(August 7, 2018 at 11:15 pm)AFTT47 Wrote:(August 7, 2018 at 10:21 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Don’t get my comments wrong.
I’m a Trekkie through and through.
All three major series had their good and bad points, but I generally enjoyed them all, though DS9 was my favourite and I still think the best character in all three wasn’t even Starfleet... Garak.
Yeah, Garak was sooo good!
"That's why you came to me, Captain, wasn't it? You knew I could do those things you weren't capable of. Well, it worked. You'll get a war between the Romulans and the Dominion. And if your consciousness is bothering you, you should soothe it with the knowledge that you may have just saved the entire Alpha Quadrant and all it cost was the life of One Romulan Senator, one criminal and the self-respect of one Star Fleet officer. I don't know about you but I would call that a BARGAIN."
Epic!
IMO, Star Trek was at its best when it hits those philosophical high notes - when it made the audience think. IMO, nothing does this better than in the DS9 episode, "In the Pale Moonlight" when Garak and Sisko plot to trick the Romulans to enter the Dominion War on a false pretext. Sisko goes against the principles the Federation is founded upon out of desperation. Garak was streaming him along the whole time but was sympathetic to Sisko's views and makes a genuine attempt to soothe his conscience - even after Sisko beets the crap out of him.
Wow!
I doubt we'll see anything like this again but it's nice to see TPTB acknowledging the real Star Trek rather than that Abrams garbage.
One of the very best Garak scenes was when Bashir was trying to explain the story of the boy who cried wolf.
“Are you sure that’s the moral of the story?”
“Of course, what else could it be?”
“Perhaps it’s not to tell the same lie twice!”
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
