I love how Garak says “you’ll never know what hit you.” I don’t think he ever had any intention of killing Quark, he was messing with him the whole time. I love Garak, he’s awesome.
@@Daniel-rd6st Not only that but it seems like an un-Garak thing to do. Murdering a high-profile neighbor that he spent considerable amount of time with just prior to his death? Sisko would definitely put the pieces together and Garak would have to spend the rest of his days in a holding cell. Sloppy work for a man who prides himself on secrecy. So yes, I think he was definitely just screwing with Quark. Who wouldn't screw with Quark if given the opportunity? Even Julian has lol.
This is a key line. It shows that Garak (professional assassin, torturer, and executioner) can tell that Quark genuinely doesn’t want to die. This explains why the plotline ends here.
@@BlokenArrow I cannot deny that if I were Garak, I would 100% have had fun with Quark on this. Just engineer a few near-death experiences and then leave him a note saying "Don't worry, I'll get it eventually!" -Garak
I love how Garek is standing there looking so smug over the corpse, and then looks genuinely offended when Qwark says "Awful". Like his skills have been intentionally insulted.
@@CoralCopperHead At least in the holosuite you can practice over and over, Garak might have been messing with him by taking longer than normal to do it. Or he hasn't killed any Ferengi before 😆
Most of the time Garak uses his phaser on maximum so there isn't a corpse. In this case Quark needs a corpse as he has already sold his vacuum desiccated remains to Brunt, in effect it's the merchandise. The Order had micro transporters for when a body was needed, although live agents could use these. The signal was piggybacked on a com line so it was virtually untraceable.
@@Djarra In the novel Federations, Picardd disposes of the artifact containing the villain's mind by ordering the transporter on "maximum range, maximum dispersal". Nothing says gone for good like having your constituent atoms scattered across kilometers of deep space. (The novel also had a memorable scene of the Picard destroying a Romulan Warbird by using the Enterprise's saucer section as a blade at warp velocity.)
Immortalfire and with a smile... certainly more unsettling. At least you know when your imminent death is near with the others. Garak on the other hand is going to have fun making you wonder when.
+Alex Armstrong that's only because Voyager made them as threatening as cartoon villains. Villain decayy settled in. At least TNG and the First contact still left them a legitimate threat.
0:28 My favorite part of this scene is how affronted Garak looks when Quark doesn't like his assassination. Like, he probably spent years learning how to properly snap a person's neck with such ease, and he finally gets a chance to show off his skills and was just hoping someone would be impressed.
More than that, he had to learn multiple methods to snap necks! I'm sure that there are significant differences in anatomy that effect how you have to do it depending on the species of your victim.
You can actually see how pleased he is with himself and the sudden fall in his body language when Quark calls it "awful". Well played actor, well played.
They outdid themselves with Garak. In many ways he was better than the main cast. He was delightfully wicked, awful when needed but one of the most moral sound-boards around.
I would go far enough to say that Garak was the single best supporting character I’ve yet seen in a Star Trek series. He should have returned in another series like Worf or O’Brien.
Just finished S4E25. Garak made a surprisingly salient point. None of their lives matter much to the welfare of the entire alpha quadrant. He should have launched the quantum torpedoes on the Founders' homeworld right then and there. The Dominion would have been annihilated, and all it would have cost was a few officers. He's such a perfect reptilian mind.
+Rob8729 With Klingon's, that's on a regular basis, either it be combat practice, poetry, or romance. "My boots are drenched in blood! And you want *me* to feel _romantic_?
And from then on, every time Garak passed through Quark's, or vice versa, he'd always greet the Ferengi with a friendly smile that's perhaps just a little too wide...
*Years Later* Odo: Mr. Garak, I'd like to ask you about Quark. Garak: By all means. What is that mischievous friend up to? Odo: Apparently getting murdered. His quarters collapsed and his body was jettisoned into the vacuum of space as he slept. Perhaps you can share some light on this matter before the scans on his corpse verify the cause of death. Garak: My goodness. What a horrible way to go! Didn't see it coming! Or feel it! Or hear it or smell it! Just... *[snaps fingers]* Dead like that? Poor man must not have known what hit him. Odo: Hmmph!
@118026242970560954242 • Odo was actually one of the very few people who could tell whether Garak was lying or telling the truth. See: "Improbable Cause". Edit, 12.2022: the @ with numbers was the result of the RU-vid commenting system automatically making it so after I'd edited this comment. Before editing old comments, make sure you make a screenshot of the old version first, to see who you've originally replied to.
