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.
it’s deliriously funny that throughout ds9, the whole senior staff is like ooo wonder why garak is exiled! he must have been a war criminal, or maybe committed treason, or was it all a lie and he’s still a member of the obsidian order? what horrid atrocities has this man committed?
and then you read a stitch in time and it turns out garak was exiled bc he basically was like
Dukat sucks so much. I love him. At least, I loved him before he went from being just this cruel and dangerous but also awkward and kind of pathetic dirtbag to being a Serious 100% Evil CraAAaazy Villain. He’s really lost a big part of why I enjoyed him: that sometimes he had to work together with Our Heroes to solve a problem or make it worse, and that he genuinely saw himself as benevolent and in the right rather than just wanting to burn everything down.
I know he starts a cult and goes out in a blaze of magical fire at the end of the series or something, but in my heart, my ideal post-series fate for Dukat, the character that I liked before everything with him went off the rails, is much more mundane. He doesn’t deserve a big dramatic evil villain death. He has like… a subspace podcast where he rants about how the Federation sucks and does paid promotions for powdered parasitic fungus supplements and tulaberry ketones. Ziyal returns his calls sometimes, but her therapist is encouraging her to keep some more distance if she feels like she needs to. One day Dukat is sitting in his bachelor pad full of badly-assembled space IKEA furniture watching TV and Politician/War Hero Garak shows up on the news for an interview segment, and he digs his claws into the arms of his chair so hard he rips the fabric.
Having principles or any sort of ideological consistency requires interrogating one’s own thoughts and behaviors, which I’m unable to do as it’d involve work and make me uncomfortable. And yes, my condition is doctor-diagnosed and documented in my medical file (“patient presents as a spoiled manchild”).
i think dukat is like. easily. easily the most genuinely evil star trek villain out of every series like i do not think any other character or species or anything or whatever can compare he is just Fucked. like sometimes ill forget they’ll do an ep where he’s paired up with kira like the ep where they take over the klingon ship from the freighter and kira is like woohoo we did it! haha wait until the klingons superiors hear about this like they’d been having casual conversations before this point and were generally working together on this and then dukat no words spoken walks up and destroys the ship with the klingons on it and murders the entire god damn crew for no reason other than he decided that he wanted them all dead and like this is a scenario that repeats. Often. and there is something so much more fucked up to me about that compared to any of the other villains despite the fact that like any of the mirror-verse characters like the empress or whatever have probably done so much worse but the fact that they like continuously try to convince you sometimes hes on the good side and hes a neutral character and hes kinda funny haha they do some comedy episodes like woooah hehe indiscretion happens and youre like oh what fun this is and then you get to the. and return to grace wooahh how neat this is and then. and waltz and then you. the. and the. then. you.
I love that Julian ALWAYS says his piece to the bad guys no matter if it’s an appropriate situation or not. No filter, no diplomatic tact. Like with Winn in “Life Support”, he just straight up tells her to fuck off. Or when he’s held prisoner and they put him in solitary for mouthing off. King.
