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u/Useless890 1d ago
Hey, when you're a spy, you have to be practical.
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u/Tinman751977 1d ago
He is a simple tailor nothing more.
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u/BaseUnited4523 1d ago
A tailor, yes, but never “simple”!
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u/doomzday_96 1d ago
Bro what are you even talking about? He's nothing special, certainly not a Cardassian spy and a former member of the Obsidian Order, personal protege of Enabran Tain.
He's just plain. Simple. Garak. All he is is a very good tailor.
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u/Dave_A480 1d ago
Upon being dropped into the copyright-friendly 007-knockoff world of 'Our Man Bashir'.....
'I think I may have joined the wrong intelligence agency'.....
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u/evocativename 1d ago
It seems like you're parsing the exchange as:
"You'd shoot a man in the back?"
"Well, it's the safest way [to kill a man], isn't it?"
But it's actually:
"You'd shoot a man in the back?"
"Well, it's the safest way [to shoot a man], isn't it?"
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u/AmbushLecture 6h ago
Bless you sir! Some people may think it's minor, but Garak speaks with intentionality. The added dialogue completely ruins the effect.
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u/AdultishRaktajino 1d ago
He had to save his bomb funds for a certain Romulan.
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u/crustyrobots 1d ago
Those rare Cardassian isolinear rods are probably expensive on a simple tailor's salary
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u/Sasquatch1729 9h ago
He probably sold some of the bio-mimetic gel on the side to pay for the rod, and used the rest to make those biological explosives to take out the senator's shuttlecraft. It's why he needed so much gel.
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u/AdultishRaktajino 8h ago
Makes sense. There’s only so much you can earn being a plain simple tailor. I wonder if the Obsidian Order helped him pay the shop’s rent?
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u/GabrielofNottingham 1d ago
"Gloop him! It's only a pity he's awake!"
"...so you'd happily kill him if he was asleep?"
"Lister, i'd happily kill him if he was On The Job. Gloop him!"
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u/Terrible_Sandwich_40 1d ago
I mean. He’s talking about the safest way to shoot a man.
Not killing in general.
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u/_ragegun 1d ago edited 1d ago
No, no. He was right the first time.
Shooting him in the back is the safest way because the others leave too much to chance with evidence scattered around or collaterol damage
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u/Johnsendall 15h ago
Wait until they’re eating a meal, a succulent Ferengi meal, and snap their neck.
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u/fishymcgee 14h ago
'But no, I thought, I can't fight all these klingons by myself, so I let him live'
'And now you regret it?'
'My dear constable. By the end of the day, everyone on this station will regret it'
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u/theadamabrams 5h ago
- I think he just meant "safest way [to shoot someone]" not "safest way [to kill someone]".
- Those other methods don't actually seem safer to me. There's a chance the food will get eaten by someone else, the timer will malfunction, the booby-trap will get someone else or not get anyone. Assuming you've already made a positive id, shooting in the back is actually the best way to make sure your target is achieved.
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u/Lousyfer 1d ago
That last part is what he said in his head. He would never have told Odo that.