i swear to god i'll never escape i always come back around to ferengi fan hell

like god i haven't even rewatched ds9 lately and i'm thinking of goddamn Gaila again fml

Why do all of Andor's friends die. If I were in the Rebellion and somebody told me the man was on his way I would simply leave and check myself into an Imperial prison.

GAILA: Would you stop doing that! QUARK: Shh. Just being careful. Odo could be anywhere or anything. GAILA: Quark, we saw him walk down the Promenade five minutes ago. QUARK: He's very tricky!

god, i just had the most horrible thought... if Gaila had been a regular character, i might have started liking him almost as quickly as i started to like Quark

The One with Cousin Gaila:

-My one hang up with Quark is his love-hate relationship with his Cousin Gaila. It’s like one moment, he hates Gaila for being more successful, and a douchebag in general, but the next moment he’s buying whatever Gaila’s selling him. Like remember when Gaila sold him that shitty starship that took him back to Roswell?

-My favorite thing about Quark on the other hand, is his level of evil. I said he’s like, Jessie and James-tier. Like all of his schemes revolve around being rich, and most of the time, he wouldn’t be malicious enough to you know… go full-on war criminal until now.

-Sean— no, Yoshi, is a NUGGET. He’s probably my age by now, shit. It’s easy to say they only get cute babies for stuff like this, but trust me, they don’t. (Look at the kid Mary had with her own fucking cousin, no pun intended, on Downton Abbey, George)

-It pains me on a small level every time that DS9’s standard version of “Sexy Alien” is just a pretty lady with a butt forehead. Less pronounced than the Ferengi tho.

-The one-off Regent of Palamar is exactly how I imagined the Baron from Dune to look and sound like, but add in some thinning red hair.

-“Chief, why is the baby in the pit?”

-Shout-out to the Federation for abolishing poverty, war and disease, but they’re not enlightened enough to have paternity leave.

-Worf holding Yoshi, very wholesome.

any Trek for the meme thingy

The character I first fell in love with: Surprising literally no one, at all, ever it was Quark. I feel like I don't even need to explain this one because everyone knows I'm a filthy Quark fucker who loves that garbage goblin and if any of my followers somehow missed this this is the memo.The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Miles! Just looking at him I thought for sure I'd never pay much attention to his plots but now I absolutely love this poor unfortunate potato man he doesn't ask for much in life just respect and to go unharmed for more than two episodes at a time.The character everyone else loves that I don’t: This one's hard just because for the most part I don't think that I hate any widely loved characters. I know the general tolerance for Damar's entire existence is a little higher than my personal tolerance level.The character I love that everyone else hates: I regret to say that my love for shitty cousin Gaila is absolutely genuine.The character I used to love but don’t any longer: LOOK I WAS HIGHLY ENTERTAINED BY DAMAR UNTIL HE STARTED ACTUALLY DOING PLOT RELEVANT SHIT AND IT TURNED OUT I WANTED TO PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE.The character I would totally smooch: JADZIA. I WOULD KISS HER IMMEDIATELY. IMMEDIATELY. The character I’d want to be like: My soul longs to be as good a human being as Benjamin SiskoThe character I’d slap: Dukat of course. And Damar but I'm sure everyone is aware of that judging from my above answers.A pairing that I love: I'm legally not allowed to say Quodo because everyone fucking knows I love Quodo it's like saying I like air. But I also love several other pairings! Such as... Quark/everyone that wanders vaguely into his line of sight. (My primary set is still Quark/Garak/Odo OT3)A pairing that I don’t: I mean... most pairings the show insists that I'm supposed to care about.

Imagine Keevan getting revenge on shitty cousin Gaila. He knows what he did.

Keevan the Next - Quark I will give you two bars of Latium for Gaila's head. Quark - I would have sold the rest of him to you wholesale.

oh fuck me, i'm thinking of Mirrorverse Gaila again

i generally GREATLY DISLIKE the mirrorverse, but Mirror Gaila??? intriguing

yes i still hate the mirror universe, which is why i have no idea that mirror Gaila keeps creeping into my brain. maybe i’m just dissatisfied with the mirrorverse episodes

every once in a while i will get a kudos on ao3, almost invariably for that one tiny quodo fic i wrote, but every once in a longer while i'll get kudos on a different fic and i'm always kind of amazed bc like

someone read my Cousin Gaila fic??? someone went looking for that content???

to write out Gaila’s encounter with Garak in the tailor shop, or to gloss over it in three or fewer lines

thoughts, anyone?

my brain: [starts thinking of Shitty Cousin Gaila again]

me: don't you FUCKING START

i’m just thinking about how my little niece, who has probably never seen an episode of star trek in her short life, knows what a ferengi is because of hanging out with me. i remember when she saw a picture of one and pointed and shouted “STAR TREK.” when she was even littler than she is now, she used to sit in my lap and watch me play star trek timelines (she was fascinated by apps from day one and always asked to see the games on my phone). she’d ask me who everyone was, and then she’d say hello to them. “who’s that?” “that’s mr. worf.” “hello mr worf! who’s that?” “that’s major kira” “hello major kira”

and one time she saw a picture of gaila and her honest to god first reaction was just “why are his teeth like that” which still makes me laugh

see my problem right now is that i have too many vague ideas; when i wrote the first Gaila fic i had one clear idea- how did he get the scar- and so Writing happened

what began as simply writing the missed opportunity that was the ride home at the end of the magnificent ferengi is morphing into a whole nother Gaila fic

whispers i wanna write more gaila fic