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Deep Thoughts with Elim Garak
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Iced Raktajino
startrek.website

IcedRaktajino@startrek.website
Joined: 2025-07-15
Posted:   Subject: Deep Thoughts with Elim Garak Quote

Not my OC
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mercano
lemmy.world

mercano@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
#2 Posted:   Subject: Re: Deep Thoughts with Elim Garak Quote Reply

There’s a similar Terry Pratchett quote from Jingo: “Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.”
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Erusset
slrpnk.net
Erusset@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2026-04-21
#3 Posted:   Subject: Re: Deep Thoughts with Elim Garak Quote Reply

Technically correct, the best kind of correct.
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pentastarm
piefed.ca

pentastarm@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-07-25
#4 Posted:   Subject: Re: Deep Thoughts with Elim Garak Quote Reply

Lmao, DS9 traveling at warp in the last panel
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Possibly linux
lemmy.zip

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-06-26
#5 Posted:   Subject: Re: Deep Thoughts with Elim Garak Quote Reply

Someone should edit this to have the good doctor eating poison fish
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SirSamuel
lemmy.world
SirSamuel@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-05
#6 Posted:   Subject: Re: Deep Thoughts with Elim Garak Quote Reply
mercano wrote:
There’s a similar Terry Pratchett quote from Jingo: “Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.”

GNU Sir Pterry
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alx
piefed.blahaj.zone
alx@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-06-29
#7 Posted:   Subject: Re: Deep Thoughts with Elim Garak Quote Reply
Possibly linux wrote:
Someone should edit this to have the good doctor eating poison fish

Noooo Garak would probably not murder his husband!
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MrPommeroy
piefed.social
MrPommeroy@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-09-04
#8 Posted: · edited   Subject: Re: Deep Thoughts with Elim Garak Quote Reply
pentastarm wrote:
Lmao, DS9 traveling at warp in the last panel

Didn't they temporarily jerry rig warp travel for the entire station in one of the first episodes when the wormhole was discovered, to beat the cardassians to it?
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T156
lemmy.world
T156@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#9 Posted:   Subject: Re: Deep Thoughts with Elim Garak Quote Reply
MrPommeroy wrote:
Didn't they temporarily jerry rig warp travel for the entire station in one of the first episodes when the wormhole was discovered, to beat the cardassians to it?

No, they just bodged the manouvering thrusters to be able to act like impulse engines.
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MrPommeroy
piefed.social
MrPommeroy@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-09-04
#10 Posted:   Subject: Re: Deep Thoughts with Elim Garak Quote Reply
T156 wrote:
No, they just bodged the manouvering thrusters to be able to act like impulse engines.

Ah. Right.. I knew there was some form of increased speed.
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Silverwynde
startrek.website

Silverwynde@startrek.website
Joined: 2025-05-12
#11 Posted:   Subject: Re: Deep Thoughts with Elim Garak Quote Reply

He's not wrong.
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