Garak - Andrew Robinson’s portrayal

[somebuddyX]

I kept hoping Trek would do some minisodes to celebrate the 50th Anniversary and I kept imagining Bashir and Garak going on a mission to some rundown Cardassian colony or POW camp where some disease is running rampant and getting into some good ethical arguments.
I also kept hoping we'd see Andy Robinson in a fan film as the Federation President.

 

[mlbach]

Ah, yes. Good ethical arguments. You do know that Cardassians flirt by arguing...?

 

[CommanderRaytas]

Andrew Robinsons portrayal was so good, that i sometimes forgot that they had not in fact hired an actual cardassian to play the role

...but the historical documents.

 

[Lynx]

Garak, after Quark was my favourite character and any episode he was in, was in my eyes, better because of it. The way he unsettled Bashir in his first episode made me laugh out loud.

He had the right balance of humour, sliminess, and mystery , portrayed brilliantly by Andrew Robinson. His interactions with Dukat were often hilarious. I’m glad he was able to return, finally, to Cardassia.

I wish he had been elevated to a regular character instead of Jake and had more screen time. Some of Garak’s mannerisms were sublime.

Quark and Garak are my DS9 favorites too!

 

[UnknownSample]

I liked his BSing of Worf (hard to resist goofing with Worf) about wanting to join Starfleet... then saying he needed to get in a little lying practice....

 

[mlbach]

And when he’s talking with Quark in Way of the Warrior, he insults him again and again and Quark is completely oblivious:
G: How thoughtless of me not to consider the effect the destruction of my homeworld would have on your business. These must be trying times for you. Be brave.
A little later Quark says: ... I like interacting with my customers, like you and I are doing now...
And Garak says; I can see the attraction. For you.
Quark says, when selling weapons: Customers aren’t interested in casual conversation...It’s so impersonal.
Garak: Your charms would be wasted.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

On teaming up with Garak, I loved it when Worf stated "At the first sign of betrayal I will kill him."

 

[Elephant999]

Andrew Robinsons portrayal was so good, that i sometimes forgot that they had not in fact hired an actual cardassian to play the role

I just watched the first episode he was in, where he creeps out Bashir! So funny and he lives up to his Reptilian Looks

 

[Sareesataka]

Garak is one of my favourite characters on DS9. I enjoyed the ambiguity of his character...tinkerer, tailor, spy, whatever the expression is. Anyways, rewatch The Wire, season 2 episode 22....Andrew Robinson was sublime, playing a tortured soul, addicted to the pleasure drug produced by the implant in his head, and dealing with the sins of his past.

 

[kkt]

Garak is one of my favourite characters on DS9. I enjoyed the ambiguity of his character...tinkerer, tailor, spy, whatever the expression is. Anyways, rewatch The Wire, season 2 episode 22....Andrew Robinson was sublime, playing a tortured soul, addicted to the pleasure drug produced by the implant in his head, and dealing with the sins of his past.

The English nursery rhyme goes:

Tinker, tailor,
Soldier, sailor,
Rich man, poor man,
Beggar man, thief!

Le Carre's spy novel (and the movie of the same name) riffed on that nursery rhyme with the title Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

 

[Tom]

Before DS9 i only remember him from The first Hellraiser movie (he was the dad)

 

[mlbach]

I saw a ds9 convention panel where it was revealed that Garak was made a tailor because of Man From Uncle, not the Le Carre novel title, as Andy Robinson (and I, as well as many others) had assumed.

 

[Kor]

The English nursery rhyme goes:

Tinker, tailor,
Soldier, sailor,
Rich man, poor man,
Beggar man, thief!

Le Carre's spy novel (and the movie of the same name) riffed on that nursery rhyme with the title Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

And the BBC miniseries. The nursery rhyme is used in the story as well.

Kor

 

[kkt]

Charley Varrick

Thanks for the recommendation! I just watched it. Good movie and worth watching, although not one of my favorite genres. Robinson played his character very well, and I wouldn't have known that the excitable, overeager sidekick bank robber was the same actor as Garak if I didn't look it up. Definitely shows Robinson's range. I also liked the scenery.
(I laughed at how the fake passports cost less than real ones from the State Department do now...)

 

[kkt]

It would be neat if they remade Charley Varrick, with Robinson playing Varrick this time

 

[Kilana2]

I never realized how special Garak's facial expressions were......

 

[kkt]

It's a good thing they didn't put him in a full mask like the Ferengi.

 

[mlbach]

In Empok Nor you can see Garak in the background making reptilian-like head movements. I missed that the first couple times I saw the episode.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I never realized how special Garak's facial expressions were......

"His eyes... His eyes..."

 

[mlbach]

(To Bashir) All the better to see you with, my dear...