Jess and I really loved Star Trek:Deep Space Nine. It is dark, the characters are flawed, and of course..there is Garak and his little nuggets of complete wisdom:
Garak: “Why is it no-one ever believes me, even when I’m telling the truth?”
Julian: “Have you ever heard the story of the boy who cried wolf?”
Garak: “No!”
Julian: “It’s a children’s story. A young shepard gets loney while tending his flock. He cries ‘Wolf!’ and the townspeople come rushing to his aid. When they discover there is no wolf, he claims he scared the wolf off, and they congratulate him for his bravery.”
Garak: “What a clever boy!”
Julian: “There’s more. The boy did the same thing the next day, and the day after, and the day after. And on the next day, when a wolf really did come, the townspeople didn’t come. They’d gotten tired of his lying. The wolf ate all the sheep and the little boy.”
Garak: “Isn’t that a bit gruesome for a children’s story?”
Julian: “The moral is that if you lie all the time, people won’t believe you even if you’re telling the truth.”
Garak: “Are you sure that’s the moral?”
Julian: “Of course. What else could it be?”
Garak, leaving: “Never tell the same lie twice.”
