My Dear Doctor
Doctor Julian Bashir and Elim Garak are sex-frenemies, and Ryan and Becca have the receipts. Continue the Slash deep dive with us in Part 2 of our 2-part discussion (for Part 1, listen to last week's episode Kirk Heart Spock 4EVA.) Also, we discuss the trope of male bonding via objectifying women, and the fact that Odo is a fascist.
What We Watched
Past Prologue
Garak and Bashir meet for the first time! (YouTube)
The Wire
Improbable Cause
Our Man Bashir
The Fandom
Fanfic
Facebook Groups
Garak is Love. Garak is Life. Garak is Queer.
Garak is Love. Garak is Life. 3
Finding Queer Representation
The character of Elim Garak was *almost* openly queer
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Showrunner Ira Steven Behr Looks Back for Documentary What We Left Behind - comicbook.com
"I wish we could have done a little bit more with the Garak character. I talk about it in the doc. I mean, he was clearly gay or queer or however you want to say it. I think I would have loved to have taken that and see where that went and how that affected his relationship with Bashir." - Ira Steven Behr
Garak and Bashir: The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Relationship That Should’ve Been - The Mary Sue
Star Trek: 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Elim Garak - Screen Rant
Dax is trans!
How Transgender Star Trek Fans Came to View Jadzia Dax as Their Own - The Mary Sue
Recommended Reading/Watching/Listening
On Deep Space Nine
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Andrew Robinson Interview Part 2 (Garak, DS9) made available by TrekCore
On Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner's friendship
Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man by William Shatner
On treating fictional texts as sacred & Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text - Becca highly recommends this podcast!
