Michael Taylor had written 'The Visitor' (which in the DS9 companion notes led people to suggest he was a combo of respected TNG vets Michael Pillar and Jeri Taylor). And then later worked on BSG for Moore, with my favourite of his scripts being the Season Three finale with Baltar's trial. So much characterisation win…

S31's reaction to the plan is included in the book I recommended, 'Hollow Men' - it involves S31 learning through Ross and separately then attempting to recruit Garak (http://books.google.fr/book…

Everyone, if you want a thoughtful, fun and interesting followup to 'In the Pale Moonlight' , with Sisko and Garak on Earth as part of the 'Welcome to the War' strategies with the Romulans, check out Una McCormack's 'Hollow Men'!!!

Although I enjoyed the development of 'Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges', whereby the S31 actions are made more cogent, more reasonable - so much so that Admiral Ross supports S31. Alas I cannot find that wonderful scene on youtube :/

ah, 'My dearest Kelas….can you forgive me?'. I hope someone sends 'The Crimson Shadow' to Andrew Robinson (and indeed all of McCormack's works including 'Sacrifice' and 'Hollow Men'), the worthiest sequel to 'A Stitch in Time' (and 'The Calling').

Lucky for me in the best tradition of Cardassian men drinking kanar, I am an ex-husband. Kanar indeed, then. As sweet as the prose of that book, as blinding as the pain within.

Fun review! I do agree with some of the complaints, although I think the problems with Breen intelligence come from the way the species (or the many species) were depicted on television.

But not all the good guys fortunately do want to suppress it, as is made clear in Inter Enim Silent Leges.

I liked the depiction of the Breen and Bashir's depression, but ZSG had its problems. Fortunately, A Ceremony of Losses (plus the David George Plagues of Night/Raise the Dawn) went some way to deal with issues of ZSG.

One of the most interesting bits of tie-in about S31 is in the Trek Book duology, 'A Time to Kill' & 'A Time to Heal' by David Mack (screenwriter behind two Ds9 episodes too). It's a bit of an Iraq analogy, and involves S31 in really interesting (and actually defensible, morally complex) manner: