luaran:

Deep Space Nine promotional ICEE machine cards, 1993

tolkienillustrations:

Ancalagon the Black by Gordon Palmer

unicorn-and-bluebells:

pipscillaneous:

haviptrsn:

my new favorite hobby is coming up with speculative anatomy for fictional aliens - i think it would be cool if Cardassians were a little more snake-like since their silhouette was meant to emulate a cobra, and also it would funny if cardassians had tongue-flicking and gaping behaviors like snakes and lizards do. only, they’d probably have a ton of weird etiquette rules and hang-ups about it, lol.

oh i love this! i was just speculating this last night!

i decided that cardassians also have tapita lucida which means their eyes glow in the dark when a light is shined on them (like a cat). apparently crocodiles, alligators, and caimans are some of the only reptiles who have this!

also, nictating membranes. i like the thought of garak sitting there with his weird semi-translucent extra eyelids closed and julian being like “aw he’s asleep!” and then garak talks to him and he about jumps out of his skin. though like the tongue flicking, having your eyelids closed like that is probably impolite and you wouldn’t do it in front of people.

did you know that crocodiles can apparently sleep with one eye open? for a species as structured around paranoia as the cardassians, I feel like this is a regular thing for them to do.

pleurodont dentition is a cool concept too! where they have a bunch of teeth that regularly fall out and regrow. molly o'brien loses her first tooth and is like “look, uncle garak!” and garak shows her one of his that he just lost and miles is like “…ew”

tl;dr: cardassians with glowing eyes, creepy eyelids, and 4 rows of teeth that fall out and regrow. i love aliens

Oh dude AWESOME addition!! Also I headcanon Klingons as having pleurodont dentition as well, so I’m really enjoying the idea of like. Garak babysitting Molly at some point (since he and Keiko are totally gardening buddies somehow) and she loses a tooth and Garak shows her one he lost, as above, and then a few weeks later when Worf’s babysitting her she loses another one and he (totally independent of Garak) does the same thing and Miles begins to wonder if it’s everyone else that’s weird or just him for thinking this is gross

Anyways I love the nictitating membrane idea lol, I keep giving nictitating membranes to like all the aliens but I feel like Cardassians in particular definitely have them

Also if anyone wants another fun Cardassian headcanon thing, I’ve been headcanoning their hair as being much more feathery (like you know the teeny wispy bits on ostrich or peacock tail feathers? I imagine one “Strand” of hair, for a Cardassian, as a reeeaaalllyy long wispy bit, complete with that super itty bitty flexible quill in the middle of it)

kelasparmak:

once your patients reach a certain level of whiny and attention-seeking there is only one appropriate, morally & ethically sound, starfleet medical-sanctioned way to shut them up.

this is not it, but hey. it works.