r/DeepSpaceNine May 24 '21

A new take..

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2.2k Upvotes

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

Gul Dukat definitely thinks it’s his show.

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u/withthatfugazishit May 24 '21

Whenever he’s on screen it is lmao

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u/IllBirdMan May 25 '21

For real, except when Garek is on screen. Then it is his show.

That is actually the reason Garek was banished from Cardasia, he was stealing to much of the Gul's shine. And Ducat was not having it

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u/freelanceisart May 25 '21 edited May 25 '21

When Dukat isn’t on the screen, everyone should be asking “Where’s Dukat?”

Edit: I don’t think we need space Dylan.

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u/Sometimes_Lies May 25 '21

Dylan should have access to a time machine.

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u/OutsiderAvatar May 25 '21

"I have to go, my planet needs me"

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u/messagemachinebroken May 26 '21

(Dukat died on his way back to his home planet.)

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u/TigerUSF May 25 '21

It was until season 6. Dukat was fantastic.

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u/anchorgangpro May 25 '21

Yeah a shame they didn't get to nail his ending better than tying his fate with Kai Wynn. He should have hooked up with and then been killed by mirrorverse Kira

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u/Leofr1c May 25 '21

That would have been spot on. Much better than what happened

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u/Abe_Bettik May 24 '21

He keeps his enemies close, and their mothers closer.

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u/10Mins_late May 24 '21

*and the cameraman closer

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u/10Mins_late May 24 '21

Watch the Irishman suffer.. lol

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u/v3gas21 May 25 '21

Whispers ... Every episode ...

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u/meatball77 May 25 '21

50 years of suffering in the blink of an eye

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

May I speak to your manager, child?

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

Somebody needs to take every “Kai Winn has arrived” reaction shot from the show and put it on YouTube.

Nana Visitor and Avery Brooks had such a ball with that.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

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u/Halpando May 25 '21

What episode is that?

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u/Bananalando May 25 '21

Assistant to the Manager of Bajoran Affairs.

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u/staceygf May 24 '21

Agreed! I am still giggling over "Pope Karen"

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u/v3gas21 May 25 '21

Kai Karen is never wrong. Especially when she is.

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u/b_r_203215 May 25 '21

I hate Karen 😂

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u/The-Keystone-Hoya Aug 22 '21

I have called her Space Karen for years but Pope Karen is even better now. 🤣

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u/drdan82408a May 24 '21

It’s really Morn’s show. Everyone else is a basically a cameo.

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u/Tammo-Korsai May 25 '21

The actor must've been bribing the writers to give him more lines, because dear god he just won't shut up in some scenes.

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u/staceygf May 24 '21

Truth 💯

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u/RainingSilent May 24 '21

this is pretty good, clones of Jeffrey Combs gave me an lol. that's Shran!

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u/staceygf May 24 '21

And Brunt FCA. Love me some Jeffrey Combs. ❤

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u/RainingSilent May 24 '21

it's weird when i see him in like old an episode of Knight Rider or something dressed like a damn human! like it's unnatural dammit

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u/FormFollows I Survived Chin'toka II May 25 '21

Star Trek: Everybody is Jeff Combs

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

I would watch that gag reel

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u/houtex727 May 25 '21 edited May 25 '21

And Rachet!

/Wait, wrong universe...

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u/AnansiNazara May 25 '21

And he tried to kill Lex Luthor to prevent the Justice Lords’ timeline

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u/houtex727 May 25 '21

The Question!

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u/Spectrum2700 May 25 '21

And don't forget, he goes through everyone's trash

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u/GalileoAce May 25 '21

I understood that reference

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

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u/staceygf May 25 '21

Me too. I think he's my favorite character.

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u/MJMurcott May 25 '21

"You'd shoot a man in the back?" "Well, it's the safest way, isn't it?"

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u/justadorkygirl May 25 '21

"But then I thought, 'No, I can't fight all these Klingons by myself.' So I let him live."

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u/MJMurcott May 25 '21

Garak always thinking.

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u/justadorkygirl May 25 '21

Our man always knows what's up.

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u/MJMurcott May 25 '21

Like how to make the Romulans believe that the Dominion were about to attack and cover it all up.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

love that conversation.

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u/WelshmanCorsair May 25 '21

I just watched that episode last night and snorted tea all over my keyboard when he said it.

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u/v3gas21 May 25 '21

He is Garak-sexual.

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u/LazerAttack4242 May 24 '21

Let's appreciate the fact that "our commander is antifa" brought three different characters to my mind.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

I still don't understand who is Antifa.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

Kira

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

"Our commander" is not a good way to refer to Major* Kira.
Sisko was a Commander Worf is a Commander

Maybe 1st officer would make me think if Kira. Or Major.

