I find the trend of people using Garak as an example of what Cardassians are like as a whole to be hilarious when literally almost every single Cardassian who sees Garak has the immediate visceral reaction of, “Oh god, not this bitch…”
“Cardassians are all fanatically devoted to serving the state” based solely on that one time Garak wouldn’t shut up about his favourite novel as if a former KGB agent wouldn’t be super into Soviet propaganda
Because no one expected DS9 to be so strategically important as it turned out to be, the original senior staff is laughably unqualified. Like, arguably the most qualified people are Dax and Obrien, as they have the most years of experience, even then Jadzia was freshly joined and Obrien is a non-com, technically not even an officer. Sisko wasn’t even a ranking captain, Kira had no formal training whatsoever, and Bashir literally graduated like two weeks ago.
I’d always thought Garak went on this mission knowing he was going to attempt to commit genocide, but seeing these gifs, no. He definitely made up his mind in that moment.
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.
