julian bashir is autistic and i love him

ID: digital art of Kira Nerys on a white background wearing her "Niners" baseball uniform. She's smiling from under her helmet, holding a bat ready to swing

ID: painting of Tora Ziyal and Gul Dukat on a yellow background with black border. Dukat has his hands settled possessively around Ziyal's shoulders, but his face is obscured by a large leaf of a monstera-like potted plant that Ziyal is holding close to her. Ziyal gazes slightly downward; a reptilian tail peeks out from under the brown dress she wears.

Gah, I love Nog. I never felt more gut wrenched when he said "because I don't want to end up like my father" half crying. He knows his dad/Rom is a great engineer, but the Ferengi culture made him be of no value to their society. Nog knows he doesn't have the lobes to be a great Ferengi, but he knows he has the same talent as his father. And by him entering Starfleet, and being the very first Ferengi to do so, he wants to prove that he and Rom do have value. But the best part coming from this was Rom, being inspired by his own son, becomes less Ferengi and proves his values on his own too. I love them so much.

ID: Brunt is calculating something on his little hand computer as Quark approaches and they talk. In the background, two Nausicans are taking turns throwing darts literally into each other's chests. The one looks down at his chest and pulls a dart out to throw back at the other

ID: fanart of Julian Bashir smiling huge with four teddy bears wearing starfleet uniforms in his arms; the photo shows Alexander Siddig doing likewise

ID: scientific research poster titled "Trill Symbionts: Trill Symbionts have adapted to live in specific controlled conditions, but scientists have explored the evolutionary differences they may have had if they were not raised in these controlled environments." There are several images of trill labeled fig.s 1, 2, and 3; they are wormlike creatures with various fin and gill configurations.

ID: digital illustration of Kira Nerys as depicted in Past Tense, wearing a green shirt and red/brown vest, holding two flowers, and with a bandaid on her nose to cover up her Bajoran markings. She is holding up a piece sign and there are sparkles around her head.

This morning I’m thinkin about how Miles dislocated his shoulder on the Enterprise and Crusher was like Ugh Okay I’ll go get the Osteotractor™️ and then Miles dislocated his shoulder on DS9 and Julian just fucking cracked it back into place then and there

Miles needs ALL THE KINDS of therapy.

He sure does...

ID: two gifs from a scene in Next Generation where Miles walks into Beverly Crusher's medbay in a colorful skin-tight athletic outfit, holding his arm. Crusher says, "I'll go get the osteotractor." Next two gifs show Miles in a similar but shinier athletic outfit being shown into the medbay by Odo, then laying on a medbay bed and wincing in pain as Julian pushes his arm back into place

It’s incredibly in character for him too cause he literally lived in that era for an episode. For everyone else the racism of the era is known but much more academically. But Sisko was physically beaten and faced the horrific discrimination of that era. So it was too real to just put aside easily.

One of the reasons Odo is like one of the best characters to ever do it is because the writers were like, "He was raised in a lab, he doesn't know who he is, he's in love with his best friend but she doesn't know it, he's reclusive and blunt and has the most extreme daddy issues imaginable, he's got all the angst and he still manages to be a sarcastic bastard" and today, writers would make that character some conventionally attractive, gloomy bad boy who's either eighteen or twenty-something but the DS9 writers slapped on, "And he's played by a middle aged man" and that - THAT the's secret, right there.

At first they wanted "Clint Eastwood" but then René stepped into the auditions and Ira Steven Behr got his whole vision turned around for the better.

ID: digital fanart of DS9. Panel 1, Weyoun is making bright adoring eyes at Odo, saying "Founder!" with hearts around the word. Odo responds with a very small "gross." Second panel, Weyoun's face shrivels as Dukat's words from off-screen say "Weyoun, you can't trust this asshole!" Panel 3 is only Weyoun, his head twisting inhumanly far around so he can call back to Dukat, "Do not" — text continued in panel 4, which has zoomed closer on Weyoun's face — "fucking interrupt me, Dukat."

ID: fanart of Miles and Julian on a brownish-red background; Miles is holding a dart, about to throw it, while Julian stands behind smiling at him

i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of ‘what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as ‘the evil ones’ and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it’s a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it’s not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don’t think about it’ and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes