especially the lies

and data said well as i am an android i posess no such sense as well. however i do have excellent ballance. and kept painting. and then data said many art theorists would argue that aesthetics as a concept are actually counterproductive to art, as the pursuit of art should include expressing emotions and evoking sensations in the viewer, and the traditional sense of beauty inhibits this.

and then he kept painting (some sort of surrealist disembodied head floating through a geometric maze of connected rooms) and the next thing he said his voice sounded a little different, quieter: as an android, i have no emotions to express. but before weyoun could reply he turned around and handed him a painbrush and said: perhaps you'd like to try, mr. weyoun?

and then there's a cut. cue A plot. next scene we see weyoun and data paint side by side quietly. close up on weyoun's canvas. it's a writhing dark mass of fuzzy shapes and distorted figures. inside of it you can make out thousand of little faces with their mouths twisted open in fear or screaming, eyes open, closed, some without arms or legs, clutching their injuries. dark fluid streaks down from them to the edge of the canvas, dripping to the floor, like tears or blood. in the background, a mountain of corpses. if you step away from it, the whole composition makes a sillhuete of a founder.

that is most illuminating, said data.

Damar is reading these fuckass romance novels and the odd enigma tale but hes not actually reading any sincere literature since he got out of officer school and stopped having assigned reading. He loves thr cheap pop novel because cardassian tours of duty are so goddamn long and boring he can get through like 6 of them in a week. Weyoun does also think this is a disgusting habit. Hes read all of the ones damar has.

Both Tain and Mila have read every book that crosses their desk, either out of a passionate love for cardassian escapism or redlining it for censorship, sometimes crossing wires about it. Enabrian tain absolutely let shoggoth get away with a little more critique of the state then the order typically does before he disappears him bc he does love a little logical puzzle especially wrapped up in a backwards version of patriotism. Mila does unfortunately think the spy romances are hot and also funny, bc the ideas they have about how the order functions is just so charmingly stupid.

It's asking questions; 'Is this...all I am? Is there nothing more?'

ferengi babies would look like this to me (they turn bald at like 4 y/o dw)

they have the nastiest bites though. ferengi parents are (MOSTLY) immune to infant attacks but if you're an alien and a ferengi child bites you, you need medical attention asap because you just got poisoned.

in prehistoric times this helped younglings survive in the wild but now it's a hell of a nuisance

"why do the trills change appearance between tng and ds9?" Mistake in the logs