Star Trek

I’m finally on season 5 on ds9 and the plot of miles and kira being all torn up about their feelings for each other meanwhile keiko is on step 5 in her 42 step master plan to get a polycule really is peak comedy

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.

jadzia dax is everything. she's hot. she's the station gossip. she cleans house at tongo with the ferengi every week. she drinks cocktails at 8 in the morning. she's 300 years old. she's 28. everyone wants her. she has a worm

Ds9 is full of cuts like this.

love when stories inflict unspeakable horrors onto a person for no real reason. its not karma. its not payback. its not a lesson. its not your fault. no ones even out to get you in particular. youre not the chosen one or special or anything. it just sorta happened and you were there. sorry man

When your day is less than perfect, watch an O'Brien Suffers™ episode of Star Trek. Watch that Irish Everyman go through absolute hell and still get home to his family at the end of the day and know that you, too, will survive and thrive, just like him