Icon by @ThatSpookyAgent. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. The X-Files. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
To answer your question about how reptiles smell with proper hygiene re:Cardassians I read about this awhile ago and basically they just smell like whatever you cleaned them with if they smell like anything- I think sometimes they produce smells other reptiles can sense but humans cannot smell whatever that is because we just don't have the olfactory organs for it. Basically to humans I'm pretty sure Cardassians smell like nothing or like whatever they hang out around that rubs off on them.
Ah thank you!!
With this info, Things Garak Smells Like at Various Times:
Very faintly of soap: because he would use unscented soap.
Fabric and possibly Cleaning Products/Glue/Steam from an Iron: from work
DS9’s overarching story about societal retribution is pretty damn revolutionary actually. It took several generations and the better part of a century, but eventually the same Cardassian political and social hubris that led them to enslave and exploit a whole world led to them making a series of decision that led to th Dominion alliance which wrought a level of devastation on Cardassia far greater than anything Bajor experienced. While this is cosmic karma and in some ways immensely satisfying, it’s also clear that the majority of Cardassians suffering were not high war criminal facists but just regular people. Every Cardassian deserved it and no Cardassian deserved it. The message of DS9 is not, well sucks that innocent Cardassian children are gonna die of starvation now but that’s what happened to lots of Bajoran kids so payback time bitches. It’s that since Cardassia was led by fascism, greed, and corruption all of Cardassia will eventually come to bear the burden of that. The fury of that reckoning cannot be controlled or limited to those who “really deserve it” it will come to all. It takes your breath away as a viewer, and. As an American watching an American show. I’ll never forget that message.
I never draw from Star Trek, despite it being my favourite of favourite fictional universes. Seriously, never. And then my first foray in is a bunch of cardassians?
Watching TNG and seeing Troi and Crusher and thinking the Cardassians arent the only ones who put women in science roles. Altho these are specifically client-focussed care-giver roles. They still have La Forge in engineering which the Cardassians wouldn’t have. ALTHO. They must actually have men in the engine rooms of their starships bc I do not believe they generally have women on ships at all. Hmmmm That’s interesting.
Sometimes I wish I could have imprinted on the Klingons or some other race we know more about lmao. Fucking Cardassian evasiveness.
Anyways, the fact that many species of bird seem to find humans sexually attractive in spite of not being at all closely related to us should help to keep hope alive for anyone who has ever wanted to have intercourse was a sapient alien.
“If an ostrich wants to have sex with me, maybe…one day…a Cardassian?”
sometimes being a star trek fan islike: *in-depth analysis of alien culture, character’s identity, the relationship between characters, the overarching theme or lesson of a series, etc.*
The Oralian Way is a cool concept for many reasons, but one of them is that instead of the nice Jewish-coded characters secretly being evil lizard aliens, it’s evil lizard aliens that are secretly nice and Jewish-coded.
