Ira Steven Behr (one of Deep Space Nine’s showrunners and main writers) musing alongside Luke Snailham about what DS9 could have done with Garak and how it could have handled the Garak/Bashir relationship in the DS9 documentary What We Left Behind
almaasi:
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sippingteabythesea:
almaasi:
almaasi:
today on sid city social club: julian bashir confirmed bi-romantic as heck by sid, garak thoroughly re-confirmed queer by ira behr. garashir shipped by everyone.
dan-gheesking: Wait Sid said he’s Bi?
he said julian experienced “romantic attraction to any gender”, specifically citing the fact julian was attracted to the existence of dax’s previous male incarnations as well as jadiza and ezri.
he said something about the general mess of julian’s actual physical sexuality but my brain had shorted out at that point
this entire discussion began because someone asked about julian’s early romances, and sid was like “they never worked out but then garak came along” (literally nobody brought up garak. he brought up garak. it took him like 2 sentences to get there.)
both sid and ira VERY CASUALLY referred to garashir as a romance multiple times. in fact that’s the ONLY way they referred to it
and ira was like “they were dancing” and “it takes two to dance” [sic] (but both sid and ira agreed it was a non-sexual relationship)
if anyone remembers more accurate quotes and/or additional things, please add them!!
the video of today’s chat (friday 15th may 2020) should be on youtube in a few days/weeks. the chat host (the lovely mel) very kindly uploads them here.
Sid mentioned that Bashir struggled with recognizing platonic feelings vs romantic. He stated that Garak came along and it was “a love story”.
aura218 said: @almaasi, that link isnt working for me. What’s the name of the channel?
The Sid City youtube channel is here
The video of this entire meeting is here
Garak and Bashir had “a romance of mind, if not body” (starts at 23:30, goes to 30:50)
Sid confirms Bashir as bi-romantic (starts at 26:52)
Ira: “Both people were involved in that dance” (starts at 28:55)
oh, and the part where Sid said “and then Garak came along” starts at 12:06, and the exact quote “it was a love story” is at 13:50
youmissedthewholeshow:
Julian Bashir and Elim Garak | Star Trek Deep Space Nine 3.20
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Julian Bashir and Elim Garak | Star Trek Deep Space Nine 3.18
kiranxrys:
“ I can see I’m going to regret this. ”
“ Don’t worry doctor, we’re going to have a wonderful time. After all, what could possibly go wrong? ”
JULIAN & GARAK in S04E09 ’Our Man Bashir’
youmissedthewholeshow:
Julian Bashir and Elim Garak | Star Trek Deep Space Nine 4.01
