Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Cardassians (1993)

Andrew Robinson: Garak

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Quotes 

• Elim Garak : I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. But I don't trust coincidences.

• Elim Garak : The Cardassians are quite meticulous record keepers, madam. They taught many worlds, including this one, how to keep records. I find it difficult to believe that none exist from that period. Certainly, computer entries were made on a regular basis?

  Deela : I wouldn't know, I wasn't a volunteer then. I was in the underground.

  Elim Garak : Really? Perhaps we *have* met!

• Doctor Bashir : But there's one more question I haven't figured out, Garak. Why did you want to expose Dukat? What's the truth about you and him?

  Elim Garak : Truth, Doctor, is in the eye of the beholder. I never tell the truth because I don't believe there is such a thing. That's why I prefer the straight-line simplicity of cutting cloth.

• Elim Garak : Really, Doctor, must we always play this game? I'm no more a spy than you are a...

  Doctor Bashir : ...a doctor.

• [Garak is repairing the resettlement center's computers himself] 

  Doctor Bashir : I continue to underestimate you, Garak.

  Elim Garak : Oh, it's no more difficult than sewing on a button actually. Excuse me.

  [He takes an electronic loupe out of his eye] 

  Doctor Bashir : You carry this everywhere with you, do you?

  Elim Garak : A simple tailoring tool. You'd be surprised how often someone needs their pants let out.

• Elim Garak : Children without parents have no status in Cardassian society. The situation is most unfortunate, but I don't make the rules.

  Doctor Bashir : But you *do* play the game, don't you, Garak? And there is a game being played right now as we speak, isn't there?

  Elim Garak : There are always games, Doctor.

  Doctor Bashir : The trouble is, I don't have the slightest idea what this game is all about. So you're gonna tell me what's going on inside that plain and simple head of yours, my Cardassian friend, or we're gonna sit here until we rot!

• [first lines] 

  Elim Garak : Aah. Tarkalean tea again, doctor?

  Doctor Bashir : Yes. And you're drinking Rokassa joice, Garak.

• [last lines] 

  Doctor Bashir : So you're not going to tell me.

  Elim Garak : But you don't need me to tell you. Just notice the details. They're sacttered like crumbs all over this table we regularly share. Until next time.