No double penetration in the future.

Based on some of Bashir's interactions with Chief O'Brien, I suspect it's a point of commonality.

I bet he loves reddit

Remember- he's just a simple tailor. 😂

I like to imagine Bashir was so peeved he didn't even bother to freeze it.

Well, he's a very good tailor.

Bashir in a spy holodeck program. Freeze the program!!! Bashir is now The Spy who came in from the Cold

Except to a Cardassian (in particular Garak), it is an insult! As a society they keep secrets as a matter of course. Being talkative (unable to keep a secret) must be seen as a deep character flaw.

@@slavetwe It depends on what you talk about. Cardassians LOVE to talk, but they can hide their motivations and secrets even while talking openly about them.

photons don't have mass dude.

@@ThePoshboy1 Well this joke seems to have failed to reach you.

There were some famous last words in the civil war. I don't remember if it was a Yankee or Confederate general but he was talking about cannon fire and said, "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-"

Marcus Hicks Jake said the same when trying to get a baseball card. He got abducted by the Dominion. DS9 jinxes are severe

It was no accident; Garak knew what he was doing.

@@singedrac It was a Yankee, John Sedgwick. He was one of the examples of the curse of the Army of the Potomac, all their generals fell in battle.

Its right up there with "We don't need to post a guard."

That doesn't necessarily mean they hadn't thought of it during the writing of this episode. I doubt that Bashir ever mentions it in his personal log, and there's no way he doesn't fake his medical exam results somehow (Or he'd have been busted the first time he needed any medical attention himself)

​@@TheDjbz The genetic enhancement wasn't planned by the writers so it doesn't have a bearing on earlier episodes. However to get the enhancement done the Bashir's had to go out of Federation territory and it's known that the Cardassians use genetic engineering, so it isn't beyond the realm of possibilities that a human family getting such a procedure would be noted by the Obsidian Order. Information that would come up in a cross check decades later, so when Garak chose to sit at Bashir's table he knew that Bashir would be useful, and when Tain told the military not to interfere with Bashir when he visited him he wanted to protect a potential asset. You can read a lot into stuff Garak said over the years that points in that direction. Then after it becomes public knowledge Garak implies he knew all along. Although even if he hadn't known he'd still imply that he did. so you can't read too much into that.

Which wound up adding a whole new layer to Bashir as a character.

Maybe Garak already know Bashir was hiding something. That's why he's keeping bother Bashir at first place.

@@Djarra Garak is actually pretty angry whenever it comes up, supposedly because he didn't manage to figure out Bashir was genetically-enhanced.

I think it's funny that Section 31 tried all that stuff with Bashir when Bashir has been hanging out with a spy for seven years. Like, maybe take that into account when trying to manipulate your target...

Right during the stabby part!

Yep.

@Numinous123 the actor who plays Bashir has more or less admitted that the same was true in reverse, too

When Rick Berman put his (sexist, homophobic) foot down and declared that the two characters were NOT gay for each other, the actors replied in confusion, "what do you mean, they're not? That's how we've been playing them for the past three seasons!"

@@Archone666 In fairness, it was the 90s. So that wasn't something you could just go ahead and do, and the show was getting bombarded with letters asking to make them a confirmed couple so...

​@@kayleighbrown459 Coincidentally, they did allow for a lesbian fling of sorts between Dax and a trill woman in another episode. It always seems a little hypocritical to me how they let that one slide but 180'd so much on these two.

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He must’ve seen Bashir put on a tux before entering the Holosuite. A tailor notices things like that.

@@IndianBrah that a lotmore probable but a lot less fun than he simply broke into the security systems xD

Also it echoes 'Second Skin' where Garak vaporises Entek after watching a reflection and seeing him reach for a second phaser in his boot. It ties back into this episode as Garak tries to explain the difference between reality and the fantasy. But basically one is just an OTT version of the other.

IMO Its the holodeck. Anything can happen even without genetic engineering

It's a holo program where he is James Bond. OF COURSE he can make impossibly lucky shots. It has nothing to do with his genetics it's the program.

