Everyone who loves the Cardassians should read "A Stitch In Time" by Andrew Robinson. It's an autobiography of Garak in the form of letters to Dr. Bashir that Garak writes while helping rebuild Cardassia after the Dominion War, and it's excellent!

Garak made the Cardassians interesting.

The Cardassians are possibly one of the most nuanced alien races in Trek, perhaps even more so than the Klingons.

"My dear doctor you are British, that's the closest a human can get to a Cardassian"- Elim Garak

Do the Humans. They are really weird

I imagine if you managed to befriend a Cardassian, you would have a friend for life.

Kira looked good as a Cardassian

I once had a dream about a Cardassian. It was measuring somebody for some reason and then Major Kira said, "Is that what you Cardassians do now? Measure people?" and then the Cardassian said (in Quark's voice for some reason, dream logic :/) "No, just this one."

This was hardly fair

Merciless Mirror Terran Empire

7:50 "You've not experienced the movie "Clue" until you've seen it in it's original Cardassian."

Where's the Yamok sauce and Kanar!?

I'm sure that Garak (who would never, as a mere tailor, aspire to Obsidian Heights) will help 'guide' Cardassia towards being the more noble people of his ideals...

I'm probably going to get flak for this but. The Cardassians are better villains than the Romulans.

Cardassians are my faves too! I have loved reading Una McCormack's books on Cardassian society. "The Never Ending Sacrifice" picked up where Rugal Pa'Dar left off when he left DS9 to live with his biological father and ends after the Dominion War, and "The Crimson Shadow" is a great Garak book, rife with all types of Cardassian messiness.

I wish the Cardassians had their own show before and after the war.

Plus, you get a Cardassian woman angry into a heated argument; she'll jump your bones.

There are four lights

It'll never not be hilarious that the Ferengi so bombed as villains that the TNG writer's room had to come up with the Cardassians.

O'brian is the only one who got acqutted in a cardassian court! :D

Imagine a courtroom battle with the opposing sides being represented by a Cardassian and the other a Ferangi.

Keeping up with the Cardassians is a full time job! Maybe you should talk to Worf again. :)

The Cardassians are a much more relatable people for me even more than the humans the way they are depicted

My second favorite species. Their rebels were always so polite.

I just realised that The Enigma Tales is extremely similar to a book/play I had to read in English class as a kid. "An Inspector Calls" is also a murder mystery, where a family is visited by a police inspector, and throughout the length of the story, you find out that each family member was guilty of something, and all of which were connected to the murder victim.

Dukat is definitely my favorite Star Trek Bad Guy

Thanks very much for making this one, very educating! I love Cardassians.

Thanks for another great video Rik! Cardassians are one of my favorite Star Trek aliens and this was a really good watch.

im not gonna lie.. i've been binging your content for the last 4 days. awesome stuff!

Time to Keep up with the Cardassians

In one of the quantum universes seen on ST:TNG, we see a Cardassian ensign in a red Starfleet uniform on board the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D.

The stalemate could be an indicator of their strategy skills. It could also be an indicator of the Federation’s motive of seeking peace and negotiation, while having moral limits that the Cardassians lack.

“Any society willing to give up any liberty in exchange for a false sense of security, deserves neither and lose both” Benjamin Franklin

Gul Evek is one of only 2 antagonistic characters (the other being Q) that appeared in the three 90s Trek series, TNG, DS9 and VOY.

Merciless Mirror Terran Empire. PLEASE!

I love that you use STO in your videos.. Been playing since it was in Closed BETA.

For me they sound very much like chinese people. Big and important art and culture. Photographic memory and importance of study. The importance of the family and state.... Etc.

Terran Empire!!!!!! MAKE IT SOOOOO!!!!🖖🖖🖖🙏

Terran Empire!

Love these characters. DS9 would not have been the complex show with interesting twists without them.

I came here because I'm fascinated by these space lizards. Well, some manner of therapsid descendant, technically. Either way, I was not disappointed. Great video.

DOMINOIN FEATURE DESPARETELY NEEDED.

Honestly idk why but the Cardassians are like oddly attractive to me

i wish that they would move the timeline forword and have a cardassian character

Props for making an exactly 10 minute video.

Dukat's daughter wasn't a 'pureblood' genetic Cardassian, as her mother was Bajoran, so she's not actually an example of how Cardassians would behave away from the homeland.

Deep Space 9 is my favorite Star Trek series to date and I‘m not even that much of a Trekkie, the characters and different cultures are just so extremely intriguing!

My god, I was just searching this 3 days ago but you hadn't made it yet, if only I knew how close it was. YOU KNEW! lol, not really, but a happy coincidence for me, no doubt.

