Really fucking sad. No words.

I can’t stop thinking about this scene from Profit and Loss, and what it implies. For anyone who doesn’t recall, Quark is making sure that various objects in his vicinity are not Odo. He slaps the table. He examines the chairs. And he DIPS HIS FINGER INTO A MUG AND TASTES THE LIQUID. After which he is satisfied that Odo isn’t around.

W.

T.

F.

It’s a little throwaway scene but it rocks my world, because it implies not only that Odo has a specific flavor that he cannot change - which makes *flavor* Odo’s sole immutable quality - but also that QUARK KNOWS WHAT ODO TASTES LIKE. I want to know so much more about this. I want to know how many times Quark has tasted Odo. I want to know how it happened the first time. I want to know if Quark ever drank an entire glass of Odo, and if so, whether he figured it out in time and was able to induce vomiting, or if he didn’t and Odo suffered indignities we cannot even fathom. I want to know if Odo knows he has a flavor, and that Quark can recognize it, or if that’s a secret Quark keeps from him for his own advantage. I want to know everything about this because this is the weirdest aspect of an already totally insane relationship dynamic. I cannot handle how messed up Deep Space 9 is.

just started watching deep space nine! so what’s going on with the big lizard dude and that beautiful twink doctor. and why is it So tense. i feel like i’m intruding upon something every time they’re on screen together and they literally just met in this episode hello

This was my favorite episode of star trek

For bonus points share one thing you wish would have happened in that extra season

visual by zayn alarbi, words by ibrahim nasrallah

So a friend conducted this great interview with Sid, that’s part of why I’m posting it, but I also love this because as a longtime SCSC person I feel like this one really captures more than any other interview what the experience of talking to him is like, especially in how if he’s comfortable with you he will just run his mouth without thinking of what he’s blurting out, haha (so yes, he has that in common with his most famous character) but also be very smart and thoughtful.

There’s a lot of stuff that I think my fellow Garashir girlies will particularly enjoy!

Make them straight adjacent for the homies

obsessed w this

amok time

quark is the best character in ds9 solely because when he wanted to create a distraction he just started moaning uncontrollably

bashir is the kind of person whose idea of flirting would be to tell you you have great veins. whether you're his patient and he's drawing blood or you're just having a drink at quark's is irrelevant.

was messing around with charcoal and pastel sticks and somehow whipped out this banger

“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” ― Emily Brontë

so odo ended up with his name through a particularly confused cross-cultural game of telephone, and it's a shortened form of the cardassian word for 'nothing', odo-ital (very heartwarming, wholesome childhood memories all round etc.). Does. does this mean that to garak's ears the head of security on the station is named something like 'constable nah'