Katherine The OK(ish)

you are right and you should say it.

garak finally finds Earth music he absolutely adores and julian’s like oh boy! that’s wonderful garak!! and garak’s like it’s sublime. deeply moving. almost divine. julian’s like, oh this is very exciting, what was it finally? brahms? abba? smashmouth? and garak’s like “spring peeper”. and julians like garak those are frog sounds. and garaks like well obviously, theres no way it would be human. human music is terrible. these guys are great tho

Julian: They’re saying, “Come to my shop sometime if you’re looking for conversation.”

Garak: oh well obviously those frogs are lonely and horny and also very high. how embarrassing for them

well, if this isn't the place for a Deep Space Nine plug, I don't know what is.... --The former freedom fighter who calls herself a terrorist and spends 7 years learning to start healing --The man who has to choose between committing murder and seeing millions die --The other man in that exact same situation --The dude who's whole existence is literally illegal, who starts as an idealist and ends as something else entirely --The guy who starts the show as a proud fascist and ends it a good man --The narcissist genocidal fascist convinced he's on the side of angels and counts, among his good deeds, not murdering his own child in cold blood like, that's just a tiny sample off the top of my head of the kinds of complex, flawed characters DS9 has

i will never be over the fact that during first contact a human offered their hand to a vulcan and the vulcan was just like “wow humans are fucking wild” and took it

@sineala

#iiiiiiiiiiiiii mean vulcans had been watching humans for a long time#they knew the significance of a handshake but still#they had to find some fast and loose ambassador#willing to fuckin make out with a human for the sake of not offending them on first contact#lmao#star trek give me the story of this fast and loose vulcan

Elsewhere, w/ kuvak: “….my day has come.”

I swear Vulcans only come in two types and they are “distant xenophobes” or “horny on main for humanity”. Also apparently this guy is Spock’s great-grandfather and frankly that explains everything.

Hey so I looked into this at one point and that handshake literally created a lifelong telepathic bond between the two of them, and basically all of Solkar’s descendants were later obsessed with humans, including freaking SPOCK, so I’m not saying that handshake was so gay and good that it created an intergenerational telepathic bond between Solkar’s descendants and humans, but I’m also not….not….saying that.

actual footage of first contact makeouts

And so we find out that yes, there is such a thing as bottoming in Pon-farr.

Every time this post comes round my dash, it just gets better.

#somehow the idea of vulcans being Horny On Main always gives me the giggles#like literally all they had to do#was be like actually#hand contact is very intimate for our species#and im p sure humanity as a whole would not find that insurmountably weird#there are human cultures that dont shake hands#vulcans are logical enough to think that through on their own#so clearly that vulcan was just down to fuck#down to fuck in a public#professional diplomatic situation no less#and he did not fucking care who knew it (via kittykatthetacodemon)

This is my favourite Star Trek post, complete with headcanons, corrections, the truth coming out of her well to shame Spock even. Seriously perfect fandom work.

They could have explained none of it and responded to the offered hand with a polite bow. First contact was gonna be with the guy who proved they were technologically ready for it but any human aware of Japan and China would recognise that

@katherinetheok

@garaks-padded-cell for the archives if don’t have it already

Aw this was like. My first ever post.

@imadoctornotanescalator Worf’s expression is giving “So you’ve chosen death.”

"The magic system is never fully explained" yeah that's how life works. Imagine having a story set in modern day America and the characters have several pages of exposition on combustion engines and telecommunication networks before we get to the plot

i think this is absolutely correct and good writing advice but also victor hugo would like to have a word with you about the parisian sewer system circa 1832

victor hugo would like to have many words with you about the parisian sewer system circa 1831

Damn, I never even noticed his aversion to being called Bashir. The daddy issues, they run DEEP.

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you will never catch me complaining about an actress on a tv show having an imperfectly concealed pregnancy or a character going on a sudden trip somewhere while her actress is on maternity leave. so many actresses (and women working in any other field) are fired, punished and pressured into making reproductive decisions for their employers' convenience & if i have to try a bit harder to suspend my disbelief then that's absolutely what i'm going to do if it means people are getting to exercise reproductive & bodily autonomy without punishment

My favorite writing of this was how Star Trek DS9 handled Nana Visitor's pregnancy. It felt out of character for her character (Kira Nerys) to get pregnant and it's the semi-utopian future, so presumably birth control works quite well and abortions are easily available. Solution: another female character gets pregnant, is injured in an emergency situation, and Kira agrees to act as surrogate. They effectively wrote this entire story line well enough, with implications for the dynamics between Kira and the biological parents, that I didn't realize until later that the actress was actually pregnant. I thought it was just an interesting plot line.

@katherinetheok