Rex - Think About What Youre Doing, Wolffe! Youre Hunting A Child!

Rex - Think about what you’re doing, Wolffe! You’re hunting a child!

The rest of us - Shouldn’t you have said “Again?”

We all know that the DS9 writers obviously had favorites *COUGH COUGH O’BRIEN COUGH COUGH* when it came time to emotionally invoke the audience, but I don’t think we talk about Odo enough…

Sure, his name literally means “nothing” and he was experimented on in a lab during his upbringing and he was practically forced to betray his people during the Dominion War (he was even the first Changling to kill another) and he had his abilities taken from him as punishment and he was given a disease to spread to the entire Link (almost making him responsible for a Changling genocide)… buts that’s not what I’m getting at.

As if all of that wasn’t sad enough, they just had to make him hopelessly in love with Kira. Odo had to watch her bonds with Bareil, Shakaar, Julian, and even O’Brien, believing that she’d probably never love him because of who he was and how unlikeable he seemed. And after all of that, Kira was still oblivious to Odo’s feelings for her. It took Vic to finally get them together!!

And they still went their separate ways in the end…

Enabran Tain: This will be the heir to my empire, my protegee: a spy, an interrogator, an assassin without mercy or peer

Elim Garak: (sashaying through Ops with ridges on display, higher than a Bajoran prayer kite and fluttering his eyelashes) Did you call me here to break some codes or break my back over your desk?

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Luther Sloan: We are going to use your super enhanced brain to strengthen our secret and devious organization who wants to upset the balance of power in the quadrant.

Julian Bashir: (playing the James Bond theme while skipping down the hallway) 🎶I get to be a spy-yyy. I get to be a spy-yyy.🎶

Past Tense Pts I & II of Deep Space Nine are ABSOLUTELY SHAKING ME TO THE CORE because this shit was made in 1995 and they're set in September 2024 and THEY GOT PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING EXACTLY RIGHT.

The homelessness crisis, the unemployment crisis, the class division, THIS SHIT IS TOO REAL.

This is PRESENT TENSE Y'ALL AND I AM PRESENTLY TENSE.

Hey also props to me for prescience: Nala Se was in fact lying to Hemlock's stupid face when she said 'what the Emperor wants cannot be done'.

She already did it. And she knows she did.

Look, I don't like Nala Se but I have to respect how ballsy she was in getting Omega out of there the moment she realized she had to, and then when Hemlock was all 'well SOMEONE helped her escape not saying who but it was you' and she was gaslight 100% 'I dunno what you could possibly mean I was right here the whole time'.

respect.