

I really did, I fell in love with the idea of Garak. Then it just grew as I did more and more of a character, I fell in love with this character. It was only then that I started reading excerpts from the diary and people dug it.

It was only because I started going to conventions and I got so tired of people asking me how long it took to put on my makeup and answering questions, which was okay but not terribly interesting or edifying for the fans. In the beginning, that diary of mine was just for me. In a 2020 interview with Robinson explained his process: The book began as a personal diary kept by the actor to help inform his performance as Garak. I hope that people, including those who have read the book, enjoy listening to Garak’s remarkable journey as much as I enjoyed taking it again.” It made me realize just how much I miss the rascal (but not the make-up!). Now that book will come to life, read by Robinson, who tells “Narrating the book for the audio version and revisiting Garak and his story was a true labor of love. It is the tailor who can put the pieces together, who can take a stitch in time. But it is the tailor whom both Cardassia and Elim Garak need. This is strange, because a tailor is the one thing Garak never wanted to be.
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It is the tailor who sees the ruined fabric of Cardassia, and who knows how to bring this ravaged society back together. It is a life that was charted by the forces of Cardassian society with very little understanding of the person, and even less compassion.īut it is the tailor that understands who Elim Garak was, and what he could be. Elim Garak has been a student, a gardener, a spy, an exile, a tailor, even a liberator. Julian Bashir, that inspires Garak to look at the fabric of his life. Ironically, it is a letter from one of the aliens on that space station, Dr.

Desperation and dust are constant companions and luxury is a glass of clean water and a warm place to sleep. But home is a world whose landscape is filled with death and destruction. Exiled on a space station, surrounded by aliens who loathe and distrust him, going back to Cardassia has been Garak’s one dream. It will be released on August 1st and you can pre-order it now.įor nearly a decade Garak has longed for just one thing-to go home. And to make it even more special, the unabridged audiobook is read by Robinson himself. Andrew Robinson reads A Stitch in TimeĪfter being rumored, Simon & Schuster has officially announced the audiobook for A Stitch in Time.
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The book set after the events of the series was very popular, but it never got an audiobook adaptation, until now. Over two decades ago Pocket Books released Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: A Stitch in Time, a novel focused on the character of Elim Garak, and written by the man who played Garak, Andrew Robinson.
