#cardassia prime

[quasi-normalcy]

I know that this would be harder to do as a comedy storyline than a trip to, say, Ferenginar, but I really hope that they go to Cardassia Prime in an episode of Lower Decks.

#star trek lower decks #cardassia prime

[novakspector]

#cardassia prime

[spocks-kaathyra]

domestic butch4butch aliens for day 5 of @startrekfemslashweek with the prompt "learning your language"

these r my ocs Cressida and Eyal :)) Eyal is Nal's little sister! read abt her family here and her mommy issues here

#no idea what the cardassian text says btw. copied it off the first image I found on google #I admit they r not vry fleshed out in my mind. I only know that they have an enemies to lovers arc lol #I think maybe eyal stows away on a romulan cargo ship to get off of cardassia prime. and cressida works on said cargo ship. #someone else needs to write their cool space adventures with a side of slow burn romance and learning to see past their prejudices #narcissus's echoes #pythasposting #(barely pythasposting at this point. eyal is uhhhh pythas's sister-in-law??) #narcissus draws #startrekfemslashweek2023 #ds9 #cardassians #star trek #star trek fanart #star trek oc #romulans #star trek art

[darkiecat]

LMAO of course it's Garak

#star trek #ds9 #ben sisko #garak #cardassia prime though? will garak resist doing something stupid? #garak ex machina

[fauvester]

wiat are garak and bashir married in your au?

the castellan of cardassia living in sin? with an ALIEN??!? AND THEY HAVE CHILDREN!??!??!?

#dee s 9 #in my sandbox i play it either as. #1.) bashir comes to cardassia to help out and stays in garaks like living room. and over months and years they get closer and closer #until they are basically platonically married in everything but name and dont realize it until julian tries to adopt a cardassian kid #and has to become a naturalized citizen in order to do so. and then they quickly realize their feelings for each other and get married then #or 2.) epistolary LDR betwixt cardassia and DS9 a few months postcanon #and bashir comes to cardassia both for humanitarian aid and to be with his bf #and they have a proper relationship and get enjoined at some point. to make it Official. #i do get the feeling that garak would be old fashioned like that. like god FORBID everyone knows that they're fucking #outside of the conjugal bed(/desk/kitchen table/couch/floor) #cardassians prewar about orphans outside of cardassia: fuck them kids #cardassians postwar about orphans on Prime: HOW DARE YOU PUT YOUR UNSCALY HANDS ON OUR PRECIOUS NATURAL RESOURCE. WE HAVE SO FEW LEFT

[bijoumikhawal]

How the fuck does world building a calender work

#Fuck Cardassia Prime and its 3 moons #Cipher talk

[ancovickacz]

Winter gift exchange!

Thank you @startrekwintergiftexchange for hosting this. I ended up making a gift for @lipstickonmylabcoat with the prompt being "Garak and Bashir on Cardassia Prime". I've recieved some really fun art from @britishbilliee and their brother (Thank you again, I love the art)!! Without further ado!

Rambling below!

I'll be the first to admit that the rendering is,, rough to say at least, but I'm still very happy I made this. It's definitely a result of a combination of 'ideas above artist's skill level', messy painting style and lack of patience lol. The two Cardassians on the left side were meant to be some students in uniform, but I didn't really give them justice here. I'm starting to enjoy drawing architecture, but rendering it is very difficult for me. Also this is meant to be like a good ten years after canon or really any amount of time, that would make it possible for the city to look like it does in the drawing again. Also also!! Sorry for the spam :)

#julian bashir #elim garak #garashir #star trek #ds9 #my art #deep space nine #art #post canon cardassia

[betashift]

STAR TREK MATTE PAINTINGS APPRECIATION DEEP SPACE NINE — by Syd Dutton, Robert Stromberg, Eric Chauvin (Illusion Arts Inc.)

Bajor — "Emissary" Starfleet Headquarters — "Homefront" Trill — "Equilibrum" Risa — "Let He Who Is Without Sin..." Cardassia Prime — "Tribunal"

#hellooo i have returned 🫡 y'all voted for ds9 so here u go! and that means I'm doing tmp next :) #mattes #ds9 #trekedit #ds9edit #startrekedit #star trek deep space nine #deep space nine #scifiedit #90sedit #tvedit #on my last ds9 gifset i got the most insanely rude comment about the quality & how i sharpened them and even tho that person was stupid #and wrong I tried a different approach by adding some noise. but Idk if this is any better....bluray remaster WHEN?!? #déjà queue

[cardassi-art]

I’m absolutely obsessed with A Stitch in Time by Andy Robinson, and by extension the wonderful world building on Cardassia Prime and it’s culture.

I present my interpretation of Pythas Lok!

I am doing a gentle series of Cardassian portraits (we’ll see how long that lasts though) but it’s been a very fun exercise thus far.

#star trek #original art #a stitch in time #ASIT #Pythas Lok #cardassians #eight lubok #art

[sapphosewrites]

Weyoun says "children were starving on Cardassia Prime" as a result of the Klingon-Cardassian conflict, and he certainly has no reason to tell the truth, but he's correct that Cardassia wouldn't advertise to outsiders if it was true. What's your take?

