Odo’s Morality

This plays like a really nice ending at first like "aw yeah Garak's a good guy in his own way after all :)" and then you rotate the events of the episode in your head a minute and realize that the only way any of this makes sense is if he was genuinely ready to turn them over to the military dictatorship and only changed course after Gul Dipshit was like "we can murder them and it will be epic and based" and Garak's mental calculus was "the terrorists are less of a threat to the military dictatorship alive than they would be as martyrs".

The quadrant's most charming and affable spook.

just found some new Nog lore...

Edit: it appears this is an excerpt from Strange New Worlds, Volume 3, an anthology of fan written Trek short stories, which was titled “The Bottom Line”

Enterprise Gothic (TOS edition)

It takes 430 crew to run the Enterprise. A landing party is sent out. It takes 429 crew to run the Enterprise.

Everyone keeps saying that your ship’s first officer is the best first officer in the fleet. It’s true that he’s very good at his job, but you’ve been keeping track and he’s tried to hijack the ship on at least three separate occasions so far. What the hell is going on with all the other first officers in the fleet, you wonder.

You order a chicken sandwich and coffee. You receive a plate of tribbles. This is different from every other time you’ve ordered a chicken sandwich and coffee, when you’ve received a plate of Play-Doh cubes.

Another landing party is sent out. It takes 428 crew to run the Enterprise.

You don’t even remember what chicken sandwiches and coffee taste like, and yet you keep ordering them anyway. One day, you hope, the replicator will deliver. Something other than those cubes. Something other than tribbles. You hope.

You wonder if it’s a sin against god to eat a tribble.

You wonder if god could even find you in space.

You find god in space.

The landing party fights him.

It takes 427 crew to run the Enterprise.

The first officer and the ship’s doctor are insulting each other on the bridge. This is how you know you’ve made it to safety.

The first officer and the ship’s doctor are working together as a coordinated team. This is how you know there is an imminent threat of absolute destruction.

There have been so many imminent threats of absolute destruction.

You find a chicken sandwich and coffee. It is almost definitely a mind trick conjured by an incredibly intelligent race of aliens millennia beyond human development.

The aliens want you to stop fighting. They do not give you the chicken sandwich or the coffee. 

You’ve been en route to shore leave for six months. Strange things keep urgently diverting the ship along the way. You worry that you’ll be sent out in a landing party before you ever get your leave.

It takes 426 crew to run the Enterprise.

i genuinely never see this guy sit normally ever

Putting this in my wallet like it’s a photo of my wife.

He is a tailor, plain and simple

can this be considered an attempt at seduction? a successful attempt?

на столе стоит бутылка

а в бутылке лилия

что ты смотришь на меня

рожа крокодилия

Remember, no matter how badly the Women Characters are being treated on Star Trek, The Women actors behind the scenes are somehow being treated worse!

odo art for today

and heres just the lineart because i love nice crisp weighted lines.

rene had such a great way with body language which he leaned on during his performance as odo- i assume because his face was covered by a creepy skin-mask the whole time, limiting his facial expressions. very fun to see how he portrays this really gruff grumpy dude in his posture. he’s always skulking around with his head low and his nose high.

so i’ve finally got a good grasp on how to draw odo with stylistic flair. drawing goo is both meditatively fun and horribly tedious, 7/10.

i like his eyes. look at em. what a freak.

anyway garak canonically calls julian “darling” and “my love” let’s all think about that

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