My favorite thing about A Stitch in Time is that it's an entire letter from Garak to Bashir. Julian was expecting probably 10 pages, and instead he got an entire novel! That is love.
I'm a huge fan of this ship, and especially the openness about it that the actors shared at cons. It's my understanding that they even did skits on stage that included pretty blunt references to the romantic underpinnings of the relationship. Trek is my first fannish love, and G/B is my favorite Trek ship! Well, so far. I'm digging Discovery too :)
Garashir was honestly one of my first ships. My dad and I watched DS9 together when Netflix first became a thing and I was so invested! He didn't have the heart to tell me it wasn't going to happen.
The thing about "garashir" as opposed to the gay relationship on Discovery is that the relationship on STD... Sorry ST:D Is Established. The relationship on DS9 was one that developed - an angle VERY RARE in TV in terms of gay relationships. That almost NEVER HAPPENS! and that both characters were Career Military... With DADT being HUGE at the time DS9 came out... No wonder Garashir was discouraged! But growing relationships are for straight people, g*d forbid we see a show on TV that explores how gay relationships build, especially between people who are open or curious! Holy hat trick, the world would explode! And don't even get me started on Paris and Chakotay on Voyager! I have a story on that. Sincerely, gen-x-er who grew up on this stuff.
Y'all remember the TNG episode where they visit the Deep Space 9? I guess it was in season 6. Bashir definitely had a crush on Data, no one can tell me otherwise
DS9 is my fave and I've shipped Garak/Bashir for so so long. I find it amusing that as a result of the resurgence of the show and the ship, A Stitch in Time has become a rare commodity that some people are buying for $50. Like woah. I kinda see it as some kind of semi sub-canon. The actors were all for it, and sometimes even played it that way, and then ASIT can easily be read as a love letter. It would be nice of something official paired the two in canon.
I could not get into star trek for nothing, me being born in 96 and not in America or Uk is a big hinderance on getting to watch it and enjoy it. But I watched Discovery on netflix recently and loved it, am very interested in Star Trek and wanted to watch one of the oldies but nothing gained my interest. When I saw gif sets of DS9 on tumblr, I was so taken aback by how diverse and gorgeous this cast was. Siddig getting my attention right away (He aged like fine wine btw) so I tuned in on netflix earlier this year and it is the best decision I ever made. I came for the eye candy and stayed for these complicated political and social plots that are still relevant today. Sisko is such a fantastic captain, and as a black man, he is nothing like the stoic or comedic archetypes they usually give to his demographic during the 90s. He was such a whole person, caring, intelligent, a badass, reasonable yet very guided by his heart and strong moral compass. Avery Brooks is a fantastic actor! he made he teary eyed a few times. and just on season 4. Kira is probably still one of the most amazing women in sci-fi to this day. Jadzia is an inspiration to men and women, she's just so damn cool. But Garashir, is really the pairing that just stole my heart. (julian being hated in the 90s is weird, probably why siddig wanted to leave the franchise, to put so much into your first major role and have your character be disliked is heartbreaking). Me finding out the fanbase is still alive and striving after so many years is tremendous. I'm currently reading garashir fanfiction made in 1996 the year I was born and fanfiction made yesterday, that is damn amazing. Favorite Garashir Scene has to be everything in "Our Man Bashir", the suits, and Garak mocking Bashir's spy LARPing as a professional sp---I mean tailor. Ha.
for me, Gashir was one of the first times I shipped two characters, particularly from Star Trek, way back in the 90's, and before I even understood what shipping was. Its still my main OTP for DS9. I still read fanfic dedicated to this pairing, and enjoy the many artworks that have come out because of it.
I'd love to see the alternate universe where DS9 was written at a more accepting time, where they really could have leaned into this, because this is like the best ship!
I love G/B! I didn't realize that there had been a ship revival, though. I'll have to go explore some! And I would totally watch you review Star Trek tie-in novels.
I loved Deep Space Nine! My fave episode was 'Far beyond the stars' set in the 1950's. To see black people in positions of authority in the future was a very big deal for me. P.S - Could you do an Agen Coulson/Hawkeye episode? The two characters never appeared on screen together, but the amount of fanfiction for them is huge!
Okay that can't be a coincidence. Two hours ago i just found out that that ship exist, thanks to an old tweet of Bryan Fuller and NOW at the same day you are uploading a video discussing that ship?! O.o
DS9 was one of my all-time favorite Star Trek series up until I was spoiled by someone who informed me that one of my favorite characters died and I stopped watching. One of my biggest annoyances with sci-fi space series are the war arcs. I loved the characters usually and the exploration of their relationships and experiences with alien cultures. But war arcs are particular hard for me to drudge through. Thats why DS9 was so wonderful, it felt like a "human" drama but set in space.
