By Popular Demand: Avery Brooks (Extended Edition)

Holosuite date night except it turns into a three-hour lecture on the history of the Cardassian spy fiction genre.

Honestly I just wanted to draw Garak in his Our Man Bashir outfit, and Gracie Anne has had them on my mind lately. <3

mortifying

Bitch you are the captain of a starship for the USS Enterprise what the fuck do you mean

the thinggggg the thing about kira and jadzia is that. jadzia is so so so full of joy and the measured, steady, unshakeable optimism of someone much older than she is. but she wasn't always like that, she was a lonely, anxious, nerdy kid who "grew up" 300 years in the span of a single medical/spiritual operation. and a big part of that experience was the dedicated training she got towards knowing herself, knowing her needs and desires and how to meet them, so that she wouldn't get drowned out by the rest of dax. right

and she comes to ds9 and she meets kira, a lonely, anxious fighter who was an adult by the time she was 10, who never had the opportunity to know more about herself than what was strictly necessary--that she is strong, that she makes a good leader, that she can do anything she sets her mind to. but she never figured out what she might like to set her mind to, because freedom was the only thing it was possible to want.

and jadzia sees her old self in kira's face, in the bowstring-tight lines of her, and jadzia takes her by those aching shoulders and says Hey. do you want to know yourself? do you want to know what joy is? do you want to play?

– You don't know what any of this is about, do you? You work here, you see these people every day, how they live, and you just don't get it. – What do you want me to say? That I feel for them? That they got a bad break? What good would it do? – It'd be a start.

STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (1993–1999) ⤷ Paste Tense (parts I & II)

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we imagine you might like to see this

happy pride :) Here's a commission I made for @janetfraiser of an older Kira and Jadzia <3 tysm!

prints available here!

Bajoran clapping is superior. It allows you to clap for longer without hurting your palms because you can alternate back and forth.

And Quark there is doing the Ferengi clap, which is otherwise known as sending an invoice.

Lower Decks really missed a golden opportunity to travel back in time to not The Trouble With Tribbles, but to Trials and Tribble-ations, where live action Boimler and Mariner would've had to avoid not only Kirk's crew, but the copy-pasted crew from Deep Space 9.

Just keep seeing how many layers you can pile on top of the original episode.

some of the 1 trillion kiras odos and kiraodos in my sketchbook right now. + dax julian 1ea