DS9
Station residence file - 0276.
____________________ Residence Log, Stardate 50173.1 - present . |
ELIM GARAK - Visual nr 3504 |
A
smooth-talking, self-professed 'plain and simple tailor' is DS9's
lone Cardassian resident, exiled
there
upon Starfleet's arrival and eventually confirmed after much circumlocution as a former Obsidian Order spy, the son of its onetime leader Enabran Tain and one with a gift for interrogation. Garak's own clouded history as an OO agent, coupled with the typical Cardassian penchant for convoluted intrigue, often put him at odds with some of his own people including agent Corbin Entek and Gul Toran, whom he killed on the spot, and Gul Dukat, whose father he had tortured and killed years before. Garak was exiled after being forced even to betray his father/mentor and they parted bitterly, Tain refusing to give his son any forgiveness when he died alongside Garak in a Dominion prison camp in 2373. Tain's planned return to power in 2371 led to a failed assassination attempt on Garak, but the tailor had his shop blown up to focus attention on the Flaxian sent to kill him; he was the only one of five targets with data harmful to Tain to survive. A year
earlier, Garak had nearly died when the pain-blocking
device he was implanted with broke down two
He
had hoped to end his exile with acts of valor,
but Dukat's prominence at every turn of events has hampered
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