“Robinson’s novel is structured as a letter from Garak to Dr. Julian Bashir – his best friend and longtime breakfast companion on Deep Space Nine. Much fan fiction about Garak speculates that his feelings for Bashir went beyond the platonic relationship depicted on television, a belief Robinson does not refute. Indeed, in A Stitch In Time, Garak has crushes on both men and women.

“I loved that sexual ambiguity,” Robinson states. “I wanted to get away from our sexual prejudices. I thought, this is an alien! Who knows what alien sexuality is, if indeed there is strict heterosexuality or homosexuality, those delineations? That’s something that I kept in the book. Though that was more interesting to me in the playing of Garak than the writing of it; this book is for kids too, so I chose not to get more explicit sexually because of that.”

I didn’t have much to add to the rest because, yeah, it was how I remember it… I remember really enjoying the Cardassian woman in this episode though, and she was such an even match for Quark (in a dueling personality sense).

I do agree with Zeo that she has a very strong.. I think the word I would use is ‘reactive’ sense of feminism, and sometimes she points out a real interesting cultural immaturity about attitudes that went unquestioned (and some that still go unquestioned) when episodes were written. Other times, I think she sees something that’s not there, and I feel like I’m witnessing a quixotic war against non-existent patriarchal repression in episodes or character depictions.

Not that society doesn’t have these problems.

Shades of grey in our beautiful language, shades of grey.

But Zeorangerix is bitching, as he knows what it’s about, knows what she means and still wants to come in and read and have a go.

Not sure if I’ve made things more confusing now…