, Hologram Janeway, Diviner, Drednok

SNW:

Part/Non-Human: Spock, Una, Hemmer

Human: Pike, La’an, Uhura, Chapel, M’Benga, Ortegas

[fetlockflowers]

✨ Cardassians but iridescent like birds feathers and their unifoms out of Anodized titanium. ✨

This is inspired by how Garak describes Cardassians.

Saying that Romulans are dull and gray compared to Cardassians + Describing their neck ridges as having evolved for fighting + Saying Gul Dukat had the longest neck of any Cardassian.... So I decided to exagerate all of those things.

[morals-are-for-mortals]

Watching DS9, and I have to wonder what Garak was thinking when he said this to Julian:

“Ah, yes. Romulus, how well I remember it. You'll find the predominant color to be gray– the buildings, the clothes, the people. Did you know that the Romulan heart itself is grey? It's true. And altogether appropriate for such an unimaginative race.”

Garak. . . have you seen yourself in a mirror? Or any other Cardassian?

[ectogeo-art]

Rules: You will be given a word. Share one sentence/excerpt from your wip(s) that start with each letter of that word. My word was STAR.

Tagged by @pinkgrapefloyd

S - sloanshir soulmate AU 💖💕🥰

STARDATE: █████.█

AGENT: S████, L█████

TARGET: B█████, J██████ S███████, M.D.

REQUEST: Soulmark-mirroring implant to aid in the Agent’s ongoing mission to secure the Target as an asset for Section ██.

JUSTIFICATION: The Target is a high-priority individual to acquire and control, as established in previous observations (refer to reports with the following codes: DBIP, INQ, IAESL). He is an accomplished doctor who serves as Chief Medical Officer on the frontlines of the Dominion conflict, and his medical knowledge covers key areas of interest for Section ██ (xenobiology in general, Cardassian and Bajoran medicine, ketracel white, and the Dominion’s genetically engineered viruses).

T - Sub Rosa sloanshir

The door to the shared bathroom was ajar and he didn’t think before pushing it open.

Steam rolled over him.

Garak turned his head to stare back at him from the shower, but didn’t stop running the washcloth over himself. Though Julian could see his face, the water droplets and the steam made the transparent shower curtain translucent lower down, leaving only the suggestion of his gray body below the swell of his chest.

A - Garak gets interrogated (Sloanshir noncon whump)

“Anastasia Komanonov,” Garak said as though he was forcing himself to give up someone real rather than a fictional name from Julian’s spy holoprogram.

R - Sleep Awake

“Really? I can’t think of much happier a circumstance than Sloan’s gruesome death.”

(As a side note, I keep referring to my wips lately “sloanshir whatever” when really they are still primarily garashir for the simple reason that the specific type of sloanshir dynamic present in each of these fics is the feature that distinguishes them best from any of my previously posted 50+ garashir fics lmaooo.)

Anyways. My word for you is TREK (couldn’t help myself) and I'm tagging @nostalgia-tblr and @sapphosewrites and @ernmark and @hellostuffedtiger and anyone else who sees this and wants to grace us with snippets of your WIPs! ^_^

[jsbashirmd]

@lietwice

Julian blinked, and everything changed. From one second to the next, with no clear transition, his husband was transformed from the graying, smiling father of four that he'd grown to love to the startled, but smoother face of the tailor he'd first met so many years ago. Selek backed away from Garak's knee with a look of utter confusion and Julian leaned onto his elbow over the counter, preparing to reach out if necessary, though that would be made more difficult by the child on his own hip.

"Garak?"

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#442

"I find it really strange how fandom interpretations of ships change the fandom interpretations of characters over time. For Spirk, I blame the introduction of AOS – turning Kirk from a heartfelt, competent leader to a snarky bad boy with a secret soft side: but even others... Looking at Garashir fic from the 90s or even until the 2010s, Garak is portrayed more as a competent and morally gray individual (true to character!) but more recent fics woobify him to the point of unrecognizability. I guess it really frustrates me – how fandoms in general have become less about loving the source material."

[spocks-kaathyra]

STLV Cosplans!!

Thursday: Spock bunnysuit, changing into Lola in the evening for karaoke

Friday: Gray (with my friend as Adira!)

Saturday: Lola from "His Way" (with my friend as Odo!)

Sunday: Garak :)))

if u see me please come say hi!!

[ectogeo-rebubbles]

TRICK OR TREAT 🎃

(for this ask game)

(Untitled Garashir ficlet, written just now. Julian Bashir POV Rated M. Set during a particular episode, as you'll see. Content warning: sex, pregnancy kink. I put most of it below the cut so as not to clog up y'all's dashboards.)

For all the sex he'd had with Garak, he still didn't know much about Cardassian reproduction.

Garak himself had evaded every medical scan he'd attempted, and all of the academic literature on the matter was completely sealed away from non-Cardassians, despite how many requests for basic medical information Julian sent to Cardassian doctors. The body of Cardassian literature that he and Garak discussed over lunch was just as tight-lipped on the subject, glossing over the matter with poetry and metaphor, if it was acknowledged at all.

And regardless of Garak's biology, Julian himself was only shooting blanks, having taken measures to avoid passing on the curse of his augment status.

Nevertheless, as Julian rocked into Garak, whose scaly gray limbs were splayed out on the carpet of the runabout on the way home from Bajor, he couldn't help but imagine getting Garak pregnant, as impossible as that may be.

It didn't mean anything, or at least that's what he tried to convince himself. Julian had never even wanted children himself. It was just the pleading eyes of those Cardassian orphans giving him strange notions, making him imagine a future with Garak, a family...

He'd thought he saw something cross Garak's face when he'd told the child he couldn't take her back to Cardassia, something more than just his own longing for home or the recognition of a fellow exile's plight. He'd thought Garak had looked liked he might want to not just ease her suffering but be the one taking care of her.

That moment had done something to Julian that he hadn't been prepared for at all. It was hot and it was something else too. Garak was his best friend, and his favorite lay, and, in this latest adventure, the Holmes to his Watson, and his feelings about him had all always made sense, but now Julian was suddenly fantasizing about living with him and marrying him and rescuing orphans together. Or maybe having one or two of their own children together if they could figure that out.

He rested a hand on Garak's stomach, exploring the scales there, wondering how they might stretch if...

But he was being ridiculous. He was moving too fast, like he always did. He didn't linger, instead moving his fingers up to dance along his shoulder ridges, in the way that always got Garak panting harder. This time was no exception.

Garak put a hand gently on his cheek and pulled him down into a kiss. The angle was worse, but that hardly mattered; he drove Garak over the edge as they both gasped hungrily against each other's mouths.

When Julian followed him shortly afterward to his own release, he tried not to think fanciful thoughts about where this relationship might go, but didn't quite succeed.