I feel like trekblr doesn’t adequately draw on the two The Fifty-Year Mission books because I sent this to my housemate when I was reading the second volume eight years ago and I’ve never seen it on tumblr. I have to do everything myself. I love them sm
(ID: a page of interviews beginning half way through a sentence:
[Alexander Siddig:]
throw the Cardassian Garak into the mix at a very early stage, and it's not subtle. There's a kind of quivering sexuality going on there, which obviously doesn't come home to roost, but it's hero worship. I had fun with that, and I know that Andy Robinson, who played Garak, did as well. Andy just changed my game for me. He gave me a direction to go in, and I began to understand what was going on with the character once I got to talk to him. It was pretty much the only talking I did. The Terry Farrell/Jadzia Dax infatuation thing just didn't work.
Andrew Robinson (actor, "Garak"):
Bashir is really good-looking, so as a character choice I thought, "What the hell? Why not go for it?" There is a close-up of Garak where it looks like he could eat him alive. And I'm sure that's why I got the job.
Currently watching "our man Bashir" and I'm so glad that I see queer-coding everywhere, because this episode would be so different if I went into this with the conviction that Bashir and Garak are strictly straight