No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

autisticandroids

okay guys seriously where is my post canon good ending fic where thirty years later general kira and minister garak see each other from across the room at some diplomatic function and they meet up and make polite smalltalk about each other’s loving same gender spouses. garak has gotten very fat and his hair is waist length and elaborately styled. his long tunic-robe-thing is almost a dress. kira’s hair has gone totally gray and it’s slicked back like in season two. she has butched herself the hell up and isn’t wearing any makeup. she moves with stately confidence. garak accidentally refer’s to kira’s wife as “ms. [maiden name]” because they literally haven’t spoken in years and he didn’t know the details on their marriage, and she’s like “no, mrs. kira” and garak is impressed. kira is annoyed for a hot second that garak’s hair is still totally black, not a thread of gray to be found, until she realizes that he dyes it. they torture a nearby starfleet ensign by making ambiguous references to each other’s pasts and toast with expensive champagne.

okyahcool

mirrordata-archive

first-officer-data

ds9 + screenshots of despair (x) (x)

captaincrusher

I must not have watched “For the uniform” the last couple of times I watched Ds9 because I don’t remember it ending like that.

Sisko actually poisoned a whole planet with people on it and Dax just pats him on the back and that’s that…

No consequences? No realization that it might have been like, a fucked up thing to do? Forcing people to abandon their homes by poisoning their atmosphere, how very Starfleet.

I thought the point was going to be that he would not be Javert, but apparently he really became Javert. He actually became the villain but all was forgiven because he got Eddington. Which is how I assumed he would justify it to himself - not how the story would end.

Ds9 is usually so good at pointing out the shades of grey. As they did in “In the pale moonlight”. But in the end the reflection of the moral issues is just… not there.

captaincrusher

dduane

watsonshoneybee

fic writers raise your hands if you like…forget what happens in your own fics

watsonshoneybee

also raise your hand if you ever try to read one of your old fics and you have to close out after three paragraphs like woahhhh…..idk what that was about but let’s not do that again

gplusbfics

thisdayintrek

This Day in Trek

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Voyager

Happy Birthday Aron Eisenberg January 6, 1969 (X)

gplusbfics

Indeed, Happy Birthday. Mr. Eisenberg’s work on DS9 was terrific.

This past DragonCon, I was able to catch him and Alexander Siddig talking to a full room and doing Q&A. They were absolutely hilarious together! His tales of stealing food off the Voyager set (until they were caught) were the best!

Wendy

subspacecommunication

perijules replied to your photo “No chance, no way, I won’t say it, no, no. It’s too cliche, I won’t…”

I’m so glad I went on an excursion into your cardassians tag to figure out what branched and unchranched filaments look and found this in the meantime lol

Ahaha perfect! That piece is from so long ago now, I can’t remember what sparked it… yet it’s a piece that probably sums up the general levels of goof on this blog!

As for filaments: it’s feathers! Cardassian “hair” is feathers - kind of. Whether it’s straight or fluffy depends on whether they have branched filaments or not. A branched filament means a feather like how you would imagine it: a central stem with the fluffy bits coming off it. Unbranched filament means just the “stem”.

In many species of bird, when they hatch all of their filaments are unbranched, and they’ll turn into full feathers as the bird grows. The same is true of Cardassians, at least to an extent: all Cardassians are born with unbranched filaments - these can grow on the crest of the head, along the neck, spine and tail, as well as on the chin, elbows and ankles. Whether a Cardassian has growth in all these areas depends on their genetics. Similarly, depending on their genetics, as they mature their feathers may grow and fan out, leading to particularly fluffy Cardassians like Jil Orra and Jules. Cardassians with unbranched filaments include Garak and Asha. Some Cardassians have a partially branched filaments, like Seska and Gul Madred. Unbranched filaments are most common, followed by the partial branching. To be covered in fully-formed feathers is fairly rare.

Cardassian scales already take me a lot of time to draw, so I am guilty of oversimplifying their filaments which may cause confusion! A handy visual guide is: straight “hair” = unbranched filaments, curly “hair” = semi-branched and branched filaments.