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This is the funniest thing I have ever seen and I'm coming out of retirement just to post this. XD

Categorizing the relationships First Officers have with their Captains

Spock - guy with a toddler on a leash. Very tired but there are moments of joy over his nightmare charge

Riker - the son Picard never had and never wanted. Like all mentorships it’s a little gay

Kira - rebellious lesbian daughter in need of a father figure

Chakotay - the therapy dog they give captive cheetahs to keep them from going insane

T’Pol - a dog sitter. To clarify; Archer is the dog in this scenario

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Resurrecting my old blog to celebrate Threshold Day with one of my favorite YT reviews. Happy Lizard Day!

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HA!

“pictures taken seconds before disaster” but it’s just a picture of chief o’brien waking up in the morning

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Garak’s tail this, Garak’s tail that. You are all sleeping on the possibility of spoon-shaped lizard tongues that can “mlem”

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I saw a Tumblr post describing humans as “aggressively social” and all I can imagine is every Star Trek alien like:

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Translator Breakdown is my favorite fic trope! Yes yes all of this. Also I want Dax to know like five dialects of Standard, plus French, Klingon, and also Bajoran because she likes to flirt with Kira when it’s slow in Ops

I would have liked a Translator Breakdown episode where it turns out some of the characters do know one another’s language but only at like a “two years in highschool” level. O'Brien: Tá an ríomhaire briste. Tá fadhbanna againn.

Sisko: The WARP CORE is *points to his own face, frowning* ??

Kira: Fuck! Fuck computer, fuck! *hand gestures* Computer is fuck!

Dax: “Com… computer…” *rubs temples* Ordinateur? Parlez plus lentement s'il vous plaît…. 

Worf: Я раздражен….

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Yaaaay

guess he’ll go naked  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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So beautiful! I love the colored shading on each that matches the background.

~a rainbow of iconic star trek women~

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S01E08 - Dax

Most DS9 episode titles are thoughtful or clever but they got bored with this one and just named it after a character.

Oh man I will never get tired of the "entire station falls apart without Miles at the helm 24/7" trope

Ah! The first mention of the existence of the infamous raktajino! Love seeing the first time things get introduced that become such a show staple.

I'm laughing so hard at Dax not even deflecting, just flat out ignoring each line of flirtation Julian tries on her.

Dax always walks with her arms folded behind her back and I've tried this and it is uncomfortable

Kidnapping! Punching! No, Julian! Eek! Intense!

"Which not only compromises Bajoran security but also... *makes a crazy face* annoys us." I luv you, Kira. Marry me.

I can picture it, as soon as Sisko said they needed a place to do the hearing, Odo leaped at the opportunity to run to Quark's and inform him they would be commandeering his holosuite. It's the biggest joy in his life.

I am also in luv with Anne Haney's performance as the snappy Bajoran arbitrator, Renora. Marry me. (She played on an ep of TNG too!)

Ahhh another Space Mystery(tm). Why won't Jadzia explain? Who was the real murderer? How will this be wrapped up in a neat package in just 40 short minutes!?

"If this is true I'd hang Curzon Dax up by his heels myself." "Thanks for the confidence." Odo and Sisko dry-sarcasming to each other makes my day.

This makes me realize how carefully the DS9 creators worked to create unexpected characters for this show. The two 'warrior' types, Dax and Kira, are beautiful young women, not typical beefy men. The doctor is brilliant but socially awkward to the extreme. The commander is as unlike Picard, the captain of the previous show, as they could possibly make him. With each character they tried to take what we would expect and turn it on its head. (These were the days before 'subverting audience expectation' was abused so much that it's become almost a stereotype of bad writing, today.)

They did a good job balancing the ep, it’s an entertaining murder mystery plot but also lets us learn about Dax's character and Trills in general

Julian getting all indignant when Tandro interrupts his testimony hee hee. Aww but then he gets distraught when the questioning turns against him and he walks right into it! He baby...

I like that Odo is the one to interview Enina Tandro. He sees things in such black and white, the truth is the truth, that's all there is. But then he gets exposed to this culture that won an entire war based on a lie, based on the person they thought this general was, but he wasn't. Sometimes there’s more to truth than just facts.

"Live, Jadzia Dax. Live a long, fresh, and wonderful life." Wow. The last lines of this ep turned out to be heavily ironic...

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This man is so powerful.

