doubledumbass:

tiggymalvern:

autistic-bashir:

just watched in the pale moonlight for the first time i am in shock i am speechless i am walking into the ocean i am sinking into the recesses of my mind i am phasing through walls like an earthbound apparition anyways garak looked hot in that ep his cunt severity levels were off the charts

That ep ROCKS. Garak and Sisko make an awesomely devious team. The fact that the writers were willing to go places like that within a Trek franchise cemented DS9 for me as the best of the lot.

trillscienceofficer:

one day I’ll write the fic where Sisko and Garak have neighboring vegetable garden plots in a newly converted cargo bay. They don’t really talk about it for months until someone begins to steal their vegetables, at which point they join forces to investigate the heinous crime—not even the captain can convince Odo to help them. Sisko has to stop Garak several times before he resorts to his interrogation methods (no one can touch Garak’s lovingly grown rokassa plants without suffering the consequences). It will probably end with Sisko inviting Garak over for one of his famous home-made meals in order to celebrate the recovered vegetables, which Garak will comment sarcastically by saying ‘oh now you’re including me in your senior staff dinners’ but it turns out it’s in fact a dinner just for the two of them. Will they make out? Probably, but it will be very passive-aggressive

mayleavestars:

sisko: mr garak it appears the station needs your help once again

garak: [lana del rey voice] who, me? i?? [laughs] why, commander, i couldn’t possibly. i’m just a tailor. a humble tailor. a simple, vapid, gay tailor. i only know about trivial, homosexual things like scarves, textiles, classic literature, mimosas–

sisko: mr garak, how many times do i have to tell you? we don’t HAVE that stereotype in the future anymore!! now, you can either help us stop dr bashirs dragon age 57 mod from 3D printing snakes onto the promenade or i’m having you extradited to breen!!!

mirekat:

Thinking today about why, of all the DS9 characters, Sisko seems to be the least readily transferrable from screen to page. To be fair, I’m working from a sample size of three licensed books and a pool of fanfiction, so this isn’t the most well-informed of observations. But that said, none of the Beta Canon works, nor most of the fanfiction (including my own), have managed to capture Sisko’s voice in a way that’s fully plausible to me. 

Which made me appreciate all the more how much of Sisko’s distinctiveness is embodied in Avery Brooks, rather than written into the DS9 scripts. I mean, Worf has an idiosyncratic voice. Seven of Nine has an idiosyncratic voice. But at least some of their delivery can be conveyed through their idiosyncratic word choices and syntax. Sisko doesn’t really have that. He doesn’t have catchphrases. His Big Speeches have a kind of rhythm to them (a lot of sharp declarative statements) but, again, that’s mostly in the delivery. Benjamin Sisko lives in Brooks’s intonation and pacing and volume control and, especially, emphasis, and it’s hard to capture that in print without egregious overuse of italics. 

So, basically, given an audio sample I could never mistake Sisko for anyone but Sisko, but unless I work really hard at conjuring him up, on the page he often reads as just…The Captain. And this is both a challenge (for me as a fic writer) and a testament to what a brilliant damn performance Brooks puts in for all of those seven seasons.  

rattlegore:

OK YEAH the little sisko garak tête-à-têtes are so good for many reasons. they are both people-people and immediately recognize this in each other – they also mutually recognize that they are nearly evenly matched in terms of social acumen, but that sisko holds all the cards and is not careful about letting garak know that (out of respect for garak’s intelligence i think). the other edge sisko has here is that garak is generally a coward. his emotional intellect is a weapon, because he can’t be seen without one, and an escape route, because he’s scared of being stuck in one place & becoming known as one individual person – whereas sisko understands that degrees of vulnerability-openness-fallibility-concession are virtues, but also assets, but also responsibilities, but also necessary risks, and he doesn’t shy away from any of those things

ben understands, and is always working to better understand, what people need from him in order to be able to give him what he needs from them. while there’s some machiavellianism there, he ultimately desires people, he’s interested in people, he delights in & devotes himself to people, and he finds strength in people knowing this. off to the side: sisko’s characterization is one of the #1 benefits of DS9′s soap operatic tendencies – it’s because we spend so much time with his emotional and domestic life, the melodrama of his relatively mundane relationships, that his epic turns on the space operatic stage feel as charged and earned as they do. back on topic: garak, deep down, probs loves people too, but needs an abstract personified State as a sock-puppet-imaginary-friend to justify all of his own interests because he’s afraid of his own interests

 i also think sisko is pleased by garak definitely certainly flagrantly coming onto him the first time they meet, he understands that garak’s all about theatre and genuine attraction twisting around each other like slugs having sex and bravo, garak, you couch-wearing weirdfuck, encore 

irresistible-revolution:

cordrazine-official:

as someone else recently said, everything about “doctor bashir, i presume?” is painful but one of the worst scenes to me (i’ll start crying every time - if i’m not yet crying by then) is what ben does after julian’s father has agreed to his prison sentence. julian is standing there, stunned, and ben touches his arm ever so lightly and says “take your time”. and then he leaves. he leaves his own office through one of the side doors to give julian and his parents some privacy. how many times over the course of the show does ben leave his own office to someone else? and specifically to give them some space?

#and it’s an interaction that seems so self-evident to both of them#like yes julian is shocked but ben’s gesture and his words don’t come as a surprise to him

lady-sci-fi:

So, in “Cardassians,” you know after Julian gets involved in Sisko and Dukat’s conversation, and Sisko says “Well, if Garak knows something, bring him to my office.” Here’s the deleted scene of Garak and Julian in Sisko’s office, from the script.

It goes like you expect, with Garak being a little shit. This would’ve been fun to see :P

“How could you just sit there and lie with that irritating, pseudo-ignorant smile of yours…”

What an interesting ending line from Garak. Talk about mixed messages, man. It does add to Julian being annoyed on the runabout from Bajor.

While we’re at it, another little deleted bit is that when Rugal bites Garak, Julian actually breaks them up in the script.

stopthatbluecat:

When Ferengi pop out of the wall you simply accept it and move on

diprima:

when kasidy yates says “what happened to julian he used to never shut up” and sisko says “i like him better this way” and she says “hey. that’s mean” and he says “i was just kidding” and she says “no. you weren’t.” and she’s disappointed in him. and she’s right.