Context: Tain was the Head of Cardassia's Gestapo, the Obsidian Order, and Garak was his best agent. He was also his illegitimate son. Cardassians place incredible store upon their family relationships and Tain decided that Garak was an 'unaffordable weakness' he could no longer tolerate. I suppose he could have had Garak killed but instead he alowed him to be exilled on DS9 when the Cardassian occupation of Bajor ended. Ducat, another multifaceted Cardasdian character, was directly responsible for this but- as was often the case in Dukat's life- he was a pawn of a greater power.
Now Tain and Garak find themselves prisoners of the Dominion, a kind of evil version of the Federation, who tricked Tain into allying the Obsidian Order with the Romulan secret service, the Tal Shiar. Both organisations were crippled (although the Tal Shiar would recover) and Tain was taken prisoner.
Bashir's presence is interesting as his place had been taken for several episodes by a Dominion changeling which got drunk with O'brien every night, took part in high level military briefings and even delivered Kira's baby (Kira actress Nana Visitor was actually pregnant with Bashir actor 'Alexander' Siddig El-Faddil's child).
Stay tuned for more Best of Starshit...
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NuFans don't understand why proper fans hate the newshit so much.
You can't replicate these kind of moments which have been earned with 5+ seasons of character development, written by talented writers and performed by stage actors, so they just give the black more women more sass and the white women shorter hair and more attitude, or obesity, and call anyone who complains a bigot.
DS9 is great and it's approaching time for a complete rewatch.
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Thats so star wars
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My favorite Garak moment is when he's in withdrawal and he tells Bashir that the most demeaning thing in his life is that he actually enjoys eating lunch with him.
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Incredibly based episode. Something many people don't understand is you can be smug
and totally own somebody, but it doesn't give you much comfort when he's torturing you and you have no idea when or if you'll be rescued.
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Fun fact: Patrick Stewart insisted- fricking insisted -on getting naked during the filming of this episode. Not sure if it was Royal Shakespeare Company acting masterclass studf or if he just wanted to thwack his peepee on the desk in front of David Warner as a flex.
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Imagine not wanting to present your peepee to David Warner in the hope that he would approve.
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Snapshots:
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