I discovered DS9 very recently thanks to Netflix and was blown away. I had always heard such negative things, but ended up loving the more civilian focused star trek. The show felt so much more deep and political with a lot more world building. As for this ship, I really enjoyed their friendship early in the series but never saw the shipability due to them being separated later on. Although in hindsight I do see it, and much prefer it to the Bashir and Dax pairing the show tried to push.
If I could wave a magic wand, go back in time, and make Garashir canon, I would do that in a heartbeat. But, barring that, I would have been almost as happy if they'd let Garak be explicitly bi/pan, let Bashir be explicitly bi or gay, and then not cut out their friendship as much in the later seasons. It would be much more important to me just to have had some kind of representation--which I think Garak and Bashir would been great for--and then gotten, say, a scene following up on the reveal of their secrets after Purgatory's Shadow and and Doctor Bashir I Presume.
Can I just shower you in compliments about your editing? I love the gifs you use, they always make me smile, and I can just imagine the amount of time you have to spend gathering all the pictures and fanart and gifs. Amazing. You've been doing the great the whole time, but for some reason, this video just made it dawn on me that you're a champion gif user.
Despite my love of Discovery (no one needs to know how I get it!), I would love a Trek series post Nemesis. Maybe Bashir guest stars and says he has a Cardassian husband. Just saying.
Garak/Bashir (and Odo/Kira) were my first introduction to fanfiction. I found an old DS9 fansite when I was 11 that included a fanfiction page. Yep, my fanfic obsession can be attributed to DS9 ships.
I love Star Trek Deep Space 9. I can confidently say it is my favorite Star Trek series. I shipped Garak and Bashir from the first moment they were on screen together. You beautifully stated all the reasons why I love these characters and this ship so much. Another reason, one that I don’t think was touched on in the video, is their intellect. These two are intellectual equals and I adore that! I could listen to their fascinating conversations about literature, philosophy, and morality, for hours and never get bored. When I was watching the show for the first time, and noticing the lack of character interactions in later seasons, I was one of the fans whose support for the ship grew and often thought about how both characters would react to canonical events and how their interactions change over time. In terms of on-screen interactions, I love all the ones they had during the first four seasons. For the second half of the series, I think my favorite would have to be from the episode “By Inferno’s Light,” when Bashir is convincing Garak to play his part in the escape plan through logic and his flirty teasing towards Garak that was almost a role reversal, Bashir comforting Garak after his…attack, and then later Bashir’s proud smile when Garak gets back to work amongst his worst fears. Despite the bleak circumstances, all their interactions in this episode are wonderful and some of the most memorable for the ship, I think. One of my favorite types of DS9 fanfics to read is post-cannon Cardassia, how the survivors cope with the after-effects of war, how Cardassian society changes as a result, and how Garak and Bashir come together through helping the Cardassians recover. Shippable moments with these two? Yes, please! There are so many, many moments to jump off from. Thank you so much for covering one of my earliest and favorite ships!
I've only recently found this ship online and fallen in love with it. I've been going through all the Treks as of late, and DS9 is one I've recently finished. However, my being drawn into this ship all over again due to its presence online as drawn me back to watching the Garak and Bashir episodes again. I've also been seeking out fanworks online, and am hoping to get my hands on A Stitch in Time and Enigma Tales to get a fuller picture of them. The characters of Bashir and Garak fascinate me. Their dynamic also fascinates me. I can't help but be drawn back to them…
Tfw your old ship art from 2016 is featured in a video (mines the art that says by StarryPancake - my old deviantart account) I feel honoured, thank you!!
I always loved Star Trek and DS9 is really underrated. And I always liked Bashir, even if he came across as arrogant and naive at the beginning. I wasn't a Garak/Bashir shipper then but their relationship always intruiged me. I really need to watch the show again. :D
I've always sort of been middle of the road when it came to this pairing. I didn't really ship it that seriously, but I did read a lot of fanfics with it just for fun. But now watching this video, I'm a full G/B convert!
I love DS9! I grew up on TNG and was super excited as a kid when I heard DS9 was coming out. But I was only 8 when it started and it's political themes were way too complex for me, I got bored and stopped watching pretty quick. I finally came back to it about 10 years ago and grew to absolutely love it. I still find the 1st season is a bit slow and the characters take time to grow on you, but it pays off so beautifully. DS9 is wonderfully complex. I can't say it's my favourite, because I love TNG and Voyager so much as well. Pretty much whichever series I'm rewatching at the time is my favourite. :P Also: Garak & Bashir Forever!
