wobblycompetencies:

“They train men like me the same as those racing hounds, Doctor. I could smell your secrets before I even opened the door. While you’re telling me that you have none, your face, your eyes, every single thing about you tells a different story. You stink of secrets.”

Garak as Bashir first encounters him – the cruel-but-affable “blue-eyed inquisitor” – in @alphacygni-8 ‘s s u p e r l a t i v e AU Proof, which you can find here.

thali-lemmonpie:

Where no one has gone before

captaincrusher:

Another one of my fav Ds9 scenes.

I wrote about this in another post and I don’t think I can say it better now so I’ll just paste that in:

I love this scene because it says so much.

Firstly, about Kai Winn as a character. She isn’t a one dimensional villain. She isn’t blindly following her faith and that is her only motivation. She has struggled with it and have been punished for it. It would have been so much easier for her to chose another path. To renounce her faith or to simply stop teaching it. But she fought for it.

Secondly, about Bajor as a society. Why is their faith so important to them? Because so many people like Kai Winn had only their faith during the occupation. They held on to their faith. Surely partly because the Cardassians hated it. It was always a form of resistance in itself to keep believing, keep praying, keep gathering in secrecy.

Thirdly, it says a lot about Ds9 as a show. This is exactly why I love Ds9. They weren’t satisfied with Winn as a simple antagonist, there to show up now and then and make trouble for Sisko with some religious opposition. Instead they made her complex. They chose to let us understand her. They do this with a lot of their characters and they do it so well.

How the scene plays out comes as a surprise when viewing the episode for the first time. Of course they are going to exchange some banter and then go separate ways? Of course we the viewers will be left satisfied with knowing who the enemy and the heroes are? No, says Ds9.

Instead Winn here challenges Kira’s, and in turn the viewer’s, maybe quite simplistic narrative. Her disdain for Winn is understandable, but Winn reminds her and the viewers that reality is always more complicated.

heavensong:

Inktober: Day 08

Bucket time for Odo ✌️ @inktober

dio-03:

Trektober Remastered! Coloring my favorite inktober pieces from last year, for fun and profit! Worf, the son of Mogh, hones his skills in his favorite Kronos cave holosuite training program. #startrek #ds9 #worf #digitalart #inktober
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3DdLqwBhnz/?igshid=1jje08fjnokxu

doodlingleluke:

A kira for my huevember day 9! gul dukat don’t interact. 

trillscienceofficer:

Jadzia Dax + bringing other women to safety

doodlingleluke:

Just heard the news about Aron Eisenberg. May his memory be a blessing.

colonel-kira-nerys:

bashir-one-alpha:

The one (1) time I liked Kai Winn

I still think it’s incredibly fucked up that he raped her by deception, and the show doesn’t ever really address this…? she never would have slept with him if she knew who it really was (hence the slap) and therefore she was raped. that’s super fucked up and the writers don’t really explore it at all.