there's this borderline hysterical laugh garak breaks into a couple of times during the early seasons that is so special to me. like. this man. this man is so high (constantly) and probably drunk (frequently) and he's at all times teetering on the very brink of despair that only pure spite, immense stubbornness, and getting to gaze at julian bashir's smiling face across the lunch table once a week is holding him back from tipping over. and then he has to deal with people like skrain dukat and gul toran on top of that and you can practically hear the cracks forming as he's barely holding on to whatever remains of his sanity by the skin of his teeth
For bonus points share one thing you wish would have happened in that extra season
Edit: So many comments about Prodigy not being on here! Well, I am a Prodigy fan too. But I left it off because last I heard Netflix picked it up. Now I don’t have faith it will happen, but nonetheless there is at least one more season planned and maybe more.
On the other hand, even though the last seasons of discovery & lower decks haven’t finished airing, they both have planned end dates.
So if Cardassians canonically argue to flirt, does that mean the way Garak keeps needling Bashir about being augmented, is him trying to say him being superhuman is really hot to him?
and im thinking that julian and miles can have their nerdy romance where they pretend to fight at the alamo (on the wrong side) while keiko and jadzia are free-climbing the sickest walls on bajor, communing with fungus, flexing their arm muscles, making discoveries, turning rank with sweat and dirt and grease, turning their hands gnarly with chalk and calluses, writing dense scientific reports, collecting samples, and, at night, sixtynining in a portaledge with the rain-fly off so they can see both literal and metaphorical stars.
I don't know if I'm just lucky or perhaps Star Trek has just the nicest fans ever but this commission was - again - such a lovely experience! This time @hobbithabits was the client and wanted an age swapped version of Bashirs and Garaks first meeting based on this fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54883567 (Past Prologue (Introductions and Intrigue))
Older Bashir was no problem, I've already drawn him and we got lots of beautiful pics of Sid. But younger Garak was a fun challenge. And I couldn't resist giving him Andys fluffy choir boy hair >:D.
Commissions still open <3
thinking about the recurring theme of sisko being someone who constantly comes adrift in time, literally and metaphorically, physically and emotionally. no matter how much he wants to stay here, and how hard he tries to, he drifts, he comes unmoored. you exist here. and always existing here means he can't exist there simultaneously; one precludes the other. and the grief of that truth that rings like a bell through his whole existence at once. hm.
somehow watching jadzia dax hanging out with old friends and seeing their acceptance/judgment towards the change from curzon to jadzia makes me feel something....quite Relatable even...perhaps rather Familiar feeling..
I'm doing a DS9 watch with my partner [who has never seen the whole show! we've been together so long and I feel so badly I haven't made them watch it before! ANYWAY], and our next episode is 'Far Beyond the Stars' and he doesn't know what he's in for and I am VIBRATING with anticipation