Dude that was totally cool! I've been caught up in DS9 this past year learning everything. I had this dream last night Gul Dukat was back & he was visiting his Son on Dieradan Prime, Outpost 5 who himself was now a man with a son of his own making Dukat a Grandfather. His skin looked so much realler then the series! It had pore texture & a subtle moisture glaze. I focused/zoomed in mid conversation where he stopped his Son mid sentence who was explaining that the Jem Hedar had beaten him. As Dukat looked over his Sons bruised beaten face he exclaimed exhaustively "You are not my Son! No Son of mine would put up with this! I didn't teach him to behave this way!" Then the embodiment of his Son admitted he was a freightened clone & that the Jem Hedar had killed his Son creating him to take care of the child. You could see Dukats patient frustration. I thought he's in observation of the grandsons care & semi attached to the figure of his Son realizing it's not his fault for being a clone, but he's also cross examining what he wants to use him for & if & when he'll cut this imitation weakness of a Cardassian loose. It was pretty dang vivid & entertaining. I think somebody upstairs with a better understanding of existence, humors my amusement with sci-fi for unknown reasons. Because my mind generates script, set & detail far superior than any movie.

Been binge watching these really well done! Also egads I forget how much bigger DS9 is compared to a galaxy class.

This is a great job, thanks..Terran Empire next please

I love the Cardassians so much to be honest, they're just so realistically complex. (And also kinky. )

"The cardassains are clever and great warriors.it was a constant game it was an honor to kill them." Quote from Kore the dahar master.

The Cardassian-Federation border wars ended in a stalemate because Starfleet is militarily incompetent and the Federation doesn't have the stomach for a real war.

I love Cardassians, that whole reptile look!!!

Kind of strange how their govnerment symbol and their military's most common ship class seem to be modeled on each other. I wonder which came first? I mean is the emblem meant to be a stylised ship, or is the ship modeled after a symbol with some older meaning?

I have complicated feelings about the Cardassians. Sure, they may be self-important, occasionally genocidal imperialists... but MAN, they sure are my kind of self-important, genocidal imperialists.

Legate Damar who was the most quintessential Cardassian in every way, I have recently concluded.

The Dominion War may have been cosmic payback for what the Cardassians did to the Bajorans.

4:52 - THERE! ARE! FOUR! LIGHTS!

I would actually like to see a Cardassian Sherlock Holmes novel.

For Cardassia!

"The b****y Cardies." Good old Miles. 😊🖖

One of my favorite antagonist species

there are four lights!

Very good presentation, but you left out one important aspect of Cardassian culture. Cardassians take tremendous pride in ones ability to tell believable lies. This was demonstrated on numerous occasions by the Deep Space Nine Cardassian outcast-recluse, Garrak.

You deserve more subs.

Would you ever think of doing any of the races from Babylon 5?

It would be great if you could do Cultural Indeces on the various species of one of the best written shows on television- BABYLON 5.

PRC: *Peoples Republic of Cardassia*

I like the random Ha'feh Warbird going under the Enterprise outside DS9.

Make Cardassia great again!

Certifiably Ingame. Think about doing races and cultures from the Star wars and Babylon 5 universe?

"There are for lights!!!!"

Never knew that the Kardassians are this interesting...

What game are you playing in between clips? Looks amazing.

My Operations Officer on STO is a Cardassian. Of all the species to make a Starfleet Officer, THAT would be interesting.

It’s an exact mirror of Imperial Japan during World War II. They were extremely loyal to the government, they were very xenophobic, and at the end of the war, the country was very destroyed and their Government reformed to be more Democratic.

Yat. Cardasians, my favorite.

Terran Empire!!!

maybe a lot to ask but id like to see an index on the breen confederacy

I don't see the cultural index of the changelings will there be one added?

Don't forget one of the more interesting concepts of Cardassians that sadly vanished because of DS9's limited budget compared to the other series - The idea of Duranium Shadows being a key aspect of Cardassian combat, I struggle to find the exact quote but I am certain a Klingon mentioned of the Klingon-Cardassian wars of them being deceptive prey, chasing duranium shadows for extended periods of time.

Keeping up with the Cardassians

I hate how one lie by a single Cardassian torturer who was already trying to break Picard with other lies (eg. 5 lights) is used to define Cardassian history repeatedly. And we know it's a lie because we see the problem he claimed it solved still exists. Which raises the question of if that was even a problem before the military took over. Obviously, the inconsistencies are the result of multiple writers who only cared about creating dialogue for a paycheck, but we are left with that dialogue as canon and have to work out the implications. And the implications are that the good the military did is propaganda that isn't reliable or likely. It's easy to say after years of occupation that things were worse before as a way to placate the people who are losing any ability to pretend a short term military intervention is now a permanent status.

have you done klingons yet?

Certifiably Ingame - do you play star trek online? I've noticed a lot of videos showing that especially in the cultural indexes I've noticed you didn't include the problems with the dominion and what happened to the world after the dominion was defeated.

I’m watching this because I’m keeping up with the Cardassians.

Some of my favorite characters in Star Trek are cardassians

Not sure if I like Cardassians, or if I just like Garak and Dukat

Terran mirror universe next!!!

The East Germany of Star Trek.

Both!

so what is the cardassian necktrick?

That nane tho 😂🤣 their appearance fits the attitude of a certain family of phoenetic likeness

What about their history before discovery by the Federation? What were they doing back in Archer's & Kirk's time periods? Did the Federation hear rumors about them from the Romulans & others?

Um, does "The Neverending Sacrifice" happen to include Cardassian versions of Bastian and Falkor?...😉

You should do tamarians

Kept up with the Cardassians

It would be interesting to know how much of Cardassian history, culture, society and rule has been influenced and controlled by the Pah-wraiths.