We can all agree that Garak walking up to Julian at the replimat like “Hey, sexy, I see you’re new in town and I just want you to know I’m down to fuck if you’re interested” is hilarious, but it makes me wonder if he’d had the same approach if he weren’t high as a fucking kite at the time. After the wire is disabled, does Garak wake up in a cold sweat thinking about how he introduced himself to Julian and how horrendously wrong that could have gone, potentially depriving him of his only friend on the station? Is he a little extra sweet to Julian, not only because of their friendship, but because he realizes that — somehow, some way — this man accepted him when he was dulled down and not as capable as he normally would have been?
The thing I like about the Wire reveal is that it actually adds more balance to their relationship then it takes away. like there was somewhat of a power imbalance between them at first glance.
like Garak manipulating the naïve young vulnerable Doctor to do things for him and basically be his mouth peace in ops.
BUT it turns out that Garak was just as vulnerable as Julian was at the beginning, he was alone and exiled (like how Julian was new and finding his barring’s),
but Garak was also in a diminished state of mind, That Julian could have taken advantage of (in what way we will never truly know, but I’m should Garak had looked back at that time in fear, of what he knows he would have let Julian do).
So I just think its neat that they actually had equal power over each other in the beginning, but either of them really know how much until later on, and they remained equal (more or less) through out most of their relationship.