lots of reasons why post-canon garashir feels right to me, but the fact that julian is already sooooo trophy husband coded is a huge part of it. he’s so beautiful and so strange and you can picture him in so many fancy cardassian outfits, but when he’s home he wears scandalously little and everyone is just like. oh he’s an alien he doesn’t know better. (but they are looking. respectfully 👀👀) he’s arrogant and a bit patronizing as a doctor which you know cardassians would be SO into. but at the end of the day he’s just making garak look better bc he left for a decade and came back with a sexy alien that argues with him in public like a slut. the locals don’t really get it but they’re happy for him