DS9 Viewer’s Log

This is a very satisfactory answer, and a fair one, as I haven’t reached the CODA trilogy yet. Thank you for directing me to Ao3 - I’ll go there shortly. And yes, of course I’m going to read your next book - I was going to no matter what. Have a lovely day, @unamccormack

Una McCormac is the best Trek writer. She doesn’t spend paragraphs upon pages talking about people opening corridors, pressing buttons, sealing hatches, blah blah blah. She unpacks as much character as she can, and gets to the next story beat expediently. I can’t wait to read this paperback.

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

America has been Cardassia for a long time, between its aggression to other countries, its police brutality, and its detention of harmless immigrants. The Trump regime just escalated everything to horrifying new levels.

America has been Cardassia for centuries. What you’re witnessing right now is our transition to being the Dominion.

Hi my name is Elim (Tain) Garak and I have ebony black hair as soft as a regnar’s (that's how I got my code name) with gray streaks that reaches my chin and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Enabran Tain (AN: if u don't know who he is get da hell out of here!). I'm not related to Preloc but I wish I was because he's a major fucking hottie and an amazing author. I'm half Hebitian but I pass as full Cardassian. I have pale gray scales. I'm also a spy, and I live in a space station called DS9 in Bajoran space where I’m a tailor (I'm 49). I'm a patriot (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly cardassian styles. I love the National State Clothiers and I illegally import all my fabrics from there. For example today I was wearing a brown shirt with matching brown pants and shoulder pads, purple accents and a leopard print undershirt. I had gel in my hair, blue ridge blush and forehead blush. I was walking around the promenade. The temperature controls were malfunctioning so it was warmer than usual, which I was very happy about. A lot of federajis stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

OMG!! 🖤

Oh… My… Garak…