startrek-villain:

Star Trek characters will experience intense emotional and physical trauma over the span of a 45 minute episode and then it’s never talked about again

vorta-vortex:

Garek, to the rest of the group: The most cutting thing you can say is ‘who’s this clown?’ because it implies they’re A, a clown, and B, not even one of the better-known clowns.

Garek: For example…

Garek, glancing at Dukat: Who the hell is this clown?

quarkmonger:

Garak is absolutely beaming with pride as his Dear Doctor exposes Dukat at the custody hearing for Rugal. Positively chuffed. He’s clearly thinking ‘oh im going to rail tf outta him one day’

conceptadecency:

unicorn-and-bluebells:

weyounbathwater:

dax-spots:

Rugal was right. I would also bite Garak if given the chance.

Like Garak is great fun to watch and I do like him but yeah. He deserved that one lol AND I’D DO IT AGAIN!

Yeah, that bit with Garak putting his hand on Rugal’s shoulder is interesting! Especially given when he first meets Julian he also puts his hands on Julian’s shoulders. Which to us humans is creepy and invasive (especially doing it to a child he doesn’t know). But it seems so weird for Garak, of all people, to be so unaware of how other people might react to his actions. So what if it’s actually a perfectly normal thing for Cardassians? What if Cardassians’ concept of personal space is completely different to ours, 21st Century humans in a mostly western context, and the shoulder touch is as normal as, say, shaking hands or eye contact or saying hello? Maybe Rugal’s the weird Cardassian here. 

I wrote a fic once in which regular, sustained physical contact with others is absolutely necessary for Cardassian well-being, and Cardassians normally just lean on each other when they’re together like basking turtles, even if they don’t know each other very well, and that’s part of the reason Garak’s exile is so terrible. 

I had to make this a meme. Image credit: @relatablepicturesofgarak

The truth, my dear Doctor, is most convincingly hidden between two lies.

~Elim Garak (incorrect quotes)

kaelio:

improved ds9 season 7 where every time ezri solves a murder, it was garak, and everyone shrugs it off . whatever. he does that sometimes

Did. Did you know that Garak saved one of Ziyal’s paintings, and that he takes it with him when he travels between Earth and Cardassia in his duties as Ambassador?

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With a sigh, Garak stood up from his chair and, carrying the painting carefully between both hands, went over to the wall opposite his desk. There, in a little alcove, stood a small table upon which, at his instruction, there was a vase of freshly cut perek flowers, scarlet bright. Leaning over the table, Garak hung the painting on the wall. Sitting at his desk, he would be able to look up and see it, and take courage from it. He stood for a while studying it. Focusing on the detail, he picked out delicate meya lilies, and mekla, and long winding elta, and copper ithian leaves, narrow and elegant. There were Edosian orchids too, for him, and from Bajor there were lilacs for Colonel Kira, and leaves from the moba tree, and spiny twists of basil. When Garak moved his head back to capture the whole, the intricate pattern of flowers and leaves swirled and intertwined.

“You’re remembered,” he said to her, as he did every time he performed this quiet ceremony. He often talked to Ziyal. “As long as I live, you’ll be remembered.”

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Orchids for Garak and lilacs for Kira! And he will always remember her 💜💜

So I’m reading Crimson Shadow and my heart cannot contain how much I love Elim Garak. It’s going to start leaking, expanding outward like wet light. There’s an image for you.