- Garak got him to confess after staring at him for four hours
- after his confession he just kept saying ‘his eyes, his eyes’.
- his pronouns are he/him
This is all we know, and it’s from a conversation between Garak and Tain during the opening credits of The Die is Cast (S3E21), so it’s up to the viewer to decide how reliable the information is.
Things that are beta canon or popular fanon are:
- his first name is Kelas
- he is a medical doctor
- he and Garak were lovers or had some kind of attraction
- he has white hair
- he wears glasses
- he suffered in ways other than the interrogation, for example in prison or an internment camp
- he has physical and mental damage from this
- he’s generally a ‘good’ person, the opposite of Garak; he’ll usually have Federationesque values of freedom and democracy, and very often be some sort of dissident, or at least sympathetic to their cause
I’m not criticising anyone’s portrayal of Parmak, of course. That would be very silly to assume. I love all of the Parmaks I’ve ever read and I’ve written him with a lot of these traits as well. He’s really useful as a sort of foil or friend for Garak or for Julian in post-canon Cardassia fic. But my point is, we could be even more creative with our Parmaks.
He could be Doctor Jeff Parmak, rocket scientist, and maybe he got into trouble with the Obsidian Order because he was selling Cardassian military secrets to the Ferengi. Or maybe he was Dukat’s best friend and that’s part of the reason Dukat hates Garak so much. Maybe he is/was a well-regarded botanist and Keiko’s aware of him and talks about him during her plant friends talk with Garak and Garak’s like, oh, yes, I’m vaguely aware of him, ahem.
We do in fact have alpha canon on that he’s a medical doctor, and we know he was in a labour camp. Tain says in that scene: “He spent three years in a labour camp, then returned to Cardassia Prime. I think he’s practicing medicine again.”
I agree that we could be more creative with our Parmaks (although I love my cinnamon roll so much). One part where I think people have made very different decisions is around the claim in ASIT that he was Tain’s personal physician. ( I have Opinions about this, something that I might well make a post about, because I find it interesting - not the fact itself, but the claim.) There’s tons of other stuff too of course.
Ooh, thanks, I missed that bit! Stopped the scene too soon, maybe.
(Your Parmak in Love in a Time of Oppression is my favourite Parmak as I’ve told you many times before.)
I know that scene off by heart tbh… (I did check the quote on Chakoteya, though, because I sometimes have that feeling ‘what if I have imagined this bit because I’m so invested?’)
- Garak got him to confess after staring at him for four hours
- after his confession he just kept saying ‘his eyes, his eyes’.
- his pronouns are he/him
This is all we know, and it’s from a conversation between Garak and Tain during the opening credits of The Die is Cast (S3E21), so it’s up to the viewer to decide how reliable the information is.
Things that are beta canon or popular fanon are:
- his first name is Kelas
- he is a medical doctor
- he and Garak were lovers or had some kind of attraction
- he has white hair
- he wears glasses
- he suffered in ways other than the interrogation, for example in prison or an internment camp
- he has physical and mental damage from this
- he’s generally a ‘good’ person, the opposite of Garak; he’ll usually have Federationesque values of freedom and democracy, and very often be some sort of dissident, or at least sympathetic to their cause
I’m not criticising anyone’s portrayal of Parmak, of course. That would be very silly to assume. I love all of the Parmaks I’ve ever read and I’ve written him with a lot of these traits as well. He’s really useful as a sort of foil or friend for Garak or for Julian in post-canon Cardassia fic. But my point is, we could be even more creative with our Parmaks.
He could be Doctor Jeff Parmak, rocket scientist, and maybe he got into trouble with the Obsidian Order because he was selling Cardassian military secrets to the Ferengi. Or maybe he was Dukat’s best friend and that’s part of the reason Dukat hates Garak so much. Maybe he is/was a well-regarded botanist and Keiko’s aware of him and talks about him during her plant friends talk with Garak and Garak’s like, oh, yes, I’m vaguely aware of him, ahem.
We do in fact have alpha canon on that he’s a medical doctor, and we know he was in a labour camp. Tain says in that scene: “He spent three years in a labour camp, then returned to Cardassia Prime. I think he’s practicing medicine again.”
I agree that we could be more creative with our Parmaks (although I love my cinnamon roll so much). One part where I think people have made very different decisions is around the claim in ASIT that he was Tain’s personal physician. ( I have Opinions about this, something that I might well make a post about, because I find it interesting - not the fact itself, but the claim.) There’s tons of other stuff too of course.
Happy holidays @conceptadecency!! here’s your @startreksecretsanta, just in time for the new year! keiko and garak enjoying some tea (both literally and figuratively) while their boys are out being spies or whatever ^^”
ds9 episode: o’brien gets sucked into a tricorder while trying to fix it and now has to go through multiple 8bit-style boss battles in order to break free or else he’s trapped forever. quark starts selling bloodwine seltzers. worf pretends not to like them but jadzia eventually finds out he’s been lying when he gets a severe case of the hiccups and she has to take him to the infirmary. jake and nog get caught in a pyramid scheme
This is just a rough sketch and the final drawing probably won’t actually have this color scheme because I want it to look “good” but I wanted to it share anyway lol
Cecil. She/her. During the day I sit in libraries staring at books. During the night I write queer fanfiction with a historical slant.
Some not-so-random facts: Gay space lizards are the best lizards. Star Trek is my life. I have too many DS9 ships. Classic Who and the Eighth Doctor Adventures make me grin stupidly. Kelas Parmak is the best. I will defend historically accurate portrayals of Alan Turing to the last drop of blood. Likes and asks end up in the name of @apolesens-otheraccount, because Tumblr doesn't have a way of changing which blog is your primary one. Nothing happens over there - this is the one to follow.
