 Quick Facts:
- Enemy to Gul Dukat, and
somehow responsible for the death of Dukat's father
- Exiled from Cardassia
following the withdraw of Bajor ("Past Prologue")
- Close friends with Tora
Ziyal, the half Bajoran daughter of Gul Dukat
- Befriended Doctor Julian
Bashir
- Only child of Enabran Tain,
former leader of the Obsidian Order
- Extremely Closter phobic
- Other than a "spy", his
other known occupations have included a tailor, gardener,
and assassin
- Took a major role in the
Cardassian revolution against the Dominion
Complete Bios:
FROM
STARTREK.COM
A smooth-talking,
self-professed "plain and simple tailor" was DS9's lone
Cardassian resident, exiled there upon Starfleet's arrival and
eventually confirmed after much circumlocution as a former
Obsidian Order spy and son of its onetime leader, Enabran Tain.
Garak's own clouded history as an OO agent, coupled with the
typical Cardassian penchant for convoluted intrigue, often put
him at odds with some of his own people, including agent Corbin
Entek and Gul Toran, whom he killed on the spot, and Gul Dukat,
whose father he had tortured and killed years before.
Garak was exiled after being
forced even to betray his father/mentor, and they parted
bitterly. In fact, Tain refused to give his son any forgiveness
when he died alongside Garak in a Dominion prison camp in 2373.
Two years earlier, Tain's planned return to power led to a
failed assassination attempt on Garak, but the tailor had his
shop blown up to focus attention on the Flaxian sent to kill
him; Garak was the only one of five targets with data harmful to
Tain to survive. A year earlier, Garak had nearly died when the
pain-blocking device he was implanted with broke down two years
after he'd grown addicted to the full flow of endorphins he
decided to release.
 On DS9, where his quarters were Chamber 901 on Habitat Level
H-3, he struck up an early friendship with the young Dr. Bashir,
and later came to respect Odo as well, especially after their
witnessing of Tain's disastrous Cardassian-Romulan debacle
against the Founders Homeworld in 2371. His rage over being
dismissed by the Female Changeling led to his abortive plan to
bomb their new homeworld with the U.S.S. Defiant, but the act
drew a six-month sentence from Sisko; later, he would help free
twinned prisoners from his father's Dominion prison camp despite
his claustrophobia. Ironically, he became enamored of Dukat's
half-Bajoran daughter Tora Ziyal in 2372 during her stay on DS9,
after he decided he could trust her with a rare show of
vulnerability, much to both Kira and Dukat's annoyance. And,
despite his exile, he still has friends on Cardassia who relay
information. He had hoped to end his exile with acts of valor,
but Dukat's prominence at every turn of events has hampered
that. Garak knows fluent Klingon, spent over a year as the
"gardener" of the Cardassian Embassy on Romulus during a year of
many Romulans' mysterious deaths, and dislikes hand-to-hand
fighting.
Garak's participation in the Cardassian underground was crucial
to the defeat of the Dominion in 2375. He was finally able to
return to his homeworld at that time, but sadly it lay in ruins
after the Dominion campaign of terror against his people.
First
Seen: "Past Prologue"
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