Remember when O'Brien told Julian that he wished his wife was more like a man and you can 100% see in Julian’s eyes that he thinks Miles is about to come out to him? Because I do.
Bashir’s Thoughts: Maybe he didn’t mean that the way it sounded OR maybe this is a crucial moment in our friendship and he’s actually being really vulnerable right now. Is he gay? Does he know that he’s gay? If this is Miles trying to come out, I need to be supportive and accepting. But what if he’s not coming out? Okay. I need to formulate the exact right response that will work in either situation. You have one second to say something Julian. Don’t fuck this up.
This is the scene that made me start shipping it.
(I really couldn’t stop thinking about it. I dictated the first draft of my first Bashir/O’Brien fic sitting outside a café waiting for a friend, because I was so scared I’d lose that spark of inspiration. I’m really annoyed I don’t have the audio file anymore.)
Rewatching Terok Nor and it takes garak all of a minute before asking Miles if he’s fucking Bashir in the Holosuite. God I love ds9
@hingabee not mention later in the episode where Garak and Miles are literally just Cardassian flirting! Canonically Miles knows what that is!! All I’m saying is justice for O'Brien/Garak
Example of Star Trek Addressing Social Issues - Mental Illness
This scene got me right in the gut when I first saw it. It was revealed earlier in the episode that Garak suffers from extreme claustrophobia, experiencing a severe attack just a few scenes before this one. I was already expecting Martok and Worf to dismiss Garak’s mental illness, especially because the Klingon Empire prides its people on physical strength. I was waiting for them to call him a coward, not “getting over it” like I’ve heard so many times in my own life about mental illness. But as seen above that’s not what happened, the exact opposite does. Its moments like this that make me love Star Trek, even for all its flaws. Sometimes I get to see past my conditioned reaction of the worst, and get to see the best in people instead.
TDLR; Star Trek may be about aliens in the future, but it connects to me on a human level - more than most modern shows do today.
A while back, this post happened and I mentioned an excessively detailed response, and here it is, presenting a (more or less) physiologically reasonable process for the entire function and breakdown of Garak’s implant in “The Wire”. This breaks down into three main parts: how the implant is supposed to function, what went wrong, and how it’s fixed. I’ll add a TLDR as well. There’s a lot of assumptions made (namely that Cardassian physiology is more or less functioning like Earth mammalian physiology), determinations that characters don’t necessarily know exactly what they’re talking about, simplification of exceedingly complicated things, and terminology.
Cecil. She/her. During the day I sit in libraries staring at books. During the night I write queer fanfiction with a historical slant.
Some not-so-random facts: Gay space lizards are the best lizards. Star Trek is my life. I have too many DS9 ships. Classic Who and the Eighth Doctor Adventures make me grin stupidly. Kelas Parmak is the best. I will defend historically accurate portrayals of Alan Turing to the last drop of blood. Likes and asks end up in the name of @apolesens-otheraccount, because Tumblr doesn't have a way of changing which blog is your primary one. Nothing happens over there - this is the one to follow.
