[thesyntheticlifeform]

someone: tries to get garak to tell the truth about a single thing in his whole life

garak:

[nerdfishgirl]

Thanks to the weirdness of my brain late at night and @glinnbenjamar‘s interest in public transit…..we bring you Deep Space Transportation Center Nine (DSTC9).

Featuring:

The Employees of DSTC9:

Sisko - the patrol dispatcher, the one who drives around making sure there’s no route blocks and organizing the transfers 

Kira - the angry driver who screams at annoying passengers for asking stupid questions, and often taps the brakes to send annoying passengers (usually Dukat) flying.

Jadzia - the driver who loves to gossip with her passengers, while driving like a maniac

Odo - mans the police station at the DSTC9

Quark - runs the concession stand at the DSTC9 and enjoys gossiping with Jadzia, and annoying Odo

O’Brien - the lead mechanic for the bus company, who’s least favorite driver is Julian Bashir

Bashir - the rather excitable, talkative driver who has singlehandedly been responsible for more minor accidents than any other driver (hence Miles dislike of him), and who is rarely on time. He only drives a few routes, as he also works as an EMT

Garak - only drives one route, but somehow picks up more gossip than anyone else

Keiko - does most of the training, and also manages the landscaping at DSTC9

The Passengers:

Morn - is that one guy who is somehow ALWAYS on the bus - if he isn’t, he’s sitting out in front of the concession stand

Dukat - everyone’s LEAST favorite passenger, he used to manage DSTC9. He’s continually looking for a way to get his old job back, when he’s not attempting to harass Kira.

Jake - the quiet kid who rides the bus a lot, he wants to write a book about the drivers and their stories, as they seem ignored (just like @glinnbenjamar….)

Nog - is his annoying loud friend who messes with the bell and announces things Jake has said about the drivers

Ziyal - Dukat’s daughter - no one has any idea how the creep produced such a nice young woman, but everyone loves her - she often gets free rides (and she DOESN’T die *looks grumpy*)

The Founders - the consulting firm attempting to revamp DSTC9 (the bus drivers hate them)

Weyoun - the investigator for the Founders, who’s continually riding the buses to try find things that are wrong

The Jem’Hadar - the worst frat house at the nearby college, they usually end up trashing whatever bus they ride. Are the Founders paying them to cause trouble? No one really knows.

Damar - at first one of the worst passengers (he usually tagged along with Dukat), he eventually considers becoming a driver himself. He’s usually hungover, bitter and tends to state the obvious.

Kai Winn - everyone’s least favorite soccer mom, she WILL complain about the buses being late, even if it’s only been a minute

Please feel free to add your own ideas to this weirdness….

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A guide for troubled nerds: deep space nine

antonomasia09 asked:

I've been trying to decide how Garak feels about showing weakness in front of Sisko. Like, obviously he'd die sooner than show weakness to Tain - he wouldn't even beg for his mother's life - and he tried to hide the extent of his illness from Julian during The Wire. But at the same time, he's going for this whole "I'm just a harmless tailor" thing. So I'd say he'll perform weakness, but giving Sisko any hint of his true vulnerabilities is out of the question?

brinnanza answered:

I hope you don’t mind me publishing this because this is A+ meta

[earth-dad]

some ds9 screenshots i redrew

[lightningarmour]

Well, this was definitely worth staying up for the past like, hour to do.

@progambientpostthrashneofolkcore and I have been talking about making this stupid fucking joke for like a month and I just had to do it tonight for some reason instead of going to bed on time.

