“Tragedy” is not the word I’d use. “Farce” would be more approrpriate.

Elim Garak.

You know what I like about Klingon stories? Nothing. Lots of people die and nobody makes a profit.

Quark, son of Keldar.

The truth is usually just an excuse for lack of imagination.

Elim Garak.

I wasn’t yelling. I was expressing my feelings loudly.

Benjamin Sisko.

I knew Brutus was going to kill Caesar in the first act, but Caesar didn’t figure it out until the knife was in his back.

Elim Garak.

peachandlube:

Bashir: [The Boy Who Cried Wolf] is a children’s story, about a young shepherd boy who gets lonely while tending his flock. So he cries out to the villagers that a wolf is attacking the sheep. The people come running, but of course there’s no wolf. He claims that it’s run away and the villagers praise him for his vigilance. 

Garak: Clever lad. Charming story. 

Bashir: I’m not finished. The next day, the boy does it again, and the next too. And on the fourth day a wolf really comes. The boy cries out at the top of his lungs, but the villagers ignore him, and the boy, and his flock, are gobbled up. 

Garak: Well, that’s a little graphic for children, wouldn’t you say? 

Bashir: The point is, if you lie all the time, nobody’s going to believe you, even when you’re telling the truth. 

Garak: Are you sure that’s the point, Doctor? 

Bashir: Of course. What else could it be? 

Garak: That you should never tell the same lie twice. 

BING! GARAK WINS. AGAIN.

airandangels:

crowdog66:

thosedistantstars:

I will never, ever, ever stop being bitter about how much their relationship got screwed over by TPTB’s fear of getting too many icky queer germs on their precious franchise.

(for context: Garak is leaving on a dangerous trip. Julian brought him chocolates.)

In my opinion (and in a perfect TV production world) this pairing should have gone ahead as both actors and one of the writers originally planned: ie, to become the first gay couple in the Star Trek franchise. And nobody in the ST universe should have even blinked at the fact that two guys are sexually involved with each other.

The bigger problem should have been that Bashir is fraternizing with a spy from an enemy government. Now that would have made for some interesting storylines, all about forbidden attraction and matters of trust/loyalty/betrayal. *purrs at the thought*

It would have been a jolly interesting story!

At least, as I think we’ve all said before, we can always assume that it was going on secretly for safety’s sake (political reasons rather than homophobic job-and-friend-losing reasons), and that would be entirely in character. The only part about that which would make me sad is the keeping-in-the-dark of Julian’s various girlfriends, because while I didn’t particularly like any of them (Leeta and Ezri are both nice people but only nice people, not really interesting people; getting involved with Sarina was thoroughly unethical and Julian should have known better; the less said about Melora the better; am I forgetting anybody who was more than a one-date wonder?) they don’t deserve to be deceived.

Look, there’s another reason why it’s better in the parallel universe where Rick Berman isn’t a wimpy homophobe and the DS9 writers got to run with the Garak/Bashir ball - no annoying Melora story, no unethical Sarina story, no frustrating U-turn Ezri story, no I-always-forgot-they-were-meant-to-be-dating-in-between-times-when-it-was-brought-up-because-they-never-seemed-to-have-any-connection Leeta story.

Garak and Ziyal can still be friends, of course.

paramadoodles:

More genderbent DS9. Bashir is still an adorable ditz, and Garak is still a pansexual creeper.

fyeahgarakbashir:

#odo caught garak at staring at naked pictures of julian

crowdog66:

Garak: [after being shot by a Jem’Hadar] Doctor… I’m afraid I won’t be able to have lunch with you today.

And afterwards Sisko has to take Bashir by the arm and physically drag him away from his dead friend.

(In the novelization of this episode, the writer compares Bashir being dragged away from Garak to Sisko being dragged away from his dead wife at the Battle of Wolf 359. And it’s Sisko himself who makes the comparison.)