I feel silly for not noticing the undertones for all these years. An entire decade and rewatching the series 3 times and I only realize after and youtube recommendation.
There was a LOT to love about Ds9, it took me ages to get into it properly, but once it clicked, it clicked hard, and one of my favourite things about it was Garak and Bashir's meetings :)
Ok, I low-key flipped out when I saw you made a Garashir video, haha. I really like DS9, especially all that alien cultures that has been shown. My favourite Garashir scenes are of course this one scene in "The Wire", their first scene. The turning 30 scene was also interesting when you watch how interested Garak is in Julian's reaction. The "Especially the lies" scene is probably my favourite. Our Man Bashir was so Silly, but I loved the Garashir moments in it. I also like the relationship between Garak and Ziyal, even though I don't ship them. It was just really interesting how Garak acted when she kissed him. He always had a look as if he wasn't worth being loved and I really like the thought to bring this side of Garak to his relationship with Julian. AND you reminded me, that I bought A Stitch In Time today. PS: Could you make a McSpirk video in the future? Of all the Star Trek ships I have I think it's my OTP. Or maybe you could make a Qcard or Archer/Trip (I know, most people ship Trip/Reed) video. Seriously I wouldn't mind if you would just do Star Trek videos, Star Trek is awesome, haha.
Star Trek!! Yess!! I am a fan of all your Star Trek videos :)) And, yeah, the 90s were so odd. It's super interesting to see shows from that time getting re-contextualized through streaming services.
DS9 is my favorite Trek series, I still have to watch the second half of the first season of Discovery but it´s clear that is the best first season of a Trek series in 30 years. About Garak and Bashir, I never shipped them when I watched the series, I loved their interactions but I still wasn´t aware of those undertones, If I´d watch it now for the first time may I´d do it (or Bashir and O´Brien) About my favorite shared scenes I´d go with two that I find brilliant: 1) The one where they discuss Peter And The Wolf 2) Their final conversation in The Wire
Nice to see DS9 get some recognition! :) Also, it’d be nice if you cover Grindledore (Grindelwald and Dumbledore) before the next Fantastic Beasts movie comes out.
OMG I was so excited when I got the notification for this video that I had to watch it imidietly and now I have no time for a shower 🙈 lol G/B is my second favorite Star Trek ship so should you ever feel inclined I would LOVE if you did a video for the Doctor and 7of9 form Voyager 😀
I used to be one of those people who thought ds9 was lesser because... reasons? Honestly I don't know why. Then I watched it and to this day it is the only series I have seen all the way through without skipping episodes. I love it, and Garashir is life, although the fics have slowed down recently which is disappointing. Now that I've said that their's going to be a boom.
Ds9 is my favorite Star Trek. I might be a tad bit bias given how I grew up watching them on my dad's old vhs system but DS9 always captured my imagination best out of all the Star Trek shows (not by a large margin but still). Yeah, it can be annoying how the station changes size depending on which ship is docking and it has plenty of faults but the characters themselves we're fantastic. The world just felt so fleshed out and I love everyones interactions and development. *Sighs* I'm a sucker for interesting characters, plots (even if they don't always make sense), and emotional interactions (probably why I also enjoyed Babylon 5 as a kid) Anyways, thank you so much for the fantastic video. I can definitely see why people ship Bashir and Garak. Sorry for the long comment
Oh oh do mckirk or spones or khan x bones or mckirk! As for Bashir I loved him from the start and ds9 is my favorite. I shipped Bashir with both guys and girls and other aliens but for some reasons cardascians don't do it for me lol. Don't know why really.
I never read the Stich book but because all of the Star Trek books are connected I read about Garak in another DS9 book and how his relationship with another man develops. And after learning what was lost in the main show, I am very happy about that. But I have to say even though I get this ship, I ship Bashir with another woman because this ship is explored in the books.
Yes enjoyed your views very much. I've enjoyed both characters very much....the Doctor and Mr Garic. I think they work great together. Also Mr Worf position on deep space #9. Will there be more? About Deep space #9? What about Odo? What about Captain Sisko? Why could you not bring the Borg into this somewhere?but getting back to D.S.#9 all of the characters were great...and thank you for your comments also. Kpc.
DS9 is great, it's not my favourite Trek, that being TNG but it's great on its own right. Garashir is great though, I love the two together and I got into them before I really watched DS9, finding them elsewhere like deviantart etc. It's wonderful!
Love hearing about older ships that I wouldn't have known about. I'd love to see a video on popular femslash in the past, since they weren't as beloved as male-male pairings. I can only think of Xena/Gabrielle.
