On 12-20-97 Michael Marek wrote to Maureen Goldman... 
 
 MM> And what do you know -- you're back on Fidonet! 
 
 Why... so I am!  And so are you. 
 
 MG>  Do you think that Garak is modelled on 007 in a sort of skewed 
 MG>  way?  I can see him as Bond having fallen out of favor, forced 
 MG>  to be a tailor.  This also isn't too dissimilar to Steven 
 MG>  Seagal's disgraced former Navy SEAL turned cook in "Under 
 MG>  Seige" although Garak is considerably less physical. 
 
 MM> I don't think Garak was quite the heroic type that Bond is.  On those 
 MM> occasions when he has to be heroic, such as in the episode Empok Nor, 
 MM> he seems to be the reluctant hero. 
 
 ??  In "Empok Nor", he was the villain, although this was due to 
 outside influences.  He was more the hero in the episode in 
 which he, Julian, Martok and Worf were captors.  Even then, 
 though, part of his [un-Bondlike] heroism was that he persevered 
 while going through a severe bout of claustrophobia.  Bond 
 doesn't seem to get scared very often. 
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