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you know what this means.

It's time to post EggBlue.

BREAKING: @belarius has kindly graced us with a vectorized .svg version.

This is the eggbug you encounter on the ice level

cohost. A website. And herein dwell all manner of creatures. Many are friendly. Many are hungry. Some are dangerous. Some few may, I have it on good authority, be milked.

This guide assembles what is known of these various beasts, so that all may learn from the chosts and rebugs of those who have come before. And of course, as further scholarship is performed, this index of chosting creatures (or "chokédex," if you will) can be revised and expanded.

So, without further ado:

ds9 has GOTTA stop having episodes that make me cry. just watched Change of Heart for the first time and the ending obliterated me

i love it when a ds9 episode is just about something very human, and every arc is dedicated to exploring that feeling -- not forcing a resolution, but letting that feeling simply exist and be seen from all angles. this was a really good example of that

TYPES OF DS9 EPISODE:

• self-sealing stembolts -- A plot: a couple characters, usually Jake and Nog, have a wacky adventure; B plot: deep political stuff with wide-reaching implications (Progress, In the Cards)
• we have FEELINGS about WAR -- A plot: war shit happens. B plot: emotional shit related to the war. (Battle Lines, Nor the Battle to the Strong, Sacrifice of Angels)
• let's just make an amazing work of art -- when an episode goes so hard on its pitch it almost stops being star trek (Past Tense, The Visitor, Far Beyond the Stars)
• bajor, baby -- Let's do some shit with the PROPHETS (The Storyteller, Rapture, In the Hands of the Prophets)
• just some twilight zone shit (Second Sight, The Muse, Rivals, Meridian)
• a surprisingly tender and mature work of art (Change of Heart, House of Quark, The Wire, Life Support)
• fuck you, O'Brien (Whispers, Hard Time, Visionary, Tribunal)

oh, and the two other types:

• ayyyyyyy it's the ferengi
• ugggggh it's the klingons