Its what defines DS9 as being different from the rest of Trek and its what made the show so good. You get to see the nuances of the universe through more than a single moral lens and you get to watch brilliant verbal duels between characters as they hash them out that don't just end with Picard ordering the other party to follow orders. My favourite scene in all of DS9 happens to also be bewteen these two characters, as they talk about the insidious nature of the Federation, comparing it to Root Beer, and then hoping in the end that they can save them.
Hey, that's my favourite scene too! It really drives home just why the Federation keeps expanding despite the combined best efforts of all its enemies. Complain as they do about the Federation being soft and weak and a corrupting influence on their proud societies, in the end everyone just prefers living in a safe, comfortable, "overly sweet" society.
@Robertson Thirdly Yes! Your favourite is great because its one of those things where Trek is turned on its head where instead of the alien representing some conspicuous darker element of human behavior its the alien observing the human as if the human behavior is the dark and perilous thing and in so doing makes a critical comment about ourselves. DS9 was great in this way, giving us the alien perspective on the humans.
One unproduced episode was to have seen the crew go off on the Defiant with Odo, who then sneaks back to block a deal Quark is doing. Only Odo is so focused on Quark that Garak, Morn and Rom all pull off extra legal transactions with out him noticing.
The implication of Garak's list is that they've been sitting in the Holodeck doing this sort of thing for HOURS - Quark couldn't have smelled nerve gas and survived, meaning that he was probably judging his responses based on his Hologram's reactions while Garak repeatedly murdered him over and over. And as a Savvy Businessman I'm sure Quark keeps the "Kill Quark" Simulator available for paying customers with grievances - so they take it out on the Hologram and not him.
Mmmm... I would guess that the holodeck provides a smell analogue... almonds for cyanide is the only one I can remember, but there is a WW2 cartoon about how to recognise the various chemical weapon smell signatures.
Maybe the gas was simulated to only affect the hologram and not anyone actually alive? So they could still smell it without it hurting them. Holodecks do have safeties after all.
Id say the lone exception was when the founder told him that the fleet with is father (and his people) were all dead. He composed himself but when she turned away, the look of unbridled anger and vengeance was second to none.
Only Garak could cooly talk about an assisted suicide in such a business-as-usual-like transaction, sell the person on the way he's going to kill them with them walking away with the promised hit-job a "satisfied customer"
I always wondered if Garak ever really planned to go through with it. Petty assassination kind of seems beneath him. It almost seems more likely he was just having fun with Quark.
Of course garak was messing with him, if he actually thought quark wanted to really go through with it. He never would have left that Room alive the moment he asked him.
Does Garak's list at 0:47 remind anyone else of Dorothy Parker's poem Resumé? Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live.
@@chrismcqueen3920 Oh is that with Odo as the fake founder ?, hands Garak the Plasma rifle, Here what do you think ???, that Cardassian Cheshire grin........ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rQ_p7l37piY.html
Snaps neck quite professionally. Then tips the body so it goes face first into the plate of food simply for the flare. That is the difference between a serial killer and A hired assassin. Style.
@@jaqenhghar2970 "We are the Borg. Your distinctiveness will be added to our own. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile". Garak: "oh I don't think so" eyes on. Borg: Garak: Borg: Garak: I'm sorry, did I not make myself clear. I'm Elim Garak...wait, where did they go? That was just starting to get interesting. Oh well, back to hemming trousers. Odo: hmmph Sisko: *I gotta get me some of them pimp eyes to go with this pimp hand*
"I don't want to see it coming! Or hear it! Or feel it, or smell it! I just wanna go on with my life and then *snap* I'm dead!" "Ah! *snap* You want to be surprised!" "Exactly! I want to wake up in the Divine Treasury and have no idea how I got there." "I see. Perhaps... that can be arranged." "... really?" "You have my word. You'll never know what hit you..." "*thinking* Ohh... crap, I really didn't think this through."
Well, by that time, Garak actually have too much on his hand to fulfill that contract (with the rebuild of Cardassia and all). It was a misdiagnose on the part of Quark afterall.
