voice testing- it's Trill-ey nice to meet you.

[charming_host]

Yeah, that's a really bad subject line joke, you know. Trill-ey nice to meet you? Really? I bet Quark could think up a better joke than that. No, not even Quark. Perhaps, Odo.

[She is smiling to herself, really. More out of amusement than anything else.]

I doubt even Curzon would find that funny and he could pull off a joke or two, back when I was him. Right, now back to business. You finally decided that it was a good idea to get me out of your head space, right? Why now? Because you've seen enough DS Nine to play me? If you say so. I'm no easy ride and you should know that.

[Seven life times and this Trill knows what she wants and what she can do. Being treated like a pawn is not one of them.]

Life can be boring at times, yet I guess I have you to now thank if it becomes more interesting. Mundanes are supposed to be boring, right? Then, does that make me interesting? I'm still trying to get my head around it all.

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[regnar]

Rest assured, my dear, it could be far worse. For example, your species could have been dealt the miserable lot of having a near-homophone in some banal human celebrity. I believe I have heard all possible variations on "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" [and is that a drop of contempt in his voice there? --no, it's not, it's a whole bloody bathtub of it] and more besides.

[charming_host]

Garek. Nice to see a friendly face around here. [She has no grudge against you being a Cardassian, unlike most of the inhabitants of the station. Bajorans could be so narrow-minded at times and it irked her.]

Keeping up the with Kardashians? Really? I don't know what's worse. Does your mundane tell awful jokes too, I'm guessing?

[regnar]

Oh, likewise. You have no idea, Lieutenant, how rude some people here can be. It's almost as if finding out that they're a figment of someone's imagination, trapped inside the brain of a child with too much spare time and forced to act out their incredibly dull scenarios has put them in a bad mood.

[He makes a face that, out of context and to a stranger, might look like innocent bewilderment. Of course, as Jadzia must know by now, if there's one thing you can trust about Garak, it's that he is never innocent.]

Fortunately my 'mundane' [again, there's the contempt - 'mundane' is far too much of a title; no doubt he'd prefer something a tad less euphemistic and a lot more derogatory] was sadly born entirely bereft of a sense of humour. The doctors say there is nothing that can be done for him. A tragic handicap indeed - and one which I must say has done our working relationship very little good.

[charming_host]

I have an idea of just how rude some people can be here, Garak. I have spoken to others and their idea of a joke is just insulting. Perhaps, it's a human thing, I don't know.

[She's in an alien place, after all.]

Your mundane has no sense of humour? At all? That is truly tragic for you. At least mine has a sense of humour in a sense of the word. For a human.

[regnar]

It's certainly not a Cardassian thing, of that you can be sure.

[Or at least not in quite the same way. After all, if a Cardassian's being straightforwardly rude to you, it tends to mean something a little different.]

How fortunate for you. Though of course, a sense of humour in the wrong hands, as it were, can be really quite dangerous - or so I hear. I wouldn't know from personal experience, of course.

[A knowing little smile. Garak's secret identity is, well, not very secret - still, it amuses him to keep up the facade, even more so than it had when anyone had actually believed him to be plain and simple.]

Because the TNG Tech Manual and Dark Mirror made dolphins serving in Starfleet a thing.

[cetaceanops]

With all due respect, Lieutenant Commander, you may not want to complain. The puns can get worse.

[charming_host]

What sort of worse puns are we talking about here?

[maxwells_demon]

Are you tellin' me you super advanced aliens can't appreciate a good old fashioned awful joke?