Garek is my fav character

[TNtreker]

I am watching DS9 for like the third time through. I actually saved the series for years so I would have new trek series to watch and never started on it until about 2014. It has become my favorite trek simply because it has more action than any other series.

Garek is simply my fav character in the series. I love the 2 parter where they are in the JH prison with Warf, the doctor and Martok. Such a mysterious character and such great acting. He, Data, Worf, the Voyager Doctor, Nelix are my favorites.

 

[jonds91]

I too like Garak. Him and Quark are my favorite characters from DS9

 

[Nakita Akita]

He is one of the better characters on the show. He is s good actor and his character was interesting.
I think that he is used less than the 'main' characters it makes keeping him fresh and interesting easier.

 

[Brass]

I love the Garak appearances. I think Nakita is right, since he is more of a recurring character you appreciate him that much more. Great actor, very expressive performances. I hated Quark the first time I watched DS9, but he really grew on me. I'd rank him among my top favorite DS9 characters now.

 

[Michael]

Garek, Warf, Nelix? This must be setting some record.

 

[Qonundrum]

From his introduction in season 1 to his high point in "In The Pale Moonlight", Garak was easily one of the more complex characters that kept one on their toes. For a secondary character, gazomg nailed it, Garak did get more than even main characters.

 

[TNtreker]

Just watched the one tonight where he and the Captain brought the Romulans in to the war with Garak set the bomb on the Romulan ship. Another great garak episode. Also love the one where he was infected with the killer gel on the clone station and tried to kill everyone. And the addiction episode with the implant. All of his episodes were just great.

I forgot to mention Quark and 7 of 9 as two of my favorites too.

There were certainly some great Voyager episodes, but I think overall their were probably more exellent DS9 episodes than in Voyager. But those two are definitely far better than TNG series.

There were so many bad episodes in TNG. I couldn't stand the Boy wonder Wesley, yeah, saving the universe mommy. I'm travelling through time and I'm just a human boy. Oh those were bad. And that one where Beverly had the ghost who made her grandma fall in love and tried to with her, oh man what a horrible episode.
Couldn't ever stand the episodes with Troi's mother, just terrible again. The only one I ever liked with her was where she was having flash backs to her first daughter dying, that was one I enjoyed and thought she acted well in. Yeah, she was Roddenberry's wife and the computer voice, but most all her episodes were horrible imo.

I hated it when the did all the soap opera love crap. My favorites were where they stayed out of the crew's quarters. It was tiresome to watch the silly sucking faces laying in beds and crap, I thing most fans probably hated that crap as I did. They constantly tried to give their little social lessons to us as if we needed their touchy feely nonsense with different species always hooking up and actually having babies, two species evolved on different planets.

I have all three series TNG, DS9 and Voyager and have deleted many a boring, bedroom filled love story episode. Dax and Worf, YUK. Could care less about watching that crap. I don't believe for a second Worf would have had no problem with Dax having been a man a few times.

Oh, and Barclay? Good character as he evolved in Vyager, but they went overboard with his stuttering mind weakness crap. Remember the mental testing when Wesley went to the academy? They directly went for his deepest fears? And we are supposed to believe Barclay passed the mental testing at the academy? Really, stuttering and mentally falling apart, yet he supposedly beat out other cadets to make it in star fleet? That's just ridiculous.

 

[Mel Tenorio]

For all you Garek fans, I recommend reading 'A Stitch in Time.' It's a DS9 novel about Garak, and it's written by the actor who played Garak (Andrew Robinson). The book is an autobiography of Garak up to the point of his banishment on Tarok Noir.

 

[BobR]

Every time I watch "The Wire" I feel way too empathetic with Garak. It can be painful to think of what has been going on in his mind and soul underneath the anesthesia of that implanted device. There is the native Cardassian xenophobia underlying it all to fret over, realizing how he despises and even hates the people he lives and works with on the station. All of the pain this engenders within him. This haunts me through future episodes until I gradually forget about it again. Does he truly overcome his nature to embrace diversity or just find another anodyne we're never told about?

 

[Lynx]

I too like Garak. Him and Quark are my favorite characters from DS9

The same for me!
However, Quark is my no.1 favorite, Garak is no.2.
With Kira at 3rd place.

 

[GulBahana]

I wish I knew more about what happened between Garak and Dukat's father. Maybe there's a novel somewhere.

 

[kkt]

I wish I knew more about what happened between Garak and Dukat's father. Maybe there's a novel somewhere.

"A Stich in Time" by Andrew Robinson, as referenced by #Mel Tonorio above. Unavailable new and kind of hard to find, but try abe.com as well as amazon.com for used copies.

 

[GulBahana]

"A Stich in Time" by Andrew Robinson, as referenced by #Mel Tonorio above. Unavailable new and kind of hard to find, but try abe.com as well as amazon.com for used copies.

I don't remember a story about Dukat's father in that book. I still have it somewhere. It's been years.