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Been thinking about The Wire again, specifically about that one moment when Julian hands off the bottle of kanar to Quark by putting it behind his back. That move was smooth as fuck and Quark was right there and ready for the toss, so to speak.

So what that tells me is that they've done this before. When patrons get too sloshed to the point that Quark thinks they need a doctor he calls Bashir to come and do alcohol intervention/deescalation. This is a practiced move between the two of them and another tiny (unintentional) window into the lives of DS9's residents during the quiet times.

What if Gimli found the paths of the dead more terrifying than any of the others because as a dwarf underground spaces are usually comforting to him.

It is utterly horrifying to him for the same reason horror movies use lullabies to freak us out- the perversion of the familiar strikes a particularly deep note of horror.

The danger was action movie danger until the paths of the dead, when suddenly Gimli is in the literal uncanny valley- his every sense is full of how wrong this feels, except his eyes which perceive a tunnel, something that should feel like home.

Tl.dr The paths of the dead give dwarves cursed doll vibes.