things that didn’t happen but should have happened: a dog on deep space nine
- quark is terrified by this creature and odo is obviously delighted
- best buddy with jadzia but worf thinks the dog has no honor
- sneaks everywhere with jake and nog
- tries to chew sisko’s baseball sometimes
- barks everytime kira starts yelling
- garak thinks the dog is smart and could take over the obsidian order (julian stops his plan)
- bites dukat’s ass
- lives plenty of great adventures with julian and miles in the holosuites
- julian takes correspondance courses to be a good veterinary for the dog
- grunts everytime kai winn visits the station
- weyoun wants to adopt the dog
- is fond of damar and ridicules him in front of the other cardassian soldiers
- some bajoran monks think the dog is a religious figure sent by the prophets
- morn can definitely communicate with the dog
A few immediate headcanons about Deep Space Dog:
- Odo is of course insists on training it and when he is around the dog is PERFECTLY behaved
- less so with anyone else on the station, especially Sisko, who tries desperately to maintain a veneer of authority while wheedling it to drop the ball
- Kira in general is annoyed by the dog because it always barks whenever she’s making a really good point, but she tolerates it, and when no one is watching she scratches its ears. The dog’s pagh is strong
- indeed weyoun wants to adopt it but he is horribly allergic somehow. this is part of the appeal for him since he discovers that sneezing is a most strange and pleasurable experience
- sometimes in sisko’s visions the prophets manifest as the dog. It speaks in a voice that Sisko cannot describe upon his return
- protective of Leeta: if a customer gets too grabby in dog’s presence, dog bowls him over
- Damar engages in intense tug-of-war battles with dog, but it sometimes seems to his barmates that he lets the dog win, which they find offensive