#Andy Robinson

[ds9promenade]

Transcript because everyone deserves to enjoy this

(some ums, cut-off phrases etc. are edited out)

Siddig:

Stories about Andy Robinson. Ahh, god! *crowd laughs* Everyone thought Andy Robinson — the Garak character — and Julian Bashir for years were possibly a homosexual couple. *crowd laughs* And he actively encouraged that! That was actually all right! That was all right. Except it didn't leave much room for Bashir to do any stuff, you know?

But I don't really have many stories about Andy —

Nana Visitor:

You know, you just made me think, "I've gotta bring this bit" —

Siddig:

You got a good story about Andy?

Visitor:

No, I got a clip, an outtake that they sent me from one of the last shows we filmed of me not being able to keep a straight face —

Siddig:

Ohhhh, Andy's speech!

Visitor:

And Andy saying some waaay over-the-top line, saying it in typical Andy fashion. And it was too much for me. We were in the Cardassian hell(?) chamber and you know all of that, and I laughed.

I laughed take after take after take and he kept saying "Come on! Pull it together! Pull it together!"

And it was something like "We'll cut off the worm's head!" and it was like, it was really like —

Siddig (being completely wrong lol):

Ohh yes, I remember this scene! It was the scene where he was explaining how to eat worm!

Visitor:

No no no

Siddig:

Ah *crowd laughs*

Visitor:

About a time in the Cardassian thing, and —

Crowd member:

"Cut off the snake's head and the body will die."

Visitor:

*gleeful* "Cut off the snake's head and the body will die." Thank you very much, that's exactly the saying. In typical Andy, you know, really big — and he was committed to that line, both feet in, and it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard in my life. *crowd laughs*

Siddig:

To add one thing: people had to be really careful working with Andy, you always had to keep him in a good mood. Not because he was naturally an angry man, never! You meet him generally and he's like the sweetest guy you could ever meet. He's like a teddy bear, you push it over.

But once he's in that stuff — he's in literally a wetsuit glued to his body...he gets hotter and hotter. Andy has no heat retention capability whatsoever. *crowd laughs* Two minutes in that suit, he's like, *impressively good Andy impression* Okay, I'm gonna blow......Let's get this over with... *jerking his head back and forth in rage* Cut! Cut! *enraged sounds* *crowd laughs*

Every day, he's like a little powder keg, you gotta be a little careful with Andy; you can ask him about that. I think Wednesday I'm doing something with Andy and I don't know if you're gonna be there but if you are, ask him that. *clenched teeth* "Andy's gonna blow...Andy's gonna blow everybody" — and he did, often.

Visitor:

Oh yeah.

Siddig:

*pretending to be Andy "blowing" again*

Visitor:

And when he blows, he blows big-time — but a lot of people did, in the makeup — it gets to you after a while. When I was a Cardassian for twenty hours, I was in this makeup, I started to say to the director — I do not do this, I am professional — I started to pull at it and say "That was it, that was your last take"

This is a clip from a YouTube upload by Mary Knasinski of Sid and Nana in Missouri in 2000. They are asked about working with Andy and Nana recounts an outtake of being unable to stop laughing to get a scene done with Andy that then irritates him because (as Sid says) for Garak he was “in a wetsuit glued to his body” and he can’t stand the heat, thus he wants to get his scenes done as soon as possible so he can get out of costume. Sid then goes on to give THE best impersonation of an angry and irritated Andy that only a best friend can do so wonderfully.

[simpletailoring]

I hope my dash never goes back to normal

[5queerducksinatrenchcoat]

one of my favorite things about star trek is how the two biggest garashir shippers are the guys who fucken played garashir

[knivesandteeth]

Every Garak scene is such a serve. Andy Robinson was given like maybe 5% DS9s airtime and preceded to serve so much cunt that they had to both bring him back and have him as a main character in almost every major plot line. Truly an inspiration to menacing old fags everywhere

This man knew what star trek was about

[trektown]

I’ve had this image in my camera roll forever

[astralbondpro]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S0605: Favor the Bold

[tuttle-did-it]

I don’t watch Lower Decks but I will probably watch this one episode.

Yeah yeah yeah it’s an alt universe. Whatever. As far as Andy, Sid, and I (and many of you) are concerned, it’s been canon since Andy’s first appearance.

They literally performed fan fic on Sid’s YouTube channel to canonise it as best they could. And roped their fellow ds9 actors into joining them.

[robertfrobisherslover]

The Star Trek: DS9 Wrap Party, April 1999

[phoenixfeathersinfall]

Very funny that Andy specifically came back for an animated Trek so he didn't have to get into the Garak costume/makeup again.

[indri-on-ao3]

When I checked in to see what was happening on Tumblr, I did not expect to see Lower Decks canon Garak/Bashir.

I watched Deep Space Nine in the Nineties. Back then, you had to read between the lines because there was almost no positive queer rep at all. So, yes, Garak and Bashir were flirting and Jadzia Dax was never noway cishet. Glad to see that sometimes we don't have to read between the lines anymore.

I will raise a glass to the happy, bickering couple and the actors who play them.

[gplusbfics]

A collection of Garak reaction memes. Be sassy and cutting!

[catboyelimgarak]

Make them straight adjacent for the homies

[last-of-the-independents]

ANDY ROBINSON as Garak in DEEP SPACE NINE, S4.E24 (Body Parts, 1996)

Also starring Armin Shimerman as Quark, Max Grodenchik as Rom.

[5queerducksinatrenchcoat]

y'ever have a 30+ year old ship go canon?

HOLY FUCKEN SHIT, i am losing my mind! genuinely fucken feral rn! SUCK MY DICK, R*CK B*RMAN!

i don't care about the "technically's". elim garak and julian bashir, played by andrew robinson and alexander siddig, are MARRIED and IN LOVE and KISSED square on the fucken MOUTH!!!

that's CANON! GARASHIR is CANON! and the two men who started and carried on the ship got to return to those roles to MAKE IT CANON!

the two biggest garashir shippers are the guys who fucken played garashir and THEY GOT TO MAKE IT CANON!

[all-action-all-picture]

Alternative Movie Poster for Dirty Harry by Charlie Griak.

[trektown]

Wish I knew the context for this image