2025's Snowflake Challenge #6 & #15

[nonesensed]

#6: Share your favourite piece of original canon.
I have so sooo many! And most of them are huge spoilers (for a recent example, looking at you The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley) so I've been having a hard time picking one to share. Finally, I decided to go with an old fave:
Season 2 episode 22 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "The Wire".

As much as I enjoy Garak as a character over all, this is easily my favorite episode both of him and the way it focuses on his relationship with Bashir. I love the whole thing, especially the ending scene between Garak and Bashir.

Note to self: I should reread "A Stitch in Time.

To my fellow Garak fans: What are your favorite Garak moments? And I'm always happy to receive fic recs 😁


Challenge #15: Talk about an unexpected joyous moment you experienced last year.
2024 brought some sorrows, yet I had not one but THREE unexpected joyous fandom experiences:

1) Mononoke - aka the one that isn't Princess Mononoke - getting more movies, with a ton more lore 🤩🤩🤩🤩

2) Okami sequel announced!!

3) Star Trek: Lower Decks making Garak/Bashir a canon couple, at least in an alternative universe, re-sparking my interest in DS9 (bringing this post full circle~)

Comments

[gingicat]

"The Wire" is an amazing episode, and I too appreciated the Lower Decks moment.

Thank you for sharing!

[nonesensed]

And thank you for commenting! Siddig and Robinson are such talented actors, I have so much fun watching them, especially when they get to act together 😊

[scintilla10]

The Wire is a spectacular episode, great choice. :)

Not a fave Garak/Bashir moment exactly, but this silly video about their first meeting used to circulate on Twitter back in the day, and I watched it every time it got retweeted onto my feed, because it was just so funny to me. My wife and I still quote it to each other sometimes ("tea for the handsome lizard?"). :D

[nonesensed]

Bwhahaha, I hadn't seen that video before but I'm delighted I have now!! 😆😆😆 Thank you so much for the link 💖 I suspect I'll be quoting it a lot in the future too.

[potentiality_26]

The Wire is an awesome episode, for sure! My favorite part is probably Garak's rant about what living on DS9 is like for him.

As a Garak fan, I always got a kick out of the few moments later in the series when Garak manned a station on the Defiant. As much as I enjoy the show, I'm a ship-based Trekkie at heart, and seeing him as "part of the crew" really gets me.

[nonesensed]

Oooh yesss, his "these are the reasons living here SUCKS"-speech is so great; Robinson delivers it with such combined vitriol and exhaustion, it's just *chef's kiss*

Garak being "part of the Defiant crew" is such a great time in the series! The crew feels of Star Trek as a whole are so good, I understand wanting them too in DS9 😊

[potentiality_26]

Update: I have watched the Lower Decks clip. So many Garashir feels, especially that ending.

[nonesensed]

Yay, I'm glad you liked it! I hoped you might, especially since you mentioned loving it when Garak gets to be part of a ship's crew 😊💖 Also yeah, all the Garashir feels indeed!!