[quasi-normalcy]

Actually, you know what? Ever since I learned that Ira Steven Behr signed that grossly unfair letter against Jonathan Glazer, I've been forced to kind of reevaluate some of my interpretations of things in Deep Space Nine.

Like Section 31. I was willing to suppose that it was always and only intended to be villainous. But knowing as I do now that the showrunner who included it is perfectly willing to turn a blind eye to genocide, I'm forced to wonder...was it critical? Was it?

Like, let's consider canon here. In "Statistical Probabilities", Bashir and the other augments calculate, in no uncertain terms, that the Federation can't win its war with the Dominion. Their model even accurately forecasts things that happen later in the series: the Romulans declaring war on the Dominion; a full-scale revolt on Cardassia Prime. The end of the episode kind of pooh-poohs their model, like, "Well you couldn't even forecast what Serena would do in this room" but like...(1) the premise is basically lifted from Asimov's psychohistory concept, which works on populations rather than individuals, and (2) there's even a line of dialogue in the episode saying that the models become *less* uncertain the further you go in time. And indeed, the Federation ultimately wins the war not because any of their assumptions were wrong, but because there was another factor that they weren't aware of: the Changeling plague. The plague that had, of course, been engineered by Section 31 to exterminate the Changelings.

So again you have to ask: *was* this critical? Or was the real message that a black ops division willing to commit genocide is necessary to preserve a "utopian" society, no matter how squeamish it makes a naïve idealist like Bashir? And yeah, the war is ultimately won by an act of compassion, but only *after* Bashir sinks to S31's level by kidnapping Sloane and invading his mind with illicit technology. So...is this really a win for idealism?

And then we have the Jem'Hadar. They're a race of slave soldiers, genetically engineered to require a compound that only the Changelings can give them. By any reasonable standard, they're victims. And yet, the series goes out of its way, especially in "The Abandoned", to establish that they're irredeemable. You can't save them. Victims of colonialism they may be, but your only choice is to kill them, or else they--preternaturally violent almost from the moment that they're born--*will* kill you. And of course, I've long assumed that this was just a really unfortunate attempt to subvert what had become the standard "I, Borg" style Star Trek trope where your enemies become less scary once you get to know them, but like. I would say that there's pretty close to a one-to-one correspondence between this premise and the ideology excusing the mass murder of children in Gaza.

Or the Maquis. There's this line at the start of "For the Uniform" where Sisko tells Eddington that he regards the refugees in the Demilitarized Zone as being "Victims of the Maquis", because they've kept alive the forlorn hope that they would ever be allowed to return to their homes and...Jesus, when I write it out like that, Hello, Palestinian Right of Return. [The episode of course ends with Sisko bombing a Maquis colony with chemical weapons, though it is somewhat less objectionable in practice than I'm making it sound here].

And you know what...I get that DS9 is a show that's intended to have moral complexity, and to be kind of ambiguous in a lot places, and not to give you simple answers and so on. And I'm *not* trying to do the standard JK Rowling/ Joss Whedon/ Justin Roiland thing where a creator falls from grace for whatever reason and people comb through their oeuvre to show that they were always wicked and fans were stupid for not seeing it earlier or whatever. But I will say that these things hit different when you know that the series was show-run for five seasons, comprising every episode that I've just named, by a man who would go on to sign his name to a letter maliciously quoting Jonathan Glazer out of context to drag him for condemning an active genocide. And given that I've been a fan of DS9 for basically my entire life, this is deeply unsettling to me.

#long post #star trek deep space nine

[chaos-good-life]

Cardassia Prime is lovely this time of year. Who is ready for a trip?

Photoshop by me. 

#star trek #star trek deep space 9 #star trek deep space nine #star trek ds9 #Travel Posters #travelart #Fanart #Trek fan art #Garashir #cardassia #cardassians

[mercury-prince]

things are much warmer on cardassia prime

#literally i was going to draw them both clothed but then i got discracted drawing garaks scales and to me it wouldnt make sense for his #charecter to be shirtless unless julian was too so like... continuity i guess?? #anyway i hope this doesnt get flagged #i didnt MEAN to make it so yaoi i SWEAR... #garashir #garak x bashir

[1prodigy1]

Section 31 Bashir: No.

Beta canon is tripping if we’re expected to believe that Julian joined Section 31 after the Dominion War.

Hello?

His fascination with being a James Bond-esque hero was a staple since the beginning,

BUT IT WAS DECONSTRUCTED OVER AND OVER!

In the first few episodes, Julian excitedly talks about practicing medicine ‘in the frontier.’ And Kira immediately set him (and us) straight by reminding him that that ‘frontier’ was her home. It’s not a black-and-white issue of bringing new ideas to the natives, it’s approaching a culture that doesn’t want/need Julian’s savior complex.

Addendum: The savior complex is rooted in Julian’s desire to be extraordinary in a normal way. There are multiple ways to read him wanting to be the suave spy and hero. He could be neurodivergent, he could be trans, and/or he could be wrestling with sexuality.

