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Gandhi, U.S.S. Federation starship Ambassador class, Starfleet him as a spy, including Dr. Julian Bashir, although the two evenregistry number NCC-26632. Lieutenant Thomas Riker, with tually became friends. (“Past Prologue” [DS9]). Despite his protessome assistance from Captain Picard, was assigned to the tations to Bashir, Garak maintained some contact with Cardassian Gandhi in 2369 after his rescue from planet Nervala IV. He trans- intelligence. (“Cardassians” [DS9]). Garak enjoyed raising ferred to the ship just prior to its departure for a terraforming mis- ~~ Edosian orchids as a hobby. His experience with plants proved to sion in the Lagana sector. (“Second Chances” [TNG]). Thomas be of value when he served as a gardener at the Cardassian Riker was serving aboard the Gandhi when he began to express Embassy on Romulus. Oddly enough, there were an unusual pro-Maquis sentiments. By 2371 Thomas Riker deserted his post number of accidental deaths among high-ranking Romulan offiaboard the Gandhi to become a member of the Maquis. (“Defiant” cials while Garak served on Romulus. (“Broken Link” [DS]) [DS9)). Named for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869- 1948), While still a member of the Obsidian Order, Garak had volunleader of the Indian nationalist movement, an influential philoso- teered to have a cranial implant placed into his skull, to help him pher who advocated nonviolent confrontation and civil disobedi- resist torture if captured by an enemy. Garak found exiled life ence as a means of fostering political change on Earth. on Terok Nor (later Deep Space 9) to be intolerable, so he activated the cranial implant and left it on. The implant served as a Ganges, U.S.S. Starfleet Danube-class runabout, registry num- powerful narcotic on which Garak became physically dependent ber NCC-72454, one of three runabouts assigned to station Deep until 2370, when the unit malfunctioned, nearly costing Garak his Space 9. (“Past Prologue.” [DS9]). The Ganges was first seen in life. Dr. Bashir was able to remove the device. (“The Wire" [DS9)). “Past Prologue” (DS9). In that episode, Even in exile, Garak never gave up hope of eventual political it sported a “roll bar" that contained Ao = rehabilitation. ("Profit and Loss" [DS9)). Although sensor equipment. From a visual- FS ETE - Enabran Tain had been responsible effects standpoint, the purpose py Ts - for Garak's exile and even of the roll bar was to make it > LH E tried to have Garak easier to tell the Ganges 0°) = = killed, Garak found from the Yangtzee Kiang pl er = H - | — —— isolation so bitter in that episode's chase = = that in 2371 he jumped sequence. The Ganges was | 1 [0 — at the opportunity to serve also seen in “Q-Less" (DS9), again with Tain. Garak partici“Vortex” (DS9) and “The Siege” (DSS). The Ganges was pated in Tain's disastrous joint attack by the Obsidian Order and destroyed by a T'Lani munitions cruiser in 2370. (“Armageddon the Romulan Tal Shiar against the Founders of the Dominion. Game" [DS9)). The ship was named after the river in northern Garak was the only apparent Cardassian survivor of that battle. India and eastern Pakistan that flows 1560 miles from the (“Improbable Cause” [DS9], “The Die is Cast" [DS9)). Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal. Elim Garak distrusted Gul Dukat (“The Wire" [DS9], “Civil Defense” [DS9)], “Improbable Cause” [DS9], and “The Die is Cast” ganglion. A mass of nerve tissues that join each other outside [DS9)), because Garak had played a part in the downfall and exethe brain or spinal cord. Dr. Julian Bashir said he would have cution of Dukat's father. (“Civil Defense” [DS9)). Garak nevertheless been valedictorian instead of salutatorian in his graduating class fought alongside Dukat to defend the Detapa Council in 2372, if he hadn't mistaken a pre-ganglionic fiber for a post-ganglionic when Klingon warriors attempted to abduct the Council. (“The Way nerve. ("Q-Less” [DS9)). An understandable mistake... of the Warrior” [DS9]). Even more ironically, Garak found himself attracted to Dukat’s daughter, Tora Ziyal, when she took up resiGaradius system. Planetary system. The Enterprise-D visited dence on Deep Space 9 in 2372. (“For the Cause” [DS9)). the Garadius system on a diplomatic mission following its Garak returned briefly to Cardassia in 2371 to help rescue encounter with a Romulan science vessel in 2368. (“The Next Kira Nerys, who had been taken prisoner by the Obsidian Order. Phase" [TNG]). (“Second Skin" [DS9)). As a passenger on the Defiant while the ship was at the Founders’ homeworld in 2372, Garak attempted Garak (mirror). (Andrew Robinson). Inthe to obliterate the planet by overriding the launch controls for . mirror universe, first officer of station the ship’s quantum torpedoes. Had Garak been successful, he fl. © 3 Terok Nor in 2370. (“Crossover” [DS9]). In would have killed all of the Founders. For his actions, Captain 2371, this Garak tortured and killed Rom Sisko ordered that Garak be imprisoned for six months in a “a (mirror) after Rom revealed a Terran rebel- holding cell. (“Broken Link” [DS9]). - lion plan to get Jennifer Sisko (mirror) Garak was the son of Obsidian Order chief Tain. Ironically, it 3 away from Terok Nor (mirror). (“Through was Tain who gave the order to have Garak exiled to Terok Nor. the Looking Glass" [DS9)). Garak spent much of his life desperately trying to please his father, although Tain kept his son at arm's length. It was only in Garak, Elim. (Andrew 2373, when Tain was on his deathbed in a Jem'Hadar prison Robinson). Former agent camp, that he confessed to Garak that he was proud of his son of the powerful Cardas- y; (“In Purgatory's Shadow" [DS9)). sian Obsidian Order 74 J Garak's quarters on DS9 were Chamber 901, Habitat Level Hintelligence service until 11 \ 3.("The Wire" [DS9)). Garak was first seen in “Past Prologue” (DSS) he was exiled to space J station Terok Nor in 2368. Pd \ Garan miner. (Michael Fiske). Administrator for the Garan mining (“The Wire" [DS9)). Garak colony in the Delta Quadrant. The miner, along with the rest of his was the only Cardassian J J colony. was killed in 2373 when the Tak Tak consul “purified” citizen left on the station ’ him of the macrovirus infection. (“Macrocosm” [VGRY). after the Cardassian retreat from the Bajoran / Garan mining colony. Settlement on a planet in the Delta system in 2369, at which : Quadrant. The colony was destroyed in 2373 by a Tak Tak contime the station became sul in an attempt to stop the spread of the macrovirus. known as Deep Space 9. bat (*Macrocosm” [VGR]). While in exile, Garak \ opened a clothing shop p Garan, Araya. (Robin Groves), Native of the Vhnori homeworld on the station's Promen- and wife of Hatil Garan. Araya wanted Hatil to undergo the ade and worked as a tai- Vhnori transference ritual when he became a burden on the lor. Garak made no references to his past, calling himself just family after a debilitating accident. She felt his choice to die in “plain, simple Garak,” but some people on the station still regarded ~~ 2371 was a selfless gift to his family. (“Emanations” [VGR))