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‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Finally Makes ‘Deep Space Nine’ Fan Favorite Characters Garak and Bashir a Couple, 30 Years Later


Elim Garak and Julian Bashir from 'Star Trek Deep Space Nine' are in a relationship, as finally revealed on 'Star Trek: Lower Decks.'

“ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” characters Doctor Julian Bashir (Alexander Siddig) and Mister Elim Garak (Andrew Robinson) brimmed with chemistry throughout that series’ run — but if there was anything real behind their relationship, viewers never got to see it. In “Fissure Quest,” the penultimate episode of “Lower Decks” (as it wraps its fifth and final season), the series’ ongoing dimensional rift storyline reaches a boiling point. In finally depicting the sparks between the characters, “Lower Decks” showrunner Mike McMahan said the show’s writers “have enjoyed the romantic chemistry that Andrew and Sid brought to Garak and Bashir on “DS9,” and for the thirty years since.

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