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Elim Garak is a character in the fictional Star Trek universe, played by Andrew Robinson. He was a secondary recurring character on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as the only Cardassian exiled to Deep Space Nine.
Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers.
Garak often described himself as a "plain and simple tailor", but from the beginning Doctor Julian Bashir suspected Garak had a lot to hide. Indeed, nothing Garak says can be assumed to be true, giving the writers some ease in changing his backstory as necessary.
The son of Enabra Tain, Garak was a spy for the Obsidian Order, which his father at one time was the leader of. At one point, Garak was officially a gardener at the Cardassian Embassy on Romulus. When Garak betrayed his own father, this resulted in his exile to Deep Space Nine. Later on, he fell in love with Tora Ziyal, Gul Dukat's illegitimate half-Bajoran daughter. In 2375, Garak helped out the Cardassian underground and thus helped in the defeat of the Dominion and was at last able to return to his homeworld.
