#melora pazlar

[skybson]

2x06 - Melora

[dreamerdrop]

absolutely baffling to discover a lot of people thought melora in the episode melora was an unlikable bitch.

because i watched that episode and went “god this must be so exhausting for her no wonder she’s defensive and prickly” and like.

julian bashir picks up that this is what’s going on. julian “social skills of a walnut” bashir understands that she’s all spiky and agressive because she feels helpless and frustrated and is struggling and doesn’t want people to look at her with pity or to patronise her.

she coulda been a lot meaner, and once she recognised that dax and bashir and sisko weren’t going to look down on her or treat her as lesser in any way, she warmed up real fast.

i feel like i watched an entirely different episode given some of the reactions to her character i’ve seen.

[mercury-prince]

Say what you will about Melora/Bashir. I still think they should have done a lady-and-the-tramp kiss with that plate of live worms

[defconprime]

Melora Pazlar

[celestialvoid-fanfiction]

There is one thing from Star Trek: Discovery that sticks with me. It's the one crewmember in a wheelchair.

Why? Because in a future where almost any medical condition is curable, being disabled or using a wheelchair isn't seen as something that needs to be fixed.

Does he have a name or a backstory? No. But unlike Pike (ToS), Emory Erickson (Enterprise), or Admiral Jameson (Next Generation), he's not in the wheelchair because of some tragic accident or illness that left them scarred, paralysed, and/or disabled. He's not made the centre of a story of struggle and pity like Melora Pazlar (Deep Space 9).

There's no story of him trying or needing to be "fixed", "healed" or "cured", there's no story of him trying to adapt, there's no story of him getting in the way or being a burden. He's not seen as a tragic victim. He's not seen as unfit for duty or disabled.

He's just a guy in a wheelchair and a member of the crew.

[elsiebrayisgay]

also this is the guy who opened his restaurant, melora pazlar rolls up with julian, who orders for them, and then when the food comes out she sends it back, complaining in fluent klingon, and he just tosses the plate over his shoulder onto the floor without looking

this klingon chef is hot as fuck

[hingabee]

cause everything you heard is true your poor little heart will end up alone cause lord knows i'm a rolling stone so you better run, run, run away, run away, baby

a poster illustration for our form 67-A (as per starfleet health regulation) fanfiction “Dr. Bashir I Presume, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Fuck Form” in which julian’s species gets forcibly reassigned and he finds himself tasked with refiling fuck forms for every single species he has ever slept with. and on top of all his troubles there’s that thing with garak... [E-RATED, mind the tags]

[kiranerysismyhero]

someone wanders into my hovel and asks why im sighing wistfully and I don't answer but they notice im gazing fondly at a photo frame and they get closer to see and they're screencaps of her

Melora Pazlar

[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 Melora [s2ep6]

[soongtypehuman]

There are two Gemworld books, and both are some of my favorite Trek books. They're both heavy on Barclay and Data, as well as Melora Pazlar, a disabled character from the DS9 episode "Melora" that Bashir fell in love with. Gemworld is her home and a nearly no-gravity planet, and that plays a big part in the books because Melora isn't disabled in her natural zero gravity and really kicks ass.

Best of all, there's a scene in the first book where Data is once again being self-deprecating when faced with the ancient elders of that planet, calling himself an artificial being. The ancient replies:

"Nonsense," replied the strange voice. "You are made of elements and natural materials which we know. You are a natural being, not artificial."

And that makes Data happy, and that makes me happy.

Found this book cover of one of the (many, many, MANY) star trek novels that feature our dear blorbo Data yesterday, and I cannot stop screaming and laughing and wheezing at his face. Like what happened here. WHAT HAPPENED? Why is his face...not right? Like, it looks like there was one photo, or perhaps a painting, of his head. And then someone trued to cut + paste his face onto it...but his face is too low and not angled correctly. Or something. It's so creepy/uncanny valley and I keep absolutely losing my shit when I see it.

I think this book came out around 2000, so idk what forms of 'photoshop' we even had back then, but it clearly wasn't up to snuff. And as a result, they did our boy so, so dirty.

(Side note if anyone has read this book and can recommend it lmk. The synopsis seems interesting and gemworld sounds like some steven universe type shenanigans. I could read it if I just. Don't look at the cover.)

[data2364]

via Trekcore.com

Daphne Ashbrook (Melora Pazlar) 1993 in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Melora“

https://data2364.wordpress.com/2021/01/04/daily-star-trek-4-januar-2021/

[dilfgarak]

Daphne Ashbrook (Melora Pazlar) and Siddig El Fadil (Julian Bashir). “Melora” (2x06)

[defconprime]

Melora Pazlar from Star Trek Timelines, 2022

[spockofnine]

not to be That person but how does It work in low gravity

[tcans]

Star Trek Femslash Februray day 19- Gravity

Sarina Douglas and Melora Pazlar :^) theyd be cute!!! Idk what to tell you!!!

[a-stitch-in-time-and-space]

@thisandthisandthis something something Julian and Melora bonding over different disabilities but then Julian’s own internalised ableism bleeds into his confusion about why she wouldn’t want to continue treatments (but ultimately doesn’t force her)

and how that same internalised ableism informs his treatment of Sarina in Chrysalis, because he has such a fear of being considered other, due to what he knows about how people like him are treated that he struggles with finding pride in his identity as an augment, even as he feels more at home with other disabled/ND/augmented people

anyway post-canon Julian meets up with Melora and Sarina again with more knowledge about his own identity and they’re all gay