DS9 is still in my mind because I read all the post series books. And wow, a lot happens there. Those books include Season 8 and Season 9 of the Relaunch, all World of DS9 books, Typhon Pact, The Fall and three (almost four) single books. So yeah, I kinda like DS9
DS9 is a great show! :D It was the first official Star Trek that I watched. (I saw episodes from the other series, but never watched them from start to finish until after watching DS9.) Garak and Bashir are definitely my favorite couple in DS9 (canon or not) and I kind of liked watching all of their scenes, though their very first scene together got me interested. :D Also, I love all things Star Trek too! :)
Can you someday make a vid about the little black dresses of fandom. You know these characters that every fandom has that meshes with everybody? I've never seen anything on them.
antrazi taj hmm I havent heard that term before. She did do a vid about "fandom bicycles" aka the characters that get shipped with everybody in the fandom. Is that similar to what your talking about?
I haven't watched any other star trek than DS9, and watched it because it was the most liked? I'm also surprised Basheer isn't liked? I'm only at season 3, and he's my favorite character :D
I adore DS9, which at its best was one of the best space operas ever. It is my current fave TREK although DSC may just de-throne it. But honestly (and this has nada to do with shipping) it frustrates me no end how little we learned about Bajor and the Bajorans. Honestly, we learned an enormous amount about Cardassia--their culture, institutions, traditions, view of the world, etc. Yet about the Bajorans--nothing but a few details that never cohered. Honestly, this was supposed to be a people defined by their faith yet even by series' end I still could not tell you want their faith entailed! How did they view death? Do they have a concept of "sin" and what might that concept be? I don't know.
yes! YES!! Finally a video on my huge beyond favorite OTP! I cannot name one moment with these too that I love alone! I am so happy!! I'm not kidding I just want Garak and Bashir to be married and live happily on Cardassia. Let them be happy. (:
Great video! I'm curious though; what are your views regarding Star Trek: Voyager? Specifically about Captain Janeway ships, lack thereof, and the debate about her sexual orientation.
As I was watching DS9 as a kid I wanted Julian to get with Jadzia, but looking back now I really wish this ship had become canon. (Though most likely if it had, I wouldn't have been allowed to watch it.)
Ds9 is my favourite Trek, Garashir is my Trek OTP together with Spirk (I can't choose between the two) and I think it's one of the biggest lost chances of television. So much potential wasted like that is so sad.
My favorite thing about A Stitch in Time is that it's an entire letter from Garak to Bashir. Julian was expecting probably 10 pages, and instead he got an entire novel! That is love.
LunaMalfoy7 The end of Enigma Tales is even more romantic. And sad. Really sad. It's like fanfiction Angst.
Vic Vic I don't want my OTP to break up so I don't know if I wanna read it.
gosh, i hate it when producers noticing that the audience is shipping a same sex ship and reacting with seperating the characters -.-
"oh no, our actors have chemistry together and act like a believable couple... must... destroy.."
@@Cheesusful They are chicken shits.
i guess it's kinda randomly asking but do anybody know a good website to stream new series online ?
@Crew Mateo I watch on flixzone. You can find it on google =)
@Nova Robert Yup, I have been watching on Flixzone for months myself :D
DS9 is so underappreciated! I love Garashir and so glad that there's been a slight resurgance in fic. So many possibilities!
In the recent DS9 documentary, Ira Steven Behr (the head writer) admitted that they should’ve had Garak come out to Bashir after The Wire
I'm a huge fan of this ship, and especially the openness about it that the actors shared at cons. It's my understanding that they even did skits on stage that included pretty blunt references to the romantic underpinnings of the relationship. Trek is my first fannish love, and G/B is my favorite Trek ship! Well, so far. I'm digging Discovery too :)
Yeah they wrote a play that they used to perform at cons :) so awesome.
@@shippersguidetothegalaxy6634 and recently during Covid they've performed fanfic of them together on YT
Garashir was honestly one of my first ships. My dad and I watched DS9 together when Netflix first became a thing and I was so invested! He didn't have the heart to tell me it wasn't going to happen.
Garashir will forever be my OTP.
The thing about "garashir" as opposed to the gay relationship on Discovery is that the relationship on STD... Sorry ST:D Is Established. The relationship on DS9 was one that developed - an angle VERY RARE in TV in terms of gay relationships. That almost NEVER HAPPENS! and that both characters were Career Military... With DADT being HUGE at the time DS9 came out... No wonder Garashir was discouraged! But growing relationships are for straight people, g*d forbid we see a show on TV that explores how gay relationships build, especially between people who are open or curious! Holy hat trick, the world would explode!
And don't even get me started on Paris and Chakotay on Voyager! I have a story on that.
Sincerely, gen-x-er who grew up on this stuff.
