The Orb is a Trek.fm podcast dedicated entirely to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, hosted since 2013 by C Bryan Jones and Matthew Rushing. In January 2023, we begin a 30th-anniversary retrospective that will take you through all of DS9, one episode at a time, as we shift from our format of exploring the minutiae of the show to celebrating 30 years of the greatest chapter in the Star Trek franchise with an episode-by-episode examination.
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The Orb 11: It's All True... Especially the Lies
Garak.
He’s one of the most beloved characters on Deep Space Nine and one of the most complex in all of Star Trek. Garak appears in just 33 of DS9’s 173 episodes, yet it feels like he’s always there. His character arc can stand up to that of any of the “main cast” and—as a study of the psychological motivations for one’s actions—there is no better puzzle to unravel than the one called Elim. In this episode of The Orb, hosts Christopher Jones and Matthew Rushing are joined by Dr. Una McCormack, Star Trek author and lecturer at the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, to discuss what makes Garak tick, how his interactions with others on the station changed him, and his path from exiled agent of the Obsidian Order led to life as a simple tailor and ultimately to redemption as a savior of Cardassia.