Bruce/Hercules breathe if you agree

gul dukat the type of guy to go to court-ordered therapy one time and come out immediately weaponizing therapy speak. he shows up to ds9 like “i respect your boundaries but i feel that i’m doing all of the emotional labor in this relationship. frankly, the federation’s presence in this sector is disrupting my self-care” and then sisko tells him to get out of his office

garak is literally so funny. every time someone is like “hey aren’t you that spy” he goes “whaaaat 😉 of course not! 😏 that would be absurd 🤭 who said i was a spy?” and then julian is like “oh yeah he’s been teaching me how to be a spy”

tbh crazy that Defiant doesn't end up in an outright Cardassian civil war arc. the obsidian order has been arming itself with warships in complete secret from the central command and korinas threatens to attack any cardassian ship that dukat sends into the OB territory. and the next episode is Fascination

i'm imagining an AU where the war happens, the OB loses and every OB-associated cardassian gets kicked out. cue tain showing up at garak's doorstep like a sad ant with a bindle