Y'all remember the TNG episode where they visit the Deep Space 9? I guess it was in season 6. Bashir definitely had a crush on Data, no one can tell me otherwise
lol! I think you’re right about that!
hehe
DS9 is my favorite Star Trek
The Random Hamlet same!
DS9 is my fave and I've shipped Garak/Bashir for so so long. I find it amusing that as a result of the resurgence of the show and the ship, A Stitch in Time has become a rare commodity that some people are buying for $50. Like woah. I kinda see it as some kind of semi sub-canon. The actors were all for it, and sometimes even played it that way, and then ASIT can easily be read as a love letter.
It would be nice of something official paired the two in canon.
I could not get into star trek for nothing, me being born in 96 and not in America or Uk is a big hinderance on getting to watch it and enjoy it. But I watched Discovery on netflix recently and loved it, am very interested in Star Trek and wanted to watch one of the oldies but nothing gained my interest. When I saw gif sets of DS9 on tumblr, I was so taken aback by how diverse and gorgeous this cast was. Siddig getting my attention right away (He aged like fine wine btw) so I tuned in on netflix earlier this year and it is the best decision I ever made. I came for the eye candy and stayed for these complicated political and social plots that are still relevant today. Sisko is such a fantastic captain, and as a black man, he is nothing like the stoic or comedic archetypes they usually give to his demographic during the 90s. He was such a whole person, caring, intelligent, a badass, reasonable yet very guided by his heart and strong moral compass. Avery Brooks is a fantastic actor! he made he teary eyed a few times. and just on season 4. Kira is probably still one of the most amazing women in sci-fi to this day. Jadzia is an inspiration to men and women, she's just so damn cool. But Garashir, is really the pairing that just stole my heart. (julian being hated in the 90s is weird, probably why siddig wanted to leave the franchise, to put so much into your first major role and have your character be disliked is heartbreaking). Me finding out the fanbase is still alive and striving after so many years is tremendous. I'm currently reading garashir fanfiction made in 1996 the year I was born and fanfiction made yesterday, that is damn amazing.
Favorite Garashir Scene has to be everything in "Our Man Bashir", the suits, and Garak mocking Bashir's spy LARPing as a professional sp---I mean tailor. Ha.
for me, Gashir was one of the first times I shipped two characters, particularly from Star Trek, way back in the 90's, and before I even understood what shipping was. Its still my main OTP for DS9. I still read fanfic dedicated to this pairing, and enjoy the many artworks that have come out because of it.
I'd love to see the alternate universe where DS9 was written at a more accepting time, where they really could have leaned into this, because this is like the best ship!
I saw this and literally shouted "YESSSSSSS" to no one but myself. Lol.
I love G/B! I didn't realize that there had been a ship revival, though. I'll have to go explore some!
And I would totally watch you review Star Trek tie-in novels.
I loved Deep Space Nine! My fave episode was 'Far beyond the stars' set in the 1950's. To see black people in positions of authority in the future was a very big deal for me.
P.S - Could you do an Agen Coulson/Hawkeye episode? The two characters never appeared on screen together, but the amount of fanfiction for them is huge!
Either a deep friendship or something more, the producers really missed out on a great opportunity with the Chemistry those two had on set...
As an oblivious teen when DS9 premiered, I immediately began crushing on the dr. As an adult, I adore Gashir
Okay that can't be a coincidence. Two hours ago i just found out that that ship exist, thanks to an old tweet of Bryan Fuller and NOW at the same day you are uploading a video discussing that ship?! O.o
Forever mourning the lost potential of this ship in canon.
DS9 was one of my all-time favorite Star Trek series up until I was spoiled by someone who informed me that one of my favorite characters died and I stopped watching. One of my biggest annoyances with sci-fi space series are the war arcs. I loved the characters usually and the exploration of their relationships and experiences with alien cultures. But war arcs are particular hard for me to drudge through. Thats why DS9 was so wonderful, it felt like a "human" drama but set in space.
I discovered DS9 very recently thanks to Netflix and was blown away. I had always heard such negative things, but ended up loving the more civilian focused star trek. The show felt so much more deep and political with a lot more world building.
As for this ship, I really enjoyed their friendship early in the series but never saw the shipability due to them being separated later on. Although in hindsight I do see it, and much prefer it to the Bashir and Dax pairing the show tried to push.
If I could wave a magic wand, go back in time, and make Garashir canon, I would do that in a heartbeat. But, barring that, I would have been almost as happy if they'd let Garak be explicitly bi/pan, let Bashir be explicitly bi or gay, and then not cut out their friendship as much in the later seasons. It would be much more important to me just to have had some kind of representation--which I think Garak and Bashir would been great for--and then gotten, say, a scene following up on the reveal of their secrets after Purgatory's Shadow and and Doctor Bashir I Presume.
