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I think we all forgot about Bashir wanting to fuck his grandma a little too quickly

Great Grandma, that only like 12.5% DNA in common!

- Bashir, probably

Your pfp makes this though XD

STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - S5E16 Doctor Bashir, I Presume

I think we all forgot about Bashir wanting to fuck his grandma a little too quickly

Post-canon Professor Miles O'Brien adventure story where all his students are crushing on him just like with Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

(Keiko is teaching botany down the hall and she has her own admirers.)

talking about ds9 is so brazy bc it’s always like. remember when jake chased that psychic cougar so hard that he died. and it was the b plot. bc odo had to legally marry his pregnant best (only) friend in order to gain custody of her child.

So a friend conducted this great interview with Sid, that’s part of why I’m posting it, but I also love this because as a longtime SCSC person I feel like this one really captures more than any other interview what the experience of talking to him is like, especially in how if he’s comfortable with you he will just run his mouth without thinking of what he’s blurting out, haha (so yes, he has that in common with his most famous character) but also be very smart and thoughtful.

There’s a lot of stuff that I think my fellow Garashir girlies will particularly enjoy!

I also recommend reading it for his very particular, specific thoughts on race and ethnicity in life and Trek, such as his comment that if DS9 had come after 9/11 he feels certain he would have been cast as the Major Kira character.

you must understand that I would do absolutely anything for her

some garak and bashir studies

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VERY normal about this look on him

the thing about star trek is i don't watch it to see a group of plucky gun loving cadets save the galaxy or something i'm watching it to see the unlucky nerd of the week face their mortality in a way that is so fucked up and creepy. or to perform in community theater or go to therapy over confidence issues or play trombone or something

I promise I’ll stop talking about The Wire someday but do people realise that Garak wanted Tain to kill Julian? Like do you realise that?

He gave Julian the-terminally-curious Subatoi Bashir the name and address of the most dangerous man in the quadrant? On accident??? My guy was practically begging Tain to take care of his latest Sentiment Problem for him because he couldn’t do it himself. Do you see??

I mean I don't think Garak wanted Bashir to die! Once Quark's lead falls through, Garak's initial goal in that episode is to convince Bashir to leave him to die. Mentioning Tain is like, here is an invitation to run screaming and the worst thing in my past: My Dad! (jazz hands) Plus, Bashir being part of the Federation is a huge safety net for him. Tain is both a tactician and a politician. He's not going to deadass murder a Starfleet officer in S2's political climate. And for what? Garak? That disappointment??

So instead, Garak sets up a challenge whose any outcome falls into his favor, as Garak is wont to do. Either Bashir leaves him to die and he is out of pain and his real secrets die with him, or; Bashir puts his ass on the line and seeks Tain out for help, and manages to save Garak's life. He has basically nothing left to lose and has at the last minute decided to go for the most wild hail mary pass.

His three stories in The Wire read to me as essentially conveying, “Okay, you want to save me? I was a bad person. But bad things were done to me, and there’s something in me that doesn’t want to die. Here is a clue to the only person who can save me, but I can’t bear to tell you it outright. If you can see through the stories I told you, you’ll be brave and clever enough to try. If not, I died without hurting you.”

Garak didn't send Bashir to the chopping block to get got by his former spymaster, current deadbeat dad. Garak gave Bashir an enigma tale. In an enigma tale, everyone is guilty, and everyone's punishment has already been decided. You just have to figure out how it happened. Bashir turns the genre on its head: "No one deserves this." And Garak, collector and teller of stories, has never heard this one before. It keeps the stubborn, hopeful spark in him alive. He wants to see how this one ends.

patented 'not that I care that much or anything so there's no need to dwell on it too too much ahaha *sweats nervously* but tain would you pls consider not murdering my mom (and the mother of your child) for absolutely no reason whatsoever? no pressure tho of course you know best! :)' smile

(it's so dark but also so funny that when tain keeps on Hinting Ominously, garak's reaction seems... slightly exasperated? more than anything, under all the tension fsdjafsl. this exact conversation has definitely happened multiple times over the last thirty years, lending horror an edge of 'oh this again huh' ennui and hilarity. 'I should have killed your mother before you were born'/'so you've told me, many times'. I think it's the turnaround time from 'I've missed you, Elim' to this that drives it from straightforward psychological horror sneaking dread to still that but also kind of hilarious. it really took tain less than five minutes to go there didn't it. wow. well, actually. I think maybe the real horror part is that garak still loves him and doesn't know how to stop. somewhere in there is a five year old whose heart is a desperate stupid little moth and his father is a ruinous forest fire in the night, brighter and closer than any star. of course it burns you to touch it that's just what love is, right. *spots a smiling julian bashir in the loading bay holding a box of chocolates out of the corner of his mind and experiences something harrowing and existential he simply cannot unpack right in this moment thank you* right???)

do we talk about how Garak handles this part of this situation (which is before, after, or during him pickpocketing the guy) enough

Star Trek DS9: Starship Down

one of the important cornerstones of fandom is understanding that your headcanon is not everyone else's headcanon, and i'm not sure when people stopped understanding this