He never struck me as being a dangerous radical. Turns out he was Tain’s personal physician, and the great man had him interrogated because, the doctor assumed, “he was concerned that I was in an ideal position to assassinate him. The paranoia, the secrets, the power he held… He must have been a difficult man to work for.”
I just have to add this bit when Garak finally truly accepts that Tain was a shit father. Also I love that Parmak call him “My dear Elim” It warms my heart.
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“He once tried to have me killed,” I said.
“Really? What did you do, Elim?”
“I survived.”
The Doctor gave me a confused look. “Survived … what?” he asked.
“Working for my father,” I replied.
The Doctor stopped and just looked at me. His former fear of my eyes was long gone.
“A father who would murder his own son?”
The idea horrified him. We were in the Barvonok Sector, where the tall structures of business and finance once dominated.
“Oh, my dear Elim,” he said, this time with an empathy that stripped me of any illusions I had about Enabran Tain as a father.
