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.
ds9 is great for many reasons and one of them is you don’t need to explain lore when describing it to non-trek fans bc no matter how much you do, it’ll still make no fuckin sense.
like you could go into the trill and symbionts and all the nuances of their culture, but at the end of the day you’re still left with “hot young lady has a worm in her belly and she was an elderly man last week.” there’s no way to avoid “he’s made of goo so he’s just kind of pretending to have a face, and he does a decent job of it but he still has no lips (not in the old-white-lady way, i mean he literally does not have any lips at all; his mouth just kind of Happens without warning) also he sleeps in a bucket but he doesn’t sleep he just turns back into goo for a while.”
there is absolutely no way to describe half of these characters without sounding like a complete and utter lunatic, and that’s the beauty of deep space nine. because YES the capitalism troll is horny on main way too often and YES one of the fan favorites is a lizard alien who (despite living in the 24th century, and being a fucking lizard alien from Imperialism And Fascism: The Planet) speaks every line of his dialogue in such a way that you could easily convince me it came from a gay-coded film noir villain in the 1940s played by peter lorre.
these are not Weird Campy Flaws we overlook because we enjoy the big brain serious social commentary/philosophy/etc on this show. Oh no my friend. These are all *features*. this is the icing on the fucking cake. what do you MEAN you don’t think every show needs at least one very horny milf to show up occasionally and cause chaos with telepathy and couture fashion? shut the fuck up and look at this dude wearing bowling alley carpet
