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And I would say that even if the novel is not considered canon, the way the actors (and I do not believe it was just Robinson who felt this way) chose to play the roles is valid as part of canon as long as it doesn't actually violate anything continuitywise.
If I found out that James Doohan had played Scotty as if he were an alcoholic... well, I wouldn't have personally seen it that way, but he notoriously loved booze, so sure. Scotty was an alcoholic.
Exactly. The actors aren't robots or AI, running solely off the prompts of directors and writers. They are part of the collaborative art project that is the show. Their input, motivations, intentions behind the character are just as valid as the writer's. Garak is queer, because Robinson says so. During the pandemic, Bashir and Garak did a video where they exchanged letters, and they made it clear that they romantically involved in that. Regardless of if physical sex occurred during the timeline of the series, suggesting that it could not have because none of the characters, in the tiny fraction of a percent's time we actually see them during that year run, never outwardly exclaimed "bee tee dubs, me and Garak are banging" is such an insult to the actors who put so much of themselves into that role.
I think I somehow missed this! Do you happen to have a link? A quick YouTube search didn’t help me out.
After I posted this, I tried to find it and I can't. Either I'm using the wrong search terms, or I dreamt it. Lmao.
Iirc, it was a reading of a portion of a stitch in time. I mainly remember it because it was the first time I'd seen someone other than me think that Garak was queer. I wasn't big into online trek communities at the time, and my brother didn't twig to it.