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Garak is a former spook that served an explicitly genocidal fascist regime and repeatedly tries to get back in and moonlights as a terrorist and starts a war.
by cess11 2y ago
Garak is a former spook that served an explicitly genocidal fascist regime and repeatedly tries to get back in and moonlights as a terrorist and starts a war.
It's a borderline insane branding of this corporate tool. Words and stories apparently mean nothing to these people, so if allowed they'll probably destroy the lot of it for all of us.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoGarak: It's best not to dwell on such minutiae.
- calf 2y agoGarak is a compelling literary figure and is very popular among Trekkies, for good reason, you're understanding the character wrong for example not even Kira Nerys would say only what you reductively said about him.
- cess11 2y agoYeah, but this megacorporation is not a resistance fighter. It's not even as human as the cardassians.
- fragmede 2y agoI get that making GPUs isn't the most environmentally friendly, but the Cardassians literally conqured the homrworld of the Bajorans and enslaved them and strip mined their planet for fifty years. Whatever crimes you think Nvidia is guilty of, they have, at most, one planet they've done things to.
- cess11 2y agoYou probably misposted, this doesn't seem to have anything to do with what I wrote above.
- fragmede 2y agoYou wrote that Nvidia is inhuman, and that the Cardassians are more human that it, but the Cardassians commited horrible warcrimes while Nvidia, as far as I know, has not.
- cess11 2y agoHorses are human, because they do not commit war crimes? I'm sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about. Yes, I pointed out that corporations aren't human, for example lacking in things like having a body.
- cuteboy19 2y agoI am sure the bajorans among us are appalled
- TeMPOraL 2y agoWas waiting for someone to call it "tacky Cardassian fascist eyesore".
- cess11 2y agoThe dislike towards the cardassians isn't a bajoran only thing. Garak is an interesting and beloved character in the series because he is complex, problematic and express it with a convincing sophistication. The gay innuendos help too. He does nasty, deceitful things. He starts a war because it's too grim and disgusting for his close neighbours to go through with it, and it's expected to possibly help fend off a godlike existential threat to the entire quarter of the galaxy. He's a monster in a suit, a Franz Stangl. I think it's a very, very weird character to associate a corporation with.
- klipklop 2y agoI’m under the impression he’s just a simple tailor. Dr Bashir has lunch with him almost daily so he can’t be that bad right?
- cess11 2y agoHe put Odo under torture. It took his despise for Dukat and Tain dying for him to develop an affiliation with the Federation. It's what makes him interesting. If he was only comic relief lunching with the doctor he'd be mostly forgotten by now.
- ecocentrik 2y agoGarak served unofficially as DS9s counter espionage officer.