Reason #1,324,789 of why I love this show.
This was a casual side conversation between Bashir and Sisko about a fellow crew member, completely unrelated to the episode’s plot, and its just so sweet.
It’s nice to know that if you’re a pregnant father-to-be on DS9, your buddies Julian and Miles will build you a hatchling pond, buy you baby clothes, and throw you a shower eagerly attended by the station’s commanding officer (who was practically beaming with joy when he found out that you were expecting).
How wonderful.
And they speak of it so casually with no judgement! Love this!
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OH MY GOD. I DID NOT KNOW THIS.
Vilix’pran gets mentioned a couple more times on the show, and we find out that:
A) he buds twice more, and had quadruplets during his second budding and an unspecified number for his third, bringing the total number of babies to between eight and 18
B) Kira says she’ll have to assign him bigger quarters after the third budding
C) and the babies have wings that can get tangled up with each other when they play together
D) AND ALSO that Vilix’pran gets promoted from Ensign to Lieutenant (so clearly Starfleet has some rockin’ maternity/paternity policies and thus parenthood is not an obstacle to career advancement)
The more you know. :D
Well that got exponentially more adorable and awesome quickly.
So I was reading the novelization for Emissary and came across a description of Quark about how Odo thinks he’d ‘slip a dagger into his back’. Which of course is hilariously wrong and it made me think of the exact moment I realized that Quark is basically no danger at all ever.
And it’s this moment. Profit and Loss. Almost the end of the episode. Garak has Quark at gunpoint. Quark has every reason to believe that he’s about to get shot along with the love of his life. He has a weapon in his hand. He could fire at any point.
He doesn’t.
Garak literally reaches out and pulls it out of Quark’s hand to disarm him and Quark doesn’t even attempt to fucking SHOOT he just stands there.
Quark shoots some people in this series, all Jem’Hadar if I recall correctly, and there’s things to note there too. Namely that it almost uniformly happens in a split seconds decision. The most premeditated is when he kills the guards during the breakout at the end of the Second Occupation arc… at which point he stands there staring at the corpses until he’s pulled away, needless to say an experienced combatant Quark is not.
But just. I’m fascinated by the inability to SHOOT here. Shooting Garak makes by far the most sense, but he just. Let’s Garak take the gun away.
Quark. Who let you think you could go into dirty dealings when you can’t even shoot a man that’s probably about to kill you?
Additional thought on review: this is one slow as shit disarm. It’s almost like Garak was giving him time to shoot.
Spock is fuckin’ DONE with your Vulcan slurs.
#I rarely ever see this gif'ed but it’s so important!!! #Bones is very intentionally written as xenophobic – it’s a highly emotional response to someone different from you #and this was a really important scene that showed #even well-meaning people can seriously hurt those they care for #if they’re not sensitive to their own prejudices #poor Spock has been struggling with the fact that Bones has become a good friend but still calls him these hurtful things #and after this Bones was no doubt torn up with guilt #probably went to Spock’s quarters after they settled back down on the ship and apologized (via @anifanatical)
Kirk (Movies) by Noble–6
Same, but mostly because I hate root beer.