Garak was right more often than he was wrong.
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Garak was annoying and a little bit irritating. Even when he was right he was still a morally questionable person whose motives I never fully trusted. His popularity baffles me to this day.
You might be the only one besides me who doesn't love Garak?
Usually everybody are all over him, I think he is annoying.
That was a feature, not a bug. Literally the point of the character.
The point of the character was to be popular?
The point of the character was to be morally questionable, a counterpoint to these paragons of virtue in Starfleet.
Kor
Are you making a joke or being dumb?
Neither. I'm asking a genuine question that when the character was conceived he was to be popular due to his moral ambiguity. I understand his purpose in the larger show; I'm baffled by his popularity.
He took some time to grow on me, because I had issues with so many of his episodes. From "Cardassians", and the notion that a person's bloodline matters more than his happiness or those who love him, to "Afterimage", and the notion of DS9 having a counselor who was more neurotic than her patients (cruel as Garak's words to Ezri were, they were also pretty much true)... they just didn't really do it.
And that was why he grew on me. Garak was very good at being what he was: merciless, morally ambiguous, and very dangerous. And strangely, despite my general lack of wokeness, I like him even better knowing about his feelings regarding Bashir. It added yet another layer to arguably the second most complex character in the series.
It can all come down to one thing.
Garak was NEVER boring. It's a major accomplishment for a character to be that way. The best characters... tv, film, literature, etc... are the ones who are not dull and boring.
Garak was NEVER boring. It's a major accomplishment for a character to be that way. The best characters... tv, film, literature, etc... are the ones who are not dull and boring.
Garak was fun to watch even in bad episodes.
What feelings are you referring to? Sadly, due no doubt to 90s Trek's general homophobia, Garak is canonically straight.
A lot of it came down to Andy Robinson's superlative acting, but the appeal of Garak is there was subtext to everything. I'm not just talking about his flirting with Bashir early on - everything he said had a surface meaning and an undertext.
Andrew Robinson himself said that Garak was supposed to be an openly gay character but somewhere along the way the powers that be chickened out.
That's a fair point I suppose. It's a credit to Robinson's acting that I find Garak completely insufferable and roll my eyes every time he shows up.
That's because you're a complete square.
True enough.
And if you prefer to envision him that way, that's entirely fine.
I knew that Robinson played him that way; I don't recall reading anything about it being planned
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