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.
tng: we accidentally made a hologram self-aware. he tried to destroy the ship and we had to build a tiny holodeck to trick him into believing he was a real person
ds9: vic fontaine knows hes a hologram and is Completely Fine with it. He mostly uses that knowledge to help officers get laid
I am unintentionally watching season 1 of DS9 and I’m trying to approach it the same way as season 1 of TNG… but the problem is that even when DS9 is bad it still has good stuff in it. So I can’t enjoy it in the way I enjoy the absolute fever dream of TNG’s first season, because it keeps being genuinely interesting.
Still some enjoyable stuff though, like Wrong Face Odo. Wrong Face Odo enjoys making weird statements about how he wouldn’t have a relationship because the woman would only want to listen to Klingon opera.
Wrong Personality Rom enjoys pretending he is busy making profit and telling Keiko that a woman cannot teach his son.
Don’t get me started on “Babel” there’s no way all these words were chosen at random, they read like Skyrim quests.
That’s before we even get round to the Inappropriate TNG Guest Stars. They’re great, but it’s giving Ed Sheeran on Game of Thrones vibes.
Best of all though is the Utter Wreck that is season 1 Julian Bashir. Looks ready to fall apart at a second’s notice.
But also you can’t get too absorbed into the absurdity cos at any minute this show is liable to throw you an unexpected insight into the struggles of postcolonial societies or something.