[bringbackmyguls]

i’m watching our man bashir for the second time and god this episode is just everything

- the fact that garak doesn’t stop applauding until julian comes over to him

- how garak complains that julian spends every free hour on the holoprogram which he’d only know if he was watching him constantly

- garak’s constant smile and how he’s obviously both amused and delighted by everything

- how said smile drops the moment julian’s valet touches him

- nana visitor is gorgeous

- i assume colonel komananov is just a thicc dark-haired barrelchested short guy who is super sexxxy and very ~mysterious in the original - in fact lbr ALL the love-interests are just iterations of garak in the original

- when julian says ‘he knows nothing’ and garak looks so downcast and you can tell that’s the moment it stops being fun and that julian is punishing him

- julian is just so so handsome it’s ridiculous

- garak willing to kill miles just to prove a point (and definitely not because he’s mad o'brien was caressing his boyfriend with his gun)

- duchamp is always played by a worf clone bc he’s hot as fuck in a white tux. also he and dr noah are always dating

- JULIAN DOESN’T EVEN BOTHER GIVING GARAK AN ALIAS

- garak has no idea what human money means but watching julian haggle with worf!duchamp is something he’s going to remember next time the good doctor tries to demur on price

- garak’s little wobble as he goes down when he gets knocked out

- when sisko rants and garak just stares at him like god damn is this really the kind of people your species came up with? like how did you people make it this far?? and why aren’t you just assassinating him like a good spy would?

- garak getting up when sisko calls julian mr bashir like honey, honey no i’ve been in this situation before this is where they try to kill you honey time to go

- “is that your play?” THE GREATEST LINE IN GARASHIR HISTORY

- lbr that whole scene is the biggest argument for garashir ever like no way you’re willing to act out that embarrassing attempt at seduction in front of a man you’re not having sex with

- the whole argument underground it breaks my heart every time. the fact that garak is always testing, testing, testing the bounds of their friendship, that he has clearly had this unspoken belief this whole time that it will be up to him to make the hard choice and save them both when the time comes and he’s just been holding off to see what julian will do until then, and that combined with julian’s clear frustration that comes less from garak’s threatening everyone’s life than from the fact that garak won’t believe in him to know what he’s doing and to do the right thing. and you can see it from how he says ‘it’s my fantasy, trust me!’ so sincerely, to even the moment when he finally shoots garak with such precision and gives him that disgruntled look after, all to let garak know that he, julian, knows what he’s doing and is more than capable of doing it. he just wants garak to believe in him

- WHEN HE TOUCHES GARAK’S CHIN AND TELLS HIM IT’S A FLESH WOUND THEY’RE BOTH SO CASUALLY PHYSICAL WITH EACH OTHER I DIE

- how julian’s nose crinkles whenever he gets intense in his final showdown with sisko (and there are definitely iterations of the holoprogram where he and noah hatefuck for sure)

- garak was straight up going to snap sisko’s neck if he tried to shoot julian

- IT ENDS WITH GARAK INVITING HIMSELF BACK TO JULIAN’S PORN PROGRAM IT’S AMAZING

also bonus: garak’s hair being Down and Out and Loose all episode like damn boy you saw the tux and decided to be as fancy as possible? it just swings around freely like you wanna just toss it over your shoulder and stalk off to julian’s hideously decorated holo-bedroom like you’re daring him to follow

in short, good ep

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06-15-01-deactivated20170624 asked:

Could you explain the key differences of mitosis and meiosis?

the-environmentalologist answered:

So the most major key difference is the products. Meiosis creates haploid (half the genetic material as normal cell) while mitosis creates diploid cells. Meiosis is used to create specialized haploid sex cells, while mitosis create copies of the somatic (everything but a sex cell) cells. 

The next big difference is the stages, Meiosis occurs twice. It splits the cell twice in order to split up the DNA to create a haploid genome. Otherwise the stages occur just like in mitosis. 

Here is the stages of mitosis. 

But if you look at this one for meiosis, you seen the DNA separates twice, but only copies once. Youll also notice that male sperm cells, and female egg cells are created slightly differently. In female egg cell only one of the ending 4 cells will become an egg. One cell is arbitrarily selected to be the one to receive a vast majority of the cytoplasm while the others become polar bodies, which are just disposed of later. 

Hope that helps!