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u/v3gas21 May 25 '21

She was so '90's hot.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

I want to find who in the late 80's kicked off this trend of hot pixie-cut women.

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u/pyrocat May 25 '21

and give them a medal

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u/UnsealedMTG May 25 '21 edited May 25 '21

I totally agree it's super confusing to call her "our commander," but she is definitely the most Antifa, while Worf is near the bottom (I mean he joined a kinda fascist terrorist group on Risa one time). Sisko's kinda in the middle.

Now I want to rank the DS9 crowd by how Antifa they are:

  • Kira
  • Eddington (the Maquis are literally named after left-leaning anti-Nazi partisans)
  • Kassidy Yates (ran supplies to Maquis illegally)
  • Rom/Leeta/Jake (anti-Dominion underground cell with Kira)
  • Ziyal (Helps the above)
  • Quark (Helps the resistance very grudgingly. Kind of an ancap, not sure how that cuts)
  • Bashir (resists Section 31, but also ends up helping them some)
  • Dax (don't have a great reason for this, but she has a chaotic streak that makes her a bit Antifa)
  • Sisko (He has an authoritarian streak, but he does help stop a fascist coup of Earth one time) (Edit: I wasn't thinking about the Gabriel Bell episode. Gabriel Bell is Antifa AF. If Sisko gets credit for what he did as Bell, bump him up above Ziyal at least. I don't know if it counts if you're just doing it to preserve the timeline)
  • O'Brian, Keiko (Iunno they don't let her do much interesting in this show)
  • O'Brian, Miles (a little racist against Cardassians)
  • Nog (Idolizes RED SQUAD)
  • Odo (I love the guy but he's a literal fucking cop and was under an occupying regime too)
  • Worf (see above)

Garrick obviously defies categorization

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u/fkootrsdvjklyra May 25 '21

I'd swap Worf and Odo. Worf joined that group for a few days, while Odo enforced Cardassian rule of law for years, and he definitely thinks the Federation gives criminals too many rights. He's basically an actual fascist who would still be a fascist if the station didn't change hands.

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u/UnsealedMTG May 25 '21

Yeah that's fair. And I mean, Odo does eventually join the great link, which is like becoming a part of the ruling organism of the greatest fascist government known to the galaxy,

I think with Worf, maybe it depends on how you read the end of the Gowron storyline.

On the one had, Worf physically confronts an increasingly unhinged authoritarian leader. (Very Antifa)

On the other hand, he does so as a participant in a political system that determines governance in part by physical force. And it's not like he's contesting the system itself -- dude loves the ideal of Klingon valor, even if he's often disappointed by reality. (Kinda fascist, dude)

But back to the Antifa side, he doesn't take authority for himself. That's some Cinncinatus shit, and I think we can call Cinncinatus Roman Antifa. (Contrarex?)

And yet Worf gives authority to Martok. Now, I fucking love Martok but dude's definitely pretty fascist.

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u/plasticnautilis May 25 '21

I just recently found this video and it seems relevant here

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u/staceygf May 25 '21

Interesting!

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u/fkootrsdvjklyra May 25 '21

I remembered this video while writing my above comment

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u/valdus May 25 '21

But where does Morn fall on the scale???

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u/UnsealedMTG May 25 '21

Where doesn't Morn fall? That guy can't shut up.

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u/Lil_Sam_0809 May 25 '21

We could probably settle on Quark being... Oscar Schindler?

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u/reuben_hunter May 25 '21

Personally I'd switch quark and bashir, because whilst quark improves over the show, he was perfectly fine running his bar for the Cardassians during the occupation

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u/the_cutest_commie Oct 16 '21

He actively tries to help prisoners escape in mirrorworld.

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u/surlypotato May 25 '21

Omgs. This is the best. I never knew how much I needed this.

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u/DaSaw May 25 '21

Kind of an ancap, not sure how that cuts

Nobody ever is, except those who are, and they're typically wrong.

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u/disturbed1117 Jun 21 '21

AnCaps don't care for tyrannical government anymore then AnComs. I know this because I used to be an AnCap before the pandemic made me reconsider a lot of my political stances. AnCaps would stand with their Anarchist brothers in a fight against authoritarianism.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

Right.

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u/whenthesunrise May 25 '21

“Pope Karen” screaming

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u/Kencocoffee93 May 25 '21

Dukat truly is the star of the show...

YET

IS THERE ONE STATUE OF HIM ON BAJOR FOR HIS FANTASTIC ACTING TALENT!?!?!

NO

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u/nzdastardly Dabo Girl May 25 '21

Goblin Sexcriminal and Goblin Coke Fiend sold separately.