All of these things deviate from the norm, which is something Julian wants to do… as long as it earns him positive attention. Of course he wants to be strong and brave, but not at risk of being seen as completely invincible and inhumanly capable. His spy worship comes from the idea of people being extraordinary in socially acceptable ways and situations.

(I want to state that this trait completely disappears when Julian has the opportunity to help people. I would argue that in a medical crisis, Julian is at his best and bravest. Another reason why I refuse to believe he would become an agent for Section 31.)

Back to the main point of deconstruction. One of Julian’s most prominent relationships is with Garak. His initial interest in Garak is because he believes Garak to be a spy. They spend many an episode with Julian implying/outright asking Garak who he is.

It’s a very fun game for him and Garak both.

And then we have ‘The Wire’ where we, and Julian, learn that Garak isn’t full of glamour and mystique. He’s a deeply flawed individual traumatized by his years of assassinations and espionage.

Instead of being excited by the ‘spy intrigue’ of it all, Julian makes it very clear that he Doesn’t Care. He has the opportunity to press for more from Garak, and he doesn’t. He even has the opportunity to ask Enabran Tain (who would have gleefully told Julian if it meant he could twist the knife that much deeper into Garak), and he doesn’t.

The whole episode goes so completely against Julian’s spy worship that we’re meant to understand that he will always, always choose real lives over his pretend one.

Honestly, everything about Garak is a critique and commentary about Julian’s spy fantasy.

Think of ‘Our Man Bashir.’

Garak made it very clear that Julian’s pretend world was nothing like a real exercise in subterfuge. He continued to poke holes in the holo-program until Julian had to make an actual tough call.

If we put aside the writers’ reasons for separating Julian and Garak from that episode on and look at it from a narrative-lense, Julian distanced himself from Garak because he didn’t like what he saw in himself.

Was he really someone who could sacrifice a life to save the collective?

He doesn’t want to be the one making those choices. Julian has already showed how deeply he values the lives of others. He’s a doctor; he saves lives, not takes them.

I could go on. The entire sub-plot with Section 31 and Sloan was meant to show Julian’s disillusionment with spy games.

He made his choice not to play.

Beta canon expects me to believe he went through all that character-growth for nothing?

Of course he went to Cardassia Prime to alleviate the human (human-adjacent) suffering there!!!

#Star Trek #ds9 #deep space 9 #Julian Bashir #garashir #<<if you squint #anyway this is not dogging on anyone’s section 31 stories!!! I love the drama of it all #but beta canon really says ‘of course he continued down his path of working for an organization that actively harms people and takes their #agency :)’ he would not do that. #I know Julian he’s my bestie and he’s silly and wayyy too idealistic but he wouldn’t join section 31

[fauvester]

welcoming cardassia’s newest alien doctor at the docking port!

au where they kept in contact via subspace letters and struck up an epistolary long distance relationship until julian took a position on cardassia prime to be with his bf..

#dee s 9 #garashir #theyve never even held HANDS we are at JANE AUSTEN LEVELS OF PHYSICAL REPRESSION #it’s all been This Is How You Win The Time War ass love letters and grainy space zoom calls #garak going in for a smile and a firm handshake. bashir like haha its spidermonkey time baby. thats love #this just in Castellan elect seen snogging IN PUBLIC with a ALIEN. with TONGUE #anyways I promise I can draw then in other views than Profile. but this has truly been How the cookie crumbles this month #and I do love their silhouettes… oof #i synthesize one meal on this ship and if you dont like it there's always gragh

[catsharkie]

the toruns:]

the toruns are a family in charge of a centuries-old passed-down library living at the edge of cardassian space. while the parents have been to cardassia prime their the kids still havent

neska balances helping her parents take care of her siblings (they need an extra pair of hands especially after their uncle moved to cardassia prime with his wife’s family) and preserving books+other writings through writing them down on paper (she believes the preservation of history+knowledge is important) after several corrupted files lost forever. shes in a long distance relationship with her betazoid gf (she visits her every once and a while. its really the only time she goes off planet) and hopes to one day take over the library

itral of course cares about her family, but doesn’t feel the same need to take over the library that neska does. she hopes to become a writer instead, and often dreams of going off to “the big city” (cardassia prime) with her friends. she also of course gets neska to sneak in her books into the library’s system without her mom knowing, despite them not being official and published and whatnot. she doesn’t need to know most of the folks there are agents looking for information and not people looking for a novel on the power of friendship

nayad loves cooking for her family (she thinks she’s the best cook in the world—they don’t have the heart to tell her when she messes up) and any other method of experimentation. neither of her parents have any experience in chemistry, but her grandma used to work in the obsidian order (no one else knows this) and has been teaching her the basics (and maybe some slightly deadly mixtures. just for the fun of it)

little adir and adori (twins) are the newest addition to the family, while unknown to everyone else adir will grow up to be a starfleet cadet and (hopefully) become a captain, and adori will grow up to absolutely love animals, with that eventually becoming an interest in xenobiology

#ds9 #deep space nine #star trek #oc #sharkie art :3 #itrals wearing the cardassian equivalent of camo