• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I haven’t yet been able to watch DS9 from beginning to end … I’ve seen episodes here and there but never saw the entirety.

    So my question is

    What about these Garrick episodes I keep hearing about?

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        1 year ago

        There are no Garak episodes. Why would anyone want to watch an episode about a mere tailor

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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        I always loved that … in an age of replicator technology, instant manufacturing and duplication, automated systems and digital recreations … no one ever finds it unusual that there is an individual of the species that was a former military opponent posing as an old school clothing merchant on a space station.

        It would be like having a simple humble scientist from 1940s Germany working as a common rocket engineer in the American space program in the 1960s … weird right?

        • dejected_warp_core@startrek.website
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          To quote Lower Decks:

          Mariner: I think it was the chef in the biolab with the sniper rifle that can shoot through walls.

          Freeman: You always pick the chef.

          Mariner: Yeah, because we have replicators. Why is there a chef? That’s just shady.

        • PelicanPersuader@beehaw.org
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          View it as a luxury service. Even in a world with replicators, people enjoy cooking but see it as more special. Getting your clothing made or adjusted by a tailor is also a sort of luxury. There’s a certain touch that comes with a person creating a thing that you can’t get from a computer.