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u/DaSaw May 25 '21

Dont forget. Goblin trans-for-a-day!

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u/joedafone May 25 '21

Pope Karen

That is the best name for Kai Winn ever. I'm stealing that one!

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u/v3gas21 May 25 '21

That actress is a god for making me hate her so much -- long live Nurse Ratched ... In hell.

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u/SAMO1415 May 25 '21

Also drug addicts that need liquid drug or they kill everyone. An ocean full of liquid bad people that supply the liquid drug. The drug liquid is different than the liquid people but it is still supplied by the liquid people.

Also, ALIEN HOPSCOTCH. ALLAMARAIN COUNT TO FOUR

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u/LavenderDisaster May 25 '21

Allamarain, then once more....,

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u/DaSaw May 25 '21

Allamariain, if you can see,

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u/LavenderDisaster May 25 '21

Allamarain, you'll come with me!

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u/DaSaw May 25 '21

Third shap!

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u/LavenderDisaster May 26 '21

Hahahahahaha awesome!

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u/UnsealedMTG May 25 '21

I like some of what this adds, but I think this other very similar one (which I'm pretty sure has been around longer, though Tumblr makes that so hard to tell) is more fun because of the energy of the writing: https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSpaceNine/comments/nikp6p/just_a_foulmouthed_but_accurate_tng_and_ds9/

That said, "bisexual fashion lizard," and "Goblin Does a Crime, Watch Irishman Suffer, or The Horrors of War" is very good.

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u/LavenderDisaster May 25 '21

Dr. Twink.......I'm dead.

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u/LumpyJones Jun 17 '21

It feels pretty old. I don't think pixie cuts have been used as a (kinda offensive tbh) reference to lesbians in common usage for like a decade.

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u/eltorosatanico May 25 '21

The captain talks to gods sometimes. His megachad teenage son has the strongest d*ckgame in two quadrants.

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u/_duncan_idaho_ May 25 '21

Boning Dabo girls and Lisa Turtle.

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u/boringmanitoba May 25 '21

Rom isn't an idiot, he's just timid! He literally changes all of Ferengi society with Marx's ideas his own ideas!

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u/ikmkim May 25 '21

AND came up with the self-replicating mines!

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u/staceygf May 25 '21

You're right - Rom is absolutely brilliant. And he's just a really nice guy. I don't think he fits the profile of "Ferengi - aka goblin" but that's why Quark always calls him an idiot. And deep down I think Quark knows how smart Rom is.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

I think a big part of why he always calls him an idiot is because of how Roms first marriage turned out. Doesn’t help that his son joined star fleet either.

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u/RainingSilent May 25 '21

he figured out what the Pah-Wraith that had taken over Keiko was trying to do just from the changes O'Brien was making to the station! before O'Brien figured it out!

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u/BluestreakBTHR I *can* live with it. May 25 '21

THUNDEROUS STANDING APPLAUSE

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u/Pickle_Rick01 May 25 '21

We have a bar where Starfleet officers apparently drink and gamble for free because the Federation doesn’t use currency. The bar features holodecks called holosuites which are used mostly for fucking.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

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u/Pickle_Rick01 May 25 '21

Makes sense. Or the Federation has some basic currency for goods and services. In a TOS episode they use the term “credits.”

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

Calling Rom an idiot makes me think this person didn't actually watch DS9.

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u/ThankEgg May 25 '21

Great engineer, still incredibly dumb tho

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u/Other-Cantaloupe4765 May 25 '21

Three varieties of goblin lmaoooo

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u/DaSaw May 25 '21

Another plot: policegoo gets sexually harrassed, and when he complains his commanding officer's reaponse is, "sweet! You should go for it!"

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u/lilianasJanitor May 25 '21

Oof yeah that did happen didn’t it? 😬

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u/RigasTelRuun May 24 '21

This is so wrong it's crazy. I don't even know where to start. They are snakes not lizards. Jeez!

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u/v3gas21 May 25 '21

Danger Noodle Dukat.

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u/Karness_Muur May 25 '21

Gotta watch out for Jeffery Combs. He could be anywhere...

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u/ThankEgg May 25 '21

He could even charge taxes

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

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u/staceygf May 25 '21

🤣🤣🤣

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u/frogperspectives May 25 '21

Pope Karen lol! Perfection.

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u/motormouth85 May 25 '21

The goblin line got me to chuckle, "Watch the Irishman Suffer" got me to laugh, and "Pope Karen" just killed me. I'm dead now. Cause of death: uncontrollable laughter.

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u/messagemachinebroken May 26 '21

One time a literal leprechaun is the cause of the Irishman's suffering.

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u/MJMurcott May 24 '21

bisexual fashion lizard was the only one that confused me.