Also: *The mirror universe* episodes were a great contribution to Garak/Bashir shipping.
I can't wait to share this with my husband! XD (who recently watched DS9 and when I told him they were almost a thing was disappointed they weren't)
Can I just shower you in compliments about your editing? I love the gifs you use, they always make me smile, and I can just imagine the amount of time you have to spend gathering all the pictures and fanart and gifs. Amazing. You've been doing the great the whole time, but for some reason, this video just made it dawn on me that you're a champion gif user.
Despite my love of Discovery (no one needs to know how I get it!), I would love a Trek series post Nemesis. Maybe Bashir guest stars and says he has a Cardassian husband. Just saying.
Through completely respectable and valid channels I'm sure lol (no judgement)
Yup totally......
Garak/Bashir (and Odo/Kira) were my first introduction to fanfiction. I found an old DS9 fansite when I was 11 that included a fanfiction page. Yep, my fanfic obsession can be attributed to DS9 ships.
I love Star Trek Deep Space 9. I can confidently say it is my favorite Star Trek series. I shipped Garak and Bashir from the first moment they were on screen together. You beautifully stated all the reasons why I love these characters and this ship so much. Another reason, one that I don’t think was touched on in the video, is their intellect. These two are intellectual equals and I adore that! I could listen to their fascinating conversations about literature, philosophy, and morality, for hours and never get bored. When I was watching the show for the first time, and noticing the lack of character interactions in later seasons, I was one of the fans whose support for the ship grew and often thought about how both characters would react to canonical events and how their interactions change over time.
In terms of on-screen interactions, I love all the ones they had during the first four seasons. For the second half of the series, I think my favorite would have to be from the episode “By Inferno’s Light,” when Bashir is convincing Garak to play his part in the escape plan through logic and his flirty teasing towards Garak that was almost a role reversal, Bashir comforting Garak after his…attack, and then later Bashir’s proud smile when Garak gets back to work amongst his worst fears. Despite the bleak circumstances, all their interactions in this episode are wonderful and some of the most memorable for the ship, I think. One of my favorite types of DS9 fanfics to read is post-cannon Cardassia, how the survivors cope with the after-effects of war, how Cardassian society changes as a result, and how Garak and Bashir come together through helping the Cardassians recover. Shippable moments with these two? Yes, please! There are so many, many moments to jump off from. Thank you so much for covering one of my earliest and favorite ships!
I've only recently found this ship online and fallen in love with it. I've been going through all the Treks as of late, and DS9 is one I've recently finished. However, my being drawn into this ship all over again due to its presence online as drawn me back to watching the Garak and Bashir episodes again. I've also been seeking out fanworks online, and am hoping to get my hands on A Stitch in Time and Enigma Tales to get a fuller picture of them.
The characters of Bashir and Garak fascinate me. Their dynamic also fascinates me. I can't help but be drawn back to them…
Tfw your old ship art from 2016 is featured in a video (mines the art that says by StarryPancake - my old deviantart account)
I feel honoured, thank you!!
Very fond of the ending Garashir scene and DS9 is my fav! (I have left 3 comments on this vid. Time to stop.)
I'm glad Carry On hasn't been forgotten
I love how surprisingly objective this is
Um ds9 is a personal fave of mine... but I ship Bashir with myself thank you very much
excuse me he's _my_ star trek husband
@@AstralArbourSys we can share
YESSSS I NEEDED THIS TODAY 😍
I’ve been waiting for this since the beginning of your channel
I always loved Star Trek and DS9 is really underrated. And I always liked Bashir, even if he came across as arrogant and naive at the beginning. I wasn't a Garak/Bashir shipper then but their relationship always intruiged me. I really need to watch the show again. :D
I love them SO much! I watched it on prime and I was thrilled to find the Fandom still alive!I'm
Thank you for that Batjokes shoutout. AND FOR INCLUDING THE TELLTALE ITERATION OF THEM.
I've always sort of been middle of the road when it came to this pairing. I didn't really ship it that seriously, but I did read a lot of fanfics with it just for fun. But now watching this video, I'm a full G/B convert!
His smile at 2:36 is one of my favorite moments in Star Trek 😫💕
it would be cool to hear you talk about one of the ships on shadowhunter, if its not to much trouble of course
Oscar MacNeill saphael!
I love DS9! I grew up on TNG and was super excited as a kid when I heard DS9 was coming out. But I was only 8 when it started and it's political themes were way too complex for me, I got bored and stopped watching pretty quick. I finally came back to it about 10 years ago and grew to absolutely love it. I still find the 1st season is a bit slow and the characters take time to grow on you, but it pays off so beautifully. DS9 is wonderfully complex. I can't say it's my favourite, because I love TNG and Voyager so much as well. Pretty much whichever series I'm rewatching at the time is my favourite. :P Also: Garak & Bashir Forever!
