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i wish more stuff looked like that season of doctor who where they were smearing vaseline on the camera

I actually think that science fiction has done everyone a disservice by presenting escaping to another planet as a remotely feasible near-term solution to problems on Earth.

"I'm sick of all this tyranny and ecological collapse on Earth! I'm going to move to Mars, a planet with no ecology and where even the air I breathe will have to be monitored and controlled by the administrators!"

You know, for all the complaints I see about Garak being "overrated" in DS9 fandom, I actually feel like I see relatively little discussion of Garak outside of the context of Garashir. Shitposts and silly headcanons, sometimes, but not much in the way of serious and lengthy analysis. I'd actually be very interested in seeing more commentary on Garak through the lens of fascism, imperialism, intelligence work and state-sanctioned torture, queerness and masculinity, etc.

I’d eat my hat for more of this kind of thing. That essay I read the other week made my brain go pop. I only do critical-creative these days because trial and error taught me that that’s my mode, but I love to read this kind of thing precisely because it stimulates the creative. (David K Seitz’s section on Garak in A Different Trek is of course gold.)

When I read “space...the final frontier” there’s a small part of my brain that is that audio of Patrick Stewart saying it but with a ridiculous french accent that makes it “eh-spay-zeh...ze final frahn-tee-aire” while Jonathan Frakes absolutely loses it in the background.

intellectually i understand that ds9 probably has sonic washing machines or whatever but i think the station should have a coin-operated laundromat (you must go to quark's to exchange cash into Quark Coins to use it) and i think there should be drama wherein someone removes garak's wet clothes from the washing machine and leaves them in a heap on a table. and of course he finds out who did it by hacking the security cameras and promptly rigs the washing machine to explode the next time they use it.

julian always forgets to take his washing out and every time someone else puts it in the dryer for him to be nice. four years in and he still believes that there's a hidden transporter function in the machines that take the wet clothes and zap them over to the dryer automatically

Truly awful fifteen minutes in there late one night when both Garak and Kira turn up because they thought it would be quiet but no. Garak gnawing his knuckles in agony because Kira is throwing everything in together and not sorting them into piles for different temperature washes. Will she thump me now because I’ve spoken to her, or will she thump me later because she’ll know I could have saved her, and why is this my life.

Jake and Nog do, at some point, accidentally install a hidden transporter function, but instead of zapping your washing into the dryer, it zaps one sock per wash into the transporter buffer on the Defiant. Years later, this upsets a delicate first contact situation in the Delta Quadrant when O'Brien thinks to clear out the ol' buffer while in orbit and causes the heavens over a pre-warp society to rain socks for days.