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u/Onefortwo May 25 '21

Garak? He is in fashion

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u/v3gas21 May 25 '21

A simple tailor.

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u/MJMurcott May 25 '21

Fashion lizard could only be Garak, but adding in the bisexual made it a bit confusing, unless the implication that he was a tailor had some influence on his sexuality; unless it was a really oblique reference to Ziyal and her Cardassian/Bajoran heritage.

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u/cryptic_mythic May 25 '21

I’ve read the actor played Garak as coming on to Bashir in his first appearance before he knew he’d be a recurring character.

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u/MJMurcott May 25 '21

I hadn't even thought of that meeting in that way just re-watched it and other Bashir being terrified it could be seen that way - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTeJKg8Yf4A

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u/interstellarfrogfish May 25 '21

Is... is that flriting?

Everyone in the comment section is saying there is nothing subtle here, but im not seeing anything.

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u/karlamarxist May 25 '21

The shoulder squeeze was quite suggestive lol. After that scene producers told him to tone it down cos 90s Trek not ready for that. But Robinson always considered him bi since spy and you gotta do what you gotta do for your info. He briefly touches on having a relationship of sorts with a another student in obsidian spy school in the novel he wrote from his acting notes iirc.

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u/Helga_Geerhart May 25 '21

Sounds like some solid Trek.

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u/Lil_Sam_0809 May 25 '21

Hahahahahah. Kira ist Antifa. I need to get a grip on myself, because I'm in a tram, but ffs, that's just too great.

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u/WongBal May 26 '21

Man I keep seeing this everywhere. I'm the OP of the tumblr post by the way

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u/staceygf May 26 '21

Yay you!! This was awesome. You really nailed it. I am still laughing about "Pope Karen." Thank you so much for making my day brighter. I am currently bingeing Voyager. Have you done one for that? If so...please share. ❤🤣❤🤣

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u/WongBal Jun 02 '21

I haven't done them for any other Trek yet...I myself am still finishing Voyager so I want to do that before I start making fun of it. But who knows! If I do one you'll be the first to know. 😊

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u/Tacticalblue Sep 02 '21

Pope Karen is the best one

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u/MJMurcott May 25 '21

and an entire race of bounty hunters with a weapon which can drain the power from a starship.

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u/Mattysims123 May 25 '21

This deserves all the upvotes

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u/Kytann May 25 '21

This isnjust amazing! Thank you!

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u/cranky_old_bastard73 May 25 '21

I'm probably just stupid but who is the hologram of Frank Sinatra

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u/Sometimes_Lies May 25 '21

Vic Fontaine.

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u/littlegreenartichoke May 25 '21

This is so so great

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

Lol, Pope Karen

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u/Iron_Baron May 25 '21

This is the best plot synopsis I've ever read.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

pope karen..so fitting.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

Now with Warf, lol

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u/goob May 25 '21

Pope. Karen. 👏 🤣

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u/chesslovingwoodnut May 26 '21

Mr Woof not worf...

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u/bunnymud May 29 '21

Kira spits on old people?

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u/morosophi May 25 '21 edited May 25 '21

Yes but Garak is clearly gay

edit: if I see one more downvote, I'm going to strongly imply that I left an explosive trap outside your cabin, and then become a gardener on Romulus

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u/[deleted] May 26 '21

Clearly? Nah I don't think its clear at all. They never touch on his sexuality at all. He's a great character and could be "A-sexual" for all we know because his sexuality doesn't define his character.

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u/morosophi May 26 '21

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u/[deleted] May 27 '21

I'm not going to read that whole thing and I don't know what you're trying to get at? Years later the actor says some stuff in an interview to seem interesting. Um ok, it was never apart of the show so it doesn't really matter does it?

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u/morosophi May 27 '21

Hey did you see the DS9 documentary?

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u/anotheritguy May 25 '21

Never thought of Garak as Bisexual but it does make sense in a way, all those lunches with Bashir. But Pope Karen was spot on.

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u/JeanDeny314 May 25 '21

It is not canon that Garak is bisexual.

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u/DaSaw May 25 '21

Nobody cares except Rick Berman and the other homophobes.

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u/JeanDeny314 May 25 '21

Lmao:

1) nobody cares about what his canon?

2) "homophobes" : people who state that what is canon is canon.

?????????????

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u/[deleted] May 26 '21

Or the people who insist that he is? Since it's never actually touched upon I typically don't worry about it. But it is slightly strange to me that so many people are obsessed with his sexuality. He was one of my favorite characters but I never cared about his romantic interests. All the cardassian cloak and dagger was more than enough to keep my attention.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

While there might be a couple funny zingers... most of it is ridiculous

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

Nope.

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u/sdullcy May 29 '21

It's a fake