I saw Anthony as partially a metaphor for a totalitarian dictatorship.  The arbitrary, destructiveness of his decisions, which everyone was afraid to speak against.  Finally, the man who stands up to him points out that if someone would help him, they could kill anthony, but even his worst victims are too afraid,…

She's got that certain eerie beauty.

"The stars in the gamma quadrant just seem to shine a little brighter"

It's a much a problem for the insurgents as for the regulars.   I'm still going with the theory this was all a ruse.

"How do the Heisenberg compensators work?"

Yeah, but cardassian puberty could be super fast.  Or she could have had her growth stunted from being in the camp which Bashir was able to fix or something.

Yeah seriously, what's up with that?  They do that so much on DS( and it seems like it would be the least effective thing ever.

Exactly.  Don't want too much cognitive development.  Also, there is a hierarchy within Jem'Hadar units which is likely programmed in.

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SPOILERSYeah, it's confusing.  My argument was that if that worked, the Founders would have no problem curing themselves.  I would have liked to see an episode set in the Gamma Quadrant with the founders dying.  Really, they could have expanded season seven into two…

Which brings up an interesting debate.  Of DS9's four major villians (Dukat, Weyoun, the female Changeling, Kai Wynn) who is the best, creepiest, most evil, etc.

Other then "Oh father, I know you're a murdering genocidal maniac, but I still love you more then the whole world!"

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Maybe the whole thing was an elaborate rouse, to learn more about how starfleet personnel operate in combat and

Something like that.

Not really.   As much as someone might be cool and complex, there's still the whole "haven't seen a female of my own species in years" thing.

"It never stops feeling wrong-headed and icky thanks to the age gulf"
But they're Cardassians.

There's a lot more to "Far Beyond The Stars" then just racism, but we can talk abut that when we get there.

It's implied in Enterprise that the warrior culture-religion had a recent resurgence.  It was surely always a part of the culture, but perhaps much less then the extent it becomes once the Klingon Empire achieved some degree of power.