# The Greatest Slash Pairings of All Time

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**Created:** [September 13, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870 "2009-09-13T00:51:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/53 "2009-09-13T18:53:24Z")

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> [@ErinPuff](#):
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> I came in here to mention O’Brien/Bashir. I watched a ton of DS9 over the summer, for the first time since I was a kid (at which time I was pretty exclusively a TNG fan and didn’t pay much attention to DS9), and I absolutely love them.

> [@"That's so gay"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-so-gay/508358/128):
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> And I’ll second Garak/Bashir from Deep Space Nine – that one writes itself, IMO!

My pet theory on the Garak/Bashir/O’Brien triangle is that Julian was involved with Garak following that juicy pick-up scene in “Past Prologue,” and then switched to Miles at the end of the third season. I blame Garak’s torturing Odo in “The Die Is Cast” for this–obviously Julian couldn’t take it.

The transition between the two relationships is abrupt. In “Improbable Cause,” Julian and Garak are exchanging gift chocolates; two episodes later, there’s Miles and Julian drunk off their asses, singing “Jerusalem,” and Miles just about telling Julian he loves him.

I got a lot of fanfic mileage out of that. 🙂

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