The OOC thing could all be a contrivance on Garak's part. He realises he's struggling to function on the station, but when he goes to speak to Julian, he's either too busy working or playing with Miles. Therefore, rather than pulling him away from important things (ie, important work for Starfleet, and a human friend), Garak creates this somewhat flaky persona with which he presses this new, young psychiatric officer-in-training for a diagnosis. Naturally it doesn't go down well. It's quite a stretch, but it could help explain at least Garak's behaviour during the episode. Unless of course it's less about pragmatism, and more about distantly manipulating Julian into spending more time with him rather than that pesky engineer, even if his symptoms become more than an external projection of a largely internal issue and, y'know, start really hindering his performance. He has always seemed the very model of a method actor, and I don't think I'd put that past him. As to whether the plan actually works or not... well ;D
Going back to Dax, I don't think Jadzia's continuing friendship with Sisko would have caused too many problems for the Symbiosis Commission. Curzon and Sisko's friendship was born of an entirely different set of circumstances, and as Jazdia, Dax never sought to progress that relationship past that of them being friends. I always got the impression that romantic reattachments were the real issue, which if nothing else should have been The Clue to all and sundry that Ezri could not have stayed on DS9 without experiencing any more emotional turmoil than she was already going through. No training to be joined does not a cutesy characterisation make - it just provides excellent grounds for the new host's quick and distant reassignment while reorientation takes place - for as long as necessary.
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Date: 2009-05-25 11:41 pm (UTC)Going back to Dax, I don't think Jadzia's continuing friendship with Sisko would have caused too many problems for the Symbiosis Commission. Curzon and Sisko's friendship was born of an entirely different set of circumstances, and as Jazdia, Dax never sought to progress that relationship past that of them being friends. I always got the impression that romantic reattachments were the real issue, which if nothing else should have been The Clue to all and sundry that Ezri could not have stayed on DS9 without experiencing any more emotional turmoil than she was already going through. No training to be joined does not a cutesy characterisation make - it just provides excellent grounds for the new host's quick and distant reassignment while reorientation takes place - for as long as necessary.