#lwd

[ohhfarts]

Then Lower Decks is the show of consequences of the consequence show? The only star trek to seriously address the problems of having scientists be soldiers. The show with the pilot titled "Second Contact" and its also a regular thing for them. The joke show is also the consequence show??

Thinking of Deep Space Nine as "the Dark Star Trek" without digging into what made Deep Space Nine work is so reductive. Like when people discuss Star Trek being "dark" now people bring up "DS9 was Dark and you loved that! Trekkies would hate it now!"

Deep Space Nine didn't work bc it was Dark and it wasn't Dark out of nowhere. Deep Space Nine is intimately tied to TNG in a way no other series is with another (Voyager could've been just as rooted in DS9, but. Y'know. Wasn't). Not only in characters, but that the show is so devoted to exploring deep cuts from TNG: the Bajorans, but also the Ferengi, long dismissed as failed villains, and the Trill, one-off aliens-of-the-week who DS9's writers turned into one of Trek's major species. The central thesis of DS9 isn't that the Trek Universe Is Fucked Up Actually. It's that things get more messy and complicated when Starfleet has to stick around and not dash off to another planet at the end of the episode

DS9 is darker than other Treks, yes, but DS9 is also the warmest, with the most grounded, human characters, not in spite of the fact that two-thirds of the cast are aliens but because of it. The writers treat alien characters as not representatives, but individuals. They treat everyone as individuals, with foibles and flaws, not as perfect, straitlaced future people. DS9's dark episodes are darker than other Treks, but also it's more willing to get silly and emotional. Only DS9 could do the "Sisko confesses to a conspiracy to get the Romulans in the war" episode, but also only DS9 could do the "a holographic lounge singer tries to get Odo and Kira together" episode right after it. Boiling the entire series down to "Deep Space Nine was the Dark Star Trek! Grimdark!" is...just not it

[autisticburnham]

On the one hand, it would be fun to say Mariner was part of the ds9 polycule, but on the other, I know if she had hooked up with any major ds9 character, she never would have stopped bragging about it

[batasanart]

Come back to draw them for a little canon celebration 💞🎊

[vreenak]

STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS (2020-)

↳ Canon!Garashir in Fissure Quest, 5x09

Bickering edition

[skybson]

divorced in every universe (canon)

[spatulahat]

Finally! The ''science'' behind the ''rocks''

[garaks-padded-bra]

My shoulder still has a knot!!! :(((((

[dilf-odo]

IM FREAKING OUT

I had to pause the episode several times to freak out

[sevnofnines]

GARASHIR in LOWER DECKS 5.09 “Fissure Quest”

[demilypyro]

Bij - pronounced "beej" - a Klingon word meaning "punishment" or "suffering"

[raydrawsdaly]

Kira and Shaxs during the resistance for @something-boring. Had a lot of fun with this commission!

[plounce]

THEY CANONIZED THE POLITICAL CARTOON FROM MY GARASHIR FIC THAT @phantomsteed & @taahko DREW. I SCREAMED

[spacetwinkuk]

tbh, my only question about the lwd au garashir is why Garak is taller. like I ain't mad and I don't mind, but like, is one of them just a different height to the prime counterparts?? did someone deliberately make the hologram shorter than the man he's based of off?? was Garak well fed in his timeline and had the nutrients for a growth spurt?? is there a reason or am I over thinking??

[that1overthere]

lil doodle of the THEM

[vreenak]

STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS (2020-)

↳ Canon!Garashir in Fissure Quest, 5x09

The kiss

[skybson]

@hguhie