Loves and stratagems

vicholas:

characters who arent canonically gay but whose behavior just makes no sense unless you read them as gay

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tirlaeyn:

Hey so someone left a tag on one of my posts and now I’m wondering: Do we think Andy thought of Parmak first? Before Una McCormack? I assumed so, but this tag has made me question it.

I think we can say with almost complete certainty that Andy Robinson thought of him first. (Other than Ronald D. Moore, who wrote the episode where Parmak is mentioned.) 

The reasons I think this are: 

- ASIT was based on writing exercises Andy Robinson did during the filming of DS9 to get into character.

- ASIT in its current form was published in 2000. Una McCormack’s first official Star Trek story was published in 2003. 

- Una McCormack did write Star Trek fic, but I find it very unlikely that Andy Robinson would have read them. Also, none of the DS9 fics of McCormack’s I’ve read (which are really good btw!) involve Parmak. 

- Una McCormack did not meet Andy Robinson in person until 2018. I spoke to her at Destination Star Trek that year, and she told me she’d only just gotten to meet him. They had had no prior contact, according to her. 

So - Moore came up with the name and some bare bone facts (he’s a doctor, he was interrogated). Andy Robinson fleshed him out. Una McCormack used him further. 

Anonymous asked:

Julian & Garak sex pollen?

ofhouseadama:

I lowkey want to write a fic set on distant post-canon Cardassia where Julian is working a shift he’s picked up in the emergency department of Corat Damar Memorial Hospital and a patient comes in drenched in sex pollen to the point of psychosis and Julian gets exposed (to a much lesser degree) and he (and the others working on the patient without the required protective gear for sex pollen) get sent home until it wears off and with a decontaminant protocol.

Garak gets a message while in some Important Meeting of Government that at first is kind of restrained and level, but then Julian gets more and more unhinged with his sexts until Garak can cancel his afternoon to go home and rail his husband/let his husband rail him to get it out of his system.

Garak gets a contact high.

startrek-villain:

They forced my hand….

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vermin-disciple:

laurelhach:

trupie:

reginaldbroccoli:

I really love Janeway, but you know who would never leave behind his mutant lizard babies? Benjamin Sisko. 

He would love those lizard babies. He would teach those lizard babies to play baseball.

Yes. All the yes.

So who is the other parent? I assume it would be one of the other humans because this is meant to be the final stage of human evolution or whatever (we’ll just ignore my hatred of the nonsensical evolutionary predestination trope in scifi, because well, it’s Threshold). I’m also going to assume biological sex isn’t an issue, because who knows what the reproductive organs of giant mutant salamanders are anyway?

Now who, of the remaining human cast, is most likely to end up in a position of trying to improve warp speed, evolving into a mutant salamander, kidnapping the captain, mating with him, and producing giant mutant salamander babies?

And really, the answer is obvious. DS9’s Threshold is clearly an O'Brien Must Suffer episode.

(Miles would probably be too weirded out by the whole thing to want anything to do with his offspring at first, but Keiko bullies him into a joint custody arrangement with Sisko.)

I think that eventually Miles comes around to the idea of his lizard babies. Instead he becomes terrified that Molly and Yoshi is going to unintentionally step on them when they’re staying with him. Like 75% of Molly’s drawings are now her family plus all the lizard babies. She loves her lizard half-siblings. Jake on the other hand really doesn’t know what to make of it. But then again, it was inevitable that he and his dad would be swallowed up by the ever-expanding O’Brien polycule in some way, and it’s not like they’re an ordinary family to begin with, what with all the stuff with the Prophets. 

laurelhach:

trupie:

reginaldbroccoli:

I really love Janeway, but you know who would never leave behind his mutant lizard babies? Benjamin Sisko. 

He would love those lizard babies. He would teach those lizard babies to play baseball.

Yes. All the yes.

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This idea was from @crisisoninfintefandoms !

This gif set is an alternate ending for Julian’s character arc and a last scene that mirrors Julian and Kira’s first scene.

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Occupancy of Deep Space Nine Over Time

the-last-dillpickle:

According to Odo in 2.10, the station’s maximum occupancy is seven thousand. It’s unclear what specifically this number refers to but based on the wording, likely something like number of people life support can handle being on the station at once.

In more specific numbers at any given time:

• 1.03, Kira says there are hundreds of Bajoran civilians aboard the station.
• 1.06, O’Brien tells Tosk that the number of people living on station is three hundred, more or less.
• 2.03, Quark mentions that hundreds of people need to evacuate the station. Sisko later says that they have more than two hundred people who want to get off the station. Bashir also says that they have twenty people who’ve stayed to fight the takeover (excluding Quark). Except for Odo and Li, these are presumably mostly Starfleet officers and implied to include all of the Starfleeters who had been assigned there. (Kira and Dax are off station.)
• 3.03, Quark says fewer people are on the station now since they’re all afraid of the Dominion. Keiko mentions the last of her Bajoran students have moved back to Bajor and that families are moving away.
• 3.07, Kira says there have to be hundreds of people trapped in their quarters in the habitat ring. Dukat later mentions that there are two thousand people on the station.
• 3.13, Odo mentions there are over twelve hundred people living in Shakaar’s section of the habitat ring. (Presumably the station must be able to house at least twice this.)
• 7.13, Odo says there are over nine hundred Starfleet officers posted on the station.

Also worth noting, there are large swaths of the station continually uninhabited and unused. By 3.07, the old ore processing areas still haven’t been cleared out, the computers still contain the files to run the processors, and there’s piles of uridium ore lying around. In 3.03, they have enough cargo bays (there’s at least 21) open to convert one into an arboretum and again in 6.24, they have enough to convert one to house Molly.

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