@@dyingearth I'm sure he would still take time for it, perhaps some random day a small package with an item Quark always wanted, and when he lifts it up there's a card that simply says "I never forget a promise - G" and the next instant Quark is in the treasury :)
They have a similar thing in Babylon 5. Moldary and G'kar are bitter enemies, and Moldary have a precognition that they will strangling each other to death. SPOILER SPOILER It actually happen, then Moldarys friend G'kar trying to mercy kill him, then he is under influence by a mind controlling parasit (Moldary would rather die, then be used agenst his frends) but the parasit take controll over Moldary, and Moldary and G'kar strangling each other to death.
I cracked when Quark said the first sentence.." did you hear that sound of bone snapping?? he sounded so desperate and shocked.. I had hard time to breathe!!
It's the little jobs that pay the rent long enough to get the big jobs. Don't sniff at them yo! Besides I don't think Garak truly intends to kill Quark. He knows Quark doesn't really want to die.
This is why I love Quark and Garak. They're just casually talking about ways to kill Quark and how he's picky about how he wants his death to be. The other scene where they compare The Federation to Root Beer is equally brilliant and they filmmed that because they feared the episode would be too short! Goes to show the commitment the makers of this show had for it.
I love how Garak actually goes through the process of demonstrating each of his kill methods to his client. Like one of those shop floor demonstration persons.
Oh my in Star Trek Cardassians know how to handle suicidal People... "Can I help you." "Oh Garak...I want to die sometimes." "If you are sure of that come back and tell me how you want to die. I will arrange anything else. Have a good day." "But...why?" "Practice."
One can't stress enough what a fantastic job Andrew Robinson did. Even with all that make-up he gave the character so much... life sometimes only with a subtle change in the way he made Garak speak or how he looked. Kudos also to the screenwriters for giving us a character with so many layers. For leaving some thing in the shadow or only briefly and vaguely mentioning them only feeding the mystery of Elim Garak
Quark went through this too negatively... Garak should've suggested that Quark pick the things he *liked* about each scenario, instead of pointing out what was wrong with them: - Neck breaking: quick & relatively painless - Nerve gas: anesthetic - Hanging: preserves the body, no bleeding - Poison: comes in all varieties - Etc. Then, Garak could've used this "positive" information to design Quark's perfect death.
I have to admit I love this show and I own the complete series on DVD season 1-7. Ive only had it a year and i swear ive watched it all the way thru from seasons 1-7 at least twenty times. If you want humor. If you want action. If you want great characters and good acting. DS9 has it all.
I love how Garak's face goes from a smiling 'I'm proud of my work' to a disappointed expression when Quark tells him 'Awful!'. Like someone telling you that you did a shitty job redesigning their kitchen cabinets.
That's what makes it funny though. Garak knows he just performed a flawless efficient expert kill that not only requires physical skill, but also knowledge of interspecies anatomy, and experience, and is about the gentlest way someone could go other than vaporization or a direct headshot, but Quark just calls it awful.
Garak helped me get over a couple things growing up in the 90s. He helped me come to terms with the fact that I preferred well dressed, older, intelligent men than the girls my age I was supposed to like growing up in a religious home.
This was one of the funniest episodes of DS9. Putting Garak in the role of Quark's personal assassin was a stroke of genius. The scene where Quark is in his quarters, waiting for Garak to spring out and go all ninja on him, cracks me up every time I see it.
I can only imagine that Garak is like a kid on Christmas morning, running down the stairs to the living room in his pjs to open his presents. The possibilities of murdering Quark by surprise must be endless, but Garak only gets one opportunity and therefore he has to make it GOOOOOOOOOOD.
The episode should have ended with Quark and Rom walking, Quark spots Garak who just smiles at him. Scared, Quark leads Rom away saying "remind me to talk to Garak later..."
Oh man, the fact that he says "You have my word....you'll never know what hit you" with such....casual assuredness makes it all the more menacing. Far more so than if he'd been TRYING to be intimidating.
What I love best about this scene is the thought of an actor spending god knows how many hours having Ferengi makeup applied, only to spend all day with his face in a plate of scrambled eggs. Acting is a crazy job.
I'm convinced that Garak is purposely avoiding to show Quark the types of assassinations he would be OK with because he doesn't really want to kill him... also because the look of horror on Quark's face is hilarious.
What I would have given to have watched that montage of all those rejected ways to die. Lol Plus, there should have been a scene with Bashir telling Garak he doesn't approve of him taking Quark's request and Garak saying he actually doesn't plan to to kill Quark at all but is enjoying him running around paranoid thinking it could happen at any moment.
TonesTheGeek yes! That would have been a great episode, just focus the entire episode on those two characters and the hilarious attempt at figuring out how to kill Quark
