A small bit, but one that got its own little DVD extra: the dogfight scene in the third part of the Circle Trilogy. 'You Starfleet types are too dependent on gadgets and gizmos; you lose your natural instincts for survival!' [For some reason, I always want to insert [Sterling] Archer quoting Deliverance after that…

Well, when you've tried everything else…
And sure, the Cardassian dissidents are long gone… but on the other hand, the government they put in power was the last independent Cardassian government, which counts for something, perhaps?

The question is… did he even stab the right motherfucker?

But Damar's rebellion is explicitly about freedom from the Dominion - about Cardassia not being Cardassia while the Dominion occupy it. Calling for 'FREEDOM' is explicitly reminding people that they're not free, something the Dominion can't really contest; calling for 'Cardassia' would just mean competing with the…

When I saw the image for this episode was Kira & Damar, I basically thought 'Fuck Yeah!'

Haha. As if, Gor. Let's face it, you lot picked the wrong side.

Hollywood chooses which books to adapt into films, no?

Hmm. What did the Order's foreign agents do when their patron had its heart ripped out in the Gamma Quadrant?

Oh, he'd still be a real Cardassian… just one who decided to work with/for S31, like Koval.

I've actually seen a few people theorizing that Garak might've been a Section 31 agent.

The Sisko is of the Giants, but he will find no pennants there.

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I doubt it's anything so complex, so much as the resistance being far too large, and still too centralized. Eighteen bases, the number of which are known by the leaders of the rebellion, in an interstellar resistance movement?

Hey now, Dukat wasn't too invested in Cardassian imperialism to be blinded to the fact that the Dominion was the superior state! He accepted that Cardassia was in every way - militarily, technologically, culturally - inferior, and was willing to not pretend to be the Dominion's equal when they were most certainly not.

'I… well, I don't not need you!'

Excerpted from The Lizard Went Over the Mountain: Cardassian Combat Tactics on Bajor, Kira Nerys (ed.), Starfleet Tactical College Press, 2380.

Nah, see, the nanobots don't make us conform, they bring out the best versions of us?

Surely, as a Space Pope, you should know that there's whole universes of alien genitalia to serve as joke fodder?

Impeccable, you say? Fifty years of organized resistance, of continuous insurgency, on Bajor says otherwise, though I suppose it also says something about Cardassian stubbornness, fighting a losing war with losing methods for decades.

O'Brien, his shoulder hurting

It's possible that the old Defiant had already received some of those upgrades - for instance, she undoubtedly underwent some reconstruction after 'First Contact.' And we know that the new Defiant had at least one major difference - it was immune to the Breen energy-dampening weapon.