vermin-disciple:melanaegis:LEFT Dukat’s [Marc Alaimo] Deep Space Nine costume.[RIGHT] The station’s

vermin-disciple:melanaegis:LEFT Dukat’s [Marc Alaimo] Deep Space Nine costume.[RIGHT] The station’s most prominent Cardassian civilian, Elim Garak, played by Andrew Robinson. Although viewers knew the character to be a skillful spy, he always described himself as “plain, simple Garak.”Star Trek Costumes: Five Decades of Fashion from the Final Frontier, Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdmann CIVILIAN CARDASSIANS“When the Deep Space Nine writers started doing storiesabout Cardassian civilians like Garak, I wanted to put them into somethingsimilar to the reptilian rubber suits we’d given the Cardassian military. Butthen I decided that they shouldn’t just be rubber suits. So I started findingvery nice fabrics—like matelassé, which is woven and heavy, and bouclé, whichis made with looped yarn—and laminating them onto extremely thin neoprene.Making the outfits out of that material gave them very interesting qualities.When the actor would bend his arms or his legs, the material would bend in away that didn’t seem natural, that kind of didn’t make sense in a human. And nomatter how the actor stood, the material wouldn’t show any wrinkles. It was myway of showing that they were civilians, but they were still Cardassian—very controlled.”-Robert Blackman -- source link

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