*Looks at your “Starfleet not allowing cultural clothing and accessories bc dress code”*
*Squints very hard at your “Starfleet not accommodating disabilities and treating them like they’re shocking”*
*Turns to my Star Trek AU with multiple disabled characters and many who wear culturally significant clothing/accessories*
Eh, screw canon. Starfleet isn’t the military, it can deal with a wheelchair that actually makes sense and a bajoran earring stfu. You have to deal with time travel and literal gods every other Tuesday, who gives a fuck if the pilot is in a wheelchair or wears a fucking earring. Stfu.
Creole food becomes popular on Bajor after Sisko leaves to be with the The Prophets because of its connection with him, and they even innovate on it with local Bajoran ingredients.
Sisko’s Creole Kitchen in New Orleans becomes an occasional pilgrimage site for Bajorans who want to see the place that The Emissary was raised. Joseph is generally unfazed by this and doesn’t change the restaurant for the new visitors, but he does sometimes tell stories of Ben’s childhood if they’re really polite.
Self-care is drawing Shaxs doing Bajoran things
(I drew him with Kira on DS9 before the season 3 trailer was even out, so as far as I’m concerned I manifested it)
At first Major Kira didn't want to play any games with Cardassians, but then curiosity won - and the fact that it was Sisko who had invited her for a play. As a friend.
Pool Series: 5/6
B/w (true noir) version under cut
my hot take cardassian headcanon is that they aren’t reptiles (as someone who has owned and cared for reptiles).
1) they don’t get impaired by heat or cold! sure, it’s canon that they prefer warmer temperatures, but reptile sensitivity to temperature is far greater than what we see in canon.
2) they can breed with Bajorans without medical intervention— that means bajorans, who are definitely mammals, have more genetic proximity to Cardassians than humans have to Vulcans.
3) natima lang’s boobs. need i say more?
so my theory is that cardassians are mammals with scales, like pangolins.