According to Andrew Robinson’s book Garak is bisexual though. Also if you haven’t listened to Andrew Robinson reading “A Stitch in Time” you’re missing out.
Ya ive read that the actor played him gay but I didn’t learn that till after I’d watched it all so I guess knowing that he is straight makes it even harder for me to see it. Tbh I could have a guy hit on me and not know it and I do have some pretty “weird” ideas/beliefs and stuff that I don’t think a lot of mainstream straight guys have or would even agree with
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It’s criminal that Berman would only allow the Garak/Bashir thing to be subtext. The first gay couple on Star Trek and also a cross-species couple would have been amazing. The best we got was evil mirror Kira fucking anything.
It’s criminal that Berman would only allow the Garak/Bashir thing to be subtext
Ok I am SO GLAD I was not imagining this! I’m only halfway through S2 of DS9, and but I have been sitting here questioning whether Bashir and Garak were gonna have a little something going on in the future, or if the girl in my class that talks loudly about her yaoi manga collection was finally getting to me…
What I find funny is I blocked the sub, and I still see the replies. I can reply from my inbox, but I can’t go and see the post itself. Interesting how it all works.
Andrew Robinson himself has said in many interviews that he played the character as “Omnisexual,” and initially attracted to Bashir. In fact, he was originally written that way until Rick Berman put an end to it out of nothing more than homophobia, but Robinson continued to play him that way regardless.
I love when actors do this out of a genuine love for the potential of a character, star trek would be so much worse if it wasn’t for so many actors challenging the ethical and visionary failings of the script both through their acting and directly speaking up. It matters less that the script never ships bashir and garak (I thinkkk I haven’t finished though… hahaha) because the acting makes it true no matter what the narrative says on paper or what dialog happens between them.
It is always about what is implied by what we are being shown isn’t it? Especially if you don’t quitteeee take the words the actors are literally saying at face value as the only dimension of truth.
Nothing is more fitting for garak in a way, though that is more sad than anything because the show would have been richer with an openly queer garak.
I love when actors do this out of a genuine love for the potential of a character
Frakes and Sirtis did this with their characters as well in TNG.
Aside from the initial introduction to their past relationship, the writers wanted to leave it in the past so that they could explore other stories. But the actors played it up every chance they could get.
That still didn’t stop the writers from pushing Troi and Worf together toward the end for some bizarre reason. But if not for the actors’ efforts to keep things alive throughout the run of TNG, Troi and Riker may not have ended up together in the end.
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