Speaking of Doorknobs

Hi! I noticed you wrote what is possibly my favorite two-parter in DS9, In Purgatory's Shadow/Inferno's Light. It has such great angst and character development, especially for Bashir and Garak (I am very much extremely biased there). Do you have any insights on what it was like writing those episodes, or anything you're most proud of in seeing them come to life (if you ended up watching them)?

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Carnivorous plants doin this is so funny to me

Maybe it's naive of me, but whenever I see portraits like this, with just a father and daughter, it restores my faith in humanity a little. Because people seem to love this idea that fathers never loved their daughters in the past and only saw them as bargaining chips for marriage or whatever, but look at the guy in the first portrait on the left, he loves that little girl! And the dad trying to do his work while his daughter bothers him with an Old Timey Barbie. The man teaching his daughter geography, his expression is so soft! The way the man in the last portrait holds the little girl's hand! And none of these are incidental, these aren't photographs, someone (probably the father) paid good money and sat down for hours so that they could have a painting of themselves and their daughter. Probably because they loved their daughter.

I love these so much!