I feel silly for not noticing the undertones for all these years. An entire decade and rewatching the series 3 times and I only realize after and youtube recommendation.
There was a LOT to love about Ds9, it took me ages to get into it properly, but once it clicked, it clicked hard, and one of my favourite things about it was Garak and Bashir's meetings :)
Ok, I low-key flipped out when I saw you made a Garashir video, haha.
I really like DS9, especially all that alien cultures that has been shown.
My favourite Garashir scenes are of course this one scene in "The Wire", their first scene. The turning 30 scene was also interesting when you watch how interested Garak is in Julian's reaction. The "Especially the lies" scene is probably my favourite. Our Man Bashir was so Silly, but I loved the Garashir moments in it.
I also like the relationship between Garak and Ziyal, even though I don't ship them. It was just really interesting how Garak acted when she kissed him. He always had a look as if he wasn't worth being loved and I really like the thought to bring this side of Garak to his relationship with Julian.
AND you reminded me, that I bought A Stitch In Time today.
PS: Could you make a McSpirk video in the future? Of all the Star Trek ships I have I think it's my OTP. Or maybe you could make a Qcard or Archer/Trip (I know, most people ship Trip/Reed) video. Seriously I wouldn't mind if you would just do Star Trek videos, Star Trek is awesome, haha.
Star Trek!! Yess!! I am a fan of all your Star Trek videos :)) And, yeah, the 90s were so odd. It's super interesting to see shows from that time getting re-contextualized through streaming services.
Pansexual Garak is ICONIC
My favorite pairing second only to Odo and Quark
This brought me so much joy
DS9 is my favorite Trek series, I still have to watch the second half of the first season of Discovery but it´s clear that is the best first season of a Trek series in 30 years.
About Garak and Bashir, I never shipped them when I watched the series, I loved their interactions but I still wasn´t aware of those undertones, If I´d watch it now for the first time may I´d do it (or Bashir and O´Brien)
About my favorite shared scenes I´d go with two that I find brilliant:
1) The one where they discuss Peter And The Wolf
2) Their final conversation in The Wire
Nice to see DS9 get some recognition! :)
Also, it’d be nice if you cover Grindledore (Grindelwald and Dumbledore) before the next Fantastic Beasts movie comes out.
I NEEEEEEED that shippable moments video for this pair!
OMG I was so excited when I got the notification for this video that I had to watch it imidietly and now I have no time for a shower 🙈 lol
G/B is my second favorite Star Trek ship so should you ever feel inclined I would LOVE if you did a video for the Doctor and 7of9 form Voyager 😀
I used to be one of those people who thought ds9 was lesser because... reasons? Honestly I don't know why. Then I watched it and to this day it is the only series I have seen all the way through without skipping episodes. I love it, and Garashir is life, although the fics have slowed down recently which is disappointing. Now that I've said that their's going to be a boom.
10:54 the captions called jadzia dax "yahtzee attacks"
Ds9 is my favorite Star Trek. I might be a tad bit bias given how I grew up watching them on my dad's old vhs system but DS9 always captured my imagination best out of all the Star Trek shows (not by a large margin but still). Yeah, it can be annoying how the station changes size depending on which ship is docking and it has plenty of faults but the characters themselves we're fantastic. The world just felt so fleshed out and I love everyones interactions and development. *Sighs* I'm a sucker for interesting characters, plots (even if they don't always make sense), and emotional interactions (probably why I also enjoyed Babylon 5 as a kid)
Anyways, thank you so much for the fantastic video. I can definitely see why people ship Bashir and Garak. Sorry for the long comment
Oh oh do mckirk or spones or khan x bones or mckirk! As for Bashir I loved him from the start and ds9 is my favorite. I shipped Bashir with both guys and girls and other aliens but for some reasons cardascians don't do it for me lol. Don't know why really.
I never read the Stich book but because all of the Star Trek books are connected I read about Garak in another DS9 book and how his relationship with another man develops. And after learning what was lost in the main show, I am very happy about that. But I have to say even though I get this ship, I ship Bashir with another woman because this ship is explored in the books.
Omg I’m so happy you did this
Yes enjoyed your views very much. I've enjoyed both characters very much....the Doctor and Mr Garic. I think they work great together. Also Mr Worf position on deep space #9. Will there be more? About Deep space #9? What about Odo? What about Captain Sisko? Why could you not bring the Borg into this somewhere?but getting back to D.S.#9 all of the characters were great...and thank you for your comments also. Kpc.