@@nelsonchereta816 That's also why it knocked the henchman out. Realistically, a champagne cork wouldn't have enough force to knock somebody out. Too slow, too light. But on the holodeck, rule of cool applies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Though seeing as the henchman was already... Visually impaired... Hitting his other eye with the cork would have incapacitated him as well, at least for a moment. Maybe that's how he wound up with the eye patch in a previous encounter with a suave super spy: "IF YOU DO THAT ONE MORE TIME I'M NEVER GONNA LOOK AT YOU AGAIN!!!"

The wine cork shot was so ridiculous that Garak went full savage at the end of the clip "If I were in your shoes I would grab a bottle of champagne and shoot me" I always laugh like an idiot at that part

+Grim Snark dat fake accent

Grim Snark misuta Bashir in the Japanese dub

@@emiliocamachoerice6380 You mean meeeestaaaa Baaashiiiir. Gotta emphasize them vowels.

I laughed at this harder than I should have

I'm sure they said that just before the Founders Homeworld operation which saw the Dominion almost completely annihilate them. :P

It's clear that Garak wants there to be trouble and happenings and shennanigans.

That was the sulkiest expression I ever saw on Alexander Siddig's face.

My poor sweetie! Can't catch a break! And Sid has such a handsome face!

"Oh, my! It looks like the only one left here for you to make out with is me!"

Other than tailoring? What, from plain, simple Garak?

***** Did you like that book? I thought I would but it never really 'clicked' for me.

Ok. It was not a 'bad' book, by any means, but for some reason I didn't care for it. It got great reviews from the ST community, maybe I should give it another try sometime.

His...gardening advice?

Oh it was. Just not by the writers, the actor wanted his character to be extremly sexually adaptable

SpazzyMcGee1337 Yeah, I don't remember this episode but I know you just don't speak those words while on a holodeck ...or being on a TV series in general ...but especially on holodecks.

Wasn't there some gag on Futurama where they even noted "The holograms think they're real again." futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Holo-shed

Actually, Garak made a completely wrong assessment of that incident. Garak interpreted the villain taking the form of himself to be a sign of Bashir not trusting him and complemented that. However, the villain took the disguise of Garak because Bashir DID trust him and it allowed playing mind games with Bashir.

@@HariSeldon913 Not only that, but Garak is also the person with whom Bashir talks about deep themes the most and who also challenges his world view more often. Of course the telepath took his likeness...

"What could Possibly Go Wrong?" "What's the Worst that Could Happen?" And "Looks like Smooth Sailing" (said by Jadzia Dax in 'Children of Time'-and by Gilligan once or twice) Are Jinx phrases that should never be spoken on TV

Parody is fair use. But legal bills are expensive.

Er holosuite in this case I suppose.

What happens in the holosuite...is saved in the program's memory

Andrew Robinson once said that he intended Garak to be.. well, "bisexual" isn't the right word, but "universally interested" maybe? Poor Bashir, almost completely oblivious.

hagamapama I doubt it's the exact word the actor used, but I think 'pansexual' might be what he was going for. I heard from someone that often it's easier to get a shot with two people when there isn't much space between them - which is why you see everybody talking into each other's faces all the time on shows like Star Trek. That being said, he sure is right in Bashir's face, ain't he? XD

hagamapama after the first episode or couple of first scenes the crew told andrew to tone the homosexual undertones down. would have been interesting the the relationship between the 2 was great nonetheless.

+Zigten auert What homosexual undertones? In this holodeck scene, he was actually kissing a women. I think the homosexual theory between the pair of them is a myth. There has never been any obvious Innuendo or sexual contact. It's an erotic fan fantasy and nothing more.

lollll

And include this program as a freebie when you buy the holosuite I'd be Colonel Anastasia Komananov!

Considering that he came prepared dressed in a matching tux, I think you’re right that he had already done some prior reconnaissance. 😂

And that is actually Reginald Barkley's problem. It's an actual diagnosis in that universe: holoaddiction.

If Holosuites were real then something would go horribly wrong and you wouldn't be ABLE to leave them