Lingering Questions

[Smiley]

I've been through the series a couple of times, and as I watch it again, there are some questions I have that either were never answered or that I've forgotten the answers to. Please help me out if you know the answers to these or have concocted plausible explanations.

1. What was the real reason for Garak's exile?

2. Whatever happened to Eris, and why was she the only Vorta with telekinetic abilities? No, "The writers changed their minds" is not a valid reason.

 

[T J]

1. He pissed off his daddy.

2. The writers did change their minds and pretended she didn't exist along with her powers. Might not be the answer you like but it's true.

 

[Photon]

I've been through the series a couple of times, and as I watch it again, there are some questions I have that either were never answered or that I've forgotten the answers to. Please help me out if you know the answers to these or have concocted plausible explanations.

1. What was the real reason for Garak's exile? Tain was unhappy w/him.

2. Whatever happened to Eris, and why was she the only Vorta with telekinetic abilities? No, "The writers changed their minds" is not a valid reason.

I see this NOT a telekinetic but as technology.

The Dominion had some superior technology to the Feds and this was just some whiz-bang tech to suck in Sisko.

 

[Lateralus]

If you're even slightly curious about Garak's past, you *MUST* read A Stitch In Time.

 

[Jono]

If you're even slightly curious about Garak's past, you *MUST* read A Stitch In Time.

Though, it is not canon so whether you accept the events in the novel are up to you.

 

[Danoz]

If you're even slightly curious about Garak's past, you *MUST* read A Stitch In Time.

Yup.

I honestly consider the entire DS9 relaunch canon.

I'm still working my way through the Gamma series.

 

[Danoz]

If you're even slightly curious about Garak's past, you *MUST* read A Stitch In Time.

Though, it is not canon so whether you accept the events in the novel are up to you.

I think the Ds9 Relaunch is as close to Trek-novel canon as you're going to get. It's a very well written, very well organized continuation of the series. There are times I think back to to the show, and I forget that a lot of the things I've read didn't happen in the actual series. If you're a true Ds9-fan, the relaunch is a must.

 

[Smiley]

I have read the relaunch through Warpath, and I consider it just as important as the episodes. I enjoyed A Stitch in Time, but I could not remember what it said about Garak's exile.

 

[RobertScorpio]

If you're even slightly curious about Garak's past, you *MUST* read A Stitch In Time.

Though, it is not canon so whether you accept the events in the novel are up to you.

I think the Ds9 Relaunch is as close to Trek-novel canon as you're going to get. It's a very well written, very well organized continuation of the series. There are times I think back to to the show, and I forget that a lot of the things I've read didn't happen in the actual series. If you're a true Ds9-fan, the relaunch is a must.

Agreed...the Relaunch DS9 series IS great because there is some controlling force behind them...I have read them all and enjoyed them all..

Rob
Scorpio

 

[Damask]

2. Whatever happened to Eris, and why was she the only Vorta with telekinetic abilities? No, "The writers changed their minds" is not a valid reason.

My view?

Eris was genetically modified by the Founders and given telekinetic powers.

Eris was actually a Founder and the telekinetic stuff was just the Founder being clever.

 

[Lateralus]

If you're even slightly curious about Garak's past, you *MUST* read A Stitch In Time.

Though, it is not canon so whether you accept the events in the novel are up to you.

You really don't like the idea of the novels being considered canon, do you?

The book was written by the man who played the character and had enormous input on that character's development and portrayal.

Canon.

Maybe not to you. But to pretty much everybody who goes anywhere near the book.

 

[Smiley]

Hey now, rofeta is using correct terminology. Just because many readers have accepted something into their personal continuities does not make it canon. Anyway, that debate is for a different forum.

I'm willing to accept Eris' apparent TK as trickery a la David Copperfield illusions. The Jem'Hadar did hold all the cards in that situation.

 

[Anthony Sabre]

I have read the relaunch through Warpath, and I consider it just as important as the episodes. I enjoyed A Stitch in Time, but I could not remember what it said about Garak's exile.

Spoiler: A Stitch In Time spoiler....

Without giving away who or why: murder

 

[nx1701g]

Hey now, rofeta is using correct terminology. Just because many readers have accepted something into their personal continuities does not make it canon. Anyway, that debate is for a different forum.

Which is unfortunate because the works that actors have been involved with are sometimes exceptionally good books. We also know that some novels have been considered canon in the past. Mosaic - the story of Kathryn Janeway - was written by Jeri Taylor and was considered canon.

 

[Timo]

...Although only because Taylor herself said do, and then plugged her ears and sang real loud.

Didn't help after she lost her position of power vis-á-vis VOY: later episodes of that show went and contradicted the book. An "actually canonical" piece of Trek would not have been so lightly dismissed.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Jono]

If you're even slightly curious about Garak's past, you *MUST* read A Stitch In Time.

Though, it is not canon so whether you accept the events in the novel are up to you.

You really don't like the idea of the novels being considered canon, do you?

The book was written by the man who played the character and had enormous input on that character's development and portrayal.

Canon.

Maybe not to you. But to pretty much everybody who goes anywhere near the book.

Unfortunately for these people official canon isn't decided by them (or by me), but by the people that own and run Star Trek. Novels = non canon.

Feel free to have it in your personal canon, I think most of us personalise canon to some extent where we ignore certain canon events and include other non-canon events.

 

[Augustus]

Yeah I always thought it was just a trick, not an actual power that she had.

 

[Damask]

Yeah I always thought it was just a trick, not an actual power that she had.

There could have been holo-emitters in the room too.

 

[Deckerd]

I thought it was like the Borg situation. They started with one kind of alien, decided that wasn't going to work in future scripts, so changed the goalposts.

 

[Damask]

I thought it was like the Borg situation. They started with one kind of alien, decided that wasn't going to work in future scripts, so changed the goalposts.

Aside from her one off telekinetic stunt she was a model Vorta.