DS9 is great, it's not my favourite Trek, that being TNG but it's great on its own right. Garashir is great though, I love the two together and I got into them before I really watched DS9, finding them elsewhere like deviantart etc. It's wonderful!
I LOVE THIS SHIP
Love hearing about older ships that I wouldn't have known about. I'd love to see a video on popular femslash in the past, since they weren't as beloved as male-male pairings. I can only think of Xena/Gabrielle.
I love your breakdowns soooo much!
Stay awesome!
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Speaking of Discovery, how about Burnham/Tyler? A ship plagued with SO many obstacles! (But dear to my heart.)
Your makeup looks so lovely!! You always look so beautiful!
DS9 is still in my mind because I read all the post series books. And wow, a lot happens there. Those books include Season 8 and Season 9 of the Relaunch, all World of DS9 books, Typhon Pact, The Fall and three (almost four) single books. So yeah, I kinda like DS9
DS9 is a great show! :D It was the first official Star Trek that I watched. (I saw episodes from the other series, but never watched them from start to finish until after watching DS9.) Garak and Bashir are definitely my favorite couple in DS9 (canon or not) and I kind of liked watching all of their scenes, though their very first scene together got me interested. :D Also, I love all things Star Trek too! :)
Can you do Tweek X Craig? Please? Also, amazing video as always!
Catherine Marple Creek 4 life!!
Can you someday make a vid about the little black dresses of fandom. You know these characters that every fandom has that meshes with everybody? I've never seen anything on them.
antrazi taj hmm I havent heard that term before. She did do a vid about "fandom bicycles" aka the characters that get shipped with everybody in the fandom. Is that similar to what your talking about?
That's exactly what I mean. I didn't see that she already did a vid on them
Love this ship and love your shade against the new series even more!
Rick Bergman stopped that relationship.
I have ships I know will never be brought up on this channel.
...or in these comments. Me too.
A new video! Thank you ^^
Garak/Bashir is a good ship, in my less than humble opinion
It is very humble
I haven't watched any other star trek than DS9, and watched it because it was the most liked? I'm also surprised Basheer isn't liked? I'm only at season 3, and he's my favorite character :D
I adore DS9, which at its best was one of the best space operas ever. It is my current fave TREK although DSC may just de-throne it. But honestly (and this has nada to do with shipping) it frustrates me no end how little we learned about Bajor and the Bajorans. Honestly, we learned an enormous amount about Cardassia--their culture, institutions, traditions, view of the world, etc. Yet about the Bajorans--nothing but a few details that never cohered. Honestly, this was supposed to be a people defined by their faith yet even by series' end I still could not tell you want their faith entailed! How did they view death? Do they have a concept of "sin" and what might that concept be? I don't know.
Love this video, just avoided getting on the metro to finish it. (Still not boarding disco though)
Omgomgomg I've been wanting this forever I'm so Happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love love love Garashir 💜 always have. And DS9 is my favourite trek.
I'm reading a great slash fanfic about them right now
Always love the shirt
I’m just getting into TNG, so it’ll be a while till I get to DS9, but I guess this has a lot of parallels to Stormpilot.
Can you an update on Johnlock, especially now that Sherlock has ended (for the time being)?
Love your hair
Pleeeeaaaase do an episode on PriceField or AmberPrice!
They’re both really cute CANON femslash ships!
yes!
YES!!
Finally a video on my huge beyond favorite OTP! I cannot name one moment with these too that I love alone!
I am so happy!!
I'm not kidding I just want Garak and Bashir to be married and live happily on Cardassia. Let them be happy. (:
Great video! I'm curious though; what are your views regarding Star Trek: Voyager? Specifically about Captain Janeway ships, lack thereof, and the debate about her sexual orientation.
Shippable moments please!!!
I'm surprised that you haven't done Kawoshin yet
As I was watching DS9 as a kid I wanted Julian to get with Jadzia, but looking back now I really wish this ship had become canon. (Though most likely if it had, I wouldn't have been allowed to watch it.)
Can you do Lucifer Mornigstar/ Chloe Decker from Lucicer? God is this ship the textbook definition of slowburn!
oh found it!! yes!!
I just found out about this and now I feel kinda dumb for I never noticing it before.
Make another channel to review Star Trek novels! I know I'd subscribe to it.
Ds9 is my favourite Trek, Garashir is my Trek OTP together with Spirk (I can't choose between the two) and I think it's one of the biggest lost chances of television. So much potential wasted like that is so sad.
ive always preferred star wars over star trek but i love spirk and garashir
I'm not understanding this "ship" language and usage, can someone explain it to me?