[ SECRET POST #3181 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3181 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 070 secrets from Secret Submission Post #455.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Transcript by OP

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Image: Two screen shots of Garak and Bashir from Star Trek; Deep Space Nine, from Season 6, Episode 1 "A Time to Stand". In the top picture, Bashir is saying "then how do you explain my boyish smile?". In the second picture, Garak replies "Not so boyish anymore, Doctor."

Text: I never really "saw" Garak/Bashir, but DAMN if this scene didn't read as a break-up to me.

(Is this, like, reverse shipping?)

Re: Transcript by OP

[(Anonymous)]

It's been ages since I've watched the later seasons (I've slowly been working my way through the show again though, so I'm having all the feels about the missed opportunity that was this ship), but this was not too long after the reveal of Bashir's genetic background, wasn't it? I see how Garak's comment can read as disenchantment, but I always thought that, after the reveal, Garak should have been even more interested, since his naive, young puppy of a doctor turned out to be very much his equal in regards to keeping secrets, being an outsider, and living in constant fear of losing everything he has. If only tptb hadn't gotten a bad case of gay panic when they found out about Garak/Bashir.

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[(Anonymous)]

So much this. Rejigging the storyline for Odo was done well, all things considered, but there definitely wasn't the same undertones of betrayal/etc. that would have come to the forefront, if the Obsidian Order had decided Garak was to torture Bashir, instead.

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You're right, the reveal had come in the previous season. In fact, most of the conversation before the part that appears in my secret is all about Bashir having calculated the odds of their survival, and Garak getting offended by it.

You raise a good point about the character element, too; I'll have to keep that in mind when I eventually re-watch the series.