Andy’s really has been saying gay rights since the 90s , huh? [x]

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contributing to a community in a meaningful way, having my opinions respected even if the other person doesn’t get it, being able to see a doctor without worrying if I can pay for it,

I love Star Trek because it appeals to my wildest escapist fantasies, like: having a reliable friend group, having an interesting job, having time for hobbies,

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Agreed

Q can’t possibly be straight cuz he’s always fucking sitting like this

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S01E07 - Q-Less

Moar TNG cameoooooos! Let's go! *clap*

Julian's a dork, we all know this and love him, but I want to give an Emmy to Colm Meaney for the faces he's making during the whole scene of Julian’s academy finals story. Miles never says a word the entire scene, his face says it all for him. Just puffs out a tiny sigh as he walks away. It's perfect.

Kira: Finally, a chance to shoot through a runabout door like I've always wanted! Sisko: Major. No.

Miles only exists in episodes like this to identify who the TNG cameo characters are.

I admit, as a kid I tried to convince myself I didn't like Q much because he was such a popular character and I was one of those kids who felt threatened if I liked popular things, like it would erase my own identity to go with the crowd. Regardless, as an adult I love Q. I am so glad he gets a DS9 ep. And VGR eps! And yeah, throw him in a MLP cartoon, why the hell not!

I think it's kinda weird Vash was in the Gamma Quadrant for two years and her accumulated wealth for that whole time is just like five things? That’s the whole auction? Maybe Q took the rest of her stuff.

Promethean quartz. Yes, Star Trek writers, that is totally an alien gem stone you got there, I can now tell. Thanks.

"The captain likes a good challenge, sir." Miles gossiping about Picard's sex life to Sisko. Just DS9 things.

Hahaha the dresser drawer makes a little electronic hiss as Vash puts her clothes away. Because it's a space dresser, you see. This is the future.

"What did they call you, the god of lies?" "They meant it affectionately."

Oh to be a fly on the wall when Sisko attended the official Starfleet briefing on Q!

The entire boxing scene. Enough said.

They ran out of prosthetics for some of the auction aliens so they decided blue fabric wrapped around the head was good enough

Oh I love it when the A plot and the B plot come together so perfectly in the end! And hey, a space moth! Love it. Spaaace mooooth.

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My fave ladies!

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I agree with Tosk. The fact that I, as a human, need to spend one third of my lifespan unconscious in order to properly function is just ridiculous.

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S01E06 - Captive Pursuit

I remember how much I loved this ep the first time I saw it. I really wish there had been more "whoa something random just came from the Gamma Quadrant, how we gonna deal with it?" plots during DS9's run.

Props for the opening scene, with the crew at Ops wanting to beam the alien to safety and he saying no, he won't leave his damaged ship. Rather than waste time pointing out he's being needlessly obstinate, they just find a different way to help him. They respect his opinion even though they don't agree with it. It's a small thing, but it's very Star Trek.

They kinda borrowed the idea of Tosk's invisibility for the Jem'Hadar, later on, eh?

"I am Tosk." "That's your name or your species?" "I am Tosk." "Oh."

O'Brien makes himself a friend! I'm crying! 😭 Bless him.

Tosk and O'Brien's little shop talk about ship propulsion gives me life

Tosk is SO much cute. Is there fanart of Tosk out there? I'mma gunna go look after I finish this episode.

You know Odo could just disguise himself as part of the bulkhead but he chooses to be a painting. A really ugly painting. Just putting that out there.

"Nobody's abducting a prisoner out of my brig as long as I'm alive." Mr. 100% Extra Forever, everyone.

Anyone else kinda get the feeling the head Hunter might have known how this was all going to go down? After seeing Sisko’s sympathetic to Tosk, he’s just like "Release him to us" and goes back to his ship without waiting for a reply. Like he might have been hoping Tosk would get the chance to get out of his "cage" and the hunt could resume.

Quark dragging conversation out of reluctant O'Brien, priceless

Every time a Starfleet officer takes his comm badge off and throws it on a table to symbolize he's going against his oath in order to follow his heart. I just... *chef kiss*

Nice set up and pay off with the force fields. The earlier scene with Tosk and Odo shows us how easy it is to cut off an intruder in the corridors, so that we later understand how simple it would have been for Sisko to have Tosk and O'Brien stopped. Then we understand that, even with the dressing down Sisko gives O'Brien at the end, he really understands the action he took.