[It’s interesting, in retrospect, the similarities between Bashir and Odo’s predicaments after “Broken Link”; both of them had had their bodies, and therefore their identities, radically altered by people close to them without their consent. I understand that no one knew Bashir was genetically enhanced yet, but it would have been an great connection to explore. ]
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 | Past Prologue | Garak’s Introduction [4\4]
Bashir is really good-looking, so as a character choice I thought, “What the hell? Why not go for it?” There is a close-up of Garak where it looks like he could eat him alive. And I’m sure that’s why I got the job. - Andrew J. Robinson (x)
(via teacuptribbles)
me: just hanging out like eating a sandwich or whatever doing normal things and not thinking about star trek deep space nine (1992-1999)
me, literally the fuck out of nowhere: here are the detailed and specific ways in which late seasons julian bashir hates himself
okay but imagine Jadzia learning about Earth culture and finding out that about 370 years ago, they had these things called /heelies/, prompting the following events:
Jadzia rolling into ops, 10 minutes late with a raktajino and the sickest mirrored shades on (Kira cups her hands over her mouth and shouts, YOU LOOK GOOD, BABE!! they both do this every morning. someone stop them.)
Nog’s heelies light up. Jake’s glow in the dark. Ziyal’s heelies light up AND glow in the dark. Nog and Jake are intensely jealous.
Julian being peer pressured into wearing replicated heelies JUST to show O'Brien that, yes, his genetically engineered coordination CAN handle one little wheel on a shoe, though I can’t believe you would buy into this silly little fad, Miles, really I- and promptly falls over the raised Cardassian partitioning in the floors
Garak being aghast at the horrible aesthetics of these shoes (sneakers? he wouldn’t be caught DEAD. and with a name like heelie, you would expect at least a modest pump), and starts his own line of fashionable footwear with Julian as his muse/model/awkwardly enthusiastic guinea pig
Jadzia learns finger guns. Who taught the old man finger guns. Please, she won’t stop doing it. And Major Kira, PLEASE stop pretending to faint every time Lieutenant Dax does finger guns in your general direction, I am trying to run a space station and there is a time and a place f-
Odo enforces a strict ban on heelies on the Promenade. Quark starts an illegal underground roller derby. Odo enforces a strict ban on Quark.
Rom carries on the roller derby and is, surprisingly, the reigning champ. His name is Lobes of Lightning. Odo would arrest him, but really, there’s so much sweaty neon spandex he’d rather not.
i feel like miles o'brien likes black licorice and licorice jelly beans and julian just watches him eat them frozen in horror
julian literally eats live bugs so he can’t talk
julian bashir: this is a callout post for miles o’brien. i saw him eating licorice how problematic
miles: op literally relishes in eating live bugs but go off i guess
[I learnt early on that there were people who shipped Bashir and O'Brien (though, for some reason, there are not many people here on tumblr who do that). What I find absolutely hilarious is that Bashir started to spend more time bonding with O'Brien when Bashir’s relationship with Garak had to be toned down. In other words, there is a Conseravation of Homoerotic Subtext happening in DS9. Now, isn’t that neat?]
