seph-on-an-irrational-planet:
seph-on-an-irrational-planet:
The biggest crime of DS9 by far is never showing the resolution of Quark asking Garak to kill him in the quickest, most painless way possible without him knowing it. Like we don’t see Quark go back to Garak and tell him the deal’s off once he breaks the contract with Brunt so I was really hoping to get a final scene with Garak falling out of the ceiling doing some next level Obsidian Order sneaky shit and getting like *this* close to killing Quark before overhearing that he didn’t want to sell his desiccated corpse anymore.
Picture this: Garak hasn’t been to lunch with Julian in weeks. His shop has a sign hanging that says “closed for remodeling” but there’s clearly no work being done. DS9’s computer has conflicting info about whether Garak is on the station or not. Quark has taken to just shouting “I DONT WANT TO DIE ANYMORE, GARAK. THANKS THOUGH” periodically.
butchspock:
weirdtrek:
Bless DS9
Some people are responding to this saying, “the ferengi are
misognyistic capitalists though”, and i personally feel like theyre missing the point. There are absolutely valid criticisms of Ferengi society, but Ferengi culture and ferengis in general cannot be
simplified down to a single set of traits and beliefs. There are ferengi with absolute faith in the system, but there are also reformists, rebels, and dissenters. Individual Ferengi are not inherently worse than individual humans or vulcans, they simply come from a different society which, yes, has oppressive systems, but which also has an ability to change. When Federation members view Ferengi as backwards and immoral, they deny that, and deny that their own cultures are also morally complex, and have histories that involve just as much misogyny and exploitation as ferengi culture. In order to judge, Federation members have to view their culture and beliefs as superior and valuable in a way that others are not, and assume that they come the moral high ground.
Quark doesn’t say that Sisko should like all Ferengi or all of Ferengi culture, he asks him to name a single Ferengi he likes. This points out the way that Sisko and others in starfleet have othered and stereotyped ferengi, and assumed they must all be the same. Its a patronising and arrogant viewpoint, one which offers no respect to ferengi on a cultural or individual level, and its something that deserves to be questioned.
mindmeld:
KIRA: Is this a joke? Did you plan this?
BASHIR: Nobody could have planned this.
Star Trek DS9 - The Circle
drawitblargit:
Warmup sketch to start the morning off right. Been watching a bunch of DS9. How can you not love Quark?
soft-galaxies:
brunt “i don’t like you but i made sure to outbid every single other person who could possibly want to buy your body, also i orchestrated this entire scheme to get you to give me your body, but it’s only b/c i want you dead and not b/c i want your body” fca
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Easter Eggs from the latest Picard: a bar on Free Cloud is owned by and named for it’s name-dropped proprietor, “Mister Quark of Ferenginar”!
Free Cloud is also home to “Mr. Mot`s Hair Emporium” - Mr. Mot was the barber aboard the Enterprise D.
