#an elaborate excuse to give theo farrah fawcett hair

[landsofnayir]

STAR TREK AU TIME

(This takes place during and in the aftermath of the Dominion War)

(Also I started a new blog for Star Trek and sci-fi, @theomegadirective, I might throw up more of these two on there)

Theo's an Orion who joined Starfleet to pursue xenozoology. She feels conflicted about leaving her unstable homeworld, especially considering the apathy--if not outright complicity--Starfleet/the Federation have toward the Orion slave trade and piracy.

Bakri's a Cardassian who hides both his assigned gender at birth and his quarter-Bajoran heritage, the latter of which only shows in his softer ridges and distinctly non-Cardassian curly hair. He took on a male identity and joined the Cardassian Guard early on in life. While he seemed as brutal and dogmatic as they come, he nevertheless broke away from the Guard and fled Cardassia when the Obsidian Order intelligence agency was destroyed in 2371.

The two of them meet when he asks for asylum from the Federation and Starflee. He docks at Deep Space Nine, wounded, with his shuttlecraft moments away from a warp core breach. He stays on the station while Theo’s ship the al-Battani (captained by Nesrin Ciziri) is refitted for war with the Klingons and, later, the Dominion.

#my art #theo #bakri #slavery tw #war tw #an elaborate excuse to give theo farrah fawcett hair #she works for starfleet and wears planet earrings that definitely violate uniform code #she's perfect i love her