Among The Reasons Why Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Is The Best Star Trek Is That The Outfits Look Like

Among the reasons why Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is the best Star Trek is that the outfits look like they were designed by a competent costume designer who had been given a pile of the world’s most miscellaneous fabrics and told that if they didn’t use it all up by sunrise, Rumpelstiltskin would take their firstborn child.

I really like those small moments when Spock kinda forgets himself for a minute because he's worried about Bones or Kirk. Like, it's so minor and it's a "blink and you'll miss it" sort of thing but I love it.

I'm watching "For the world is hollow and I've touched the sky" and There's a scene where Kirk tells him Bones has a terminal illness and he briefly touches Bones' shoulder while he's struggling to sit up and the look he has on his face idk. I personally think it was worry! He cares about Bones, despite the constant jibes. And he just found out he's ill.

I thought that was pretty sweet way of showing an aspect of Spock's character that isn't as in your face as others.. Really nice subtly there.

Why Julian is so livid in "In the Pale Moonlight" when Sisko tells him to hand over 85 liters of the biomimetic gel to some random person with no questions asked. In addition to the ethical/legal reasons of not wanting to give out a very controlled substance that can be used for bad things...

There's also the fact that he was nearly murdered three years before for a TINY FRACTION of that amount of that stuff. In "Distant Voices" the Lethean asked for a few hundred milliliters.

At most, that's 500 milliliters. So the math says that Julian was attacked for 0.58% of Sisko's order.

Can you imagine being told (by someone who you're personally close to) to hand over, no questions asked, such a huge amount, 170 times the amount, of a restricted substance that you barely survived being murdered for?

space communism

Monster fucker this, monster fucker that. What if I want a monster RELATIONSHIP huh?! Monster HAND HOLDING, monster INTIMATE CONVERSATIONS, monster COMFORTABLE SILENCE??

There should've been a virus causing universal translator malfunction episode on ds9 in which Bashir either knows everyone's languages or only speaks like an obscure dialectic of Arabic and nothing else. Garak and Bashir spend the episode making heart eyes at each other while everyone else tries to stop the space station from exploding