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hate capitalism and its perpetual use of buzzwords just saw an ad for lemonade with “plant-based caffeine” like where the fuck else would you get caffeine if not from a plant
sandman dropped at the exact right time for tumblr, since we’ve largely moved past having sexymen and are now exclusively into affectionately roasting men who are Pathetic™ which is exactly the treatment dream deserves
I mean look at this scrunkly motherfucker. he spent a hundred years sulking in a christmas ornament. he pisses everyone off everywhere he goes. he once sprinted out of a bar because his actual bestie suggested they might be friends. he’s so fucking rude <3 I want to crumple him up like a piece of scrap paper and do trick shots with him into my wastepaper bin
In regard to the end of “DS9: Broken Link,” I always thought it was obvious that Garak does NOT spend six months in jail, but I’ve seen some people talk as though he does. I find it far more interesting that he doesn’t.
Without touching the stardates, which the writers didn’t keep perfect track of, the timeline still makes it a fact Garak doesn’t.
It’s stated in “Rapture” that it’s been about 6 months since Kasidy was arrested in “For the Cause” and that she’s returning from her 6 month sentence. We can probably add a couple weeks to that to allow for the judicial process.
Garak gets arrested at the end of “Broken Link,” a few episodes after Kasidy. But he’s not only out of the holding cells by “Things Past”, he’s so out of jail that no one has a problem with him going to Bajor for some random political conference that he doesn’t need to be at. They even do some friendly teasing with him. No hard feelings.
There’s also a couple of references to Garak doing tailor work between those two episodes. I remember one in “The Ship”. I don’t think he’s out by “The Ship,” but at the least, he’s allowed to do his business while serving time.
For my headcanon, I say that he was in jail 3.5 months. People in real life get let out of jail early for various reasons, so why not him?
It’s stated that Sisko made the decision on Garak’s sentence. Sisko is in charge of the station and its inhabitants. But wouldn’t trying to hijack the Defiant and start war/commit genocide involve more than just Sisko’s input on what happens to Garak? Even with Garak’s exile situation where he officially isn’t a citizen of anywhere, surely Starfleet would have some say-so in this incident. But it’s treated as solely Sisko’s decision.(Did Sisko report it to Starfleet?)
This also means Sisko can decide when Garak’s sentence is over. He has enough reasons to.
You know damn well Garak would’ve been the perfect model prisoner and get some good behavior points.
Garak’s actions are the result of a direct threat of genocide against his people and it makes sense he’d react badly.
It can be medically argued that he suffered a sort of mental break because of it. (He makes dumb mistakes that get him caught and he’s outright panicking by the time Worf finds him, unlike his usual behavior).
It was an attempt made only because of the mental break and the rare opportunity he had. He can’t try it again, because that mental state and opportunity won’t come again.
It’s not like Sisko needs to let Garak out early for some help or whatever, but he does it anyway. What point would it truly serve to keep him in jail the whole 6 months?
This incident also reinforces an interesting aspect of Sisko and Garak’s relationship. Sisko has been protecting Garak since Day One, with many instances.
Sisko couldn’t do anything to protect Kasidy in “For the Cause”. She’s a Federation citizen who committed a Federation crime. But Garak? Garak is essentially a citizen of only DS9, and Starfleet seems to mostly not care about how Sisko runs it, as long as it doesn’t cause too much trouble for them. He can punish Garak however he wants to. If that means letting Garak out to do his job during the day
and then cutting the original sentence in half, then that’s what happens.
