I Like And Respect Quodo As A Ship, But They're Also Deeply Unserious To Me. Just, Inherently Cracky.

I like and respect Quodo as a ship, but they're also deeply unserious to me. Just, inherently cracky.

Because I cannot imagine either of them ever giving up their shenanigans. Like, I heard about some rival professors once who were complete opposites in their theories, had big research battles, everyone thought they hated each other, etc. As it turned out, they were married. Their marriage survived because they just. Completely left their work at work. They never spoke about it at home. They'd write the world's most scathing rebuttals of the other's research, and then go home and make them tea.

Quodo? Would not do that. They'd be at their wedding, and Quark would still try to scam all the guests, and Odo would still try to put him in jail for it. Odo would routinely bug his own quarters, and Quark would sell information about Odo on the black market. Absolute looney toons shenanigans.

How comfortable I am calling various Trek characters by their first name:

Kirk- I could, but I choose not to. Spock- ...schetigger, no wait, skantai, no, that's not it either... McCoy- His first name is "Bones", right?

Picard- Oh god. Riker- If he said "You can call me William :)" I would. But not before then. Crusher- I dunno. It would seem a little too informal. LaForge- Yeah totally. Data- ...does he have one? Worf- Actually not sure what kind of name "Worf" is. Troi- After I got to know her.

Sisko- Yeah he'd be cool with it. Kira- Ah. Uh. No. That would be presumptuous. Dax- You kind of have to so people know who you're talking about. Bashir- I full-name him a lot. O'Brien- Kilometers O'Brien. Odo- ??? Quark- "Mr. Quark" pfft no. Garak- Pretty sure he literally thinks of "Elim" as a different person. Dukat- Genuinely thought "Gul" was his name for a while.

I thought you guys might enjoy these early sketches of the Enterprise.

They are all taken from The Making of Star Trek by Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry

kira as a daughter figure. kira seeking father figures and losing every single one of them, even sisko, and she's not even 35. what do you do with that?

she takes the father's place, again and again and again. she takes her first father's role in the bajoran resistance, she takes her cardassian father's role in the cardassian resistance, she takes command of the station when sisko is gone.

dukat took her mother, stole the place of a father in her life and ate it, and kira denied him the role of father-suitor when he demanded it of her--

and kira then stole his place as ziyal's father, giving ziyal space and resources and support that directly mirrors what ben provides for jake.

kira is a daughter who becomes a father. in this essay i will

you KNOW they fucked after this. like, you wouldnt want to be their quarters neighbor that day. i know it was NASTY. i just know it.

I relate to garak so much because I too am a weird overly emotional freak who grew up with two different dads but somehow no Father