Icon from a picrew by grgikau. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
His cognitive processing speeds are excellent—his parents, after all, had gone to great lengths to ensure as much—and besides, Garak knows, by now, how his mind works, what hints to drop to reveal which conclusions. But his emotions, conversely…
Once the understanding does finally strike him, there is a part of Julian that wants to be angry. And why shouldn’t he be? Over a hundred years and the same prejudice still persists within Starfleet. And the story of this officer, this Una Chin-Riley, Pike’s First Officer, for goodness’s sake, mirrors his own so closely, except, evidently, she didn’t have anyone else to take the blame for her.
