unicorn-and-bluebells:

july-19th-club:

mrspockomakeitso:

Andy Robinson said he played Garak like he’d just learned Standard very recently and rn I’m just picturing Garak, recently exiled, war criminal, ex-spy, driving a shuttle while listening to one of those Learn Standard in 3 Months! radio classes that says things like ‘Hello, how are you?’ in a funky little rhythmic beat to make it more interesting.

Space Duolingo where a cartoon little vulcan gives you a solemn nod of approval when you get your question on tense right and a cartoon little tribble with big eyes pops up on your padd every half hour if you forget to do your lesson for the day and frowns at you and multiplies into several frowning tribbles

Wait. So Garak actually speaks Standard, though? I thought he just had a translator and knew a few phrases, that’s cool! And now I’m imagining him and Bashir having lunch and chatting, and for whatever reason the translators stop working, and they’re both VERY surprised to realise that during their conversations, Garak has been speaking like. Cardassi-accented, bi-literate level Standard, and Bashir has been speaking really basic, word-soup level Cardassi